Latest Past Events

Mohsen Raoufi (Science of Intelligence), “Crash Course on Network Science”

SCIoI, Marchstraße 23, 10587 Berlin, Room 2.057

Mohsen is a doctoral researcher at SCIoI, working on Project 27, Speed-Accuracy Tradeoffs in Collective Estimation. His research explores the role of networks in shaping collective opinion dynamics. In this lecture, he will provide an overview of network science with a focus on its applications in collective robotics. He will cover basic topics in graph

Sylvain Calinon (IDIAP, EPFL), “Frugal Learning of Manipulation Skills in Robotics”

SCIoI, Marchstraße 23, 10587 Berlin, Room 2.057

Many applications in robotics would benefit from robots being able to learn manipulation skills from only few demonstrations or trials. This contrasts with the ongoing trend in machine learning of constantly increasing the amount of data required to learn tasks. The main challenge of acquiring manipulation skills from limited training data is to find inductive