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SUMMARY:Winter School "Ethics of Neuroscience and AI" 2025
DESCRIPTION:Science of Intelligence\, the Berlin School of Mind and Brain and the Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience are happy to invite to the Berlin Winter School “Ethics of Neuroscience and AI” 2025. \nThe Winter School is a five days conference which covers a broad field of topics from philosophical ethics to ethics of research and animal experiments with a focus on ethics and AI in the last two days. \nScientific Organizers: John-Dylan Haynes\, Marten Kaas\, Thomas Schmidt
URL:https://www.scienceofintelligence.de/event/winter-school-ethics-of-neuroscience-and-ai-2025/
LOCATION:Campus Nord of Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin at Ostertag-Haus\, Philippstr.12\, House 4 10115 Berlin
CATEGORIES:External Event
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SUMMARY:Florian Engert (Harvard University)\, “Attentional Switching in Larval Zebrafish”
DESCRIPTION:Decision making strategies in the face of conflicting or uncertain sensory input have been successfully described in many different species.  Here we analyze large behavioral datasets of larval zebrafish engaged in a ‘coherent dot’ optomotor assay. We find that animal performance is bimodal and can be separated into two ‘states’\, an engaged state where performance is high and fish consistently turn into the direction of the coherent motion\, and a second\, disengaged state\, where performance drops to chance. We find that a simple HMM is sufficient to model these transitions and fits our experimental data well. We find that this addition can be incorporated into an existing DDM framework that has previously been used to model perceptual decision making in larval zebrafish.  \nFurther\, we leverage the large behavioral data sets to fit a mixture model of performance distributions and extract two latent variables which we term ‘focus’ and ‘competence’. Whereas ‘competence’ quantifies performance while the fish is in the engaged state\, the ‘focus’ variable captures the relative duration for which each animal persists in the engaged state. We show that ‘focus’ may be largely inherited from the parents\, while ‘competence’ is more likely to be influenced by environmental context. This quantitative framework for analyzing decision making can be used to screen genetic perturbations for their impact on these two aspects of performance\, and potentially help to identify a genetic basis\, and a neural mechanism for attention\, that extends across organisms. \nThis talk will take place in person at SCIoI (room 2.057). \nPhoto by Lance Anderson on Unsplash.
URL:https://www.scienceofintelligence.de/event/florian-engert-harvard-university-attentional-switching-in-larval-zebrafish/
CATEGORIES:Distinguished Speaker Series
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20250313T100000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20250313T110000
DTSTAMP:20260404T162445
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SUMMARY:Jonas Kuckling (University of Konstanz)\, “Living on the Edge – Scalability and Two-Phase Performance in Multi-Robot Systems”
DESCRIPTION:Scalability is often lauded as one of the advantages of decentralized multi-robot systems and robot swarms. Theory and many experimental works predict that with increasing swarm density\, we will observe a gradual decay of performance. In our work\, we have taken a closer look at the scalability of robot swarms in different settings and we have noticed that the predicted decay does not always appear to be gradual. Instead\, the performance splits into two phases\, potentially causing catastrophic failures at near-optimal swarm densities. In this talk\, I will provide an overview of our empirical and theoretical analyses of scalability behavior in robot swarms and the resulting considerations for the design of robot swarms. \n  \nImage created in DALL-E by Maria Ott.
URL:https://www.scienceofintelligence.de/event/jonas-kuckling-university-of-konstanz/
LOCATION:SCIoI\, Marchstraße 23\, 10587 Berlin\, Room 2.057
CATEGORIES:Thursday Morning Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20250320T100000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20250320T110000
DTSTAMP:20260404T162445
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SUMMARY:Konstantinos Voudouris (Helmholtz AI\, University of Cambridge)\, “ What Are AI Capabilities and How Can We Measure Them?”
DESCRIPTION:What can AI systems do? Answering this question requires us to model their capabilities\, but this first demands a clear conception of what capabilities are and which tools we can use to measure them. I advance a dispositional account of capabilities\, understanding them as a system’s propensity to behave in certain ways under certain conditions. I then survey the tools we have at our disposal to measure capabilities\, and what the nascent field of AI Evaluation can learn from the broader cognitive sciences. \n  \nPhoto by Stefan Cosma on Unsplash
URL:https://www.scienceofintelligence.de/event/konstantinos-voudouris-helmholtz-ai-university-of-cambridge-capability-measurement-in-llms/
LOCATION:SCIoI\, Marchstraße 23\, 10587 Berlin\, Room 2.057
CATEGORIES:Thursday Morning Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20250327T100000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20250327T110000
DTSTAMP:20260404T162445
CREATED:20250210T105859Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250303T121007Z
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SUMMARY:Vito Trianni (Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies\, CNR Rome)\, "Emergence and Heterogeneity in Minimalist Robot Swarms"
DESCRIPTION:Far-reaching perspectives in swarm robotics consider robots that are minimalist in their sensing\, communication and computation\, but are deployed in thousands to collaborate towards the accomplishment of tasks distributed in space and time. Generally speaking\, future robot swarms might face harsh operating conditions where little communication is possible and no external infrastructure is available. These robots might not be able to efficiently communicate with a central controller and might not have the perceptual and computational abilities to self-localise or precisely plan their movements. It is therefore necessary to study collaborative strategies that do not rely on complex control and interaction rules. In this talk\, I will present studies about minimalist approaches to collective behaviours based on random walks and simple communication systems. I will introduce the concept of Adaptive Random Walks as a tool to design simple emergent behaviours in minimalist robot swarms\, and present the case of team formation and aggregation\, showing how heterogeneity in the swarm can be beneficial to improve efficiency while maintaining the complexity low. I will then discuss minimal quorum sensing strategies\, and discuss which communication protocol provide benefits for group coordination. \n  \nPhoto by Christopher Burns on Unsplash
