Event Calendar
Beyond the data: Presenting Science with Impact (Scientific Presentation)
2-day on-site workshop on November 4+5, 2025 on KIT Campus South
As a scientist, presenting your findings is essential, whether in a group seminar, at a conference, or during your Ph.D. defense. However, effective science presentation is more than just sharing data.
The topics covered by this workshop are:
- Planning and structure
- Memorable start and ending
- Speech, voice, and body language
- Create meaningful graphics
- Slide composition
- Difficult situations
The training is a workshop, meaning that the participants apply the learned material to their presentations right there. Therefore, everybody should bring presentations (old or upcoming ones) to work with.
Speaking the same language is a great advantage for tailoring presentations effectively. Another important point: Most scientists talk about their topic with shining eyes. Often, that excitement is gone the moment they stand in front of a crowd. To tap into this enthusiasm during your talk is particularly important. For that enthusiasm to reappear, you need to feel safe with what you are doing in your presentation.
Brought to you by Institute of Measurement and Control Systems (MRT) and KCDS.
Free for MRT and KCDS members
Dr. Carsten Rohr
Soft Skills for Hard Science
Angela Hühnerfuß
KIT Graduate School Computational and Data Science (KCDS)
KIT-Center MathSEE
Karlsruhe
Mail: kcds ∂does-not-exist.kit edu
https://www.kcds.kit.edu
Young Scientists
Join the CDS Runners team for the 12th KIT Meisterschaft, a 10km fun run that takes place on Saturday, July 4 at 9:30h at KIT Campus South. Feel the team spirit and get a free KIT shirt!
Register until May 4, 2026!
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The AI Community at KIT is active, but spread-out: KIT Centers MathSEE and KCIST aim to bring AI researchers together in this joint workshop. Join us at Triangel Space for inspiring talks by Benjamin Unger, Maria Francesca Spadea and Tobias Käfer and show your AI-related research at our poster session.
Call for poster contributions now open!
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In this year's summer school, we will cover both fundamental concepts and practical applications of Graph Neural Networks. Participants can expect a mix of lectures and interactive sessions that provide insight into the mathematical foundations as well as real-world use cases of graph-based machine learning methods.
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This year's group retreat will be from November 2-4, 2026 at the Black Forest. Save the date!
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Find an overview of past events in our timeline.
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The workshop was co-organized by doctoral researchers from HGS MathComp (Heidelberg) and KCDS and provided a smooth introduction to a challenging, yet highly relevant topic: Stochastic partial differential equations in applied mathematics. It took place from March 9-11, 2026 in Heidelberg.
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A worthwhile journey to KIT Institute of Statistics: Talks by Sebastian Engelke, Linda Mhalla, Gabriele Messori, Petra Friederichs gave insights into state-of-the-art research in statistics and data science for climate and weather extremes. The workshop took place on November 20, 2025 at the Campus South outpost in Blücherstraße.
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A friendly place in the Black Forest, sunny autumn weather, good food, lively (scientific) discussions, board games and activities ranging from powerpoint karaoke to trampoline jumping were the ingredients of a lovely KCDS Retreat this year! It took place from November 10-12, 2025.
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Short courses and an interactive tutorial on Neural Operators and Gaussian Processes, along with a poster session and lots of opportunities for networking with other researchers - that was the KCDS Summer School 2025! It took place from August 27-29, 2025 at KIT Campus South.
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KIT International Excellence Fellow Prof. Victoria Stodden invited the KIT community, especially early career researchers, to create ideas and proposals for facilitating research that is data-, compute-, or AI-enabled - taking reproducibility to action! The workshop took place on January 21, 2025 at Triangel Studio.
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From Computational and Data Science to Industry and Academia - four KIT Alumni gave insights into their jobs during a lively panel discussion on October 11, 2024 at Triangel Space.
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The hackathon on precipitation estimation with weather radar and rain gauge data took place from October 8-11, 2024 at Triangel Studio.
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