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Summer semester 2024

General remarks

General lecture period summer semester 2024: 15.04.2024 to 12.07.2024 (with winter semester 2023/2024, 2nd exam period: 02.04. - 13.04.2024 (link CAU) - In accordance with the CAU's examination procedure regulations, there are no courses in bachelor's and master's degree programs during the examination periods (few exceptions for first semester students)).

More information at M. Sc. Biological Oceanography - information for students on OLAT.

Exam dates summer semester 2024: here (OLAT)

There is no general registration for courses - only for the exams at the end of the semester during registration phases (s.b.).

Notes on how to use the online tool can be found here:

If you have questions about the examination administration procedures in general (registration periods, examination periods, etc.) you may find answers in the Examination procedures section. If you are still unclear about anything you can contact the relevant Examination Office at any time.

Complete examination schedule SS 2024 (link to CAU).

Examinations:

Typical examination procedure:     

  1. Examination registration: You register for the examinations that you would like to take in the next examination period or that are assigned to the next examination period (s.b. Examination Organisation Online (CAU)). In case of registration problems contact the Examination Office Biology.

    During the registration period for the 1st examination period please register for all the written or oral examinations you would like to take in the 1st examination period (or around and assigned to the 1st examination period), but also for the examinations that you have already taken or started (e.g. seminar papers) during the lecture period (including before the registration period), as well as for examinations (e.g. assignments) that are to be taken during the lecture-free period.

    Note: For examinations taken before the registration period, examination attendance is considered as binding registration. You must also register for these examinations during the registration period, however, so that your academic achievements can be recorded in the system at a later stage.

  2. Checking admission: Two days before the start of the examination period, you check whether you have been granted admission to the examinations you have registered for.
  3. Examination attendance: You take the examinations during the examination period.
  4. Checking results: You check the results entered by the examiners.

Examination Organisation Online (CAU)

Access to the online tool in the CAU-Portal: http://www.uni-kiel.de/hisinone

The online tool has the following functions:

  • Registering for examinations / Cancelling registrations
  • Information on registered examinations (checking admissions. Information on examination dates, times and rooms)
  • Information on examination results
     

Notes on how to use the online tool can be found here:

You need your stu-ID to use the Studierenden-Online-Funktion online tool. Detailed information on the stu-ID and stu-e-mail address can be found at the Computing Centre StudiNet.

If you have questions about the examination administration procedures in general (registration periods, examination periods, etc.) you may find answers in the Examination procedures section. If you are still unclear about anything you can contact the Examination Office Biology at any time.

Registration period first exam phase summer semester: 03.06.2024 - 30.06.2024

First exam period summer semester: 15.07.2024 - 27.07.2024

Registration period second exam period summer semester: 26.08.2024 - 22.09.2024

Second exam period winter semester: 07.10.2024 - 19.10.2024 

Complete schedule see CAU website and here (link to CAU).

Keep in mind - it's your responsibility not to miss any fixed dates and/or deadlines.

Practical courses, practical exercises and some seminars have compulsory attendance (FPO).

Make sure that you sign the attendance list every course day!

Framework of courses:

  1. All of the five first semester modules are compulsory.
  2. Passed core modules of the first semester (MNF-bioc-101 and MNF-bioc-102) are important for the understanding for the advanced modules of the second semester in summer (e.g. MNF-bioc-201 and MNF-bioc-202).
  3. Passed exams of ALL compulsory modules of first and second semester are the  indispensable prerequisite for the exam of the core module of third semester in winter (MNF-bioc-301).
  4. A short presentation of your planned master's thesis ("proposal day") and a passed exam at the end of MNF-bioc-301 is the prerequisite to register your thesis (MNF-bioc-401) at the examination office.

For details concerning exams, prerequisites etc. look at the exam regulations in Biological Oceanography (p. 10-13).

Forms concerning exam withdrawal for good cause, medical certificate etc. (forms).

General regulations concerning examinations can be found here.

Considerations concerning using first or second exam phase (CAU).

Exams are generally scheduled only for the semester where the modules are taught.

  • There are no exams for winter semester modules MNF-bioc-1xx and MNF-bioc-3xx in summer semester.
  • There are no exams for summer semester modules MNF-bioc-2xx in winter semester.

