• Contribution "Energy Informatics: Why is Computing Science important for the power supply?" at the Rinteln Summer University 2011
• Dr Ute Vogel

2010

Rinteln Summer University

• Presentation: ‘Energy Informatics: Why is Computing Science Important for the Electricity Supply?’ at the Rinteln Summer University 2010
• Dr Ute Vogel

2009

Rinteln Summer University

• Presentation“Learning from Nature – Optimisation Methods in Computing Science” at the Rinteln Summer University on 27 July 2009
• Dr Ute Vogel

City of Science

At the University of Oldenburg, many research groups are engaged in interdisciplinary work on energy saving, energy efficiency and energy from renewable sources. In response to these challenges, the Department of Computing Science is primarily working on the following topics: modelling, simulation and improvement of power management, as well as the analysis and utilisation of the vast amounts of information generated by decentralised producers and consumers (data flow management systems). A brief insight is provided by: Software agents for energy supply

Lectures as part of the City of Science

• Energy Informatics – IT for the power supply of tomorrow
  
  

  • Prof. Dr Michael Sonnenschein

    Dipl.-Wirtsch.-Ing. Carsten Wissing

    Old Town Hall, Oldenburg, 22 October 2009, 7.00 pm

• "Learning to organise from ants: Computer Methods Based on Biological Systems”

  • Prof. Dr Michael Sonnenschein

    Dr Ute Vogel

  • Uni am Markt, 13 June 2009

2008

Students of Environmental Informatics were once again successful in 2008. They received the award at the EnviroInfo conference for their work “Diem – A Tool for Modelling and Optimisation of Residential Electricity Consumption”.

The GI’s Environmental Informatics Technical Committee awards the annual Environmental Informatics Prize for Environmental Applications to students. Submitted projects must demonstrate the use of information and communication technologies to solve environmental problems or, more generally, the contribution of ICT to sustainable development.

2007

International ITEE Conference in Oldenburg The Department of Environmental Computing Science was a co-organiser and organiser of the international conference ITEE 2007 – Information Technology in Environmental Engineering, which took place on 29–30 March 2007 in Oldenburg.

KinderUniversität on 14 March 2007: Learning to organise from fish and ants: ‘Programmed animals’ on the computer M. Sonnenschein, U. Vogel

2003

Environmental Informatics Prize for Oldenburg students

Carpooling service launches in the winter semester The Oldenburg project “ORISS – Web-based car-sharing service’ has been selected by the ‘Computing Science in Environmental Protection’ specialist committee of the German Informatics Society (Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V.) from among seven entries for this year’s Environmental Informatics Prize for student projects. The prize, worth 1,000 euros, was presented on 24 September 2003 during the EnviroInfo 2003 conference in Cottbus, where Simon Giesecke, a Computing Science student from Oldenburg, had presented the project. Along with Giesecke, a total of 19 Computing Science students and their supervisors, Gerriet Reents, Dr Ute Vogel and Prof. Dr Michael Sonnenschein, are delighted to receive the award for work spanning more than two years. The results of ORISS directly benefit the University of Oldenburg: the work forms the basis of the CarPooling project, funded by the German Federal Environmental Foundation, which aims to set up an internet-based car-sharing scheme for members of the University of Oldenburg. From the winter semester onwards, it will offer the many commuters – both staff and students – the opportunity to travel to work or to their lectures in a simple, cost-effective and environmentally friendly way. The online car-sharing service takes individual preferences regarding route and fellow passengers into account. In addition to comfort, flexibility and cost savings, minimising the total distance travelled is also a key optimisation objective. Another advantage is that the car-sharing service is free of charge.

2002

Oldenburg graduate wins Bremen Engineering Prize

Oldenburg. Michael Malachinski, a Computing Science graduate from Oldenburg, is today being awarded the “Bremen Engineering Prize of the VDI” for his Diplom thesis. This prize is awarded annually by the Bremen regional branch of the “Association of German Engineers” (VDI) to two Diplom theses by graduates from the five universities in Bremen, Oldenburg and Emden. Malachinski completed his Diplom thesis at the University of Oldenburg in the Department of Environmental Informatics, headed by Prof. Dr Michael Sonnenschein. He developed a user interface for an ecological simulation system. His work forms part of the “SimWild” research project, an ecological research project run by the Oldenburg-based OFFIS Institute of Computer Science and the Leipzig-Halle Environmental Research Centre GmbH (UFZ). The aim of the project is to make findings from theoretical ecology usable for practical applications. To this end, the UFZ has developed a simulation model that can be used to calculate how many wild animals are killed in a study area as a result of human disturbances (such as road traffic). This enables, on the one hand, the assessment of existing environmental risks and, on the other, the ecological evaluation of alternative interventions (such as different route options for a road). The user interface developed by Malachinski enables ecologists, species conservation officers and landscape planners to apply the model in practical nature conservation work.