Memorial colloquium for Ralf Klamma

We would like to share with the community the invitation to the memorial colloquium for Ralf Klamma!

With deep respect and remembrance, we invite you to attend the memorial colloquium honoring the life and academic legacy of Dr. Ralf Klamma.

Date: January 31, 2025

Time: 13:00 – 18:00

Location: b-it Research School, Ahornstrasse 55 (Entrance: Mies van der Rohe Str), 52074 Aachen

Throughout the afternoon, colleagues and friends will share memories and insights about Ralf’s remarkable contributions to academia and research. The program will feature three main sessions focusing on Technology Enhanced Learning, Media and Communication (SFB) in combination with the UMIC Excellence Cluster, and Entrepreneurship, interspersed with coffee breaks.

The memorial colloquium will conclude with a photo journey celebrating Ralf’s life, work and vivid support of young scientists. Then, a reception with finger food and beverages follows from 18:00 onwards.

To help us with the arrangements, please confirm your attendance soon but not later than 15. January 2025 here:

Registration

• 13:00 Opening (Stefan Decker & Thomas Rose)
• 13:15 Welcome by the Spokesperson of Computer Science at RWTH Aachen University (Bastian Leibe)

The program is structured into three major fields of research reflecting major streams of scientific projects and accomplishments in Ralf’s academic career.

• 13:30 Technology Enhanced Learning – Moderation by Thomas Rose
  • Marcus Specht: Cooperative Knowledge Management and Learning Together: Lessons learned from Ralf’s work
  • Milos Kravcik: Technology Enhanced Learning and Advanced Community Information Systems
  • Fridolin Wild: Can XR “reality-embedded learning” mitigate the fallout of the AI revolution?

• 14:30 – 15:00 Break with Coffee and Cakes

• 15:00 Media, Communication, and Cultural Heritage: A reflection of SFB 427 on Media and Cultural Communication & Umic Excellence Cluster – Moderation by Marc Spaniol and Erhard Schüttpelz
  • Georgios Toubekis: Preserving Heritage, Crafting Knowledge – Personal Intercultural Memories to a Collaborative Scientific Journey in Digital Innovation

o    Erika Linz: Traceability and medial Agency. Fostering Productivity of Interdisciplinary Cooperation

o    Marc Spaniol: Web & Communities: Web & Communities: from Multimedia Information Systems in the Cultural Sciences via Longitudinal Studies towards Semantic Analytics

• 16:00 – 16:30 Break with Coffee and Cakes

• 16:30 Entrepreneurship – Moderation by Volker Wulf
  • Michaela Klamma, Petra Moog & Volker Wulf: Lessons Learnt and Trip Folklore from our Joint Sabbatical at MIT
  • Petra Moog: The Virtual Entrepreneurship Lab – a Pioneering Approach, Paving the Ground for today`s Research and Applications
  • Mikhail Fominykh: Strengthening the European TEL Community through the EATEL Doctoral Summer School
• 17:30 Photo Journey Celebrating Ralf’s Life and Work
• 18:00 Buffet (Fingerfood & Drinks)

With sincere regards,

Stefan Decker, Sandra Geissler, Alexander Neumann, Thomas Rose, Marc Spaniol, Volker Wulf