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Empirical Inference News 20-09-2021 Bernhard Schölkopf receives Frontiers of Knowledge Award At an award ceremony in Bilbao, the BBVA Foundation recognizes Schölkopf for his work that has advanced the field of artificial intelligence by teaching machines the human skill of classifying data. Bernhard Schölkopf
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News 20-09-2021 Gesucht: neue Forschungsgruppenleiter:innen Bewerbungen sind bis zum 14. November möglich Max Planck sucht herausragende Kandidat:innen für den Aufbau von bis zu zwei neuen unabhängigen Max-Planck-Forschungsgruppen am Standort Tübingen und einer unabhängigen Cyber Valley Forschungsgruppe am Standort Stuttgart des Max-Planck-Instituts für Intelligente Systeme. Florian Mayer
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News 13-09-2021 CLS doctoral fellowships 2022: Call for applications Apply by November 1, 2021, to join the CLS Ph.D. Program in 2022. Sarah Danes
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News 13-09-2021 Funded Ph.D. Positions at the International Max Planck Research School for Intelligent Systems The Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems and the Universities of Stuttgart and Tübingen collaborate to offer an interdisciplinary Ph.D. program, the International Max Planck Research School for Intelligent Systems (IMPRS-IS). This doctoral program will accept its sixth generation of Ph.D. students in spring of 2022. Leila Masri Sara Sorce
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News 13-09-2021 Jubiläumswebseite des MPI-IS und ehemaligen MPI-MF geht online Für alle Mitarbeiter:innen, Alumni und Freunde beider Institute ist sie eine Informationsplattform, auf der man die Geschichte der beiden Institute lesen und sehen kann. Alejandro Posada Nassim Taghipour Claudia Daefler Matthias Tröndle
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Physics for Inference and Optimization Award 09-09-2021 Caterina De Bacco received the  2021 EPS Statistical and Nonlinear Physics Prize in the Statistical And Nonlinear Physics Division Caterina De Bacco
Micro, Nano, and Molecular Systems Appointment 09-09-2021 Tingting Yu appointed Assistant Professor at South China University of Technology
Locomotion in Biorobotic and Somatic Systems News 07-09-2021 Gleiten ohne Flügel Gecko-inspirierter Roboter bestätigt den Nutzen des Schwanzes als fünftes Bein Eine in Nature Communications Biology veröffentlichte Studie veranschaulicht, dass Geckos gleiten können. Videoaufnahmen zeigen, wie die Reptilien von einem Baum zum nächsten fliegen und dann erfolgreich eine harte Landung hinlegen. Experimente mit einem dem Tier nachempfundenen Roboter bestätigen die Vermutung, dass die Fortbewegungsfähigkeit eines Geckos nicht allein seinen Füßen zu verdanken ist. Der Schwanz spielt eine ebenso wichtige Rolle, fand das Team vom Max-Planck-Institut für Intelligente Systeme in Stuttgart, dem Siena College in New York und der University of California in Berkeley heraus. Ardian Jusufi Robert Siddall
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Micro, Nano, and Molecular Systems Appointment 02-09-2021 Peer Fischer appointed Distiguished Lecturer
Locomotion in Biorobotic and Somatic Systems News 02-09-2021 The gecko's most astounding maneuver has nothing to do with its sticky feet (CNN) - Geckos would definitely medal in a contest for nature's best feet. The lizard's sticky toes, covered in tiny hairs, mean it can climb across ceilings in a fantastic feat of evolution. But scientists say the lizards' tails are just as extraordinary, with geckos performing a remarkable, if ungainly, maneuver that allows them to land securely and at ballistic speeds on vertical surfaces like tree trunks. Ardian Jusufi Robert Siddall
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Micro, Nano, and Molecular Systems Award 01-09-2021 Johannes Sachs wins the 2021 Springer dissertation award for his Ph.D. thesis.