URL:https://www.scienceofintelligence.de/event/vito-trianni-institute-of-cognitive-sciences-and-technologies-cnr-rome/
LOCATION:SCIoI\, Marchstraße 23\, 10587 Berlin\, Room 2.057
CATEGORIES:Thursday Morning Talk
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DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250405
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SUMMARY:SCIoI at 5th International Conference on Embodied Intelligence
DESCRIPTION:This event brings together a wide range of speakers to discuss the challenges and opportunities in Embodied Intelligence research. The conference is structured with a morning session and afternoon session each day to accommodate different time zones. Each session includes plenary talks\, panel discussions (including flash talks by leading researchers)\, and breakout sessions. The conference organizers are open for wider contributions for breakout sessions to facilitate more focused and technical discussions. \nSCIoI spokesperson Oliver Brock will be delivering a talk at the conference\, sharing insights into cutting-edge advancements in the field. \nClick here to participate and present for free. Once contribution is submitted\, the organizers will allocate a short time slot in one of the breakout sessions. The selected contributions will be later invited for special issue publications or book chapters. \nEI Conferences 2021-2024 Recordings \nRecordings and proceedings of this conference in the last two years can be found here. \nOfficial conference website \n 
URL:https://www.scienceofintelligence.de/event/scioi-at-5th-international-conference-on-embodied-intelligence/
LOCATION:On Zoom
CATEGORIES:External Event
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20250403T080000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20250403T130000
DTSTAMP:20260404T162445
CREATED:20241115T105923Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260212T104102Z
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SUMMARY:Girls' Day 2025
DESCRIPTION:What is intelligence\, and how can research contribute to improving current technologies with insights from this work? At the Girls’ Day with the Excellence Cluster Science of Intelligence\, you’ll find out how scientists from various disciplines research the topic of intelligence. Through interactive exchanges\, you can learn how researchers work to understand intelligence from different perspectives. After a brief exchange\, the participants will visit the researchers’ labs in two groups and experience firsthand how intelligent robots work. They will also participate in a workshop where they can transform their impressions into a puzzle model. \nTo take part in our program\, you should be between 10 and 15 years old. \nThe program is in German. \nMore infos here.
URL:https://www.scienceofintelligence.de/event/girls-day-2025/
LOCATION:SCIoI\, Marchstraße 23\, 10587 Berlin\, Room 2.057
CATEGORIES:For the Public
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20250407T190000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20250407T210000
DTSTAMP:20260404T162445
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SUMMARY:Excellent Pub Quiz
DESCRIPTION:Dive into the wonderful world of research of the seven Berlin Clusters of Excellence: from literature to chemistry\, from politics to AI\, you and your team can find answers for exciting and surprising questions from the clusters’ research areas. So seek fellows and think of your team name! \nEvery quiz evening focuses on the research of one of the clusters of excellence with a related live performance\, followed by questions from the areas of the rest of the clusters. At the end of the evening you will be certainly smarter than before and perhpas with great prizes in your hands. \nEvent langage: German\nAdmission: Free entry\nCapacity: Limited spaces\, so come early to not miss your spot\nModerator: Jochen Müller \nThis event is organized by the Cluster of Excellence Temporal Communities. \nThe other participating clusters are: MATH+\, Science of Intelligence\, UniSysCat\, SCRIPTS\, Matters of Activity\, and NeuroCure.
URL:https://www.scienceofintelligence.de/event/excellent-pub-quiz/
LOCATION:Fahimi bar\, Skalitzer Str. 133\, Berlin\, 10999\, Germany
CATEGORIES:For the Public
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20250410T100000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20250410T110000
DTSTAMP:20260404T162445
CREATED:20250317T104720Z
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SUMMARY:Bojana Grujičić (Science of Intelligence)\, "Artificial Possibilities"
DESCRIPTION:Science often deals with issues pertaining to possibilities\, contingencies and necessities\, by engaging in thought experiments and modeling. This talk discusses how much deep learning can be helpful for navigating the possibility space for intelligence\, adding to our scientific understanding of possibilities. One epistemically useful feature of neural networks is their runnability – they can be trained to perform a cognitive task and can run when given novel stimuli\, demonstrating possibilities of cognitive phenomena based on sets of inductive biases. I focus on the problem of justification of neural network-based inferences about possibilities and outline a plausible justificatory strategy. I consider a number of reasons for taking neural network-demonstrated possibilities to be technological\, rather than biological possibilities. Despite this\, I argue that they add to our scientific understanding of possibilities related to intelligence. \n  \nPhoto by Joakim Honkasalo on Unsplash.
URL:https://www.scienceofintelligence.de/event/bojana-grucic-science-of-intelligence-artificial-possibilities/
LOCATION:SCIoI\, Marchstraße 23\, 10587 Berlin\, Room 2.057
CATEGORIES:Thursday Morning Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20250417T100000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20250417T113000
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CREATED:20250317T105203Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250603T124106Z
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SUMMARY:Tamal Roy & Valentin Lecheval (Science of Intelligence)\, “Evolution of Collective Cognition Through Individual-Level Selection”
DESCRIPTION:More details to follow. \nPhoto created with DALL-E by Maria Ott.
