This year's "Long Evening of Science" was once again a great success with around 2,000 visitors, including many young people and families with children. Our faculty was present with activity and information stands as well as a research talk.

For example, experiments and posters provided insights into studies and research in economics. There was also a presentation on a study investigating how incentives affect performance in challenging team tasks. The study uses data on how long it takes teams in escape rooms to solve their tasks.

An experiment from mathematics demonstrated how soap bubbles span a minimal area and how mathematics helps to understand this. A minimal area is the smallest of all areas that fill a given frame.

Another topic at the faculty's activity stands was artificial intelligence (AI).  An interactive eye-tracker station was used to demonstrate how both humans and AI analyze and understand images. The humanoid robot Pepper fascinated visitors with the conversations it had with them. What goes on in the "head" of a robot - how machines learn - was explained from a mathematical perspective at another of our faculty's stands.

Many thanks to everyone from the faculty who took part in the Long Evening of Science!