External Event

SCIoI at 5th International Conference on Embodied Intelligence

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

For the Public

Girls’ Day 2025

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

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

Free
Thursday Morning Talk

Bojana Grujičić (Science of Intelligence), “Artificial possibilities”

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

Hot Topics in Intelligence Research

Ralf Kurvers (MPI for Human Development), “Individual, social and ecological drivers of human collective foraging”

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

Thursday Morning Talk

Adrien Doerig (Freie Universität), “High-level visual representations in the human brain are aligned with large language models”

SCIoI, Marchstraße 23, 10587 Berlin, Room 2.057

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.

Hot Topics in Intelligence Research

Hannah J. Williams (Centre for the Advanced Study of Collective Behaviour), “Overview of Sensory Basis in Collective Behavior”

SCIoI, Marchstraße 23, 10587 Berlin, Room 2.057

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

Hot Topics in Intelligence Research

Pawel Romanczuk (Science of Intelligence)

SCIoI, Marchstraße 23, 10587 Berlin, Room 2.057

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

Distinguished Speaker Series

Kevin O’Regan (CNRS Paris)

SCIoI, Marchstraße 23, 10587 Berlin, Room 2.057

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

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