Speech by Professor Bernhard Ganter (TU-Dresden) in the framework of "The Days of Computer Science”

A professor at the University of Dresden Bernhard Ganter gave a lecture at the Open Lecture Hall on the Days of Computer Science on April 6, 2019.

Bernhard Ganter, professor (TU-Dresden): "Conceptual Exploration – a knowledge acquisition tool with future"
"Over several decades researchers from NRU-HSE have co-operated with colleagues from Germany and France in the development of a new method of data analysis. It is "conceptual" rather than numerical, but nevertheless mathematically sound and computationally strong. One of our joint results is a state-of-the-art book documenting a useful knowledge acquisition method, "Conceptual Exploration". In out talk, we tried to convince the audience that this is indeed a method "with a future".
Bernhard Ganter received his doctorate in 1974 at the University of Darmstadt, Germany, in 1978 became a professor of mathematics, and in 1993 a professor at the Dresden Polytechnic University. Dresden Technical University (Technische Universität Dresden, abbreviated TUD) is one of the largest institutions of higher education in Dresden and Saxony. Founded in 1828, it is one of the oldest technological universities in Germany. By the number of students, Dresden Technical University ranks first among technical universities in its country. It trains about 37,000 students and employs over 8,000 employees.
B. Ganter was the director of the Institute of Algebra and the dean of the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences TUD for a long time. Initially scientific interests of prof. Ganter lay in the field of "pure" discrete mathematics and universal algebra. In 1980 he became a member of the research group of prof. Rudolf Wille, who developed a new field of applied lattice theory - Formal Concept Analysis (AFP, Formal Concept Analysis, FCA). Numerous applications of that are well known in various fields of computer science including data processing.
Professor Ganter is the author of hundreds of articles and reports, a guest speaker at many respected international conferences: 
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=W1rDk4QAAAAJ&hl=en.
The book by Bernhard Ganter, Rudolf Wille, Formal Concept Analysis: Mathematical Foundations, Springer ( 1999) collected about 6000 references and entered the thousand most popular books on computer science. Professor Ganter is the creator and director of the unique interactive Mathematical Museum: Erlebnisland Mathematik (Mathematics is a country of adventure) http://www.erlebnisland-mathematik.de/en/ Dresden. The museum’s exhibits present mathematical theories, facts and results those can be touched, seen, heard.