AI4Science Training at UFZ Magdeburg 2026#
In this AI training for scientists, we will learn how Generative Artificial Intelligence works, try out various AI systems, and learn how to use such systems properly. We will also dive into responsible AI usage and legal constraints.
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Program March 27th 2026#
9:00 - 9:45 Introduction and Fundamentals
Introduction to Artificial Intelligence, AI systems, AI agents and language models
Application areas and limitations of AI in text generation
Prompt engineering
AI-assisted literature research
9:45 - 10:45 Exercises
10:45 - 11:00 Break
11:00 - 12:15 Advanced Usage
Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Text Analysis / Information Retrieval
Vision Language Models
Data Analysis Code-Generation
12:15 - 13:00 Lunch break
13:00 - 14:00 Exercises
14:00 - 15:00 Responsible Use of Generative AI and Legal Framework
Data protection compliant usage
Copyright
EU AI Act
15:00 - 15:30 Exercise, Discussion and free experimentation
15:30 - 15:45 Final discussion, feedback round
Trainer#
Lina Höck, LL.M., come2data, TU Dresden
Dr. Robert Haase, ScaDS.AI Dresden/Leipzig, Uni Leipzig
Acknowledgement#
We acknowledge the financial support by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research of Germany and by Sächsische Staatsministerium für Wissenschaft, Kultur und Tourismus in the programmes „Stärkung der Datenkompetenzen des wissenschaftlichen Nachwuchses“, project identification number: 16DKZ2044. We acknowledge the financial support by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research of Germany and by Sächsische Staatsministerium für Wissenschaft, Kultur und Tourismus in the programme Center of Excellence for AI-research “Center for Scalable Data Analytics and Artificial Intelligence Dresden/Leipzig”, project identification number: ScaDS.AI