For the Public

LNDW 2025/Open Labs at RBO: Robot Plays Escape Room

SCIoI, MAR Building Marchstr. 23, Berlin

Where: RBO Lab (5th floor) Time: at regular intervals between 5:30 and 10pm Event Type:  Demonstration By Paul Xu Pu Language: English Suitable for kids: Yes, from 5 Website: www.tu.berlin/en/robotics Do you know our robot can play the escape room game? Join us to explore how we build intelligent systems by combining various abilities. Watch

For the Public

Lange Nacht der Wissenschaften 2025, Excellent Pub Quiz

TU Berlin, Wangari Mathaai Foyer, Straße des 17. Juni 135, in the main building

Join 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 name, and put your knowledge to the test at the Excellent Pub Quiz hosted by Berlin’s seven Clusters of Excellence at TU Berlin. Exciting prizes

Hot Topics in Intelligence Research

Alan Winfield (UWE Bristol) & Dafna Burema (Science of Intelligence)

SCIoI, Marchstraße 23, 10587 Berlin, Room 2.057

More details to follow. This talk is part of David Mezey's course “Introduction to Modeling Collective Behavior, ” a seminar on collective behavior research, combined with multiple interactive elements.     Photo created with DALL-E by Maria Ott.

Thursday Morning Talk

Raina Zakir (Université Libre De Bruxelles), “Robust Decision-Making in Minimalistic Robot Swarms Under Social Noise”

SCIoI, Marchstraße 23, 10587 Berlin, Room 2.057

Abstract 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 using limited communication, computation, and memory. In this talk, we explore how robot swarms can collectively identify the best among multiple discrete options in their

Hot Topics in Intelligence Research

William Warren (Brown University), “The Dynamics of Perception and Action: From Pedestrian Interactions to Collective Behavior”

SCIoI, Marchstraße 23, 10587 Berlin, Room 2.057

It’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, including priors, generative world models, and physics engines. On the other hand, there is the astonishing a posteriori success of deep neural networks trained only

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Jacob Yates (UC Berkeley)

SCIoI, Marchstraße 23, 10587 Berlin, Room 2.057

More details to follow.   Bio Jacob Yates (he/him) is an Assistant Professor of Optometry & Vision Science at UC Berkeley and leads the Active Vision and Neural Computation Lab. His research explores how populations of neurons in the cortex and early visual pathways encode the visual world, with a particular focus on how eye movements generate and

External Event

Summer School “Sensory Neuroscience” (Pisa, Italy)

For 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 with renowned researchers, Master's students will explore the complexities of the human mind and brain through the study of perception. This summer school is connected

For the Public

Excellent Pub Quiz

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

External Event

Summer School of Artificial Intelligence and Society 2025 (BIFOLD, Weizenbaum Institute, SCIoI)

TU-Campus EUREF, EUREF-Campus 9, 10829 Berlin-Schöneberg. EUREF-Campus, Germany

As 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 Artificial Intelligence and Society, jointly organized by the Berlin Institute for the Foundations of Learning and Data (BIFOLD), the Weizenbaum Institute for the Networked Society,

Thursday Morning Talk

Sole Traverso (Science of Intelligence)

SCIoI, Marchstraße 23, 10587 Berlin, Room 2.057

More details to follow. Image created with DALL-E by Maria Ott.