04 December 2020 – Our collaborative LOEWE Research Cluster WhiteBox has been approved for funding by the Hessian State Ministry of Higher Education, Research and the Arts. WhiteBox is joining the twin disciplines AI and Cognitive Science. Starting 2021, an interdisciplinary team will develop whitebox methods to foster human understanding of natural and artificial intelligence and its results.
29 September 2020 – Constantin gave a talk 'Reverse engineering behavioral costs and benefits with inverse reinforcement learning' in the Workshop 'Inferring and testing optimality in perception and neurons' at the Bernstein Conference
15 September 2020 – Constantin is part of the ELLIS (European Laboratory for Learning and Intelligent Systems) faculty of the newly launched ELLIS Unit at TU Darmstadt
31 August 2020- we are part of the founding members of the Hessian Center for AI
06 July 2020 - new article in the popular science magazine 'Spektrum der Wissenschaft' together with Albert Newen, Nele Russwinkel and Martin V. Butz
24 June 2020 – Constantin gave a talk as part of smartstart's 'midsummerbrains- computational neuroscience from my point of view'
15 June 2020 – Niteesh Midlagajni joined the lab as PhD student- welcome!
02 June 2020- Inga Ibs joined the lab as PhD student- welcome!
15 May 2020 – invited keynote at the virtual Symposium on Explainable Machine Learning for Biomedical Data Analysis and Care Robotics, Universität Oldenburg, Germany
01 April 2020 – the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) has approved our collaborative grant PlexPlain with Kristian Kersting, Frank Jaekel, and Florian Steinke
16 March 2020 - the lab is closed due to the Covid-19 pandemic
15 February 2020 – Fabian Kessler has joined the lab as PhD student- welcome!
10-14 February 2020 – Constantin is teaching at the Minds and Machines Workshop in Cognitive Science, Artificial Intelligence and Education at the University of Luxembourg together with Pedro Cardoso-Leite, Paul Schrater, and Christophe Schommer
05 December 2019 – panel discussion as part of the 'AI Science film on tour' shortfilm program, Schader Forum, Darmstadt
02 December 2019 – start of 'Seminar on Human & Machine Intelligence' coorganized with Nori Jacoby, Kristian Kersting, Stefan Kramer, Visvanathan Ramesh, Gemma Roig at the Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics
25-26 November 2019 – invited talk at the Tricolore Workshop on creativity, cognition, computation, Bolzano/Bozen, Italy
20-21 November 2019 – panel discussion at the 8th BMBF workshop on 'Marvel of science or devil’s work? Artificial Intelligence for European security research', Brussels, Belgium
1 November 2019 – the book “Wie Maschinen lernen- Künstliche Intelligenz verständlich erklärt” edited by Kristian Kersting, Christoph Lampert, and Constantin Rothkopf was just published
23 October 2019 – the TV channel ARTE released a miniseries on recent developments in AI. One episode features our joint work on the moral-choice-machine with Kristian Kersting, Patrick Schramowski, and Sophie Jentzsch
01 October 2019 - Dominik Straub has joined the lab as PhD student: welcome!
27 September 2019 – invited talk in the Computational Cognitive Science Group, MIT, Boston, USA
23 September 2019 – invited colloquium talk at the Center for Perceptual Systems, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, USA
20 September 2019 – invited talk at the department of psychology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA
13-16 September 2019 – we are presenting recent work with Nils Neupärtl at CCN in Berlin
04 – 10 September 2019 - Florian Kadner and Susanne Trick are participating in the Barcelona summer school of advanced modeling of behavior BAMB!
25 June 2019 – invited talk by Constantin at the department of psychology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA
June 2019 – two papers on a collaboration with Jan Peters accepted at IROS
01 May 2019 – Florian Kadner has joined the lab as PhD student: welcome!
28 February – 05 March 2019 – we are presenting a poster at COSYNE together with David Hoppe: 'Multi-step planning of eye movements in visual search' in Lisbon, Portugal
21 February 2019 – departmental colloquium in the Department of Cognition and Development, University of Barcelona, Spain
20 February 2019 – 'Lunchh & learn' talk at alpha, Barcelona, Spain
07 February 2019 – our collaborative publication (opens in new tab) at the AAAI/ACM conference on AI, ethics, and society with Kristian Kersting has been featured by the German federal ministry for science and education
15 January 2019 – new paper out in Scientific Reports: Multi-step planning of eye movements in visual search
08 January 2019 – the German Research Council DFG has approved our grant: Active vision: control of eye-movements and probabilistic planning
