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Berlin Science Week 2022 - Collective Materials Workshop, "What is the Future Made Of?"
2022-11-05 09:30 - 11:00 (Europe/Berlin)
Nature is a great designer. Through billions of years of evolution – of design trial and error (or re-route) – it has come up with uniquely functional and beautiful materials. It uses simple materials in clever ways. Natural materials are often sophisticated in structure and function, yet they are made from simple, abundant resources. More than that, they are designed to be part of a natural cycle of making and breaking down – no material is wasted. CollActive Materials, together with the speculative designer Emilia Tikka, invites you to a hands-on speculation workshop. Find out how researchers from Matters of Activity and Science of Intelligence use bio-design in their work – and make up your very own version of a bio-inspired future.
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Berlin Science Week 2022 - Panel Discussion with Dafna Burema, Mattis Jacobs, and Jonas Frenkel, "Artificial Intelligence: Examples of AI gone wrong and Ethical Questions"
2022-11-05 09:30 - 11:00
In this lively debate, our researchers Dafna Burema, Mattis Jacobs and Jonas Frenkel from Science of Intelligence will talk about Artificial Intelligence and its ethical implications including examples of AI gone wrong. How do we imagine sustainable futures with robots? What are the open questions scientists face every day when dealing with Artificial Intelligence?
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POSTPONED: Scott Robbins, "What Machine's Shouldn't Do"
2022-11-03 10:00 - 11:00
From writing essays to evaluating potential hires, machines are doing a lot these days. In all spheres of life, it seems that machines are being delegated more and more decisions. Some of these machines are being delegated decisions that could have significant impact on human lives. Examples of such machines which have caused such impact are widespread and include machines evaluating loan applications, machines evaluating criminals for sentencing, autonomous weapon systems, driverless cars, digital assistants, etc. Considering that machines cannot be held morally accountable for their actions (Bryson, 2010; Johnson, 2006; van Wynsberghe & Robbins, 2018), the question that governments, NGOs, academics, and the general public should be asking themselves is: how do we keep meaningful human control (MHC) over these machines?
The literature thus far details what features the machine or the context must have in order for MHC to be realized. Should humans be in the loop or on the loop? Should we force machines to be explainable? Lastly, should we endow machines with moral reasoning capabilities? (Ekelhof, 2019; Floridi et al., 2018; Robbins, 2019a, 2019b; Santoni de Sio & van den Hoven, 2018; Wendall Wallach & Allen, 2010; Wendell Wallach, 2007). Rather than look to the machine itself or what part humans have to play in the context, I argue here that we should shine the spotlight on the decisions that machines are being delegated. Meaningful human control, then, will be about controlling what decisions get made by machines.
I argue that keeping meaningful human control over machines (especially AI which relies on opaque methods) means restricting machines to decisions that do not require a justifying explanation and can, in principle, be proven efficacious. Because contemporary methodologies in AI are opaque, many machines cannot offer explanations for their outputs. In many cases, decisions require justifying explanations, and we should therefore not use machines for such cases. It won’t be surprising that machines should be efficacious if they are to be used – especially in contexts that will have impacts on human beings. Increasingly, however, machines are being delegated decisions for which we are unable, in principle, to evaluate their efficacy. This should not happen.
These arguments lead to the conclusion that machines should be restricted to descriptive outputs. It must always be a human being deciding how to employ evaluative terms as these terms not only refer to specific states of affairs but also say something about how the world ought to be. Machines which are able to make decisions based on opaque considerations should not be telling humans how the world ought to be. This is a breakdown of human control in the most severe way. Not only would we be losing control over specific decisions in specific contexts, but we would be losing control over what descriptive content grounds evaluative classifications.