URL:https://www.scienceofintelligence.de/event/tamal-roy-valentin-lechecal-science-of-intelligence-evolution-of-collective-cognition-through-individual-level-selection/
LOCATION:SCIoI\, Marchstraße 23\, 10587 Berlin\, Room 2.057
CATEGORIES:Thursday Morning Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20250422T140000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20250422T153000
DTSTAMP:20260404T162445
CREATED:20250319T103943Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250603T124055Z
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SUMMARY:Ralf Kurvers (MPI for Human Development)\, “Individual\, Social and Ecological Drivers of Human Collective Foraging”
DESCRIPTION:Foraging complexity and competitive social challenges are considered key drivers of human cognition. Yet\, we still have a poor understanding of the decision-making mechanisms underlying foraging behavior\, especially in social contexts. In this talk\, I will combine immersive lab experiments\, field work using high-resolution tracking\, and computational and agent-based models to uncover the mechanisms guiding human foraging decisions. I hope to convince you that foraging provides a rich test bed to study a broad range of cognitive processes\, such as memory\, learning\, and evidence accumulation\, and that the current technological advancements allow us to do this even in the challenging conditions of the natural world. \n  \nThis talk is part of David Mezey‘s course “Introduction to Modeling Collective Behavior\, ” a seminar on collective behavior research\, combined with multiple interactive elements. \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://www.scienceofintelligence.de/event/ralf-kurvers-overview-of-human-collective-behavior/
LOCATION:SCIoI\, Marchstraße 23\, 10587 Berlin\, Room 2.057
CATEGORIES:Hot Topics in Intelligence Research
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20250424T100000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20250424T110000
DTSTAMP:20260404T162445
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SUMMARY:Adrien Doerig (Freie Universität)\, “High-Level Visual Representations in the Human Brain Are Aligned With Large Language Models”
DESCRIPTION:The human brain extracts complex information from visual inputs\, including objects\, their spatial and semantic interrelations\, and their interactions with the environment. However\, a quantitative approach to capture this information remains elusive. I will present work where we show that LLM embeddings of scene captions successfully characterise brain activity evoked by viewing the natural scenes. This mapping captures selectivities of different brain areas\, and is sufficiently robust that accurate scene captions can be reconstructed from brain activity. Further\, we show that neural networks trained to transform image inputs into LLM representations are better aligned with brain representations than a large number of state-of-the-art alternative models\, despite being trained on orders-of-magnitude less data. Overall\, these results suggest that LLM embeddings of scene captions provide a representational format that accounts for complex information extracted by the brain from visual inputs. \nPhoto created with DALL-E by Maria Ott.
URL:https://www.scienceofintelligence.de/event/adrien-doerig-freie-universitat-high-level-visual-representations-in-the-human-brain-are-aligned-with-large-language-models/
LOCATION:SCIoI\, Marchstraße 23\, 10587 Berlin\, Room 2.057
CATEGORIES:Thursday Morning Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20250429T140000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20250429T153000
DTSTAMP:20260404T162445
CREATED:20250319T104304Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250603T124029Z
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SUMMARY:Marina Papadopoulou (Tuscia University)\, “Across the Swarm-Verse: The Self-Organization of Animal Collectives on the Move”
DESCRIPTION:From the daily movement of primate troops to the mesmerizing murmurations of starling flocks in the sky\, the dynamics of animal groups on the move fascinate us with the mystery of their underlying social interactions. In this talk\, I will first showcase how we combine empirical data and computational models based on self-organization to understand the individual rules that underlie collective behaviour\, using bird flocks under attack by a robotic predator as a case study. Given that identifying unique and common traits across systems is necessary to understand the ecological and evolutionary processes that shape the diversity of collective behaviour we see in nature\, I will further present the Swarm-Verse\, a new framework to quantify variation in collective motion across species\, using studies on fish\, goats\, pigeons and baboons. \nThis talk is part of David Mezey‘s course “Introduction to Modeling Collective Behavior\, ” a seminar on collective behavior research\, combined with multiple interactive elements. \n  \n  \n  \nImage created with DALL-E by Maria Ott
URL:https://www.scienceofintelligence.de/event/hannah-j-williams-centre-for-the-advanced-study-of-collective-behaviour-overview-of-sensory-basis-in-collective-behavior/
LOCATION:SCIoI\, Marchstraße 23\, 10587 Berlin\, Room 2.057
CATEGORIES:Hot Topics in Intelligence Research
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20250502T141500
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20250502T154500
DTSTAMP:20260404T162445
CREATED:20250402T100615Z
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SUMMARY:Michael Levin (Tufts University)\, “Communication With Intelligence in Unconventional Embodiments: Bioelectricity as a Case Study”
DESCRIPTION:Embodiment is critical for intelligence; however\, the traditional concept of embodiment as movement in 3-dimensional space covers only a small slice of the way biology exploits embodiment. In this talk\, I will present a framework for understanding intelligence more broadly\, and show how the multiscale competency of bodies navigates many different kinds of spaces. I will use our findings in developmental bioelectricity as a case study for how an unconventional intelligence can be recognized and communicated with\, for exciting applications in regenerative medicine and cancer. I will also show novel multicellular life forms\, which highlight the remarkable plasticity of the agential material of life by self-constructing new embodied intelligences from un-modified cells. The emerging field of diverse intelligence merges biophysics\, computer science\, and cognitive science in a way that helps us relate to current and forthcoming beings\, with applications in science\, engineering\, and ethics. \n  \nBio\nMichael Levin is the Vannevar Bush Chair and Distinguished Professor of Biology at Tufts University\, where he directs both the Allen Discovery Center and the Tufts Center for Regenerative and Developmental Biology. Renowned for his pioneering work at the intersection of developmental biology\, synthetic biology\, and cognitive science\, Prof. Levin investigates how cells and tissues process information to control growth\, regeneration\, and form. His research explores the collective intelligence of cells\, bioelectric signaling\, and the emergence of cognition in both natural and synthetic organisms\, with applications ranging from regenerative medicine to synthetic bioengineering. Prof. Levin is widely recognized for co-discovering xenobots—programmable living machines made from frog cells—and has published over 350 scientific papers. His work has been featured in major scientific and popular media. For more information\, visit his lab website. \n  \nThis event will take place on site with the speaker joining on Zoom: https://tu-berlin.zoom-x.de/j/69207754612?pwd=IKxoTdY3dQWccHpce2nA0IsNkNxPHu.1 \nThis is part of Aravind Battaje‘s course “Mind\, Body\, Environment: An Interactive Seminar on Embodied Intelligence\,” a seminar introducing to key theories and research highlighting this shift in perspective through invited lectures from experts in the field and interactive sessions.
