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Distinguished Lecture Series - Talk by Oliver Brock (TU Berlin)

07 February 2023
University of StuttgartTU Berlinpublic

We are pleased to announce our upcoming Distinguished Lecture Series talk by Oliver Brock (TU Berlin)! The talk will take place in person on February 7th, in room UN32.101. Professor Brock will also be available for meetings on February 8th. If you are interested in scheduling a meeting, please email .

Oliver Brock is the Alexander-von-Humboldt Professor of Robotics in the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the Technische Universität Berlin, a German “University of Excellence”. He received his Ph.D. from Stanford University in 2000 and held postdoctoral positions at Rice University and Stanford University. He was an Assistant and Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Massachusetts Amherst before moving back to Berlin in 2009. The research of Brock’s lab, the Robotics and Biology Laboratory, focuses on embodied intelligence, mobile manipulation, interactive perception, grasping, manipulation, soft material robotics, interactive machine learning, motion generation, and the application of algorithms and concepts from robotics to computational problems in structural molecular biology. Oliver Brock directs the Research Center of Excellence “Science of Intelligence”. He is an IEEE Fellow and was president of the Robotics: Science and Systems Foundation from 2012 until 2019.

Title: About the Interplay of Embodiment and Learning in Intelligent Systems

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Distinguished Lecture Series - Talk by Simo Särkkä (Aalto University, Finnish Center for Artificial Intelligence)

10 January 2023
University of StuttgartAalto UniversityFinnish Center for Artificial Intelligencepublic

We are pleased to announce our upcoming Distinguished Lecture Series talk by Simo Särkkä (Aalto University, Finnish Center for Artificial Intelligence)! The talk will take place online on January 10th, 2023, 17:30, on Webex.

Simo Särkkä is an Associate Professor at Aalto University, Finland. He is also a Fellow of European Laboratory for Learning and Intelligent Systems (ELLIS), member of the ELLIS Program for Theory, Algorithms and Computation, and member of ELLIS Unit Helsinki. He also leads the AI Across Fields (AIX) program of Finnish Center for Artificial Intelligence (FCAI). His and his group’s research interests are in multi-sensor data processing systems which combine Bayesian statistics, stochastic processes, machine learning, and other interesting technology. His books “Bayesian Filtering and Smoothing” and “Applied Stochastic Differential Equations” have been published via the Cambridge University Press.

Title: Probabilistic differential equation solving as Bayesian filtering and smoothing

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Distinguished Lecture Series - Talk by Laura Leal-Taixé (NVIDIA, Technical University of Munich)

06 December 2022
University of StuttgartNVIDIATechnical University of Munichpublic

We are pleased to announce our upcoming Distinguished Lecture Series talk by Laura Leal-Taixé (NVIDIA, Technical University of Munich)! The talk will take place online on December 6th, 17:30 on Webex.

Title: From handcrafted to end-to-end learning, and back: a journey for multi-object tracking

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Distinguished Lecture Series - Talk by Philipp Hennig (University of Tübingen)

08 November 2022
University of StuttgartUniversity of Tübingenpublic

We are pleased to announce our upcoming Distinguished Lecture Series talk by Philipp Hennig (University of Tübingen)! The talk will take place in person on November 8th, 17:30, in Universitätstraße 32.101 and will be followed by an informal reception during which finger food and drinks will be provided.

Title: Probabilistic Simulation Methods for Scientific Machine Learning

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Distinguished Lecture Series - Talk by Hinrich Schütze (LMU Munich)

04 October 2022
University of StuttgartLMU Munichpublic

We are pleased to announce our upcoming Distinguished Lecture Series talk by Hinrich Schütze (LMU Munich) which will take place on October 4th, at 16:00, on Webex.

Title: Natural Language Understanding for Task Descriptions and Beyond (joint work with Nora Kassner, Timo Schick and Kerem Senel)

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Kick-Off Event of the Stuttgart ELLIS Unit

21 July 2022
University of StuttgartMax Planck Institutepublic

You are warmly invited to join the team of the Stuttgart ELLIS Unit for their kick-off event celebrating the official start of their operations.

The directors Ingo Steinwart and Andreas Bulling, as well as the rector of the University of Stuttgart Wolfram Ressel, will introduce the unit, its planned activities and its members. This will be followed by a keynote talk by ELLIS Fellow Bernt Schiele (Max Planck Institute for Informatics) and further presentations by Paul Bürkner (University of Stuttgart), Katherine J. Kuchenbecker (Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems), Michael Pradel (University of Stuttgart), and Steffen Staab (University of Stuttgart).

The unit’s PostDocs and PhD students will be introduced through lightning talks and poster presentations. A networking event will close the day’s activities.

The event programming is now available online here!

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ELLIS-AISA talk by Frank Hütter (University of Freiburg)

13 July 2022
University of StuttgartUniversity of FreiburgpublicAISA

We are pleased to announce an upcoming ELLIS-AISA talk by Frank Hütter (University of Freiburg) which will take place on July 13th, in room UN32.101 of the Vaihingen campus of the University of Stuttgart.

Title: Deep Learning 2.0: Extending the Power of Deep Learning to the Meta-Level

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Talk by Stephan Mandt (University of California, Irvine)

11 July 2022
University of StuttgartUniversity of California - Irvinepublic

We are pleased to announce an upcoming ELLIS talk by Stephan Mandt (University of California, Irvine) which will take place on July 11th, from 14:00-15:30, in Universitätstraße 32.138 (University of Stuttgart, Campus Vaihingen).

Title: From probabilistic forecasting to neural data compression and back: a latent variable perspective

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