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Scholar Minds – Mental Health Conference 2022
2022-10-28 10:00 - 16:00
A serie of lectures, workshops and a panel discussion about themes related to Mental health in academia, from opinions of under-represented groups, to power abuse, healthy working conditions, and much more.
More info here
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David Bierbach (Science of Intelligence), “Anticipation in Fish-Robot Interactions”
2022-10-20 10:00 - 11:00
Abstract:
I will present our current research involving the Robofish. I will put a special focus on our latest research paper that found live fish to be able to anticipate predictably behaving Robofish both in regard to final movement locations as well as movement dynamics.
This talk will take place in person at SCIoI

Jens Krause (HU Berlin), "Mexican Waves: The Adaptive Value of Collective Behaviour".
2022-10-13 16:00 - 17:30
Abstract
The collective behaviour of animals has attracted considerable attention in recent years, with many studies exploring how local interactions between individuals can give rise to global group properties. The functional aspects of collective behaviour are less well studied, especially in the field and relatively few studies have investigated the adaptive benefits of collective behaviour in situations where prey are attacked by predators. This paucity of studies is unsurprising because predator-prey interactions in the field are difficult to observe. Furthermore, the focus in recent studies on predator-prey interactions has been on the collective behaviour of the prey rather than on the behaviour of the predator. Here I present a field study that investigated the antipredator benefits of waves produced by fish at the water surface when diving down collectively in response to attacks of avian predators. Fish engaged in surface waves that were highly conspicuous, repetitive, and rhythmic involving many thousands of individuals for up to 2 min. Collective fish waves increased the time birds waited until their next attack and also reduced capture probability in three avian predators that greatly differed in size, appearance and hunting strategy. Taken together, these results support a generic antipredator function of fish waves which could be a result of a confusion effect or a consequence of waves acting as a perception advertisement, which requires further exploration.
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Alan Tump, Dominik Deffner, David Mezey (Science of Intelligence), “How Cognitive Computational Modeling Can Help Us Better Understand Principles Underlying Collective Intelligence”
2022-10-13 10:00 - 11:00
Abstract:
Collective dynamics play a crucial role in everyday decision-making. Whether social influence promotes the spread of accurate information, and ultimately results in collective intelligence, or leads to false information cascades and maladaptive social contagion depends on the cognitive mechanisms underlying social interactions.
In our talk, we will argue that cognitive modeling, in tandem with experiments that allow collective dynamics to emerge, can mechanistically link cognitive processes at the individual and collective levels and, thus, provides a fruitful path forward in identifying principles of collective intelligence.
We will show how such cognitive computational approaches are increasingly being used to better understand social and collective decision-making, and will explore how we can extend this strategy to more unconstrained social decision spaces, typical of real-world collective intelligence.

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SCIoI Open Day 2022 (hybrid event)
2022-09-15 14:00 - 17:00
This Thursday 15 September (2-5pm) is SCIoI’s Open Day!
On this day, SCIoI offers visitors the chance to catch a glimpse of our cluster, its activities, and open positions. During our Open Day, prospective applicants as well as other interested persons can visit the cluster, have a (virtual or physical) look around the spaces and facilities, meet researchers and staff, ask questions, and get a general feel for the place. Attending this event is also a great way to prepare to apply for the nine research positions (3 PhD and 6 postdoc) we will be opening this fall. Stay tuned for more information about the single positions!
Here is our preliminary program (Room 2.057)
14:00 Who we are: Introduction and Welcome at SCIoI
15:00 What we offer: Presentation Doctoral Program and Admission Process
16:00 Insight view: Talks by early career researchers from SCIoI
17:00 Lab Visits (only on site)
The event will be streamed on Youtube, so click here to follow us remotely.
If you still have questions, write to graduate@scioi.de.

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Berlin Summit on Robotics 2022
2022-07-27 18:00 - 19:30
The Berlin Summit on Robotics is a three-days event funded by SCIoI that brings together leading researchers in robotics and related areas to discuss and tackle strategic challenges in robotics research. While conferences and other professional meetings are hectic and dominated by conversations about technical details, the Berlin Summit aims to create an atmosphere in which big ideas can spring to life and grow into strategic initiatives for the robotics community. Please visit the hompage for more info.

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Linda Onnasch (HU), “Effects of Anthropomorphism on Trust and Behavior in Work-Related HRI”
2022-07-21 16:00 - 17:30
Abstract:
Anthropomorphic robot features are intended to trigger the activation of social scripts from human-human interaction, thereby offering an intuitive approach to interact with robots. Whereas this seems to be a valid design option for the social domain leading to an increased acceptance of robots, trust and willingness to interact, other domains of human-robot interaction (HRI) do not provide such a clear picture. In my talk I will address the impact of anthropomorphic robot design on trust and behavior in work-related settings and show the drawbacks of anthropomorphism when not considering the context of HRI and the task relevance of anthropomorphism.