URL:https://www.scienceofintelligence.de/event/michael-levin-tufts-university/
LOCATION:SCIoI\, Marchstraße 23\, 10587 Berlin\, Room 2.057
CATEGORIES:Hot Topics in Intelligence Research
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20250506T140000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20250506T153000
DTSTAMP:20260404T162445
CREATED:20250226T121637Z
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SUMMARY:Pawel Romanczuk (Science of Intelligence)
DESCRIPTION:More details to follow. \nThis talk is part of David Mezey‘s course “Introduction to Modeling Collective Behavior\, ” a seminar on collective behavior research\, combined with multiple interactive elements. \n  \n  \nImage created with DALL-E by Maria Ott.
URL:https://www.scienceofintelligence.de/event/pawel-romanczuk-science-of-intelligence/
LOCATION:SCIoI\, Marchstraße 23\, 10587 Berlin\, Room 2.057
CATEGORIES:Hot Topics in Intelligence Research
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20250509T141500
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20250509T154500
DTSTAMP:20260404T162445
CREATED:20250317T111247Z
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SUMMARY:J. Kevin O’Regan (CNRS Paris)\, “How To Make a Machine That Is Conscious and Really Feels”
DESCRIPTION:Despite current advances in artificial intelligence\, many people remain convinced that machines are still far from being able to really experience\, for example\, the redness of a sunset\, the pain of a pinprick\, or what it’s like to be sad. This “phenomenal” or “felt” aspect of consciousness seems outside the realm of science and impossible to implement in machines. Philosophers say phenomenal consciousness is the “hard problem”. I will show that the “hard problem” dissolves if we think about experiences using a “sensorimotor” approach.  Like the abandonment of the “ether hypothesis” and the “vital spirit” at the beginning of the 20th century\, the sensorimotor approach requires making a metaphysical shift. Instead of thinking of experiences as “happening to us”\, we should think of experiences as “things we do”.  I will illustrate the idea by taking concrete examples from the study of vision and touch. With this approach it becomes potentially possible to explain everything that can be explained from a scientific point of view about what it’s like to have sensory\, bodily\, emotional and mental experiences. Phenomenal consciousness loses its mystery. There is no obstacle to making machines that really feel. They are coming very soon. \n  \nBio \nKevin O’Regan is emeritus ex-director of the Laboratoire Psychologie de la Perception\, CNRS\, Université Paris Descartes. After working on eye movements in reading he became interested in visual stability and discovered the phenomenon of change blindness. His current work concerns the sensorimotor approach to phenomenal consciousness and its applications to child development and robotics. See http://whatfeelingislike.net and http://kevin-oregan.net/. \n  \nFor those who are not in Berlin but would like to join virtually:\nhttps://tu-berlin.zoom-x.de/j/69207754612?pwd=IKxoTdY3dQWccHpce2nA0IsNkNxPHu.1 \n  \nThis talk is also part of Aravind Battaje‘s course “Mind\, Body\, Environment: An Interactive Seminar on Embodied Intelligence\,” a seminar introducing to key theories and research highlighting this shift in perspective through invited lectures from experts in the field and interactive sessions. \n  \nPhoto kindly provided by the speaker.
URL:https://www.scienceofintelligence.de/event/kevin-oregan-cnrs-paris/
LOCATION:SCIoI\, Marchstraße 23\, 10587 Berlin\, Room 2.057
CATEGORIES:Distinguished Speaker Series
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20250512T190000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20250512T210000
DTSTAMP:20260404T162445
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SUMMARY:Excellent Pub Quiz
DESCRIPTION:Dive into the wonderful world of research of the seven Berlin Clusters of Excellence: from literature to chemistry\, from politics to AI\, you and your team can find answers for exciting and surprising questions from the clusters’ research areas. So seek fellows and think of your team name! \nEvery quiz evening focuses on the research of one of the clusters of excellence with a related live performance\, followed by questions from the areas of the rest of the clusters. At the end of the evening\, you will be certainly smarter than before and perhpas with great prizes in your hands. \nEvent langage: German\nAdmission: Free entry\nCapacity: Limited spaces\, so come early to not miss your spot\nModerator: Jochen Müller \nThis event is organized by the Cluster of Excellence UniSysCat. \nThe other participating clusters are: MATH+\, Science of Intelligence\, Temporal Communities\, SCRIPTS\, Matters of Activity\, and NeuroCure.
