Speaker Series

During the semester, we host leading experts in AI every two weeks. These events take place in-person Berlin (no hybrid option). Talks are recorded and published afterwards on our YouTube channel. Join us to learn from the best in the field and connect with the community!

Summer Semester 2024
Tue, April 16, 2024Speaker Series #1
Set Learning for Accurate and Calibrated Models
Thomas Unterthiner - Google DeepMind
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Tue, April 30, 2024Speaker Series #2
MatterGen: A Generative Model for Inorganic Materials Design
Daniel Zügner - Microsoft AI4Science
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Tue, May 14, 2024Speaker Series #3
Towards Open Language Models for Europe
Malte Ostendorff - DFKI
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Tue, May 28, 2024Speaker Series #4
Natural language representations in brains and machines
Prof. Fatma Deniz - TU Berlin
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Tue, June 11, 2024Speaker Series #5
Intelligent Flying Multi-Robot Systems
Prof. Wolfgang Hoenig - TU Berlin
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Tue, June 25, 2024Speaker Series #6
[CANCELLED] Human alignment of neural network representations
Lukas Muttenthaler - Google DeepMind, TU Berlin
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Tue, July 9, 2024Speaker Series #7
Learning molecular models by integrating machine learning and experimental data
Prof. Cecilia Clementi - FU Berlin
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Winter Semester 2024/25
Tue, October 22, 2024Speaker Series #8
The Role of AI in Disinformation Resilience
Veronika Solopova - TU Berlin
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Tue, November 5, 2024Speaker Series #9
The AI Scientist: Towards Fully Automated Open-Ended Scientific Discovery
Robert Lange - Sakana.AI
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Tue, November 19, 2024Speaker Series #10
Planning in the Age of Learning
Prof. Marc Toussaint - TU Berlin
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Tue, December 3, 2024Speaker Series #11
Sequential and Active Decision Making: Bandit Theory
Prof. Alexandra Carpentier - University of Potsdam
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Tue, December 17, 2024Speaker Series #12
Combining Reinforcement Learning and Generative Models for de novo Drug Design
Nima Siboni and Miguel Andres - InstaDeep
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Tue, January 7, 2025Speaker Series #13
Making AI fit for the Life Sciences
Prof. Katharina Baum - FU Berlin
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Tue, January 21, 2025Speaker Series #14
Learning Physical Laws from Data
Prof. Sven Wang - HU Berlin
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Tue, February 4, 2025Speaker Series #15
The Science of Decision-Making
Prof. Sanaz Mostaghim - Otto von Guericke University of Magdeburg
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Summer Semester 2025
Tue, April 22, 2025Speaker Series #16
Can Compressing Foundation Models be as Easy as Image Compression?
Martin Genzel - Merantix Momentum
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Tue, May 6, 2025Speaker Series #17
CAPI: Cluster & Predict Patches for Improved Image Modeling
Timothée Darcet - Meta AI, Inria
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Tue, May 20, 2025Speaker Series #18
Scalable Emulation of Protein Equilibrium Ensembles with Generative Deep Learning
Yu Xie and Michael Gastegger - Microsoft AI4Science
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Tue, June 3, 2025Speaker Series #19
Watermark Anything with Localized Messages
Pierre Fernandez - FAIR Meta AI
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Tue, June 17, 2025Speaker Series #20
Radiance Fields are Dead (and why that's OK)
Daniel Duckworth - Google DeepMind
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Tue, July 1, 2025Speaker Series #21
Progress in AI Safety and Security
Adel Bibi - University of Oxford
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Tue, July 15, 2025Speaker Series #22
Detecting Hallucinations in Large Language Models Using Semantic Entropy
Jannik Kossen - Meta FAIR
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Winter Semester 2025/26
Tue, October 21, 2025Speaker Series #23
Why do LLMs struggle with Long Context?
Federico Barbero - Google DeepMind, University of Oxford
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Tue, November 4, 2025Speaker Series #24
Scaling AI Safety Across Cultures and Languages
Beyza Ermiş - Cohere
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Tue, November 18, 2025Speaker Series #25
Generative World Models
Ashley Edwards - Google DeepMind
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Tue, December 2, 2025Speaker Series #26
What's Next in Continual Learning for Foundation Models?
Ameya Prabhu - Tübingen AI Center
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Tue, December 16, 2025Speaker Series #27
Insights into Training Video Models
Dilara Gökay - Google DeepMind
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Tue, January 13, 2026Speaker Series #28
Test-Time Training Agents for Deep Exploration
Jonas Hübotter - ETH Zurich
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Tue, January 27, 2026Speaker Series #29
Can Humans Flourish in the Age of AI?
David Watson - King's College London
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Tue, February 10, 2026Speaker Series #30
The Price of Intelligence: Three Risks Inherent in LLMs
Ahmed Salem - Microsoft Security Response Center (MSRC)
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Summer Semester 2026
Tue, April 21, 2026Speaker Series #31
Scaling LLM Training to Thousands of GPUs
Nouamane Tazi - Hugging Face
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Tue, May 5, 2026Speaker Series #32
Scaling LLMs Across Languages
Marzieh Fadaee - Cohere Labs
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Tue, May 19, 2026Speaker Series #33
AI and Human Agency
Christopher Summerfield - University of Oxford
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Tue, June 2, 2026Speaker Series #34
When Silicon Meets Carbon: Bringing Synthetic Biology to Life
Georgia Channing - Hugging Face
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Tue, June 16, 2026Next UpSpeaker Series #35
Beyond Patches: Learning Dense Visual Features
Thomas Wimmer - ETH Zürich
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Tue, June 30, 2026Speaker Series #36
Towards Automated Interpretability for AI Safety
Fazl Barez - University of Oxford
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Tue, July 14, 2026Speaker Series #37
Virtual Neuroscience with Neural Digital Twins
Sophia Sanborn - Stanford University
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