Successful introduction of smart grids in India, your personal car on-demand and mechanisms that prevented the breakthrough of brilliant ideas last century. In three 10-minute-talks, TU/e-researchers dr. Johanna Höffken & dr. Ankit Kumar and TU/e-students Steven Nelemans & Karsten van Asdonk present new inventions and insights that will contribute to the future energy transition. Get […]

With great power comes great responsibility. Are you here to improve the world? Do you want to make a change? There's more to changing the world for the better than engineering knowledge. 4TU Centre for Ethics and Technology offers you four lectures that help you think about this responsibility. Register by sending an e-mail to […]

The European Conference on Integrated Optics has now reached its 19th edition. Innovation and industry uptake is accelerating, and to capture this increasing pace, we are now transitioning to an annual event. In 2017 we return to Eindhoven at the Science Park of the Technical University of Eindhoven. We will retain the same clear focus […]

The downside of our increasingly digital culture: the internet and big data are a threat to creative thinking and innovation. The internet and the opportunities that big data offer should stimulate processes of creativity and innovation. Instead, we continuously feel Big Brother is watching us and we fear the lasting traces we leave on the […]

Who decides our future and how should we be governed? Nowadays, one of the world’s most debated and critical issues. Iman Stratenus offers a radical new way forward: crowdocracy. One that allows all of us - not just some of us - to participate in how we are governed. By using technology and the insights […]

There are codes all around us that we are not aware of. Mathematician and numberphile James Grime reveals this unseen world of hidden secrets and code breaking. James Grime will reveal how film studios know if you are sharing movies illegally. How to hide a secret message on the internet in plain sight. He will […]

With great power comes great responsibility. Are you here to improve the world? Do you want to make a change? There's more to changing the world for the better than engineering knowledge. 4TU Centre for Ethics and Technology offers you four lectures that help you think about this responsibility. Register by sending an e-mail to […]

From flocks of birds to swarming robots: prof. Tamás Vicsek explains the common rules underlying large-scale collective motion. With examples ranging from coherently moving bacteria to flocks of birds and the spectacular flight of a group of unmanned aerial robots, prof. Tamás Vicsek explains how to find the most common rules underlying the large scale […]

Scientists are closer than you might think to creating the superpowers of superheroes such as Wolverine, Spiderman and The Invisible Woman. Dr. Barry Fitzgerald, scientist and superhero expert, explores how to get the superpowers that we see in Hollywood blockbusters in real life, how to introduce such superpowers into modern society and how to control […]

Millions of viewers and players, flashing events and top-of-the-bill sponsors: this is eSports, or competitive video gaming. Game researcher dr. René Glas speaks about the historical context, spectator sports and recent and future developments in eSports. The lecture takes place at the Blue Hall Auditorium of the Technical University. To be sure of a place, […]