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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,

Thursday Morning Talk

Tilman Geishauer, “Virtual Reality – From Research to Market”

SCIoI, MAR Building Marchstr. 23, Berlin

Abstract: Tilman Geishauser is currently working at Somareality to create a virtual reality focused product out of a cognitive load algorithm based on pupillometry that has been in development for 8 years at Research Studios Austria. In the past he invented one of Germanys most promising VR tools: Halocline Layout. He lead his team at

Karoline Wiesner (University of Potsdam) “Information entropy in complex systems”

Lecture by Prof. Karoline Wiesner, Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, University of Potsdam Abstract: I begin with an introduction to the nature of complex systems. From a foundational perspective, I will present a systematic description of their features. This will be followed by a brief discussion of the role of information theory in the analysis