URL:https://www.scienceofintelligence.de/event/excellent-pub-quiz-2/
LOCATION:Fahimi bar\, Skalitzer Str. 133\, Berlin\, 10999\, Germany
CATEGORIES:For the Public
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DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20250513T153000
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CREATED:20250226T122030Z
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SUMMARY:Mate Nagy (MTA-ELTE Lendület Collective Behaviour Research Group\, Budapest)
DESCRIPTION:More details to follow. \nThis talk is part of David Mezey‘s course “Introduction to Modeling Collective Behavior\, ” a seminar on collective behavior research\, combined with multiple interactive elements. \n  \n  \n  \nImage created with DALL-E by Maria Ott.
URL:https://www.scienceofintelligence.de/event/mate-nagy-mta-elte-lendulet-collective-behaviour-research-group-budapest/
LOCATION:SCIoI\, Marchstraße 23\, 10587 Berlin\, Room 2.057
CATEGORIES:Hot Topics in Intelligence Research
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20250515T100000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20250515T110000
DTSTAMP:20260404T162445
CREATED:20250317T111923Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250603T123939Z
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SUMMARY:David Bierbach & Yunus Sevinchan (Science of Intelligence)\, “Self-Organised Criticality in Animal Collectives”
DESCRIPTION:More details to follow. \n  \nPhoto by lance Anderson on Unsplash.
URL:https://www.scienceofintelligence.de/event/david-bierbach-yunus-sevinchan-science-of-intelligence-self-organised-criticality-in-animal-collectives/
LOCATION:SCIoI\, Marchstraße 23\, 10587 Berlin\, Room 2.057
CATEGORIES:Thursday Morning Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20250522T100000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20250522T110000
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CREATED:20250402T100239Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250516T125303Z
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SUMMARY:Anne Jaap\, Friedrich Schüßler\, and Paul Mieske (Science of Intelligence): "Big mouse data: Characterizing mouse behavior through temporal statistics"
DESCRIPTION:The study of animal behavior is rapidly changing due to recent advances in long-term recording and automated analysis. Here we use these new developments to characterize mouse behavior via their temporal statistics. We analyzed positional data (RFID detections) of groups of mice housed in complex environments over many months. We found that behavior spanning seconds to hours can be separated into three distinct temporal ranges or states: short states of up to 2 min\, that correspond mostly to explorative and interactive behaviors; intermediate states between 2-20 min\, consisting mostly of feeding and grooming; and long states beyond 20 min corresponding to sleep. Each state has a simple statistical description that allows for a simple model to recapture the broad aspects of the data. We further characterized these states across individuals and age and showed that the amount spent in each state is homeostatically controlled. Taken together\, we uncovered a surprisingly simple and consistent description of the temporal statistics of behavior in mice. Our results open up new questions about the underlying mechanisms as well as similar characterizations in other species. \n  \nPhoto courtesy of SCIoI Project 40.
URL:https://www.scienceofintelligence.de/event/anne-jaap-friedrich-schusler-paul-mieske-big-mouse-data/
LOCATION:SCIoI\, Marchstraße 23\, 10587 Berlin\, Room 2.057
CATEGORIES:Thursday Morning Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20250527T140000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20250527T153000
DTSTAMP:20260404T162445
CREATED:20250226T122357Z
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SUMMARY:Jacob Davidson (Max Planck Institute for Animal Behavior\, Konstanz)
DESCRIPTION:More details to follow. \nThis talk is part of David Mezey‘s course “Introduction to Modeling Collective Behavior\, ” a seminar on collective behavior research\, combined with multiple interactive elements. \n  \n  \n  \nImage created with DALL-E by Maria Ott.
