External Event

SCIoI Open Day

Interested in SCIoI's activities? Want to know more about how to apply for a research position at SCIoI? At this all-digital event, prospective applicants as well as other interested persons can visit the cluster, have a (virtual) look around the spaces and facilities, meet researchers and staff, and get a general feel for the place.

Thursday Morning Talk

Tina Klüwer (Science of Intelligence), AI Director Science & Startups

On Zoom

Through a talk followed by a discussion and Q&A, AI Director at Science & Startups Tina Klüwer will explore the joint programmes and resources offered by Berlin's universities to those wishing to successfully start and develop a company, also explaining what support is available. BIO: Dr. Tina Klüwer is a recognized expert, manager and technical

PI Lecture

Tim Landgraf (Science of Intelligence), “The hidden shallows of explaining deep models”

Abstract: In the cognitive-, behavioral- or neuro-sciences we often match a computational model to observations and then, analyzing the model, hope to find results that generalize to the underlying system. With deep neural networks (DNNs) quite powerful function approximators are available that can be fitted to huge data sets, accelerated by cheap hardware and elaborate

External Event

Mental Health in PhD Students. The role of graduate schools, the integration of international students and impostor syndrome

On Zoom

Scholar Minds, in collaboration with Science of Intelligence and the Berlin School of Mind and Brain, would like to invite you to a special conference on the topic "Mental Health in PhD students: The role of graduate schools, the integration of international students and impostor syndrome". The event will take place online on October 19th

Distinguished Speaker Series

Cameron Buckner (Univ. of Houston), Imagination and the Prospects for Empiricist Artificial Intelligence

On Zoom

Abstract: In current debates over deep-neural-network-based AI, deep learning researchers have adopted the mantle of philosophical empiricism and associationism, and its critics have taken up the side of philosophical rationalism and nativism.  These rationalist critics, however, often interpret associationism and empiricism in a way which is too caricatured to fit the views of any significant

For the Public

Berlin Science Week Talk, Guillermo Gallego: Giving Robots T-Rex-Inspired Eyes

On Zoom

Ever heard of neuromorphic cameras? They are bio-inspired sensors that mimic the transient visual pathway. These cameras do not acquire pictures or full images as a normal video camera. Instead, they sense only intensity changes at every pixel as they occur with microsecond resolution (called “events” or “spikes”). These cameras offer many advantages compared to

For the Public

Berlin Science Week Talk, David Bierbach: Just be yourself! How individual differences shape collective behavior. Using a robotic fish to understand collective behavior

Naturkundemuseum

Do genetically identical individuals living in the same environment develop identical behaviors? And what role does individuality play in shaping the collective behavior of a flock of birds or a school of fish? In this talk, David Bierbach will present results from fascinating experiments with a clonal fish, the Amazon molly (Poecilia formosa), to test whether near-identical

For the Public

Berlin Science Week Talk, Ralf Kurvers and Pawel Romanczuk: Collective Intelligence or Collective Stupidity? From Fish Schools to Human Groups. Exploring swarm intelligence in fish and humans

On Zoom

Scientists Pawel Romanczuk and Ralf Kurvers will explore swarm intelligence in fish and humans, investigating the role of single individuals and social interactions in collective decisions, also exploring when collectives make good decisions, and when they go wrong. In this talk, David Bierbach will present results from fascinating experiments with a clonal fish, the Amazon

For the Public

Berlin Science Week Talk, Fritz Francisco: Why Behaviour? Why we behave the way we do

On Zoom

From French photographers, Austrian naturalists and English adventurers – all have been equally fascinated by the way we are affected by, and interact with our surroundings. It is the intricate interplay between self and others, known and unknown, present and future that makes behaviour so hard to grasp and exciting to study. Ethology, the study

For the Public

What does the swarm know? Collective intelligence explained at the HU Lab’s MitWissenschaft Event

Humboldt Forum

As part of the events linked to the exhibition Nach der Natur at the Humboldt Forum, on 25 November at 7pm cluster members Jens Krause, Lea Musiolek, and Pawel Romanczuk will take part in an exciting discussion on the meaning, the study, and the challenges of collective intelligence, bringing great examples and fascinating materials. How

Thursday Morning Talk

Kate Storrs (Justus Liebig University, Giessen), “Modelling mid-level vision with unsupervised learning”

On Zoom

Abstract: Models of vision have come far in the past 10 years. Deep neural networks can recognise objects with near-human accuracy, and predict brain activity in high-level visual regions. However, most networks require supervised training using ground-truth labels for millions of images, whereas brains must somehow learn from sensory experience alone. We have been using