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Current Events at CAS

12 May

12/05/2025 Lunch Talk: Das Forschungsprogramm der reflexiven Diversitätsforschung
Speaker: Prof. Dr. Andrea D. Bührmann (Göttingen) | Chair: Prof. Dr. Hella von Unger (LMU)
13 May

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21 Jul

13/05/2025 - 21/07/2025 Lecture Series, Summer Semester 2025 – “The Fine Tuned Universe”
The lecture series is part of the CAS Research Focus "The Fine-Tuned Universe - A New Cosmology?".
13 May

13/05/2025 Is Life Fine Tuned to Physics or Is Physics Fine Tuned to Life?
Online Panel Discussion with Prof. Philip Goff, Ph.D. (Durham), Prof. Helen Meskhidze, Ph.D. (Cincinnati) | Chair: Prof. Dr. Sebastian Gäb (LMU).
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