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Award 12-06-2012 Eric J. Mittemeijer: gives "Samsonov Memorial International Lecture 2012" at Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India (March 26, 2012)
Award 06-05-2012 Rico Bauer, Ewald Bischoff and E. J. Mittemeijer: Werner Köster Prize (DGM) for their outstanding paper in the „International Journal of Materials Research“ 102, 1027-1041 (2011)
Smart Nanoplasmonics News 23-03-2012 Vier Nachwuchswissenschaftler an Max-Planck-Instituten erhalten den Sofja Kovalevskaja-Preis 2012 Unter den insgesamt 14 Preisträgern befinden sich vier Nachwuchswissenschaftler, die an Max-Planck-Instituten arbeiten. Mit dem vom Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung gestifteten Sofia Kovalevskaja-Preis zeichnet die Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung Spitzenleistungen von jungen, ausländischen Forschern aus. Mit je 1,65 Millionen Euro können sie damit eigenständige Nachwuchsgruppen an deutschen Forschungsinstitutionen aufbauen. Eine der Preisträgerinnen ist Na Liu vom Max-Planck-Institut für Intelligente Systeme in Stuttgart. Laura Na Liu
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News 08-03-2012 Cell movement patterns A method that enables scientists to grow cells on easily generated fine structures provides new insights into cell migration Whereas a cut knee often reduces children to tears, adults are more likely to be distressed by the fear of cancer. In both cases, that is wound healing and the growth and spread of tumours, a particular characteristic of the body’s cells plays a crucial role: their capacity to move in their tissue environment. Together with colleagues from Japan, scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems in Stuttgart and the University of Heidelberg have developed a very promising method for the study of cell movement. The new method enables the examination of the collective behaviour of small groups of cells in an environment that imitates living tissue. Using this new method, the Stuttgart cooperative project was able to study the collective spreading behaviour of epithelial cells in the early stages of healing processes. The information gained from this study confirms the potential offered by the new method in generating new insights into cell migration, a process that has been under investigation for decades.
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Award 05-03-2012 Peter A. van Aken: Honorary Professorship at the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, Sputh Africa (2012)
Micro, Nano, and Molecular Systems Award 02-03-2012 Debora Schamel: Artur Fischer Prize for outstanding Diploma Thesis (Chemistry), University of Stuttgart (2012)
Award 02-03-2012 Martin Noah: Artur Fischer Prize for outstanding Diploma Thesis (Materials Science), University of Stuttgart (2012)
Award 20-02-2012 Manfred Fähnle: Award for the best course lectures in the winter semester 2011/2012, Faculty of Physics, University of Stuttgart.
Award 14-02-2012 Manfred Rühle: Honorary Membership 2012 of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Elektronenmikroskopie (DGE)
News 30-01-2012 Max Planck scientists very pleased about ERC grants The Max-Planck-Gesellschaft has once again been successful in winning support from the European Research Council (ERC) With seven Advanced Grants, the MPG is Germany’s top recipient of EU funding. In response to its fourth call for applications, the ERC conferred a total of 294 of these lucrative research awards, of which 52 went to German universities and research institutions.
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Award 12-01-2012 Joachim Spatz: ERC Advanced Grant, in cooperation with Benny Geiger, Weizmann Institute, Israel (2012)
Award 10-01-2012 Clemens Bechinger: Extension of Max Planck Fellowship for further five years (2012)
Empirical Inference Award 01-01-2012 Bernhard Schölkopf: Academy Prize 2012 of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities
Empirical Inference Award 01-01-2012 Jan Peters: Frontiers of Artificial Intelligence speaker at European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI) in 2012.
Empirical Inference Award 01-01-2012 Jan Peters: Early Career Spotlight of the conference Robotics: Science & Systems (R:SS) in 2012.   
Empirical Inference Award 01-01-2012 Stefan Harmeling: Günter Petzow Prize of the Max-Planck-Institute for Intelligent Systems 
Empirical Inference Award 01-01-2012 Ulrike von Luxburg: Heisenberg Professorship (September 2012) 
Empirical Inference Award 01-01-2012 Christian Daniel, Gerhard Neumann, and Jan Peters: IROS CoTeSys Cognitive Robotics Best Paper Award, IROS 2012 Best Student Paper Award Finalist, and IROS 2012 Best Paper Award Finalist for "Learning Concurrent Motor Skills in Versatile Solution Spaces" at the International Conference on Intelligent Robot Systems (IROS) 
News 19-12-2011 On the edge of friction Precise insight into how two microscopic surfaces slide over one another could help in the manufacture of low-friction surfaces The problem exists on both a large and a small scale, and it even bothered the ancient Egyptians. However, although physicists have long had a good understanding of friction in things like stone blocks being pulled by workers into the shape of a pyramid, they have only now been able to explain friction in microscopic dimensions in any degree of detail. Researchers from the University of Stuttgart and the Stuttgart-based Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems arranged an elaborate experiment in which they pulled a layer of regularly ordered plastic spheres over an artificial crystal made of light. This enabled them to observe in detail how the layer of spheres slid over the light crystal. Contrary to what one might imagine, the spheres do not all move in unison. In fact, it's only ever some of them that move, while the others stay where they are. This observation confirms theoretical predictions and also explains why friction between microscopic surfaces depends on their atomic structure.
