The Social Network of Human Diseases
Director: Dr. Kristian Kersting, Fraunhofer IAIS What do diabetes mellitus and overweight have in common? For expert in health, this is an easy question. But would you as a non-expert know it? Maybe. So do you know what Cholera and Shigellosis do have in common? Most likely not. Indeed, The Necessary medical information is available to you on the world wide web, but not in a form that is easy to understand. Therefore, we will illustrate how to draw the big picture of diseases, based on a database summarizing correlations Obtained from the disease history of more than 30 million patients. This will be a Phenotypic Disease Network (PDN) – the social network of diseases. This big picture Will Provide an easy way to navigate within the world of human diseases and discover hidden connections. More technically, we will deal with the problems of computing a PageRank and retrieving of diseases from a cluster, given just a few diseases from that cluster only. Precondition You need advanced experience in programming (especially Python), and mathematics. Furthermore, you should be interested in health and new web technologies and enjoy speaking English, as this will be the spoken language of the workshop.
The fully automated Ambassador
Director: Dr. Martin Wolpers and Kerstin Schmidt, Fraunhofer FIT
The course includes small robots from Lego Mindstorms Nxt 2.0 built and programmed so that they – equipped with many sensors – messenger services can do independently. The robot carries out orders that are communicated to him via the Web interface. On his travels, the robot constantly monitors its environment. Participants will receive a detailed insight into the complexities of “collection of observations,” “evaluation” and “drawing conclusions”.
Robotics and programming are done in teams. At the end of each team is to demonstrate how well the problem solution is at hand. Besides an introduction to the processing of continuous streams of data exchange in particular offers the opportunity to try creative solutions.
Prerequisites
Basic knowledge of computer science and the first practical programming experience is necessary. Experience with Web technologies and programming languages is recommended. Most important thing is to solve the fun of tinkering, and programming problems.
Mathematics for the practice
Director: Dr. Anton Schüller, Fraunhofer SCAI
Mathematics and its applications have grown enormously over the last decades, not least on the basis of computer technology has become possible numerical simulation.
Mathematical modeling and algorithms shaping our living and working environments more than ever. They are based on almost every technical development and essential for many services.
In this workshop we will discuss the mathematics behind applications such as mp3, consider the search for optimal ways to avoid the emergence of traffic jams or weather forecast. To solve such problems, we’ll learn some mathematical methods to develop themselves and others in teams to program some of these methods also.
Prerequisites
Good programming skills in C or C + + or Java, or Pascal / Delphi, or Python, and of course fun in mathematics.