01 January 2019 – Susanne Trick has joined the lab as PhD student: welcome!
23 November 2018 – talk at the symposium on the beginnings, the present and the future of AI-research on the occasion of Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Bibel's 80th birthday, TU Darmstadt
17 November 2018 – invited talk at the Forschungskolleg Human Sciences “Complexity in Science, culture, and society”, Goethe University, Frankfurt
26 September 2018 – departmental colloquium at the Cognitive Science Department at Central European University, Budapest, Hungary
04 September 2018 – best paper award at the conference of the German Cognitive Science Society to David Hoppe for our 2016 PNAS paper 'Learning rational temporal eye movement strategies'.
03 – 06 September 2018 – we are hosting K0GW1S 2018, the 14th biannual conference of the German Cognitive Science Society at the Centre for Cognitive Science, TU Darmstadt
26 – 30 August 2018 – talk in the symposium 'Visual control of action in complex sensorimotor situations' at the European Conference on Visual Perception (ECVP), Trieste, Italy
1 August 2018 – the AI at TU Darmstadt webpage AI-DA is online
8 June 2018 – invited talk at the Department of Psychology, Technical Univeristy Chemnitz, Chemnitz, Germany
7 June 2018 – departmental colloquium at the Department of Psychology, University of Marburg, Marburg, Germany
18 – 23 May 2018 – we are presenting recent work with Huaiyong Zhao and Nils Neupaertl at the Vision Sciences Society Annual Meeting, St. Pete Beach, Florida, USA
10 April 2018 – talk in the Department of Humanities, Social and Political Sciences at ETH Zürich, Switzerland
23 – 24 March 2018 – talk by Constantin Rothkopf at the Probabilistic Brain workshop at Durham University, UK
19 – 22 March 2018 – Constantin Rothkopf is teaching in the artificial intelligence group at the Kolleg of the German Academic Scholarship Foundation Studienstiftung in Weimar
28 February 2018 – talk by Constantin Rothkopf at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, Tübingen
14 February 2018 – new paper out in PNAS: Humans quickly learn to blink strategically in response to environmental task demands
02 February 2018 – talk by Constantin Rothkopf at the German Bundesbank as part of the series 'Experten zu Gast bei der Bundesbank'
15 November 2017 – Constantin Rothkopf is giving a talk at the departmental colloquium at the Cognitive Science Department at Central European University, Budapest, Hungary
September – December 2017 – during the winter semester Constantin Rothkopf will be a visiting faculty in the Cognitive Science Department at Central European University, Budapest, Hungary
27 – 31 August 2017 – we are presenting three posters on new work with Nils Neupärtl, Huaiyong Zhao and together with Melnik, Schüler & König at the European Conference on Visual Perception, Berlin, Germany
20 – 24 August 2017 – we are presenting two talks at the European Conference on Eye Movements, University of Wuppertal, Wuppertal Germany
19 – 24 May 2017 – we are presenting recent work with Huaiyong Zhao and David Hoppe at the Vision Sciences Society Annual Meeting, St. Pete Beach, Florida, USA
26 – 29 March 2017 – David Hoppe and Julia Frankenstein are presenting recent work at TEAP
25 – 30 March 2017 – Constantin Rothkopf is teaching at the Spring School on Intelligence and Cognition, Cairo, Egypt
22 November 2016 – paper by Felix Schmitt, Hans-Joachim Bieg, Michael Herman and Constantin Rothkopf accepted at AAAI: I See What You See: Inferring Sensor and Policy Models of Human Real-World Motor Behavior
07 – 08 September 2016 – Constantin Rothkopf is participating in the workshop 'The state and future of probabilistic methods for modeling brain functions', Department of Cognitive Science, Central European University, Budapest, Hungary
06 September 2016 – talk by Constantin Rothkopf at the workshop 'Inferring user action with mobile gaze tracking' at Mobile HCI 2016, Firenze, Italy
12 August 2016 – paper by Boris Belousov, Gerhard Neumann, Constantin Rothkopf, and Jan Peters accepted at NIPS: Catching heuristics are optimal control policies
02 August 2016 – invited talk by Constantin Rothkopf at the Brain and Cognitive Sciences Department, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY
