Focus Groups

Along with researchers who work on individual projects during their stay at the Wissenschaftskolleg, the Kolleg has in the past also regularly invited small focus groups of up to five persons to conduct research on a common topic.

The funding format was discontinued.

Overview of past Focus Groups

2009/2010

Classical Simulation of Quantum Systems: Classical Information vs. Quantum Information
Complexity and Flexibility in Animal Communication

Vincent M. Janik, Klaus Zuberbühler
Functional and Structural Constraints in the Evolution of Sensorimotor Networks

Harald Wolf
Social Insects as a Model System for Evolutionary Developmental Biology

Manfred D. Laubichler

2008/2009

Auditory and Visual Scene Analysis

Cynthia F. Moss
Sympatric Speciation: Theoretical and Empirical Considerations

Axel Meyer
Understanding the Brain - An Attempt to Unify Language Production, Reasoning and Motor Control

Holk Cruse

2007/2008

Constitution Beyond the Nation State
Evolutionary Medicine

Randolph M. Nesse

2006/2007

Evolutionary Immunology

Joachim Kurtz, Paul Schmid-Hempel
ImageScience - Media and Politics
Phylogenetic Biology

Wayne Paul Maddison
Religious Transformation Processes in the Present

Friedrich Wilhelm Graf

2005/2006

Inner Model Theory

John Steel
Religion and Contingency

Hans Joas

2004/2005

Bildwissenschaft/ImageScience

Horst Bredekamp
Conflict Resolution in Biological Systems

Francis L. W. Ratnieks
Infectious Diseases Epidemiology

Hajo Grundmann

2003/2004

Cultural Mobility

Stephen J. Greenblatt
Development of Spatial Cognition
Islamic and Jewish Hermeneutics as Cultural Critique
Science and the Public

2002/2003

Brain Evolution

Georg Striedter
Nutrition

David Raubenheimer, Stephen J. Simpson
The Sciences of Risk

Alex Kacelnik

2001/2002

Neural Control and Locomotion

Ansgar Büschges
Social History of Muslim Societies - Social History of Western Societies

Beshara Doumani, David Warren Sabean
Social Norms and Economic Behaviour

Ernst Fehr
The Sciences of Risk

Alex Kacelnik

2000/2001

Demography and the Evolution of Eusociality

Raghavendra Gadagkar
South Asian Historiography

David Shulman
Spatial Cognition

Hans-Ulrich Schnitzler

1999/2000

AGORA Work - Knowledge Cohesion
Neurolinguistics

Angela Friederici

1998/1999

Biomimetics

Daniel Robert
Cultural Foundations of Economic Reality

Hansjörg Siegenthaler
The Meaning of Time in Quantum Theory

John Stuart Briggs

1997/1998

Parallel Processing and the Binding Problem

Andreas K. Engel, Rainer Goebel
Visual Ecology and Evolution

Eric J. Warrant

1996/1997

Active Vision

Mandyam V. Srinivasan
Sex and Evolutionary Conflicts

Andrew Pomiankowski

1995/1996

Evolution of Global Biogeochemical Cycles and Environmental Change

Kenneth J. Hsü
Models as mediators: The Role of Models in Physics and Economics

Brigitte Falkenburg
Spatio-Temporal Processes in Ecolocial Communities

Andreas Diekmann, Richard Law

1993/1994

Biodiversity

Richard I. Vane-Wright
Collective Intelligence: Self-Organizing Superorganism Systems

Scott Camazine

1992/1993

Physics of Disordered Systems

Hans A. Weidenmüller

2019/2020

2018/2019

2017/2018

2016/2017

2015/2016

2014/2015

2013/2014

2012/2013

2011/2012

2010/2011