With a time resolution of microseconds, six thousand times the contrast of conventional cameras, and potentially much smaller file sizes for the images, event cameras promise a revolution in photography. Unlike conventional cameras, they do not record entire images at once, but instead register only the changes in brightness (the "events") for each light-sensitive pixel separately.

Every year during the Lange Nacht der Wissenschaften, universities and scientific institutions around the city open their doors to families and curious citizens to share their scientific research with the general public. This year is no exception, and on 17 June, SCIoI will participate in the event with two activities. At MAR, we will be opening our

From gender to ethnicity and religion, diversity is a very broad topic. We've spoken to our diversity and equal opportunity officer, Lujain Kretzschmar, to find out more about her role at SCIoI. You are responsible for diversity and equal opportunities at SCIoI. What does that mean to you? Diversity is not only an important subject but also a

Julten Abdelhalim joined SCIoI last October as the cluster's Academic Coordinator. We've had a chat with her to find out more about her role. You are responsible for the academic program at SCIoI. What does that mean to you? At SCIoI, I support both the doctoral and postdoctoral researchers in all aspects of their research and study. The

What do changes in brightness captured by an event camera tell us about distance? Last semester, the BUA-funded X-Student Research Group “Active Perception,” led by Pia Bideau, worked on finding the answer to this question. With this in mind, students further developed recent works by Pia Bideau and Guillermo Gallego and Aravind Battaje and Oliver Brock.  Current

Rolf Struikmans and Satyendra Nishad are lab managers at SCIoI. We had a chat with them to better understand their role, their background, and their passions.   The two of you work as lab managers for SCIoI. What are your special skills? Rolf: I specialize in electronics and anything that has to do with that. I assist researchers

Paper: https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2206163120 A new publication released by PNAS and authored by SCIoI PI Pawel Romanczuk (among others) explores how earliest multicellular organisms coordinate collective behavior – and SCIoI’s trip to Mexico last month has something to do with that. Coordination between individuals is a fundamental challenge in collectives, and this is just as true for a country’s government

Switch on the TV on 12 March! The next episode of the famous German popular science show, Terra-X, will be featuring SCIoI members Jens Krause, Marcel Brass, Heiko Hamann, and David Bierbach.  The documentary will explore the secrets and wonders of collective intelligence, with examples drawing from SCIoI research. And if you can't wait that long, worry