MPI-IS cordially invites you to attend for the 2019 Summer Colloquium
2019 Intelligent Systems Summer Colloquium
Please see below for the schedule and registration.
The Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems is delighted to invite you to its annual scientific summer colloquium, formerly referred to as the Günter Petzow Colloquium.
Date: Friday, July 5, 2019
Time: Talks begin at 2:00 p.m.
Location: Lecture Hall 2D5, Heisenbergstraße 1, Stuttgart
This annual colloquium will start with coffee at 1:30 p.m. A set of four scientific presentations will commence at 2:00 p.m. The lectures will be held in English and cover current scientific topics.
All current and former employees, friends of the institute, and the interested public are welcome to attend this event, as the colloquium's purpose is to strengthen the institute's scientific connection with people in the region. We are also pleased to announce that this event is part of the first Stuttgart Science Festival.
On the occasion of this year's summer colloquium, the Stuttgart site of the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems will award the 14th annual Günter Petzow Prize to a young scientist from the institute for outstanding research in the field of materials science. Prof. Dr. Günter Petzow was a Director at the Max Planck Institute for Metals Research in Stuttgart between 1973 and 1994. He is internationally renowned for his trend-setting research on multicomponent materials.
The Günter Petzow Prize is funded by the Stifterverband für die Deutsche Wissenschaft and Volkswagen AG.
Given his outstanding research success here at MPI-IS, the selection committee has chosen to bestow upon:
Kai Melde
the
2019 Günter Petzow Prize.
Kai Melde is a doctoral student in the Micro, Nano, and Molecular Systems Group. His Ph.D. thesis reports the first observation of a hologram for sound. Kai Melde showed in his work how the acoustic hologram can be used to generate complex pressure images with ultrasound. These enable the assembly, manipulation and levitation of particles, and they are promising for medical therapeutics.
Kai Melde will receive this prize during the 2019 Intelligent Systems Summer Colloquium, where his nominator, Prof. Dr. Peer Fischer, will introduce him before he gives a presentation about his research.
Schedule
13:30 |
Coffee |
14:00 |
Opening by Dr. Katherine J. KuchenbeckerManaging Director of the Stuttgart SiteMax Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, Stuttgart |
14:15 |
Prof. Dr. Jan KnippersBiological Design and Integrative Structures for ArchitectureInstitute of Building Structures and Structural Design (ITKE)University of Stuttgart More information & speaker's short biography >>
Biological Design and Integrative Structures for Architecture
Jan Knippers is a practicing consulting engineer and since 2000 head of the Institute for Building Structures and Structural Design (ITKE) at the University of Stuttgart. His interest is in innovative and resource-efficient structures created at the intersection of research and development and practice.
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14:45 |
Dr. Georg MartiusMachine Learning for Behavior Generation and Haptic SensationAutonomous Learning GroupMax Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, Tübingen More information & speaker's short biography >>
Machine learning for behavior generation and haptic sensation
Georg Martius is leading a research group on Autonomous Learning at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems in Tübingen.
Before joining the MPI in Tübingen, he was a postdoc fellow at the IST Austria in the groups of Christoph Lampert and Cašper Tkačik
after being a postdoc at the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences in Leipzig. He pursues research in autonomous
learning, that is how an embodied agent can determine what to learn, how to learn, and how to judge the learning success. He is
using information theory and dynamical systems theory to formulate generic intrinsic motivations that lead to coherent behavior
exploration – much like playful behavior. Together with Ralf Der he published a book on this topic [1]. With his research group
he is also working on machine learning methods particularly suitable for internal models, reinforcement learning and haptics.
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15:15 |
Break |
15:45 |
Prof. Dr. Hendrik LenschDeep Learning on Unstructured Point CloudsChair for Computer GraphicsUniversity of Tübingen More information & speaker's short biography >>
Deep Learning on Unstructured Point Clouds Hendrik P. A. Lensch holds the chair for computer graphics at Tübingen University and is currently the head of the computer science department and the vice-spokesperson of the International Max Planck Research School for Intelligent Systems. He received his diploma in computers science from the University of Erlangen in 1999. He worked as a research associate at the computer graphics group at the Max-Planck-Institut für Informatik in Saarbrücken, Germany, and received his PhD from Saarland University in 2003. Hendrik Lensch spent two years (2004-2006) as a visiting assistant professor at Stanford University, USA, followed by a stay at the MPI Informatik as the head of an independent research group. From 2009 to 2011 he was a full professor at the Institute for Media Informatics at Ulm University, Germany. In his career, he received the Eurographics Young Researcher Award 2005, was awarded an Emmy-Noether-Fellowship by the German Research Foundation (DFG) in 2007 and received an NVIDIA Professor Partnership Award in 2010. His research interests include 3D appearance acquisition, computational photography, machine learning, global illumination and image-based rendering, and massively parallel programming. |
16:15 |
Günter Petzow Prize Award Ceremony |
16:30 |
Kai Melde, Winner of the 2019 Günter Petzow PrizeHolograms for AcousticsMicro, Nano and Molecular Systems GroupMax Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, Stuttgart More information & speaker's short biography >>
Holograms for Acoustics Kai Melde received his engineering degree (Dipl.-Ing.) in mechatronics from the Technical University Dresden in 2009 focusing on microsystems design. From 2008 to 2013 he was a member of the technical staff at the Palo Alto Research Center (formerly Xerox PARC) in Palo Alto, California, where he worked on a wide range of research projects including inkjet printheads and water treatment. Since 2013 he is a PhD student in the Micro, Nano and Molecular Systems lab at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems. |
17:00 |
Closing by Dr. Katherine J. KuchenbeckerManaging Director of the Stuttgart SiteMax Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, Stuttgart |
17:05 |
Barbecue (on-site payment required) |
Organizers