Thursday Morning Talk

Henning Sprekeler (Science of Intelligence), “Architectural Design Principles for Intelligence: Modularity vs. Integration”

On Zoom

Abstract: The world is modular. So – intuitively – it seems clear that cognitive systems that deal with the world should benefit from a modular architecture. Simple or less important problems should use less cognitive resources than complex or important problems, which – intuitively – may be achieved by changing the degree of modularity that

Thursday Morning Talk

Global Scientific Exchange Program – Part I

On Zoom

The talks will be held by Arinze Lawrence Folarin, "My 175 days journey in Berlin"; Juliana T.C. Marcos "GSEP Internship: More than a research experience in neuromorphic vision at SCIoI"; and Kiprono Elijah Koech "Action Recognition in a Wildlife Setting - Taken a Leap". The Zoom Link will be sent the day before the lecture.

Thursday Morning Talk

Global Scientific Exchange Program – Part II

On Zoom

The talks will be held by Emmanuel Ousu Ahenkan and Tatiana Ngoli Moteu Marcos. The Zoom Link will be sent the day before the lecture.

Thursday Morning Talk

Earlybird UNI-X

On Zoom

Meet Philipp Semmer and Frederic du Bois-Reymond, both partners at the venture capital firm Earlybird UNI-X. They will talk about funding for university spin-offs and why they believe that scientist and researcher should be more excited about entrepreneurship. They will also share their insights on deep tech companies becoming the next generation of unicorns. The

C. Jessica E. Metcalf, “Evolving immunity: responding, learning, forgetting “

Abstract:  The adaptive immune system must meet the challenge of a constantly changing pool of both dangerous and friendly microbes. Evolution has favored a system that can learn what responses work, and forget responses that are unlikely to be needed again, and can seem both remarkably intelligent and remarkably stupid. I will introduce the concepts evolutionary biologists might

Thursday Morning Talk

Danny Driess, Manuel Baum, Katharina Hohlbaum, Niek Andresen (Science of Intelligence), “Perspectives on the gap between robotic models and observed biological behavior”

Abstract: One of SCIoI's goals is to establish and evaluate synthetic models for biological data. Achieving this goal is clearly beneficial not only to produce more capable artificial behavior, but also to get a better idea about the processes that may underlie biological intelligence. Why can a cockatoo or mouse open a lock box? What

For the Public

Girls’ Day 2022

On Girls’ Day 2022 (28 April 22), SCIoI members Jinan Allan and Marah Halawa will give an overview of their life as women in science, including ambitions and possible challenges. The brief introduction will be followed by visits to the cluster's labs. More information here.

For the Public

Benjamin Lang at “An excellent Science Slam” (in German)

Prepare for an extraordinary Science Slam! Young scientists from four Clusters of Excellence of the Berlin University Alliance present their research work in the learning lab Mall Anders in the Wilma Shoppen mall. They only have 15 minutes to present, and everything is allowed: costumes, props, movies, PowerPoint presentations or experimental setups. After the presentations,

Thursday Morning Talk

Rebecca Lazarides (Science of Intelligence), “From understanding learners’ adaptive motivation and emotion to designing social learning companions”

MAR 2.057

Abstract:  High motivation and positive emotions are important prerequisites for effective knowledge transfer, while negative emotions can impede the acquisition of new knowledge. This talk presents our current state of research in SCIoI's project 06 that aims at identifying adaptive teaching strategies of humans, and to synthesize them with the goal to test whether these

For the Public

Ralf Kurvers at “Meet the Scientist”, Humboldt Forum

"Should I listen to you – or not?" Should I listen to you? Or should I ignore you when making up my mind? And what factors shape my decision-making? Questions like these are the field of behavioral researchers from the Cluster of Excellence “Science of Intelligence”. Here, psychologists, computer scientists, biologists, neuroscientists, educational scientists, philosophers,