URL:https://www.scienceofintelligence.de/event/jacob-davidson-max-planck-institute-for-animal-behavior-konstanz/
LOCATION:SCIoI\, Marchstraße 23\, 10587 Berlin\, Room 2.057
CATEGORIES:Hot Topics in Intelligence Research
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20250530T140000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20250530T160000
DTSTAMP:20260404T162445
CREATED:20250402T094459Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250603T123920Z
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SUMMARY:Cornelia Fermüller (University of Maryland)\, “Computational Principles of Embodied Intelligence for Robust Motion Perception and Action”
DESCRIPTION:Abstract\nUnderstanding the computational principles of embodied intelligence is central to advancing robotic systems that perceive and act in complex environments. This talk explores key principles—low power consumption\, robustness\, and generalizability—as they emerge in the context of motion perception and action. For visual navigation\, evidence is presented that challenges the conventional SLAM paradigm\, which relies on correspondence estimation and 3D scene reconstruction. Instead\, 3D motion estimation and scene segmentation can be achieved using 1D normal flow measurements derived from image gradients\, offering a simpler and more robust alternative. The effectiveness of this approach is demonstrated through implementations on drones equipped with both standard and neuromorphic dynamic vision sensors. Further\, it is shown that physical interaction tasks do not necessarily require explicit depth estimation; rather\, distance can be inferred in action-dependent units grounded in control dynamics. Finally\, the role of visual motion in action understanding is examined\, focusing on how motion-derived primitives support robust and generalizable representations of action\, opening new avenues for embodied intelligence in robotic systems. \nThis talk is part of Aravind Battaje‘s course “Mind\, Body\, Environment: An Interactive Seminar on Embodied Intelligence\,” a seminar introducing to key theories and research highlighting this shift in perspective through invited lectures from experts in the field and interactive sessions. \nBio \nCornelia Fermüller is a Research Scientist at the University of Maryland’s Institute for Advanced Computer Studies (UMIACS)\, where she co-founded the Autonomy Cognition and Robotics (ARC) Lab and co-leads the Perception and Robotics Group. Her research lies at the intersection of computer vision\, robotics\, and human vision\, with a focus on biologically inspired solutions for active vision systems. She has made significant contributions to the understanding of visual perception by developing computational models for visual motion analysis\, 3D motion and shape estimation\, texture analysis\, and action recognition\, as well as integrating perception\, action\, and reasoning to enable cognitive robots to learn and interpret human manipulation actions. \nDr. Fermüller holds an M.S. from the University of Technology\, Graz\, and a Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics from the Technical University of Vienna. Her recent work emphasizes the use of event-based\, bio-inspired sensors for robust motion perception in challenging environments\, with applications ranging from fast motion perception for drones to autonomous driving in diverse lighting conditions. She is the principal investigator of an NSF-sponsored Science of Learning Center Network for Neuromorphic Engineering\, co-organizes the Neuromorphic Engineering and Cognition Workshop\, and has been recognized for her leadership in interdisciplinary research bridging computational modeling and psychophysical studies of human vision. \n  \nFor those who are not in Berlin but would like to join virtually:\nhttps://tu-berlin.zoom-x.de/j/69207754612?pwd=IKxoTdY3dQWccHpce2nA0IsNkNxPHu.1 \n  \nPhoto created with DALL-E by Maria Ott.
URL:https://www.scienceofintelligence.de/event/cornelia-fermuller/
LOCATION:SCIoI\, Marchstraße 23\, 10587 Berlin\, Room 2.057
CATEGORIES:Hot Topics in Intelligence Research
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20250602T190000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20250602T210000
DTSTAMP:20260404T162445
CREATED:20250326T124658Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250326T134144Z
UID:23886-1748890800-1748898000@www.scienceofintelligence.de
SUMMARY:Excellent Pub Quiz
DESCRIPTION:Dive into the wonderful world of research of the seven Berlin Clusters of Excellence: from literature to chemistry\, from politics to AI\, you and your team can find answers for exciting and surprising questions from the clusters’ research areas. So seek fellows and think of your team name! \nEvery quiz evening focuses on the research of one of the clusters of excellence with a related live performance\, followed by questions from the areas of the rest of the clusters. At the end of the evening\, you will be certainly smarter than before and perhpas with great prizes in your hands. \nEvent langage: German\nAdmission: Free entry\nCapacity: Limited spaces\, so come early to not miss your spot\nModerator: Jochen Müller \nThis event is organized by the Cluster of Excellence MATH+. \nThe other participating clusters are: Temporal Communities\, Science of Intelligence\, UniSysCat\, SCRIPTS\, Matters of Activity\, and NeuroCure.
URL:https://www.scienceofintelligence.de/event/excellent-pub-quiz-3/
LOCATION:Fahimi bar\, Skalitzer Str. 133\, Berlin\, 10999\, Germany
CATEGORIES:For the Public
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20250603T140000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20250603T153000
DTSTAMP:20260404T162445
CREATED:20250226T122648Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250606T131027Z
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SUMMARY:Jens Krause (Science of Intelligence)\, "The Adaptive Value of Collective Behavior"
DESCRIPTION:In this talk Jens Krause will discuss the adaptive value of collective behaviour from different perspectives. One perspective is the potential ability of groups or collectives to make better and even faster decisions. In this context Jens will show some of the modelling approaches to explain collective intelligence and the empirical support for them in the laboratory and in the field. Furthermore\, he will show some empirical findings regarding collective intelligence which challenge our current understanding of the underlying mechanisms. Another perspective is that of collective behaviour as a defense against predators. It has been found in a number of different species that various forms of collective spirals and waves can fend off predators. This implies that at a global group-wide level\, collective patterns are not just beautiful to look at but can provide anti-predator functions which are just beginning to understand. \nThis talk is part of David Mezey‘s course “Introduction to Modeling Collective Behavior\, ” a seminar on collective behavior research\, combined with multiple interactive elements. \n  \n  \nImage created with DALL-E by Maria Ott.
URL:https://www.scienceofintelligence.de/event/jens-krause-science-of-intelligence/
CATEGORIES:Hot Topics in Intelligence Research
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20250605T100000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20250605T110000
DTSTAMP:20260404T162445
CREATED:20250429T084014Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250603T123901Z
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SUMMARY:Palina Bartashevich and David Bierbach (Science of Intelligence)\, “Collective Air Breathing In the Largest Freshwater Fish on Earth”
DESCRIPTION:More details to follow. \nPhoto by David Clode on Unsplash.
