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Sole Traverso (Science of Intelligence), "Symmetry-aware Lifelong Bayesian Reinforcement Learning: Finding the Loo Faster"
2025-11-27 10:00 - 11:00 (Europe/Berlin) | SCIoI, Marchstraße 23, 10587 Berlin, Room 2.057
More details to follow.
Image created with DALL-E by Maria Ott.

Benjamin Alt (Universität Bremen), "Hybrid AI for Safe Embodied Intelligence"
2025-11-28 10:00 - 23:00 | Marchstraße 23, 10587 Berlin, Room 2.057
Enabling robots to perform complex manipulation tasks in open-world environments requires approaches to intelligence that bridge the traditional divide between symbolic and subsymbolic systems. Hybrid systems that combine reasoning over symbolic knowledge with probabilistically approximately correct inference over probability distributions promise to make robot manipulation actions generalizable, interpretable, and scalable to address real-world challenges. This talk explores how hybrid AI systems can enable robots to become not just capable agents, but also safe colleagues and companions for humans.
Benjamin Alt is Technical Director at the AICOR Lab at University of Bremen. He is collaborating with RBO in the Robotics Institute Germany (RIG) Technical Committee (TC) called Manipulate Anything, Anywhere, Anytime (MA3).
This talk is a collaboration between the Robotics and Biology Laboratory (RBO), the Robotics Institute Germany (RIG) and Science of Intelligence.

POSTPONED: Arianna Novati (Science of Intelligence), "Mouse Lock Box 2.0"
2025-12-04 10:00 - 10:30 | SCIoI, Marchstraße 23, 10587 Berlin, Room 2.057
More details to follow.
©SCIoI/Katharina Hohlbaum, Arianna Novati

Hublet at SCIoI: Winter Conference of the Association For the Study of Animal Behavior (ASAB)
2025-12-15 10:15 - 2025-12-16 18:00 | Marchstraße 23, 10587 Berlin, Room 2.057
How does sensory information shape animal behaviour?
This year’s Winter Conference of the Association for the Study of Animal Behaviour (ASAB) takes on one of the most intriguing questions in behavioural biology: how animals perceive, interpret, and act on information from their environment. From camouflage to communication, from primate foraging to the “linguistics” of animals, the meeting brings together cutting-edge research on sensory worlds across species.
For everyone in Berlin who cannot attend the conference in person but would still like to follow the talks and discuss them with others, the IGB and SCIoI is hosting a Hublet.
A Hublet is a local satellite gathering where the conference is streamed live, creating a shared space for learning, exchange, and spontaneous discussion. It’s an informal, community-driven way to experience the conference together, and a chance to connect with others interested in animal behavior, sensory systems, cognition, and beyond.
Attendance is free and open to all.
(Participation follows the ASAB Code of Conduct.)
Program @SCIoI
(Marchstraße 23, 10587 Berlin, Room 2.057 )
Monday and Tuesday
10:15am – 6pm
For the whole program, please visit the conference website (streamed at the Hublet). Please be aware that the conference program is U.K. time (CET -1).
Program Highlights
Monday
10:30 – Public Lecture: Innes Cuthill
Animal camouflage: evolutionary biology meets neuroscience, art and war
15:30 – Plenary 1: Amanda Melin
Multimodal foraging in wild sympatric primates
Tuesday
10:30 – Tinbergen Lecture: Toshitaka Suzuki
Animal linguistics
12:15 – Plenary 2: Barbara Caspers
Family affairs – the impact of chemical cues on bird social communication
About This Year’s Theme
“How sensory information affects behaviour”
The 2025 meeting explores how animals perceive their world, a topic famously challenged by philosopher Thomas Nagel’s question: What is it like to be a bat?
While we may never fully inhabit another species’ sensory perspective, understanding these sensory modalities is essential for interpreting behaviour. In an increasingly human-altered world, sensory systems face new challenges from noise, light pollution, artificial scents, and shifting magnetic environments. The conference investigates how these pressures shape decision-making, adaptation, and sometimes maladaptive outcomes.
Join the Berlin Hublet
Come watch the conference with fellow researchers, students, and anyone curious about animal behaviour. Whether you work in biology, robotics, psychology, philosophy, or simply enjoy learning about the natural world, you are warmly invited.

Vladislav Golyanik (MPI for Informatics), "Egocentric 4D Vision with Conventional and Event Cameras"
2026-01-20 10:00 - 11:00 | Marchstraße 23, 10587 Berlin, Room 2.057
4D computer vision using egocentric visual sensors on head-mounted devices (such as Aria glasses) is gaining momentum. While substantial progress has been made in recent years, various open challenges remain in the field, including robust 3D human and hand pose estimation from egocentric cameras, optimal egocentric camera placement, real-time processing, and fulfilling ergonomic and power consumption constraints of mobile devices. This talk will focus on several projects on egocentric 4D vision conducted by and with contributions from the 4D and Quantum Vision (4DQV) research group (MPI for Informatics). We will investigate how modern computer graphics rendering tools can be leveraged for synthetic training data generation, and discuss, among other points, the increasing role of event cameras in egocentric vision. The talk will also provide an overview of other ongoing research directions at 4DQV.
Bio:
Vladislav Golyanik is a senior researcher leading the “4D and Quantum Vision” research group at the Visual Computing and Artificial Intelligence (VCAI) Department of MPI for Informatics. He is also a lecturer at Saarland University. Vladislav’s primary research interests include 3D reconstruction and neural rendering of deformable scenes, 4D generative models and quantum-enhanced computer vision (QeCV). He received a doctoral degree in Computer Science from the University of Kaiserslautern in 2019.

Girls' Day
2026-04-23 08:00 - 17:00
What is intelligence, and how can research help improve current technologies with new insights? At Girls’ Day with the Cluster of Excellence Science of Intelligence, you’ll discover how scientists from many different disciplines explore the topic of intelligence.
You’ll paint pictures with your eyes, play with a robot, learn how to teach robots new skills, program your own code, and catch a virtual school of fish!
This way, you’ll be right in the middle of the action, exploring alongside researchers how intelligence can be understood from different perspectives. Experience firsthand how intelligent robots work and the diverse approaches scientists use to study intelligence.
To take part in our program, you should be between 10 and 15 years old.
