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Having started as a housing slump in the United States, the crisis finally spread from the markets to the everyday life of people around the globe. Einstein Visiting Fellow Nancy Fraser offers an explanation for the devastating consequences of the financial crisis. Keynote and public debate.

Turing’s work on decoding the German “Enigma” machine in World War II has made an important contribution to our understanding of the brain. Einstein Visiting Fellow Raymond Dolan will argue that the decoders of “Enigma” were confronted with a similar problem like the brain trying to make sense of its environment.