Program 2015
Introduction to Demography and Aging Research
Roland Rau, Rostock University
Health Inequalities: Principal Facts and Measurement Issues
Vladimir Shkolnikov, MPIDR
The Biodemography of Human Longevity
James W. Vaupel, MPIDR
The Historical Demography of Mortality
James E. Oeppen, Max-Planck Odense Center Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Biodemography
Supercentenarians
Heiner Maier, MPIDR
The Physiology of Aging
Rüdiger Köhling, Rostock University
Model organisms in aging research
Ralf Schaible, MPIDR
Long live the Queen and short the worker: ageing in eusocial organisms
Boris Kramer, MPIDR
The Diversity of Ageing across the Tree of Life: Male - Female Aspects
Alexander Scheuerlein, MPIDR
Natural experiments and social determinants of old age survival
Tobias Vogt, MPIDR
Epidemiology of Aging and Disability
Gabriele Doblhammer, Rostock University
Diversity of Aging across the Tree of Life
Owen Jones, Max-Planck Odense Center
EU Funding Opportunities – What’s in for me?
Babett Gläser
Implications of demographic aging for retirement schemes
Carsten Schröder, DIW Berlin
Scientific Writing Seminar
Justin Mullins and Mark Buchanan
What do we know about education in old age? Chances and challenges of analyzing longitudinal qualitative data of the ILSE Study
Ines Himmelsbach, Catholic University of Applied Sciences Freiburg
Ethnographic methods which might be useful not only for anthropologists: micro-census and genalogies
Günther Schlee, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle
Mediterranean Diet and cognition: epidemiology and mechanisms
Nikolaos Scarmeas, The Neurological Institute of New York
Using mathematical models to understand tissue dynamics and predict cellular ageing
Arne Traulsen, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology, Plön
The aging decision maker: Modeling decline and compensation within a cognitive architecture
Hanna Fechner, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin
Measures for Comparing the Mortality History of Cohorts
Vladimir Canudas-Romo, Max-Planck Odense Center
Social Support in an Ageing Europe - Evidence from SHARE?!
Martina Brandt, Technische Universität Dortmund
Introduction to LaTeX
Micaela Krieger-Hauwede
Elderly migrants in Germany: Development, heterogeneity and future aspects
Paul Becker, MPI for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, Göttingen
Adolescent Decision-Making: a neurobiological analyses
Wouter van den Bos, Stanford University and MPI for Human Development, Berlin
Anticipation Effects in Language Processing: Older vs. Younger Adults
Cornelia Moers, MPI for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen
Towards an Ecological Perspective on Age-Performance Relations
Rui Mata, Universität Basel
Introduction to Network Analysis
Philip Leifeld, University of Konstanz
Writing a successful grant application
Katja Hübel, MPI für Eisenforschung GmbH, Düsseldorf
Introduction to R
Iain Stott
Convergent Pathomechanisms of Progeroid Connective Tissue Disorders
Uwe Kornak, MPI for Molecular Genetics, Berlin
25 Years of Neuroimaging: Progress Towards Understanding the Pathophysiology of ADHD
Francisco Xavier Castellanos, NYU Child Study Center
Neuroplasticity over the lifespan and implications for successful aging
Ben Godde, Jacobs University Bremen
Poster and presentation course
Silvia Leek
Soft Skill Course
Communication & presentation in the academic context: How to be confident and persuasive
The Genomic Basis of the Evolution of Longevity - Analysis of a 30-Year-Long Selection Experiment in Drosophila
Thomas Flatt, University of Lausanne