Examination Schedule (lecturers and students tasks (link to CAU)

Timetables and course lists

General: Courses (lectures, seminars, practicals etc.) summer semester 2024

MSc. Biological Oceanography - second semester - lecture plan summer semester 2024 (click on "Stundenplan" for a complete time table).  All seven different possible practical parts in three blocks of MNF-bioc-202 are shown which looks heavily loaded - but you have to choose only two resp. three non overlapping parts.

Details: More detailed information concerning single courses and modules can be found on OLAT in general, resp. M. Sc. Biological Oceanography - information for students or via our module list, with links to the resp. module information on OLAT.

As you can take many optional modules outside of our curriculum (CAU-wide choices) these are not included in the example lists and timetables.

Block courses in summer 2024: 

  • MNF-bioc-264 (S. Garthe, Büsum): September/October 2024
  • MNF-bioc-271 (B. Schneider, Kiel): 21.05.2024 - 24.05.2024
  • MNF-bioc-280 (K. Heubel, FTZ): 26.08.2024 - 06.09.2024 at FTZ Büsum.
  • MNF-bioc-301 (F. Mittermayer, ALKOR cruise MNF-bioc-301): 18.08.2024 - 30.08.2024
  • MNF-bioc-368 (F. Weinberger, Aaland-Island (Finland) - Marine station Husö): 07.09.2024 - 22.09.2024

  • For optional modules within Biological Oceanography look at the module list.
  • Generally: for imported courses (e.g. Introduction to Physical Oceanography) and and courses outside of M. Sc. Biological Oceanography please always contact the person in charge of the module you are attending and the corresponding exam office.
  • For a selection of courses outside of our curriculum look here (optional courses outside of Biological Oceanography).

 

Summer semester 2024

UnivIS
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Semester: SS 2024 

Agent Based Models in Economics and Finance (VWLfeABM-02a) (030166)

Dozent/in
Prof. Dr. Thomas Lux

Angaben
Vorlesung, 2 SWS, benoteter Schein, ECTS-Studium, ECTS-Credits: 6
für ERASMUS-/Austauschstudierende geeignet, Unterrichtssprache Englisch
Zeit und Ort: Di 16:15 - 17:45, WSP1 - R.506
vom 14.4.2024 bis zum 14.7.2024
1. Prüfungstermin (Klausur am Ende der Vorlesungszeit eines Semesters): 17.7.2024, 10:00 - 12:00 Uhr, Raum CAP2 - Hörsaal A

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches
Module Code: VWLfeABM-02a
Module Number: 3050701
Exam Number: 3050710
Exam type according to FPO: Module Exam (Modulprüfung)
Specific exam type in summer term 2022: written exam

Further information:: Given in OLAT

The number of ECTS Credits as well as the admission to the examination for this module is determined by the information regarding this module in the FPO (Examination Regulations) of your program (possibly only in the Appendix of the German version). If this module is not explicitly listed in your FPO, please check at the beginning of the semester about admission options. Typically, admission to the examination of this module is not possible in this case. An overview for all programs which can choose modules of the Institute of Economics can also be found here: Nebenfach Volkswirtschaftslehre – Handbuch für Exportmodule (Minor in Economics - Handbook of Export Modules). You can also check in advance in QIS whether you can find this module listed there in the overview for exam registration, with the exam number mentioned in univis. Registration to the exam is only possible during the registration period. If you still have questions after reviewing these documents, please contact your student advisor (Studienfachberater).

DE: Die angegebenen Prüfungszeiten beinhalten die Ausgabe und das Einsammeln der Prüfungsunterlagen. Die tatsächliche Prüfungszeit beträgt eine Stunde.

ENG: Stated exam periods include distribution and collection of exam materials. Actual test duration is one hour.

Inhalt
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The course will provide a rigorous, but accessible and self-contained introduction to recent stochastic models of interacting autonomous agents with a particular emphasis on financial applications and their empirical motivation. While many traditional classroom models use a representative agent approach in order to derive choice-theoretic micro-foundations for the market behaviour of firms or households, an increasing number of recent contributions in economics and finance have tried to overcome the limitation of the representative agent approach. In these models, markets are distributed dynamical systems, whose macroscopic properties are derived from their microscopic structure in a non-trivial way. The analytical apparatus that has been developed to derive macroscopic approximations for mean values and higher moments of the aggregate dynamics of distributed systems of agents will be sketched, and we will illustrate how simple ABMs can be rigorously estimated on the base of such analytical solutions. The lecture concludes with an introduction into methods from artificial intelligence and machine learning that have been used to model the active adaptation of economic agents to changing environments.

