Welcome


Welcome to the AIDAHO Tinkering Club.

We are a student-run club for anyone interested in Data Science and AI projects.

In the summer term of 2026, we started integrating Coffee Lectures on research computing into our schedule. We touch upon a range of topics, including (computational) reproducibility, data structures, and performance. We also cover high-performance computing, with an emphasis on Baden-Württemberg's HPC infrastructure (bwHPC).

Our aim is to familiarize scientists and students from all disciplines with a broad range of topics related to research computing.

In the winter term of 2027, we also plan to introduce improvised vibe-coding events centered around open data analysis.

These open data analysis sessions are hands-on meetings where researchers explore and analyze data with the help of AI coding agents. We use coding harnesses and tools such as Claude Code, OpenAI Codex, Cursor, OpenCode, Pi, and others.


Projects and Hackathons

We want to participate in the following Hackathons:


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  • Meeting ID: 657 4671 6206
  • Passcode: AknjW1

Coffee Lectures

The material for the coffee lecture can be found in the following gitlab repository:

bwHPC - Coffee Lectures

Open Data Analysis Coding Session

More material for the open data analysis coding session can be found in the following gitlab repository:

Paul Martin Rougieux - Open Data Analysis


Meeting Schedule

Join our weekly meetings, where we work on our projects or invite external speakers.

Winter 2026

Date Time Room Slot Speaker Topic
14.10.2026 14:15 PC Room 2 --- --- Kick-off
21.10.2026 14:15 PC Room 2 1 & 2 Paul GitLab: Open Data Analysis (repository)
28.10.2026 14:15 PC Room 2 Slot 1 Johannes Alfa Connectome / Slides: connectome_workshop.pdf
Slot 2 Konstantin Kuck (KIM) Coffee Lecture: Introduction to high-performance computing (HPC) and overview of bwHPC infrastructures
04.11.2026 14:15 PC Room 2 Slot 1 Benedikt (KIM) Advent of Code / Slides: Advent_of_Code.pdf
Slot 2 TC Team Student Projects & Interests
11.11.2026 14:15 PC Room 2 Slot 1 Benedikt (KIM) bwHPC: Sharing Workspaces using ACLs
Slot 2 --- ---
18.11.2026 14:15 PC Room 2 1 & 2 Paul GitLab: Open Data Analysis (repository)
25.11.2026 14:15 PC Room 2 1 & 2 Max, Johannes and Markus Elo Rating Systems for Soccer Prediction
02.12.2026 14:15 PC Room 2 Slot 1 Benedikt (KIM) Overview of Storage Types/S3 versus File Storage
Slot 2 --- ---
09.12.2026 14:15 PC Room 2 1 & 2 Paul GitLab: Open Data Analysis (repository)
16.12.2026 14:15 PC Room 2 Slot 1 --- Report Alfa Connectome Competition
Slot 2 Jonathan Minz LAFI Data Management (Link to repository)
--- --- --- --- --- Christmas Break
13.01.2027 14:15 PC Room 2 1 & 2 Johannes, Benedikt und Konstantin Speed-Up Your Code & Hack The Box Session
20.01.2027 14:15 PC Room 2 1 & 2 Paul GitLab: Open Data Analysis (repository)
27.01.2027 14:15 PC Room 2 --- --- Project Presentations (1/2)
03.02.2027 14:15 PC Room 2 --- --- Project Presentations (2/2)
--- --- --- --- End of Semester

Kick-Off Winter 2026

Please find the presentation of the kick-off meeting for the winter semester 2026:


