Lange Nacht der Wissenschaften 2025, Excellent Pub Quiz
For the PublicJoin the “Excellent Pub Quiz” at the Long Night of the Sciences 2025! Back by popular demand: team up with your friends (2–4 people), come up with a fun team
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TU Berlin, Wangari Mathaai Foyer, Straße des 17. Juni 135, in the main building
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POSTPONED: Alan Winfield (UWE Bristol) & Dafna Burema (Science of Intelligence)
Hot Topics in Intelligence ResearchSCIoI, Marchstraße 23, 10587 Berlin, Room 2.057This event has been postponed to 29 July 2025. How should we think about Ethics when Machines become part of our social worlds? Alan Winfield and Dafna Burema will explore
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Raina Zakir (Université Libre De Bruxelles), “Robust Decision-Making in Minimalistic Robot Swarms Under Social Noise”
Thursday Morning TalkSCIoI, Marchstraße 23, 10587 Berlin, Room 2.057Abstract Minimalistic robot swarms hold great promise for applications in healthcare, disaster response, and environmental monitoring. A key challenge lies in enabling these robots to rapidly and reliably reach consensus
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William Warren (Brown University), “The Dynamics of Perception and Action: From Pedestrian Interactions to Collective Behavior”
Hot Topics in Intelligence ResearchSCIoI, Marchstraße 23, 10587 Berlin, Room 2.057It’s a perplexing time in the study of visual perception. On the one hand, there is a resurgence of models that freely posit a priori structure in the visual system,
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Matthias Nau (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam), “Revealing General Principles Underlying Active Vision and Memory”
Thursday Morning TalkSCIoI, Marchstraße 23, 10587 Berlin, Room 2.057Abstract: Cognitive neuroscience seeks theories that jointly explain behavioral, neural, and mental states. The dominant approach is to use specialized tasks designed to optimally probe a concept of interest (e.g.,
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Jacob Yates (UC Berkeley), “The Role of Motor Signals in Visual Cortex”
Hot Topics in Intelligence ResearchSCIoI, Marchstraße 23, 10587 Berlin, Room 2.057Embodiment is fundamental to biological intelligence. Brains do not passively receive the world, they actively shape what they sense through self-motion. For nearly a century, we have known that perception
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POSTPONED: Alican Mertan (University of Vermont), “Morphological Cognition: Evolving Robots Exhibiting Cognitive Behavior without Abstract Controllers”
Thursday Morning TalkSCIoI, Marchstraße 23, 10587 Berlin, Room 2.057With the rise of modern deep learning, neural networks have become an essential part of virtually every artificial intelligence system, making it difficult to imagine different models for intelligent behavior.
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Alan Winfield (UWE Bristol) & Dafna Burema (Science of Intelligence)
Hot Topics in Intelligence ResearchMarchstraße 23, 10587 Berlin, Room 2.057How should we think about Ethics when Machines become part of our social worlds? Alan Winfield and Dafna Burema will explore the ethical and societal dimensions of robotics and AI
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Summer School “Sensory Neuroscience” (Pisa, Italy)
External EventFor the first time this year, SCIoI will be one of the organizers of the Circle U. Summer School in Pisa, which already involves the HU Berlin and UCLouvain. Together
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Excellent Pub Quiz
For the PublicFahimi bar Skalitzer Str. 133, Berlin, GermanyDive 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
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Asieh Daneshi (Science of Intelligence), “Is risky behavior contagious?”
Thursday Morning TalkMore details to follow. Image created with DALL-E by Maria Ott.
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Summer School of Artificial Intelligence and Society 2025 (BIFOLD, Weizenbaum Institute, SCIoI)
External EventTU-Campus EUREF, EUREF-Campus 9, 10829 Berlin-Schöneberg. EUREF-Campus, GermanyAs artificial intelligence (AI) reshapes the landscape of scientific discovery, the need for openness, transparency, and reproducibility in research has never been more urgent. The 2025 Berlin Summer School on
