Events

The Neverending Cure / Exhibition

As part of their artistic residency at BIFOLD, the artist duo kennedy+swan explores the use of AI in medicine - and how much trust we place in a technology that increasingly affects our physical existence.

BLISS AI SPEAKER SERIES #20: - Radiance Fields are Dead (and why that’s OK)

BLISS e.V. is exited to host Daniel Duckworth, Senior Research Software Engineer at Google DeepMind, who will discuss "Radiance Fields are Dead (and why that’s OK)", lasting approximately 45 minutes. After the talk, seize the opportunity to connect with fellow AI enthusiasts to share ideas and questions while enjoying free drinks. Door close by 7.15pm, so please come early! 

Mapping the Body for Precision Health: The Human Reference Atlas in 2025

The Human Reference Atlas (HRA), an internal collaboration across 25+ consortia, is a groundbreaking effort to map the human body in unprecedented detail, from organs down to cells and biomarkers.  This talk will explain how the HRA was constructed, demonstrate its role in precision medicine, and showcase interactive user interfaces and applications.

Workshop – Plants As Model Systems for Distributed Intelligence?

The SCIoI Symposium  – Plants as Model Systems for Distributed Intelligence investigates plant systems as potential model organisms for distributed intelligence. Plants respond adaptively and context-sensitively to environmental stimuli without a central nervous system—an exemplary case of non-neuronal, decentralized intelligence. This phenomenon remains largely unexplored within SCIoI’s research landscape.

Lunch Talk, Dr. Vera Schmitt: From Opaque Models to Actionable Insights: Explainable NLP for Responsible AI in High-Stakes Scenarios

Large language models are increasingly used in decision-critical domains, yet their opaque nature limits reliability and usability. This talk presents research from the XplaiNLP group that advances interpretable NLP methods for high-stakes applications such as (semi-)automated fact-checking and medical decision support. 

SCIoI, Distinguished Speaker Series: John Tsotsos - Attentional Mechanisms Bridge Seeing to Looking

David Marr wrote ‘What does it mean, to see? The plain man’s answer (and Aristotle’s, too) would be, to know what is where by looking‘. Modern vision science has moved beyond Aristotle’s view as well as Marr’s, although it certainly would not have advanced without the influence of both. 

SIGMOD/PODS 2025

The annual ACM SIGMOD/PODS Conference is a premier international forum for database researchers, practitioners, developers, and users. It provides an opportunity to explore innovative ideas and findings while exchanging techniques, tools, and experiences.

BIFOLD Colloquium 06/2025

Prof. Chen Li from the Department of Computer Science at UC Irvine will join the BIFOLD Colloquium series to present "Texera: An Open-Source System for Cloud-Based Collaborative Data Science and AI/ML Using Workflows."

AI for Future Health: BIFOLD at LNDW

For the Long Night of Sciences (Lange Nacht der Wissenschaften / LNDW), BIFOLD invites young science enthusiasts to participate in an interactive digital scavenger hunt. Join Rae, a young researcher, and her chip AKI to explore three projects on the intersection of artificial intelligence and medicine.

LNDW 2025/Open Labs at RBO: Hands-On with the Future: Control a Soft Robotic Hand!

Did you ever wonder what it feels like to control a robotic hand? At the Robotics and Biology Lab you can see, touch and control a human-like robotic hand that’s soft, adaptive, and ready to interact!