Empirical Inference Appointment 01-09-2021 Stefan Bauer becomes Assistant Professor at KTH, Sweden
Perceiving Systems Award 31-08-2021 Timo Bolkart and Victoria Fernandez Abrevaya are recognized as ICCV 2021 Outstanding Reviewers.
Micro, Nano, and Molecular Systems News 30-08-2021 Dr. Tingting Yu becomes Assistant Professor at the South China University of Technology Congrats and good luck to Dr. Tingting Yu Congrats and good luck to Tingting Yu who recently obtained her Ph.D. in the group and who will start her own lab as an Assistant Professor in the Shien-Ming Wu School of Intelligent Engineering, South China University of Technology. Best of luck and lots of success!
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Rationality Enhancement News 26-08-2021 "Resource-Rational Models of Human Goal Pursuit" is now published! Great work Ben, Florian, Mateo, and Falk! Benjamin Prystawski Florian Mohnert Mateo Tosic Falk Lieder
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News 13-08-2021 ELLIS PhD Program: Call for applications Apply by November 15, 2021, to join the ELLIS PhD Program in 2022 Daniela Diaconu Lynn Anthonissen
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Perceiving Systems Award 30-07-2021 Michael J. Black, Simone Behrens, Javier Romero, Stephan Streuber, and Anne Thaler: Their paper ``Body size estimation of self and others in females varying in BMI'' reached in July 2021 the PLoS ONE top 10% most cited papers, for papers published in 2018. 
Haptic Intelligence Award 22-07-2021 Ph.D. student Alexis E. Block is selected as a 2021 Computing Innovation Fellow (CIFellow) to support her postdoctoral research with Veronica Santos at UCLA in the USA Alexis Block
News 20-07-2021 Constraints in First-Order Optimization New preprint available
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Empirical Inference Award 16-07-2021 Georgios Arvanitidis, best Student Paper Award, at Robotics: Science and Systems (R:SS), 2021, for the paper: "Learning Riemannian Manifolds for Geodesic Motion Skills", by Hadi Beik-Mohammadi, Søren Hauberg, Georgios Arvanitidis, Gerhard Neumann, Leonel Rozo
Haptic Intelligence Award 10-07-2021 Postdoc Yitian Shao receives a two-year Humboldt Research Fellowship to support his postdoctoral research in the HI Department Yitian Shao
Haptic Intelligence Award 09-07-2021 Ph.D. student Saekwang Nam and Katherine J. Kuchenbecker jointly win Honorable Mention for their IEEE Transactions on Haptics short paper at the 2021 IEEE World Haptics Conference Saekwang Nam Katherine J. Kuchenbecker
Haptic Intelligence Award 09-07-2021 Postdoc Yitian Shao wins the 2020 EuroHaptics Society prize for the best Ph.D. thesis in the field of haptics; he earned his doctorate with Yon Visell at UCSB in the USA Yitian Shao
Physical Intelligence News 07-07-2021 Roboter minimalinvasiv Attached is the article in c’t magazine
Physical Intelligence News 06-07-2021 Kirigami Metastructures: Liquid-Crystal-Elastomer-Actuated Reconfigurable Microscale Kirigami Metastructures (Adv. Mater. 25/2021) Achieving wireless miniaturized reconfigurable metastructures remains a challenge due to the difficult nature of the fabrication and actuation processes at the micrometer scale. In article number <a href="https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/15214095/2021/33/25">2008605 </a>, Metin Sitti and co-workers develop an actuation platform for thermally reconfiguring micro-metasurfaces by using uniaxially aligned liquid crystal elastomers, which serve as efficient artificial muscles to provide energy for actuation of the microscale kirigami metastructures. Mingchao Zhang Hamed Shahsavan Yubing Guo Abdon Pena-Francesch Metin Sitti
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Empirical Inference Award 01-07-2021 Gary Becigneul: Dieter-Rampacher-Prize 2020
Rationality Enhancement News 01-07-2021 The Life Improvement Science 2021 inaugural conference concluded successfully on 13 June, 2021! Life Improvement Science (LIS) is an emerging transdisciplinary research field that investigates how we can help people do more good in better ways (well-doing). The ultimate goal of the conference was to promote the long-term well-doing of humanity. The conference featured invited talks on the most promising scientific approaches from motivation science, moral psychology, positive psychology, cognitive science, effective altruism, digital interventions, character education, social and personality psychology, coaching, wisdom scholarship, economics, sociology, and other relevant areas from some of the key researchers in these fields. We had more than 600 registered participants and we successfully gathered 100+ researchers to join the community after the conference and they will collaborate on the topic LIS in the future.
