Proseminar: History of Computational Science, Vision, and Medical Science
Location:
Narvis NARVIS Lab - Chirurgische Klinik und Poliklinik Innenstadt - Sendlinger Tor
SWS: 2+0 (Informatik Grundstudium WP INF, Informatik Bachelor WP BS-INF, Informatik Master WP MS-INF)
ECTS: 4 Credits
Supervisors:
Christoph Bichlmeier,
Anabel Martin,
Oliver Kutter,
Tobias Blum
There is an initial meeting on April 18th, 2008 in Garching, room MI 03.13.008.
Registration
Please send an email to
Christoph Bichlmeier (), including your favorite topic, your name, birthday and Matrikelnummer.
The seminar is designed to review and summarize the development of science over the past centuries. The current achievements in computer science and medicine are based decades of evolution and development in various disciplines in science.
Schedule
History of Vision :: June 13, 2008, 13:00 - about 17:30 at NARVIS Lab
History of Science :: June 20, 2008, 13:00 - about 17:30 at NARVIS Lab
History of Medicine:: June 27, 2008, 13:00 - about 17:30 at NARVIS Lab
Further Readings
- History of Vision
- David C. Lindberg, Theories of Vision from Al-Kindi to Kepler, 1976
- Wolfgang Wayand, The History of Minimally Invasive Surgery
- History of Ali al-Husayn Abd Allah Ibn Sina (also known as Avicenna)
- Burchard Brentjes, Ibn Sina (Avicenna), 1979
- Parviz Morewedge, The metaphysica of Avicenna (ibn Sina), 1973
- History of Medicine
- Jürgen Thorwald, Das Jahrhundert der Chirurgen, 1961
- William H. Oldendorf, The quest for an image of brain: computerized tomography in the perspective of past and future imaging methods, 1980
- William H. Hendee, History of ultrasound imaging, 1980
Handout/Talk
- Presentation takes about 30-45min and is followed by a discussion.
- Handout has to be 10-15 pages including all references used.
- The handout and presentation can be in English or German.
- Send your handout and outline of your talk one week before the first talk of the seminar to your supervisor.
Your handout:
Your Talk:
Literature and Helpful Links
There can be a lot of research documents on the internet and in various publications.
This list may help you finding some good points to start your search:
Some publishers:
Libraries (online and offline):
Some further hints for working with references:
- JabRef is a Java program for comfortable working with Bibtex literature databases. Handy feature: if you know the PubMed ID for an article, JabRef can import data from there (via "Web Search/Medline").
- Mendeley is a cross-platform program for organising your references.
If you find useful ressources that are not already listed here, please tell us, so we can add them for others. Thanks.