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Distinguished Speaker Series

Giovanni Pezzulo, ISTC-CNR Rome (Host: Verena Hafner): Human sensorimotor communication during human joint action: experimental and computational perspectives

Giovanni Pezzulo is a researcher at the Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies, National Research Council in Rome, Italy. His research centers on the neuronal and computational mechanisms of predictive processing, goal-directed behaviour, and the sensorimotor foundations of higher cognition. Human sensorimotor communication during human joint action: experimental and computational perspectives During online social interactions,

For the Public

Berlin Science Week Talk: Alex Kacelnik, Are WE more like we think THEY are, or are THEY more like we think WE are?

As part of the “6 o’clock with SCIoI” talk series within the Berlin Science Week 2020, Prof. Alex Kacelnik will take us on a fascinating journey through the understanding of intelligence in humans, animals and robots. Please visit the Berlin Science Week website to access the event. https://falling-walls.com/event/are-we-more-like-we-think-they-are-or-are-they-more-like-we-think-we-are/

Thursday Morning Talk

Robert Lange (SCIoI): “Learning not to learn, Nature versus nurture in silico”

Abstract: Animals are equipped with a rich innate repertoire of sensory, behavioral and motor skills, which allows them to interact with the world immediately after birth. At the same time, many behaviors are highly adaptive and can be tailored to specific environments by means of learning and exploration. In this work, we use mathematical analysis

PI Lecture

Lars Lewejohann (SCIoI): What’s on a mouse’s mind? Behavioral measures to understand animal’s experiences and needs

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What's on a mouse's mind? Behavioral measures to understand animal’s experiences and needs Lars Lewejohann, Freie Universität Berlin, German Federal Institute for Risk Assessment (BfR), German Centre for the Protection of Laboratory Animals (Bf3R) Abstract: Mice, as all other living creatures, have adapted to specific living conditions in the course of evolution. From our human

For the Public

Berlin Science Week Talk, Pawel Romanczuk And Ralf Kurvers (SCIoI), Collective Intelligence or Collective Stupidity? What Humans can Learn from Fish

Exploring swarm intelligence in fish and humans. As part of the “6 o’clock with SCIoI” talk series, 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.

Berlin Science Week Talk, Michael Pauen (SCIoI): Is artificial intelligence intelligent?

A talk about the relation between human and artificial intelligence. As part of the 6 o’clock with SCIoI series of talks, Michael Pauen will discuss the relation between human and artificial intelligence. The most advanced AI systems today try to drive cars, care for the elderly, read texts or play soccer – things that we

For the Public

Berlin Science Week Panel Discussion: Dimitri Coelho Mollo, Rainer Mühlhoff, Ingo Schulz-Schaeffer, Lynn Schmittwilken. Living with AI: Past, Present, and Future

Artificial Intelligence: a philosophical, ethical and social overview. As part of the series “6 o’clock with SCIoI” series of talks within the Berlin Science Week, the panelists will discuss with the public about the philosophical, ethical and social issues raised by AI research and applications. Please visit the Berlin Science Week website to access the

Thursday Morning Talk

Heiko Hamann, Minimize Surprise in Robots: An Innate Motivation for Collective Behavior

Minimize Surprise in Robots: An Innate Motivation for Collective Behavior After a quick overview of other related research projects in my lab (bio-hybrid systems, swarm performance, collective decision-making), I will present our work on minimize surprise for multi-robot systems. Each robot has two artificial neural networks, a world model (“prediction machine”) and a behavioral module

PI Lecture

Pawel Romanczuk (SCIoI): Collective Information Processing – From Simple Flocking Models to Real Ecological Systems

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Collective Information Processing - From Simple Flocking Models to Real Ecological Systems Abstract: Collective systems such animal groups or cellular ensembles represent fascinating examples of self-organization in biology. In contrast to non-living physical systems, self-organized biological collectives are results of long-term evolutionary adaptations to a specific ecological niche, where collective behavior provides evolutionary benefits to

Distinguished Speaker Series

Michele Rucci, University of Rochester (Hosted by Marianne Maertens): Seeing by moving: the indissoluble bond between perception and action

Seeing by moving: the indissoluble bond between perception and action Establishing a representation of space is a major goal of sensory systems.  Spatial information, however, is not always explicit in the incoming sensory signals. In most modalities it needs to be actively extracted from cues embedded in the temporal flow of receptor activation. Vision, on

Thursday Morning Talk

Michael Pauen

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BIO: Michael Pauen is a philosopher with a focus on the philosophy of mind. As the academic director of an interdisciplinary graduate school, he has extensive experience in interdisciplinary research and training. Having a specific interest in philosophical and psychological aspects of human sociality, he will focus on social intelligence both in humans and in