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Autonomous Vision Perceiving Systems News 26-06-2021 Bessere Entscheidungen, mehr Kontrolle: „Best Paper Award“ für Tübinger Forscher Zwei Cyber Valley Forschende ausgezeichnet für beste wissenschaftliche Arbeit bei weltweit renommierter Konferenz Großer Erfolg für zwei KI-Wissenschaftler aus dem Cyber Valley Ökosystem: Michael Niemeyer, Doktorand am Max-Planck-Institut für Intelligente Systeme, und Prof. Dr. Andreas Geiger von der Universität Tübingen wurden für ihre Arbeit „GIRAFFE: Representing Scenes as Compositional Generative Neural Feature Fields“ bei der diesjährigen Conference on Computer Vision und Pattern Recognition (CVPR) mit dem „Best Paper Award“ geehrt. Andreas Geiger Michael Niemeyer
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Micro, Nano, and Molecular Systems Award 25-06-2021 Jan-Philipp Günther has won the the German Bunsen Society 2021 Agnes Pockels Ph.D. Award.
Micro, Nano, and Molecular Systems News 25-06-2021 Jan-Philipp Günther gewinnt den Agnes-Pockels-Promotionspreis Jan-Philipp Günther hat den Agnes-Pockels-Promotionspreis 2021 gewonnen, der jährlich von der Deutschen Bunsen-Gesellschaft für eine herausragende Doktorarbeit auf dem Gebiet der physikalischen Chemie vergeben wird. Jan-Philipp Günther Peer Fischer
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Empirical Inference News 24-06-2021 Gary Bécigneul awarded the Max Planck Society’s “Youngest Ph.D.” award Gary Bécigneul completed his doctoral studies at the Max Planck ETH Center for Learning Systems in July 2020, and has since continued to build the start-up he founded after completing his doctoral studies. Gary Becigneul Bernhard Schölkopf Sarah Danes Valerie Callaghan
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Rationality Enhancement News 24-06-2021 ICCM accepts paper on measuring and modelling how people learn how to plan! Great work Ruiqi, Yash, and Falk! Ruiqi He Yash Raj Jain Falk Lieder
Physical Intelligence News 21-06-2021 Savas Tasoglu receives Humboldt Research Fellowship for experienced researchers A new guest scientist joined the Physical Intelligence Department at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems in Stuttgart with the support of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation for twelve months to continue his microfluidics and biomaterials research in Germany. Savas Tasoglu Metin Sitti
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Perceiving Systems Award 21-06-2021 Best Paper Candidate, IEEE/CVF Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2021, for the paper "SCANimate: Weakly Supervised Learning of Skinned Clothed Avatar Networks" by Saito, S., Yang, J., Ma, Q., and Black, M. J.
Perceiving Systems Award 21-06-2021 Best Paper Candidate, IEEE/CVF Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2021, for the paper "On Self-Contact and Human Pose" by Lea Müller, Ahmed Osman, Siyu Tang, Chun-Hao Paul Huang, and Michael Black.
