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The moment is here: ticket sale for InScience 2018 started and the entire program is online! You are able to get your tickets for different programs through the program page or via the timetable. Planning on visiting multiple programs over several days of the festival? Get the InScience ticket strip! For €18 you are entitled to three program tickets, with a maximum of one ticket per program. Read how to and get our ticket strip here.

Film

About the ultimate challenge in the world of artificial intelligence, about building a star on earth, about creativity and human values in smart machines, and about a scientific expedition through the breathtaking Okavango Delta. This year’s InScience programme is as broad as it is deep. With powerful, shocking and sometimes disturbing films, InScience reveals the impact of science on society and vice versa. The program contains more than sixty science films, with two European premieres and nineteen Dutch premieres. The very best films have been selected for the fourth edition of the NTR Audience Award. InScience will kick off with the science documentary AlphaGo, on Wednesday 7 November at 20.30 at LUX 6.   

AlphaGo
Greg Kohs / Documentary / US / 90 min / 2017
Seemingly simple yet deceptively complex, the Chinese board game ‘Go’ has more board configurations than atoms in the universe. It is therefore considered the ultimate challenge for artificial intelligence. Legendary ‘Go’ master Lee Sedol took on an AI challenger for the first time in history for a best-of-five competition that enraptured hundreds of millions of viewers around the world. What can artificial intelligence reveal about a 3000-year-old game? What can it teach us about humanity?

Get your tickets here.

Talks

This year InScience has not one, not two, but three Big Ideas! Historian and philosopher Philipp Blom talks about artificial intelligence and climate change, Max Welling (UvA) will enlighten you about the power of self-learning systems in combination with data processing and Pim Haselager (Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behavior) will discuss robotics and ethical dilemmas.

Maria Antonietta Loi, the winner of the Physica Prize 2018, is a guest in the program of the film Point of No Return, philosopher Jos de Mul (writer of Kunstmatig van nature and Onderweg naar Homo sapiens 3.0 (2017)) explores the relationship between art and Artificial Intelligence.

View the talks here.

Virtual reality & scientific research

During InScience, the Mariënburg Library is the festival heart when it comes to scientific experiments and Virtual Reality. InScience presents a VR cinema where visitors experience science with the latest VR films. In addition, there are experiments scattered throughout the library where visitors can take part in scientific research.

View the VR-programs here.

Junior

Are you curious to find out how something works? Are you able to ask questions on any topic? Is your hunger for knowledge never pleased? Embark on a journey of discovery during InScience and look at everything our Junior program has to offer. Get familiar with new and unknown research, test your knowledge during the Junior Science Quiz, be bedazzled by beautiful films and experience what it is like to be a scientist.

Have a look at the Junior program here.