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News 11-12-2011 The world’s smallest steam engine A heat engine measuring only a few micrometres works as well as its larger counterpart, although it splutters What would be a case for the repair shop for a car engine is completely normal for a micro engine. If it sputters, this is caused by the thermal motions of the smallest particles, which interfere with its running. Researchers at the University of Stuttgart and the Stuttgart-based Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems have now observed this with a heat engine on the micrometre scale. They have also determined that the machine does actually perform work, all things considered. Although this cannot be used as yet, the experiment carried out by the researchers in Stuttgart shows that an engine does basically work, even if it is on the microscale. This means that there is nothing, in principle, to prevent the construction of highly efficient, small heat engines.
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Award 01-11-2011 Claudio Rolli: 1rst prize in the category "animation / video" at the Max Planck Award 2011
Award 01-10-2011 Christian Eberhard: 3rd prize in the category "picture" at the Max Planck Award 2011
Award 01-09-2011 Philipp Nolte: 2nd prize "Nanowissenschaftspreis 2011" der Arbeitsgemeinschaft der Nanotechnologie-Kompetenzzentren in Deutschland (gefördert durch das BMBF)
News 01-07-2011 Nanospeicher bringen Computer groß raus Computer dienen heute als Musikbox, Filmarchiv und Fotoalbum. Sie müssen daher immer größere Datenmengen schnell zugänglich machen. Wissenschaftler des Max-Planck-Instituts für intelligente Systeme in Stuttgart und des Hallenser Max-Planck-Instituts für Mikrostrukturphysik bereiten den Weg für magnetische Speichermaterialien, die das ermöglichen, und nutzen dabei geschickt die ganz eigenen Gesetze der Nanowelt aus. Text Christian Meier
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News 11-05-2011 Software for the discovery of new crystal structures The software enables electron microscopes to extract more information about the composition of crystals. A new software called QED (Quantitative Electron Diffraction), which has been licensed by Max Planck Innovation, has now been released by HREM Research Inc., a Japan based company, which is developing products and services in the field of High-Resolution Electron Microscopy. QED allows transmission electron microscopes to acquire novel kinds of data, opening up new possibilities in electron crystallography.
Award 01-05-2011 Christian Böhm: 2. Preis beim Science2Start Ideenwettbewerb der BioRegio STERN (2011)
News 12-04-2011 A quick switch for magnetic needles Magnetic vortex cores, which can be used as particularly stable storage points for data bits, can now be switched much faster Microscopically tiny ferromagnetic platelets exhibit a phenomenon which could be exploited in the future for particularly stable magnetic data storage: so-called magnetic vortex cores. These are needle-shaped magnetic structures measuring 20 nanometres (millionths of a millimetre) in diameter. Five years ago, researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems (formerly the Max Planck Institute for Metals Research) in Stuttgart found a way to reverse the magnetic field needles despite their stability using only a tiny amount of energy so that their tips pointed in the opposite direction. Such a switching process is necessary to enable the vortex cores to be used in data processing. The Stuttgart scientists have now discovered a new mechanism which makes this switching process at least 20 times faster and confines it to a far smaller region than before. Magnetic vortex cores could thus provide a means of data storage which is stable, fast and greatly miniaturized.
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Modern Magnetic Systems News 12-04-2011 A quick switch for magnetic needles Magnetic vortex cores, which can be used as particularly stable storage points for data bits, can now be switched much faster. Microscopically tiny ferromagnetic platelets exhibit a phenomenon which could be exploited in the future for particularly stable magnetic data storage: so-called magnetic vortex cores. These are needle-shaped magnetic structures measuring 20 nanometres (millionths of a millimetre) in diameter. Five years ago, researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems (formerly the Max Planck Institute for Metals Research) in Stuttgart found a way to reverse the magnetic field needles despite their stability using only a tiny amount of energy so that their tips pointed in the opposite direction. Such a switching process is necessary to enable the vortex cores to be used in data processing. The Stuttgart scientists have now discovered a new mechanism which makes this switching process at least 20 times faster and confines it to a far smaller region than before. Magnetic vortex cores could thus provide a means of data storage which is stable, fast and greatly miniaturized. Hermann Stoll
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Award 05-04-2011 Silke Kurz: Artur-Fischer-Preis 2011
News 16-03-2011 Intelligent systems for tomorrow’s world Max Planck Research Award 2011 for Prof. Dr. Bernhard Schölkopf Sebastian Thrun from Stanford University and Bernhard Schölkopf from the Max Planck Institute for Metals Research in Stuttgart have been awarded the 2011 Max Planck Research Award, which is endowed with 750,000 euros for each award winner. The Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and the Max Planck Society honour two outstanding scientists who have brought significant progress to a research field that is at the interface of different disciplines. Bernhard Schölkopf
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Award 09-03-2011 Xiaoke Mu: Best Poster Award at the Microscopy Conference 2011
Perceiving Systems News 17-02-2011 Robots learn human perception Michael J. Black teaches computers to analyse data on their environment as quickly and reliably as the human brain.