URL:https://www.scienceofintelligence.de/event/palina-bartashevich-and-david-bierbach-collective-air-breathing-in-the-largest-freshwater-fish-on-earth/
LOCATION:SCIoI\, Marchstraße 23\, 10587 Berlin\, Room 2.057
CATEGORIES:Thursday Morning Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20250605T140000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20250605T180000
DTSTAMP:20260404T162445
CREATED:20250407T093220Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250530T112036Z
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SUMMARY:Martina Poletti (University of Rochester)\, "Active Foveal Vision" and Michele Rucci (University of Rochester)\, "Active Space-Time Encoding: The Inseparable Link Between Vision and Action"
DESCRIPTION:Martina Poletti’s talk will focus on active foveal vision. Vision is an active process even at its finest scale in the 1-deg foveola\, the visual system is primarily sensitive to changes in the visual input and it has been shown that fixational eye movements reformat the spatiotemporal flow to the retina in a way that is optimal for fine spatial vision. Using high-precision eye-tracking coupled with a system for gaze-contingent display capable of localizing the line of sight with arcminute precision\, and an Adaptive Optics Scanning Light Ophthalmoscope (AOSLO) for high-resolution retinal imaging enabling retinal-contingent manipulations of the visual input\, their results show that the need for active foveolar vision also stems from the non-uniformity of fine spatial vision across this region. Further\, they show that the visual system is highly sensitive even to a small sub-foveolar loss of vision and fixation behavior is readjusted to compensate for this loss. Overall\, the emerging picture is that of a highly non-homogenous foveolar vision characterized by a refined level of control of attention and fixational eye movements at this scale. \nMichele Rucci’s talk explores how the human visual system constructs spatial representations. Unlike other sensory modalities\, where spatial information must be inferred from incoming signals\, vision begins with a sophisticated imaging system—the eye—that explicitly preserves spatial structure on the retina. This might suggest that human vision is primarily a passive spatial process\, in which the eye simply transmits the retinal image to the cortex—much like uploading a digital photograph—to form a map of the scene. However\, this analogy is misleading\, as it overlooks the strong temporal sensitivity of visual neurons and contradicts theoretical models and experimental findings that examine vision in the context of natural motor behavior. Here\, Michele Rucci will review recent evidence supporting active space-time encoding—the idea that\, as with other senses\, vision relies on motor strategies to encode spatial information in the temporal domain. This concept has important implications for understanding the normal functioning of the visual system\, the effects of abnormal oculomotor behavior\, and the development of visual prostheses. \nThis talk is part of course Olga Shurygina‘s course “Active Sensing\,” a seminar on cutting-edge research on active sensory perception in humans and other mammals and realted advances in artificial agents’ abilities such as seeing\, grasping\, and navigating in space. \n  \nPhoto created with DALL-E by Maria Ott.
URL:https://www.scienceofintelligence.de/event/active-seeing-with-martina-poletti-university-of-rochester-and-michele-rucci-university-of-rochester/
LOCATION:SCIoI\, Marchstraße 23\, 10587 Berlin\, Room 2.057
CATEGORIES:Hot Topics in Intelligence Research
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20250606T140000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20250606T160000
DTSTAMP:20260404T162445
CREATED:20250407T093540Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250603T094631Z
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SUMMARY:Tony Prescott (University of Sheffield)\, "The Psychology of Artificial Intelligence"
DESCRIPTION:Artificial intelligence and robotics have been making great progress in recent years but how close are we to emulating human intelligence?  This talk will explore the similarities and differences between humans and AIs and discuss the development of biomimetic cognitive systems that more directly think and behave like us.  A key focus will be on layered control architectures for robots inspired by the mammalian brain. The talk will be illustrated with work from my lab on active sensing\, memory\, and sense of self for animal-like and humanoid robots. \nThis talk is part of Aravind Battaje‘s course “Mind\, Body\, Environment: An Interactive Seminar on Embodied Intelligence\,” a seminar introducing to key theories and research highlighting this shift in perspective through invited lectures from experts in the field and interactive sessions. \nFor those who are not in Berlin but would like to join virtually:\nhttps://tu-berlin.zoom-x.de/j/69207754612?pwd=IKxoTdY3dQWccHpce2nA0IsNkNxPHu.1 \nPhoto generated with DALL-E by Maria Ott.
URL:https://www.scienceofintelligence.de/event/tony-prescott-university-of-sheffield/
LOCATION:SCIoI\, Marchstraße 23\, 10587 Berlin\, Room 2.057
CATEGORIES:Hot Topics in Intelligence Research
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20250610T140000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20250610T153000
DTSTAMP:20260404T162445
CREATED:20250226T122854Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250606T131115Z
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SUMMARY:Andrew J. King (Swansea University)\,"Understanding Animal Collective Behaviour Across Systems"
DESCRIPTION:Andrew King is a scientist driven by curiosity\, exploring questions across species\, contexts\, and methods. His research group investigates how and why individuals engage in collective behaviour\, using a wide range of systems\, perspectives\, and tools. In this seminar\, he will present their fundamental work in behavioural biology\, as well as its applied themes\, including animal management and bio-inspired engineering. \nThis talk is part of David Mezey‘s course “Introduction to Modeling Collective Behavior\, ” a seminar on collective behavior research\, combined with multiple interactive elements. \n  \n  \n  \nImage created with DALL-E by Maria Ott.
