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  • Julten Abdelhalim, “Mastering Confident & Quick-Witted Communication in Academia” Workshop

    Thursday Morning Talk
    SCIoI, Marchstraße 23, 10587 Berlin, Room 2.057

    In this one-hour workshop, a toolbox of best-practise techniques for confident communication skills will be presented. This will equip attendees with a repertoire of rhetorical tools to communicate confidently and quick-wittedly in stressful situations. Participants will learn strategies to handle challenging questions and optimise their performance during academic debates. Another aim is to tackle dealing

  • Winter School “Ethics of Neuroscience and AI” 2025

    External Event
    Campus Nord of Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin at Ostertag-Haus, Philippstr.12, House 4 10115 Berlin

    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. The Winter School is a five days conference which covers a broad field of topics from philosophical ethics to ethics of research and

  • Florian Engert (Harvard University), “Attentional Switching in Larval Zebrafish”

    Distinguished Speaker Series

    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

  • Jonas Kuckling (University of Konstanz), “Living on the Edge – Scalability and Two-Phase Performance in Multi-Robot Systems”

    Thursday Morning Talk
    SCIoI, Marchstraße 23, 10587 Berlin, Room 2.057

    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

  • Konstantinos Voudouris (Helmholtz AI, University of Cambridge), “ What Are AI Capabilities and How Can We Measure Them?”

    Thursday Morning Talk
    SCIoI, Marchstraße 23, 10587 Berlin, Room 2.057

    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.

  • Vito Trianni (Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies, CNR Rome), “Emergence and Heterogeneity in Minimalist Robot Swarms”

    Thursday Morning Talk
    SCIoI, Marchstraße 23, 10587 Berlin, Room 2.057

    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

  • SCIoI at 5th International Conference on Embodied Intelligence

    External Event
    On Zoom

    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

  • Girls’ Day 2025

    For the Public
    SCIoI, Marchstraße 23, 10587 Berlin, Room 2.057

    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

  • Excellent Pub Quiz

    For the Public
    Fahimi bar Skalitzer Str. 133, Berlin, Germany

    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! Every quiz evening focuses on the research

    Free

  • Bojana Grujičić (Science of Intelligence), “Artificial Possibilities”

    Thursday Morning Talk
    SCIoI, Marchstraße 23, 10587 Berlin, Room 2.057

    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

  • Ralf Kurvers (MPI for Human Development), “Individual, Social and Ecological Drivers of Human Collective Foraging”

    Hot Topics in Intelligence Research
    SCIoI, Marchstraße 23, 10587 Berlin, Room 2.057

    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