Ski Seminar 2025

Over the past two weeks, 80 participants took part in this year's ski seminar, which was organised by Dr Sebastian Reiners in collaboration with the University of Koblenz (Prof. Dr Patrick Delfmann and Dennis M. Riehle) and took place at a mountain hut in Mittelberg, Austria.
There were three seminars from Münster, which focussed on the topics “Transformers“, “Exploring Human-AI Interaction: Methodologies and Applications“ and “Decision-Making with Generative AI - Design Science Competition“.
In the master's seminar “Transformers“, which was led by Julian Kranz and Jan Stenkamp, the students focussed intensively on transformers. Transformers are highly scalable and parallelisable AI models that are successfully used not only in large language models, but also in image recognition and time series analysis. During the seminar, the complex architecture of the transformers was examined and impressive application examples were implemented, including writing lyrics in the style of a well-known rapper and predicting weather and stock data.
The aim of the Bachelor's seminar “Exploring Human-AI Interaction: Methodologies and Applications“, led by Dr Marleen Voß and Sandro Franzoi, was to give students a comprehensive insight into the dynamic research field of human-AI interaction and to familiarise them with scientific work and research methods. The participants worked independently in small groups and created exciting projects that demonstrate the diversity of issues in human-AI interaction.
In the bachelor's seminar “Decision-Making with Generative AI - Design Science Competition“ led by Dr Sebastian Reiners and Janis Elmer, the students developed a variety of innovative artefacts - from fitness apps to tools for primary school teachers that generate personalised maths problems based on completed worksheets.
The participants also took advantage of the beautiful weather and skied a lot.