Night and Day: Science in Berlin
8:00 a.m., Wednesday, Oct. 1, 2008
Webster Auditorium
Admission: free

This talk gives an insight into Berlin’s science landscape (with a focus on big institutes with big machines) and how they are embedded in German science organizations. There are some specialties in Berlin such as the “Long Night of Sciences” where hundreds of institutes are open to the public for one night in June. In history, Berlin played an important role in physics. Nuclear fission was discovered here, and Einstein worked here before he went to the United States. In many places, the science history is still living in Berlin.

Dr. Bodo Cramer, who received his Ph.D. in physics from the Freie Universität Berlin, worked at the Hahn-Meitner-Institut Berlin at particle accelerators on nuclear fusion/fission. After changing from science to IT-business, he worked as a technical and strategy consultant, trainer, project and department manager, and analyst in such companies as Siemens Nixdorf, Powersoft, Sybase, and Meta Group. His tasks mainly covered the topics business intelligence and data warehouse, data and business process modeling, software re-/engineering, and enterprise application integration. Today, Dr. Cramer works as an independent consultant, technical author, writer, and musician.