1. Social Interactions and Opinion Formation of Agents
1.1. Interaction and Emergence of Macroscopic Order: An Example of Involuntary Racial Segregation
1.2. Strategic Choice and Historical Path Dependence
1.3 Discrete Choice with Social Interaction

2. Stochastic Models of Interacting Agents: Structure and Quantitative Modeling Concepts
2.1. The Master Equation Formalism: Stationary Solutions and Transient Behavior
2.2. Dynamics of Means and Higher Moments
2.3. Heterogeneous Beliefs and Asset Price Dynamics
2.4. Artificial Markets with Herding and Strategy Choice
2.5. Estimation of Agent-Based Models

3. Agents with Artificial Intelligence
3.1. Genetic Algorithms: Principles and Economic Applications
3.2. Genetic Algorithms as Explanations of Human Behavior

Empfohlene Literatur
Nice introductory examples can be found in:
  • Schelling, T., Micromotives and Macrobehavior, New York, 2006
  • Arthur, B., Competing Technologies, Increasing Returns and Lock-in by Historical Events, Economic Journal, 99, 106-131, 1989

Excellent introductions to stochastic modeling principles for systems of interacting agents and more interesting applications can be found in:
  • Weidlich, W. and G. Haag, Concepts and Models of a Quantitative Sociology: The Dynamics of Interacting Populations, Springer: Berlin 1983
  • Weidlich, W. , Sociodynamics: A Systematic Approach to Mathematical Modelling in the Social Sciences. Amsterdam , Harwood Academic, 2000.
  • Aoki, M., Modeling Aggregate Behavior and Fluctuations in Economics: Stochastic Views of Interacting Agents. Cambridge: University Press 2002
  • Aoki, M. and H. Yoshikawa, Reconstructing Macroeconomics: A Perspective from Statistical Physics and Combinatorial Stochastic Processes. Cambridge University Press, 2007.

Part 2 of the lecture draws on material from the following papers:
  • Lux, T., Rational Forecasts or Social Opinion Dynamics: Identification of Interaction Effects in a Business Climate Index, in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 72, 2009, 638 – 655
  • Lux, T. , Stochastic Behavioral Asset Pricing Models and the Stylized Facts, chapter 3 in T. Hens and K. Schenk-Hoppé, eds., Handbook of Financial Markets: Dynamics and Evolution. Amsterdam, 2009, 161 – 215 (North-Holland)

Zusätzliche Informationen
Erwartete Teilnehmerzahl: 20

Zugeordnete Lehrveranstaltungen
UE: Exercise: Agent Based Models in Economics and Finance
Dozent/in: Prof. Dr. Thomas Lux
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  • PD Dr. Frank Melzner
    Curriculum Coordinator
    Hohenbergstrasse 2
    Room 13
    Phone: +49 (0)431 600-4274
    E-mail: fmelzner(at)geomar.de

    Dr. Jörg Süling
    Study Coordinator
    Hohenbergstr. 2
    Room 006
    Phone: +49 (0)431 600-4454 / -4508
    E-mail: jsueling(at)geomar.de
    Consultation Tuesday 2-3 pm and Thursday 8-9 am - currently via zoom

    Annegret Stuhr
    Room 323
    Phone: +49 431 600-4028
    Email: astuhr(at)geomar.de

  • OLAT is the central online learning platform of CAU. On OLAT you always find recent material for lectures, seminars etc. 

  • Exam registration: If you encounter exam registration problems please contact exam office biology (Office Examination Board (web)).

    Generally: for imported courses and courses outside of M. Sc. Biological Oceanography please always contact the person in charge of the module you are attending and the corresponding exam office.

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    Students service

  • Chairman of Examination Board

    Prof. Dr. Thorsten Reusch
    GEOMAR
    Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel
    Düsternbrooker Weg 20
    24105 Kiel
    Room: A 31
    Phone: +49 431 600-4550
    E-Mail: treusch(at)geomar.de

    Office Examination Board (web)

    Marianne Lange  Tel. 0431/880-3724 (Raum E 50)
    Ines Wetzel   Tel. 0431/880-4157 (Raum E 51)

    Prüfungsamt Biologie
    Biozentrum
    Am Botanischen Garten 7
    24118 Kiel
    FAX 0431/880-5704

    pruefungsamt(at)bio.uni-kiel.de

  • Next application period: March 1 to April 15, 2025!

    More information at "how to aply"