URL:https://www.scienceofintelligence.de/event/andrew-j-king-shoal-group-swansea-university/
LOCATION:SCIoI\, Marchstraße 23\, 10587 Berlin\, Room 2.057
CATEGORIES:Hot Topics in Intelligence Research
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20250612T140000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20250612T180000
DTSTAMP:20260404T162445
CREATED:20250407T094009Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250611T105232Z
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SUMMARY:Jennifer Groh (Duke University) and Kristen Grauman (University of Texas)\, "What Eye Movements Have to Do with Hearing"
DESCRIPTION:Jennifer Groh (Duke University) \nHearing works in concert with vision\, such as when we watch someone’s lips move to help us understand what they are saying.  But bridging between these two senses poses computational challenges for the brain.  One such challenge involves movements of the eyes – every time the eyes move with respect to the head\, the relationship between visual spatial input (the retina) and auditory spatial input (sound localization cues anchored to the head) changes.  I will describe this problem from early computational and experimental work showing how and where signals regarding eye movements are incorporated into auditory processing\, closing with a recent discovery from our group that a signal regarding eye movements is sent by the brain to the ears themselves.  This signal casues the eardrum to oscillate in conjunction with eye movements (Gruters et al PNAS 2018) and carries detailed spatial information about the direction and amplitude of the eye movement (Lovich et al PNAS 2023). I will also present new findings concerning the underlying mechanism of this effect\, involving the contributions of the middle ear muscles and outer hair cells\, and the potential impact on sound transduction. \n  \nKristen Grauman (University of Texas)\, “Audio-visual learning in 3D environments” \nPerception systems that can both see and hear have great potential to unlock problems in video understanding\, augmented reality\, and embodied AI. I will present our recent work in egocentric audio-visual (AV) perception. First\, we explore how audio’s spatial signals can augment visual understanding of 3D environments. This includes ideas for self-supervised feature learning from echoes\, AV floorplan reconstruction\, and active source separation\, where an agent intelligently moves to hear things better in a busy environment. Throughout this line of work\, we leverage our open-source SoundSpaces platform\, which allows state-of-the-art rendering of highly realistic audio in real-world scanned environments. Next\, building on these spatial AV and scene acoustics ideas\, we introduce new ways to enhance the audio stream – making it possible to transport a sound to a new physical environment observed in a photo\, or to dereverberate speech so it is intelligible for machine and human ears alike. \n  \nThis talk is part of course Olga Shurygina‘s course “Active Sensing\,” a seminar on cutting-edge research on active sensory perception in humans and other mammals and realted advances in artificial agents’ abilities such as seeing\, grasping\, and navigating in space. \n  \nPhoto created with DALL-E by Maria Ott.
URL:https://www.scienceofintelligence.de/event/jennifer-groh-duke-university-and-kristen-grauman-university-of-texas-active-hearing/
LOCATION:SCIoI\, Marchstraße 23\, 10587 Berlin\, Room 2.057
CATEGORIES:Hot Topics in Intelligence Research
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20250613T140000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20250613T160000
DTSTAMP:20260404T162445
CREATED:20250407T094415Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250610T100714Z
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SUMMARY:Fumiya lida (University of Cambridge) "Info-Bodiment: Informatization of Robot Embodiment for the Next Generation AI Robots"
DESCRIPTION:There is growing interest in applying AI technologies to the control of intelligent robotic systems. While this research has led to promising developments\, it still faces major challenges due to its heavy reliance on learning from limited datasets—often dominated by visual information. In this talk\, I will introduce “Info-Embodiment” as a new research framework for realizing Embodied Intelligence\, along with its underlying technological foundations. As advances in soft robotics and functional materials enable deeper integration between the informational and physical realms\, we are beginning to see the emergence of novel forms of embodied intelligence. Within this evolving landscape\, I will explore how rapidly advancing fields such as machine learning can help accelerate progress. Going beyond conventional models of body control and AI as abstract computational systems\, this approach positions the body itself as an active site of information processing and generation\, opening new possibilities for intelligent behavior. \nBio\nFumiya Iida is Professor of Robotics at the Department of Engineering\, University of Cambridge. Previously he was an assistant professor for bio-inspired robotics at ETH Zurich (2009-2014) and a lecturer at Cambridge (2014-2018). He received his bachelor and master degrees in mechanical engineering at Tokyo University of Science (Japan\, 1999)\, and Dr. sc. nat. in Informatics at University of Zurich (2006). In 2004 and 2005 he was also engaged in biomechanics research of human locomotion at Locomotion Laboratory\, University of Jena (Germany). From 2006 to 2009 he worked as a postdoctoral associate at the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory\, Massachusetts Institute of Technology in USA. In 2006 he was awarded the Fellowship for Prospective Researchers from the Swiss National Science Foundation and\, in 2009\, the Swiss National Science Foundation Professorship. He was a recipient of the IROS2016 Fukuda Young Professional Award\, Royal Society Translation Award in 2017\, Tokyo University of Science Award in 2021. His research interests include biologically inspired robotics\, embodied artificial intelligence\, and biomechanics of human locomotion and manipulation\, where he was involved in a number of research projects related to dynamic legged locomotion\, navigation of autonomous robots\, and human-machine interactions. For more information\, visit the Bio-Inspired Robotics Laboratory website. \n  \nThis talk is part of Aravind Battaje‘s course “Mind\, Body\, Environment: An Interactive Seminar on Embodied Intelligence\,” a seminar introducing to key theories and research highlighting this shift in perspective through invited lectures from experts in the field and interactive sessions. \n 
URL:https://www.scienceofintelligence.de/event/fumiya-iida-university-of-cambridge/
LOCATION:SCIoI\, Marchstraße 23\, 10587 Berlin\, Room 2.057
CATEGORIES:Hot Topics in Intelligence Research
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