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Daniel M. Wolpert (Columbia University), “Contextual Inference Underlies the Learning of Sensorimotor Repertoires”
2022-07-14 16:00 - 17:30
Abstract:
Humans spend a lifetime learning, storing and refining a repertoire of motor memories. However, it is unknown what principle underlies the way our continuous stream of sensorimotor experience is segmented into separate memories and how we adapt and use this growing repertoire. Here we develop a principled theory of motor learning based on the key insight that memory creation, updating, and expression are all controlled by a single computation – contextual inference. Unlike dominant theories of single-context learning, our repertoire-learning model accounts for key features of motor learning that had no unified explanation and predicts novel phenomena, which we confirm experimentally. These results suggest that contextual inference is the key principle underlying how a diverse set of experiences is reflected in motor behavior.
This event will take place on Zoom.

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MEET THE SCIENTIST at HU Labor With Martin Rolfs, “Movement in the Eye of the Beholder. How Looking Shapes Visual Perception”
2022-07-14 16:00 - 17:00
Abstract: The eyes are the Marco Polo of the human body — they travel incessantly across the visual world in front of us, curious for interesting or even insightful information. Tracking someone’s eye movements, therefore, provides insights into their perception and cognition — the eyes are indeed a window to the mind.
That eye movements are necessary for perception to occur in the first place was shown in experiments in the second half of the last century, when scientists showed that preventing eye movements (e.g., through paralysis or by stabilizing an image on the retina) leads to the rapid fading of perception within a fraction of a second.
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Katharina Scheiter (University of Potsdam), “Multimodal Learning: Underlying Processes and How To Support Them”
2022-07-14 10:00 - 11:30
Abstract:Theories of learning from multimodal sources (e.g., combinations of text and pictures, aka multimedia) posit that in order to effectively learn from multimedia, students need to select information from text and pictures, organize the information in memory, and most importantly, integrate the information into one mental model. In the first part of my presentation, I will focus on what is meant by text-picture integration by discussing results from empirical studies aimed at better understanding its underlying processes. In the second part of my presentation, I will focus on ways to improve text-picture integration in educational settings through enhancing the design of the learning materials as well as nudging students into processing them more effectively. Eye tracking plays a major role in this research both as a research tool but also as an instructional tool to improve multimodal learning.
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Pawel Romanczuk, “Modeling of Flocking &Amp; Swarming With Stochastic Agent-Based Models”
2022-07-07 16:00 - 17:30
Abstract: Collective behavior, as exhibited by bird flocks, fish schools or insect swarms, is a fascinating example of self-organized behavior in biology. Mathematical models of flocking were key for the development of our current understanding on how complex complex group-level behaviors may emerge from simple local rules of interaction of close-by individuals. In this lecture I will provide a brief introduction into individual-based modeling of collective behavior from established so-called social force models to novel developments taking into account perceptual & cognitive constraints.
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Joint “Meet the Scientist” Talk With All of Berlin’s Seven Clusters at Humboldt Labor Exhibition, “Die Soziale Intelligenz Von Tieren”
2022-07-02 21:00 - 21:30
Viele Tiere zeigen erstaunliche kognitive Leistungen. Am Beispiel von Fischen wird Dr. Bierbach einige der beachtlichen Geistesleistungen von Tieren aufzeigen – vom Antizipieren des zukünftigen Verhaltens bekannter Artgenossen über das Kopieren bei der Partnerwahl bis zum Synchronschwimmen im Schwarm.

Lange Nacht Der Wissenschaften 2022: Saccades – the Fastest Human Movement
2022-07-02 17:00 - 23:00
To perceive the world around us, we constantly make rapid eye movements called saccades. Despite being the fastest and most frequent of all human movements, we remain largely unaware of them. To observe this, just try to detect your own saccades in the mirror. Using high-speed recording and presentation devices, we can make your saccades and their visual consequences visible. Maybe you can even take a slow-motion video of one of your own saccades at home!

Lange Nacht Der Wissenschaften 2022: Exploiting Group Knowledge: Collective Learning Behavior in a Group of Robots
2022-07-02 17:00 - 23:00
In this demonstration visitors can experience a group of balancing robots working together to learn difficult motions and moving together like a collective. Visitors can even take control of individual robots to see how the other robots react and adapt their behavior.

