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Berlin Brains – Restless gaze, stable vision: SCIoI members Martin Rolfs and Nina Hanning @Zeiss Grand Planetarium Berlin

Zeiss-Großplanetarium, Prenzlauer Allee 80, 10405 Berlin

Live Event at Zeiss-Großplanetarium (Zeiss Grand Planetarium), Berlin with SCIoI memebers Martin Rolfs and Nina Hanning, titled "Restless gaze, stable vision: The camera work of our eyes." About: Our eyes are restless; they constantly orient themselves toward new aspects of the environment. If they were cameras, the recorded film would be dizzying. And yet our

External Event

Oliver Brock at TED AI Vienna 2024

SCIoI spokesperson Oliver Brock will give a talk about artificial intelligence (AI) in Vienna (Austria), where, for the first time, a TED series of talks will be hosted, to foster the understanding of AI innovation. Want to join or get more information? Click here.

PI Lecture

Jörg Raisch (Science of Intelligence), “Efficient and Privacy-Preserving Consensus in Multi-Agent Systems”

SCIoI, Marchstraße 23, 10587 Berlin, Room 2.057

Achieving consensus, i.e., agreeing on objectives and on relevant aspects of the environment, is a prerequisite whenever a group of individuals (“agents”) attempt to cooperatively solve a task. This requires information exchange between agents. In technical scenarios, information exchange is via wireless communication channels, which exhibit interference. Standard implementations aim at avoiding interference by resorting

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Heiko Hamann (Uni Konstanz, SCIoI), “Introduction to collective robotics: A formal approach”

SCIoI, Marchstraße 23, 10587 Berlin, Room 2.057

Heiko Hamann is a roboticist with focus on collective systems. With his group he studies distributed robotics, machine learning for robotics, and bio-hybrid systems. In his collaboration with SCIoI member Pawel Romanczuk he investigates collective intelligence and especially the swarm robotics aspects of “Speed-accuracy tradeoffs in distributed collective decision making.” This talk will take place

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Alan Winfield (UWE Bristol), “Ethics in collective robotics”

SCIoI, Marchstraße 23, 10587 Berlin, Room 2.057

Alan Winfield is Professor of Electronic Engineering and Director of the Science Communication Unit at the University of the West of England, Bristol. He conducts research in swarm robotics in the Bristol Robotics Laboratory and is especially interested in robots as working models of life, evolution, intelligence, and culture. Alan is passionate about communicating science

Thursday Morning Talk

POSTPONED: Anita Keshmirian (Forward College, Berlin), “Many minds, diverging morals: Human groups vs. AI in moral decision-making”

Marchstraße 23, 10587 Berlin, Room 2.057

Abstract "Moral judgments are inherently social, shaped by interactions with others in everyday life. Despite this, psychological research has rarely examined the impact of social interactions on these judgments. In our study, we explored the role of group dynamics in moral decision making by having small groups (4-5 participants) evaluate moral dilemmas first individually, then

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POSTPONED: Karoline Wiesner (University of Potsdam), “Introduction to complexity science: Part I”

SCIoI, Marchstraße 23, 10587 Berlin, Room 2.057

Karoline Wiesner has been a Professor of Complexity Science at the Institute for Physics and Astronomy since 2021 and also serves as an external professor at the Complexity Science Hub Vienna. She earned her Ph.D. in Physics at Uppsala University and spent her postdoctoral years at the Santa Fe Institute in New Mexico and the

External Event

20th conference of the Gesellschaft für Ichthyologie (GfI)

Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience Berlin Philippstraße 13/Haus 6, 10115 Berlin

The 20th conference of the Gesellschaft für Ichthyologie (GfI) e.V.  is intended to provide a diverse insight into research with and about fish, but also to give interested hobbyists a chance to speak. It will cover a diverse range of topics, including Evolution, Collective Behavior, Fish Ecology, Fish Communities, Animal Welfare, and poster presentations. Find

For the Public

Berlin Science Week: Science Slam of the Berlin Clusters of Excellence

Roadrunner's Paradise Saarbrücker Str. 24 10405 Berlin Germany

Slammin’ like there’s no tomorrow – at our cluster science slam, researchers try everything to entertain their audience, regardless of whether the subject is e.g. mathematics, neuroscience or active material. The sky is the limit when it comes to what’s possible. Costumes, props, movies, power-point presentations or other experimental setups – it is all allowed.

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Pawel Romanczuk (Science of Intelligence), “Introduction to complexity science: Part II”

SCIoI, Marchstraße 23, 10587 Berlin, Room 2.057

Pawel Romanczuk holds a professorship on Complexity Research in Adaptive Systems at HU. For SCIoI, he works at the interface of applied mathematics, theoretical physics, and behavioral biology. He focuses on collective behavior of organismic systems. His research bridges analytical and synthetic sciences to study self-organization, evolutionary adaptations, and functional dynamical behavior. This talk will

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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