07 October 2019 - 11 October 2019

IMPRS-IS 2019 Boot Camp

The International Max Planck Research School holds an annual week long boot camp. This week of intensive training provides scholars with an interactive, one of a kind subversive learning experience. The week is filled with scientific talk from leading researchers in the fields of AI, career-development courses, interactive discussion sessions, scientific challenges, and social activities.

The 2019 IMPRS-IS Boot Camp is to be held from October 7 to 11, 2019 at the Begegnungs- und Tagungszentrum Michelsberg in Michelsberg, DE.

Here is a list of features talks and interactive scientific challenges for each day:

Monday, October 7

Medical Device Regulatory in Europe by Dr. Peter Pott
Motion in Man and Machine: Learning to Control Redundant Musculoskeletal Systems by Dr. Syn Schmitt
Theoretical Neuroscience by Dr. Peter Dayan

Tuesday, October 8

A Sound Story: Science and Robotics by Dr. Peer Fischer
Neural Decision Making from Pixels to Percepts by Dr. Matthias Bethge
Intelligent Microsystems for Minimally-invasive Surgery by Dr. Tian Qiu
Haptic Interactions Matter by Dr. Katherine J. Kuchenbecker
Fairness in ML: From Definitions to Mechanisms by Dr. Isabel Valera
Discussion: Ethics in Science by Dr. Michael J. Black

Wednesday, October 9

Machine Learning Challenge with Dr. Georg Martius
Robot Building Challenge with Dr. Jonathan Fiene
Cyber Valley: Who, What, Why? by Dr. Philipp Hennig

Thursday, October 10

Deep Feedforward Neural Networks for Vision Imitate Only the Peripheral Vision in Humans by Dr. Zhaoping Li

Friday, October 11

Gaits and Natural Dynamics in Robotic Legged Locomotion by Dr. C. David Remy
Recognition and Control of Complex Body Motion: Biologically-inspired Learning Approaches by Dr. Martin Giese

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