Summer 2026

Date Time Room Slot Speaker Topic
08.04.2026 14:15 Multimedia Room, Alte Botanik (KIM) --- --- Kick-Off Meeting
15.04.2026 14:15 Multimedia Room, Alte Botanik (KIM) --- Domenic Franjic Nowcasting BW GDP
22.04.2026 14:15 Multimedia Room, Alte Botanik (KIM) Slot 1 Konstantin Kuck Coffee Lecture: Reproducible computing environments
Slot 2 Leonard Hegemann How to Host an LLM Service for Sensitive Data?
29.04.2026 14:15 Multimedia Room, Alte Botanik (KIM) Slot 1 KIM Coffee Lecture: Data structures and types in Python and R
Slot 2 Max Student Project: Elo Rating Systems for Soccer Prediction
06.05.2026 14:15 Multimedia Room, Alte Botanik (KIM) Slot 1 Cecilia Roxanne Geier Project Proposal
Slot 2 Sofia Ferdini Current Project (see also: Notes)
13.05.2026 14:15 Multimedia Room, Alte Botanik (KIM) --- KIM Parallelization (in R)
20.05.2026 14:15 Multimedia Room, Alte Botanik (KIM) Slot 1 Carla Betz Project: WebApp and -database for Learning Analytics
Slot 2 --- ---
27.05.2026 14:15 --- --- Pentecost holidays Pentecost holidays
--- Pentecost holidays Pentecost holidays
03.06.2026 14:15 Multimedia Room, Alte Botanik (KIM) Slot 1 KIM Coffee Lecture: Overview of storage types (file, object, block)
Slot 2 Laura von Rudno Project: Utopia Roadmap
10.06.2026 14:15 Multimedia Room, Alte Botanik (KIM) Slot 1 Markus Usage of the AIDAHO TC VM
Slot 2 --- ---
17.06.2026 14:15 Multimedia Room, Alte Botanik (KIM) Slot 1 Johannes Predicting the winner of the FIFA World Cup
Slot 2 --- ---
24.06.2026 14:15 Multimedia Room, Alte Botanik (KIM) --- Jonathan Minz LAFI Data Management (Link to repository)
01.07.2026 14:15 Multimedia Room, Alte Botanik (KIM) Slot 1 KIM Coffee Lecture: Introduction to high-performance computing (HPC) and overview of bwHPC
Slot 2 Julius Project: Constructing a Building Activity Index Using High-Frequency OpenStreetMap and Satellite Data
08.07.2026 14:15 Multimedia Room, Alte Botanik (KIM) Slot 1 KIM Coffee Lecture: Options for running programs on a bwHPC cluster
Slot 2 Leo Project: Shared Mental Models in Generative AI-Based Multi-Agent Systems: A Simulation Study Grounded in Human Team Cognition Theory
16:00 Ge-Together at Denkbar or Garbe (tba)
15.07.2026 14:15 Multimedia Room, Alte Botanik (KIM) Slot 1 KIM Coffee Lecture: Introduction to the Z3 Theorem Prover
Slot 2 --- ---

Winter 2025

Date Time Room Speaker Topic
15.10.2025 14:15 PC Room 2 --- Kick-off
22.10.2025 14:15 PC Room 2 Christian Sichel (Accenture Global Services Legal IX), Johannes Trustworthiness, Truthfulness, Reliability of LLMs
29.10.2025 14:15 PC Room 2 Roxanne, Markus Potential Project Presentation, Accessing and using the AIDAHO TC VM
05.11.2025 14:15 PC Room 2 Johannes Introduction to Docker
12.11.2025 14:15 PC Room 2 Jakob und Max Project Ideas
19.11.2025 14:15 PC Room 2 Max and Markus Project Ideas, Introduction to Wep Application Development and Deployment I
26.11.2025 14:15 PC Room 2 Jonathan Minz LAFI Data Management (Link to repository and Link to presentation)
03.12.2025 14:15 PC Room 2 Jakob and Sabrina Energy Production/Consumption Dashboard & Agricultural Data Room
10.12.2025 14:15 PC Room 2 Markus Introduction to Wep Application Development and Deployment II: Shiny Apps
17.12.2025 14:15 PC Room 2 Johannes GPU Accelerated Data Science with RAPIDS
--- --- --- --- Christmas Break
14.01.2025 14:15 PC Room 2 Andreas Reich and Johannes PEdagogical conversational Tutor (PET) as an example of a Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) system
21.01.2025 14:15 PC Room 2 CSH & KIM Speed Up your Code Session
28.01.2025 14:15 PC Room 2 Sabrina Agricultural Data Room
--- --- --- --- End of Semester

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