Haptic Intelligence Award 18-06-2021 Ph.D. student Rachael Bevill Burns wins Honorable Mention for Best Research Lightning Talk at the IMPRS-IS Boot Camp Rachael Burns
Locomotion in Biorobotic and Somatic Systems News 17-06-2021 Robotic fish learns to match its swimming speed to the current Fish have a sensory system known as the lateral line, which allows them to detect movements, vibrations and pressure gradients in the water. Scientists have now given a robotic fish its own version of that system, letting it determine the best swimming speed. Ardian Jusufi
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Robotic Materials News 16-06-2021 Elektrohydraulischer Arachno-Bot ein faszinierendes Leichtgewicht Von Spinnen inspirierte schnelle und effiziente Gelenke steuern eine Vielzahl an Robotern Ein Team von Wissenschaftlern des Max-Planck-Instituts für Intelligente Systeme und der University of Colorado Boulder entwickelt Gelenke, denen Spinnenbeine Modell standen, und bauen daraus leichte und filigrane Roboter. Christoph Keplinger Philipp Rothemund
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Learning and Dynamical Systems News 14-06-2021 PhD openings in Learning and Dynamical Systems Open PhD positions at the Learning and Dynamical Systems group.
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News 01-06-2021 Michael J. Black zum Mitglied der Leopoldina gewählt Als Direktor am Max-Planck-Institut für Intelligente Systeme in Tübingen ist Black einer der weltweit führenden Wissenschaftler im Bereich Computer Vision Die Nationale Akademie der Wissenschaften Leopoldina hat am Freitag bekanntgegeben, dass sie Michael J. Black, Gründungsdirektor am Max-Planck-Institut für Intelligente Systeme in Tübingen, Honorarprofessor an der Universität Tübingen und Cyber Valley Sprecher, zum Mitglied gewählt hat. Michael Black Valerie Callaghan
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Empirical Inference Appointment 01-06-2021 Mijung Park becomes Associate Professor at the University of British Columbia, Canada
Physical Intelligence News 01-06-2021 Wei Feng receives Humboldt Postdoctoral Research Fellowship The scientist working in the Physical Intelligence Department at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems in Stuttgart will be supported by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation for two years to continue his soft robotic research in Germany. Wei Feng Metin Sitti
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Rationality Enhancement News 25-05-2021 Transfer of the season! Julian starts his Ph.D. at the USCD! Julian Skirzynski
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Perceiving Systems Award 19-05-2021 Victoria Fernandez Abrevaya, Nikos Athanasiou, Michael Black, Timo Bolkart, Arjun Chandrasekaran, Vassilis Choutas, Partha Ghosh, Nikos Kolotouros, Dimitrios Tzionas, are recognized as CVPR 2021 Outstanding Reviewers.
Neural Capture and Synthesis Award 14-05-2021 Justus Thies is elected as EG Junior Fellow
Neural Capture and Synthesis Blog Post 14-05-2021 Justus Thies elected as EG Junior Fellow The Eurographics Junior Fellows have elected Justus Thies to join the EG Junior Fellows. Justus Thies
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Learning and Dynamical Systems Award 10-05-2021 Extension of Branco Weiss Fellowship Extension of Branco Weiss Fellowship Michael Muehlebach
Learning and Dynamical Systems News 10-05-2021 Extension of Branco Weiss Fellowship for Michael Mühlebach Fellowship is extended until the end of 2023. The Branco Weiss Fellowship – Society in Science is a community of exceptional young scientists who share a passion for taking research beyond the mainstream. Michael Muehlebach
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Dynamic Locomotion News 06-05-2021 Oezge Drama Ph.D. defense Oezge defends her Ph.D. Ph.D. defense. Oezge Drama
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Autonomous Learning News 05-05-2021 Maschinelles Lernen der Dynamik von Quantensystemen Forschende an der Universität Tübingen und am MPI-IS haben Methoden des maschinellen Lernens angewendet, um die Quantendynamik in physikalischen Modellen zu verstehen, die von aktuellen Experimenten inspiriert sind. Georg Martius Dominik Zietlow
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