Lange Nacht Der Wissenschaften 2022: RBO Event – Cool Things Robots Do
2022-07-02 17:00 - 23:00
The RBO Lab Team gives three exciting demonstrations of recent advances in robotics: acoustic sensing with soft robot fingers, robot hand teleoperation, and moving robotic hand perceiving spatial depths. The RBO Lab Team has given three exciting demonstrations of recent advances in robotics: acoustic sensing with soft robot fingers, robot hand teleoperation, and moving robotic hand perceiving spatial depths.

Lange Nacht der Wissenschaften 2022
2022-07-02 17:00 - 23:00
SCIoI is taking part of the Lange Nacht der Wissenschaften 2022 with five unique events! We will have Richard Schweitzer and Nicolas Roth showing and performing experiments on eye movements, Dustin Lehmann presenting robot interaction, plus a demonstration on swarm intelligence with Mohsen Raoufi, and a talk with David Bierbach at the Humboldt Labor. Do not miss this exciting evening, and read below for more information!
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Lange Nacht der Wissenschaften 2022: Meet the Swarm Robots
2022-07-02 17:00 - 19:00
Swarms, such as schools of fish, and flocks of birds, have shown a great capability of solving complex problems in nature. Such examples are bees finding the best nest site, or fish escaping from a predator. Here at the Swarm Robotics Lab of SCIoI, we demonstrate how a swarm of robots can solve problems, make accurate decisions, and perform tasks collectively using bio-inspired algorithms.

Berlin4Ukraine, a Networking Event for Exile Researchers
2022-06-30 13:00 - 18:00
Berlin4Ukraine: Meet & Learn. A networking event for exile researchers.
PhD students and researchers from all academic disciplines that had to flee from war, violence and political persecution frequently face similar problems: They want to continue their scientific work but are often unfamiliar with the German research landscape, the academic system as well as the local funding culture. In many cases, they have to rebuild their academic networks.
The Berlin4Ukraine-event aims to present basic information on the structures and key players of the German scientific system, on the major resources available for refugee researchers and scholars at risk in particular, as well as information on the German science funding system in general. In addition, the event provides networking opportunities for researchers from Ukraine and from Berlin. Therefore, the program contains informational talks and breakout sessions that allow networking. In addition, relevant scientific institutions, projects and organizations are present to give information and to answer questions.

For further details and updates: https://www.br50.org/en/br50/news/ukraine-event
Also on this topic: The TU supports Ukrainian students and researchers
Photo: © Susanne Cholodnicki. TU Berlin

Nicolas Roth, Aravind Battaje, Adrian Sieler and Vincent Wall (Science of Intelligence), "Integration Hackathons for Behavior 1"
2022-06-23 10:00 - 11:30
A cornerstone of SCIoI are the three example behaviors that provide the motivation, as well as the demonstration platforms to showcase the amazing research happening within the cluster. In order to get the ball rolling towards interesting example behaviors, we have recently started regular “integration hackathon” meetings. They bring together people from different projects, who identify achievable first integration steps, and just start putting things together.
In this talk, Nico from P1, Aravind from P2, and Adrian and Vincent from P17 will present this process. We will show the Behavior 1 escape room component that we selected for our first integration attempts, explain which different research components come together to create the combined behavior, and share some insights and observations we made along the way. In the end, we hope to encourage everybody in SCIoI to think about integration steps and motivate people to get involved in the exciting, rewarding (and necessary!) integration efforts for the example behaviors.

Marianne Maertens (Event Takes Place at MAR at 2pm), “Smart Mechanisms in Visual Perception”
2022-06-16 14:00 - 15:30
More details to follow.

Thursday Morning Talk with Andrea Iannelli (ETHZ), "Learning and Controlling: Robustness, Informativity and Adaptation"
2022-06-16 10:00 - 11:00
Abstract:
The abundance of available data on the one hand, and the increase in systems complexity caused by the need to cope with new challenging tasks on the other, have put research on so-called learning and data-driven methods in the agenda of virtually every engineering field. Control theory is no exception. In fact, some of its traditional fields have close connections with open problems in data science, such as system identification (with regression and classification) and adaptive and stochastic optimal control (with reinforcement learning). The first part of the talk will give an overview of our ongoing work on basic research problems at the intersection between control theory and learning. This will be followed by a more detailed discussion on two projects that investigate the problem of controlling unknown dynamical systems from different perspectives. One blends behavioral system theory, which sees dynamical systems as sets of trajectories, and system identification, concerned with identifying models from data using statistical and information theoretic tools. The other frames it as an optimal control problem and proposes a robust adaptive model predictive control with active learning components to address the tension between exploration and exploitation. A discussion on the current limitations, future extensions, and foreseeable challenges will conclude the talk.