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News 15-02-2011 New research emphasis "Intelligent Systems" Max Planck Society establishes highly innovative research facility for "Intelligent Systems" in Baden-Württemberg The Max Planck Society is restructuring the Max Planck Institute for Metals Research, thereby creating a research facility that will focus on the area of intelligent systems. This includes computer sciences and biology, as well as innovative aspects of materials research, already part of the work at the Institute. In addition to the Stuttgart location, another division of the Institute will be established in Tübingen. Each site will have four research departments. To reflect its new orientation, the Institute will also be given a new name. Subject to approval from the Max Planck Society's Senate, it will be called the "Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems". Max Planck Society President, Peter Gruss introduced the new scientific concept of the Institute together with Minister-President Stefan Mappus (CDU) at a regional press conference in Stuttgart. Bernhard Schölkopf Michael Black
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Award 07-02-2011 Dr. Markus Rauscher: Günter Petzow Prize 2011
Micro, Nano, and Molecular Systems Award 08-01-2011 Peer Fischer: ERC Starting Grant (2012)
Empirical Inference Award 01-01-2011 Bernhard Schölkopf: Annual Max Planck Research Award
Empirical Inference Award 01-01-2011 Harold Christopher Burger, and Stefan Harmeling: DAGM 2011 Prize for "Improving Denoising Algorithms via a Multi-Scale Meta-Procedure". 
Empirical Inference Award 01-01-2011 Jan Peters: Dick Volz Award Best 2007 US Ph.D. Thesis Runner-Up Award.
Award 01-01-2011 Matthias Troendle : Molecular Physics Longuet-Higgins Young Author´s Prize 2011
Empirical Inference Award 01-01-2011 Suvrit Sra: SIAM Outstanding Paper Prizes for his paper "The Metric Nearness Problem," which appeared in the SIAM Journal on Matrix Analysis and Applications (SIMAX).
Empirical Inference Award 01-01-2011 Thorsten Zander: Willumeit award for his Ph.D. thesis entitled "Utilizing Brain-Computer Interfaces for Human-Machine Systems".
Empirical Inference Award 01-01-2011 Moritz Grosse-Wentrup and Bernhard Schölkopf: "Annual BCI Research Award" for their project "What are the neurophysiological causes of performance variations in brain-computer interfacing?"
Empirical Inference Award 01-01-2011 Suvrit Sra: Best Paper Runner up Award in Data Mining at The European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases (ECML PKDD) 2011 for "Fast Projections onto L1,q-Norm Balls for Grouped Feature Selection".      
Empirical Inference Award 01-01-2011 Gustavo Camps-Valls, Joris Mooij, and Bernhard Schölkopf: were selected for the 'IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society 2011 Letters' Prize Paper Award for "Remote Sensing Feature Selection by Kernel Dependence estimation".
Empirical Inference Award 01-01-2010 Bernhard Schölkopf: Inclusion in the list of 'ISI Highly Cited Researchers'
Empirical Inference Award 01-01-2010 Jan Peters, Jun Morimoto, Nick Roy, Jun Nakanishi: Most Active Technical Committee Award of the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society at ICRA 2010
Empirical Inference Award 01-01-2010 Joris Mooij: Winner of two categories of the 2010 UAI Approximate Inference Challenge, 26th Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence
Empirical Inference Award 01-01-2010 José M. Leiva, Suzanne M.M. Martens: winning team of the Machine Learning for Signal Processing (MLSP) 2010 Competition: Mind Reading
Empirical Inference Award 01-01-2010 Manuel Gomez Rodriguez, Jure Leskovec, and Andreas Krause: Best Paper Award Honorable Mention at the 16th ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD'2010) for the paper: "Inferring Networks of Diffusion and Influence."
Empirical Inference Award 01-01-2010 Hirotaka Hachiya, Jan Peters, Mashashi Sugiyama: Young Researchers Award from IEEE Computational Intelligence Society of the Japan Chapter for their paper "Adaptive Importance Sampling with Automatic Model Selection in Reward Weighted Regression" presented at the Workshop of IEEE CIS Technical Committee on Neurocomputing (March 9-11, 2010).