Saturday, September 6, 2025

9:00 - 10:00

Landtagssaal

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Talk will be in the Landtagssaal, Overflow transmission to Rittersaal, Herrensaal, and Prälatensaal Summary of the Talk Sound enters the ear and is converted into electrical signals. A lot can go wrong – but it only becomes really problematic when you look at the brain behind it. How does our brain manage to generate a word and its meaning from individual phonemes? A typical reading disorder is dyslexia – is there such a thing in hearing and what does this have to do with cocktails? Hearing is more than listening – it's also about understanding. Speaker Prof. Werner Gruber is a well-known Austrian physicist, author, lecturer, cabaret artist, and co-founder of the Science Busters. At the age of 17, he received the ‘First Austrian Youth Research Award’ for the creation of a three-dimensional screen, which was followed by many other awards. In 1999, he graduated with honours in physics from the University of Vienna. From 2013 to 2022, Gruber was director of the astronomical facilities of Vienna. He currently teaches physics at the Medical Faculty of the Sigmund Freud Private University and at the Faculty of Computer Science at the University of Vienna. He is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Natural History Museum Vienna and is also assigned to the Cooperative Systems Research Group at the Faculty of Computer Science at the University of Vienna.

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