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Dafna Burema; Mattis Jacobs (Science of Intelligence), “Workshop: Discussing Ethically Problematic “Incidents” of AI Systems”
2022-06-09 10:00 - 11:00
(In-person talk at Science of Intelligence)
Workshop: Discussing ethically problematic “incidents” of AI systems
In the Thursday morning talk, we discuss ethically problematic incidents of AI that we selected from the AIAAIC Repository. In total, we discuss four cases.
In a first step, we present a brief overview what occurred in the respective cases, based on media coverage. The audience is then invited to give a briefly assess the case: what went wrong? Which ethical values or principles were involved? How could the incident have been prevented? Who is responsible for what has happened and who could have prevented it?
In a second step, we present how the respective case was assessed in the ethics-related academic literature and compare the assessment of the participants with the expert’s assessment. We conclude by inviting the participants to reflect on their own projects and potential problematic outcomes of their research.

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Max Wolf, “Fishy Twin Studies and the Origin of Personality Differences”
2022-06-02 16:00 - 17:30
Abstract:
I will discuss research on a powerful biological model system, the natural clonal fish Amazon molly. Mothers in this female-only species produce genetically identical offspring, allowing us to employ an experimental twin study approach to address some of the most fundamental questions associated with behaviour and the development of behaviour. Do twins separated directly after birth into identical environments develop personality differences? When and how do such differences develop? And how can this unique model system be used to understand the development of intelligent behaviour?
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Florian Blume, Martin Maier, Doris Pischedda, Olga Wudarczyk-Markett and Murat Kirtay (Science of Intelligence)
2022-06-02 10:00 - 11:00
Abstract:
Social interaction and communication are supported by the integration of multimodal signals. One crucial social cue when interacting with other humans are facial expressions. In Project 8, we study how people not only read information from faces, but how they read meaning into faces based on context and prior knowledge. Incorporating sources of information in addition to what is actually visible (top-down processing) supports efficient, robust, context-adaptive visual perception. Neural networks designed to recognize facial expressions largely ignore such contextual information and are therefore inherently misaligned with human social perception. Closing this gap promises to make synthetic face processing at the same time more intelligent, useful for human-machine interaction, and ethically responsible.
Successful social interaction relies on additional social factors and cognitive processes including partner co-representation (i.e., the representation of the partner’s actions alongside one’s own actions), emotion processing, theory of mind (i.e., the ability to consider mental states – such as beliefs, desires, intentions – to predict people’s behaviour) and trust. In project 9, we study processes underlying social communication in humans and assess potential changes in these processes when the interaction partner is an artificial agent. We use this knowledge to implement similar mechanisms in our robots and assess how this affects their performance along other dimensions, such as trust or scaffolding. Our ultimate goal is to create robots with higher social intelligence that can interact smoothly with humans and other agents.

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SCIoI+MoA CollActive Materials Event, “Woraus Ist Deine Zukunft Gemacht?”: IdeenLabor, Kombucha Workshop, and Family Activities!
2022-05-20 14:00 - 2022-05-21 18:00 | Mall Anders, Wilma Arkaden, Wilmersdorfer Str. 46, Berlin, 10627, Germany
What do sensitive robots, gripping plants and creative bacteria have in common? Let’s find out together! In “CollActive Materials” experimental laboratory, a joint project of SCIoI and MoA, research and society come together to explore the materials of the future: Can they be more active or more intelligent than the materials of today? Come by to discover surprisingly living materials, and tell us your ideas and wishes for the future.