31 July – 14 August 2016 – Huaiyong Zhao is participating in the 2016 Summer School in Computational Sensory-Motor Neuroscience (CoSMo 2016), University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA
05 July 2016 – new paper out in PNAS: Learning rational temporal eye movement strategies
01 July 2016 – Julia Frankenstein has joined the Lab as a postdoc
13-14 March 2016 – 2016 Workshop on Cognitive Science at TU Darmstadt (opens in new tab)
29 February 2016 – you can apply to work in our lab in the area of computational neuroscience through the Smartstart network
31 January – 05 Febuary 2016 – invited talk at the 41st Annual Interdisciplinary Conference, Breckenridge, Colorado, USA
26 January 2016 – invited talk at the Max-Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization, Göttingen, Germany
22 July 2015 – invited talk at the SFB-TRR 135 – Retreat (opens in new tab), Castle Rauischholzhausen, Germany
21 July 2015 – invited talk at the Psychoinformatics Workshop, University of Siegen, Germany
02 July 2015 – together with Jan Peters we are organizing a workshop at TU Darmstadt on computational approaches in cognitive science
02 June 2015 – invited talk at the cognitive science center at the University of Tübingen, Germany
15 – 20 May 2015 – we are presenting recent work with David Hoppe on the modeling of optimal temporal allocation of visual attention at VSS, USA
30 April 2015 – invited talk in the Psychology Department at Warwick University, UK
11-18 January 2015 – David Hoppe is participating in the winter course 'The Neuroscience of Decision-making' at the Universitätszentrum Obergurgl, Austria
1 December 2014 – invited keynote talk at 7th International Symposium on Attention in Cognitive Systems ISACS, Citec, Bielefeld, Germany
25-26 October 2014 – invited keynote talk at Neurotechnix, Rome, Italy
16-18 September 2014 – invited talk at the workshop on 'Statistical Generative Models in Perception', Schloss Rauischolzhausen, Germany
17-22 August 2014 – invited talk at Dagstuhl Seminar on 'Resource-bounded problem solving', Schloss Dagstuhl, Germany
12 June 2014 – invited colloquium in the Interactive Graphics Systems Group, TU Darmstadt, Fraunhofer IGD, Darmstadt, Germany
26 – 27 May 2014 – invited talk at the workshop 'Beyond the gabor: Computational approaches to studying cognition in rich gaming worlds', NSF, Arlington, VA, USA
12 – 16 May 2014 – invitation to participate in the workshop 'Perspectives on Human Probabilistic Inference', Lorentz Center, Leiden, NL
28 April 2014 – invited talk in the colloquium at the computer science department, TU Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany
11 – 13 April 2014 – invited talk at the 'Workshop on Natural Environments Tasks and Intelligence' (NETI), Center for Perceptual Systems, University of Texas at Austin, TX, USA
03 – 04 March 2014 – together with Aldo Faisal we are organizing a Workshop at Cosyne: From the actome to the ethome: systems neuroscience of behavioral ecology
15 January 2014 – invited talk in the psychology department at the University of Giessen, Germany
24 – 27 September 2013 – we are presenting two posters on recent work at the Bernstein Conference 2013 in Tübingen, Germany
23 – 27 September 2013 – I am part of the program committee of the workshop on 'Reinforcement Learning with generalized feedback: beyond numeric rewards' organized by Johannes Fürnkranz and Eyke Hüllermeier at ECML 2013
30 June – 03 July 2013 – invited talk at the Ernst Strüngmann Institute retreat, Schloss Ringberg in Tegernsee, Bavaria, Germany
05-07 June 2013 – invitation to the guerrilla-symposium 'Advances in statistical inferences in the visual cortex', Budapest, Hungary
10-15 May 2013 – we will be presenting a talk on heuristics and optimality in visuomotor behavior together with Paul Schrater at the Vision Sciences Annual Meeting, Naples, FL, USA
15-22 March 2013 – invitation to participate as a faculty member in the Interdisciplinary College IK 2013, in Günne at Lake Möhne, Germany
05-07 March 2013 – invitation to participate in the workshop on 'Eyetracking Methods and Scanpath analysis', Center for Interdisciplinary Research, University of Bielefeld