Register now, and bring the kids too! The event is in German.
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Lebendige Materialien entdecken
Pop-Up Materiallabor „Woraus ist deine Zukunft gemacht?“ im Mall Anders Lernlabor in der WILMA Shoppen
Am 20. und 21. Mai 2022 lädt das Experimentallabor für Wissenschaftskommunikation „CollActive Materials“ in das Mall Anders Lernlabor in der WILMA Shoppen ein. Rund um die Frage „Woraus ist deine Zukunft gemacht?“ können Erwachsene und Kinder in Workshops, Experimenten und Gesprächsrunden ungeahnt lebendige Materialien entdecken. Ganz zentral dabei: Welche dieser lebendigen Materialien helfen uns dabei, eine nachhaltigere Zukunft zu bauen? Das Pop-Up Materiallabor markiert den Startschuss für CollActive Materials, das als gemeinsames Projekt der Berliner Exzellenzcluster „Matters of Activity“ und „Science of Intelligence“ einen Dialog zwischen Wissenschaft und Öffentlichkeit zu dieser dringlichen Frage initiieren möchte.
Was haben einfühlsame Roboter, zupackende Pflanzen und kreative Bakterien gemeinsam? Als lebendige Materialien und Objekte könnten sie Zukunft ganz anders werden lassen, als sie sich heute viele vorstellen. Statt aus starren und passiven Materialien wie Stahl und Beton könnten nachhaltige Zukünfte aus aktiven und intelligenten Materialien gemacht sein: Materialien, die reagieren, die wachsen, sich verändern – Materialien mit Eigensinn.
In den Berliner Forschungsclustern „Matters of Activity“ und „Science of Intelligence“ sind aktive und intelligente Materialien und deren Beiträge zu einer nachhaltigeren Zukunft bereits zentrale Themen. Wissenschaftler*innen der beiden Verbünde erforschen beispielsweise, was Menschen von der Architektur von bakteriellen Filmen lernen können, wie ein Schwarm aus Mini-Robotern in Zukunft gemeinsam Entscheidungen treffen könnte oder wie Baumrinden in Zukunft als flexibles Bau-Material genutzt werden könnten.
Doch Wissen, Wünsche und Ideen rund um neuartige Materialien gibt es nicht nur in der Wissenschaft, sondern auch – in vielen verschiedenen Formen – in der Gesellschaft. Um miteinander Wissen und Ideen zu teilen und lebendige Materialien gemeinsam zu erkunden, startet nun das Experimentallabor „CollActive Materials“. In dem dreijährigen Projekt von „Matters of Activity“ und „Science of Intelligence“ sollen Menschen aus Gesellschaft und Wissenschaft gemeinsam über die Materialien von morgen spekulieren und neue Zukunftsvisionen rund um lebendige Materialien schaffen.
Den Beginn dieser neuen Form des „Wissens durch Machen“ macht das Projekt mit dem Pop-Up-Materiallabor in der Mall Anders. An diesem Ort, mitten in der Öffentlichkeit, lädt das Projekt zum gemeinsamen Lernen, Ausprobieren und Entdecken, zum Besprechen und Verhandeln von lebendigen Materialien ein. In einem Kombucha-Workshop, Gesprächsrunden und einem Kinderlabor wird gemeinsam getestet: Wie könnten sie denn aussehen, die Zukünfte der lebendigen Materialien?
Kontakt
Dr. Kristin Werner, Koordinatorin CollActive Materials
Kristin.werner@hu-berlin.de
0176/32445222

Karoline Wiesner (University of Potsdam) “Information Entropy in Complex Systems”
2022-05-19 16:00 - 17:30
Lecture by Prof. Karoline Wiesner, Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, University of Potsdam

Abstract:
I begin with an introduction to the nature of complex systems. From a foundational perspective, I will present a systematic description of their features. This will be followed by a brief discussion of the role of information theory in the analysis of complex systems. In particular, we distinguish between information processing — in the sense of encoding and transmitting a symbolic representation — and the formation of correlations (pattern formation / self-organisation). I will give our perspective on why information theory is a prevalent tool in the study of complex systems. If time permits, I will give an outlook on current, unpublished work in this area.

karowiesner.org
This talk will take place in person.

Tilman Geishauer, "Virtual Reality - From Research to Market"
2022-05-19 10:00 - 11:00 | SCIoI, MAR Building, Marchstr. 23, Berlin
Abstract: Tilman Geishauser is currently working at Somareality to create a virtual reality focused product out of a cognitive load algorithm based on pupillometry that has been in development for 8 years at Research Studios Austria. In the past he invented one of Germanys most promising VR tools: Halocline Layout. He lead his team at what is now Halocline up until product launch. In his presentations he will talk about making products for virtual reality and about making products in cooperation with research institutions and universities.
