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Ceremonial Event to celebrate Prof. Dr. Manfred Opper

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June 12, 2026 Icon 14:00 - 18:00

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Franklinstr.28/29, 10587 Berlin, floor 7

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Prof. Dr. Klaus-Robert Müller, Prof. Dr. Sebastian Reich

"Some of the things we found in Manfred's drawer"

Keynotes and Reception

On the occasion of the 70th birthday of Prof. Dr. Manfred Opper, Professor Emeritus at TU Berlin, SFB 1294 at the University of Potsdam and BIFOLD cordially invite you to a joint celebratory event.

Agenda

2:00 PM Introduction
Prof. Dr. Sebastian Reich, University Potsdam and Prof. Dr. Klaus-Robert Müller, BIFOLD Co-director and TU Berlin

2:15 PM Keynote
Prof. Dr. Guido Sanguinetti, Professor of Applied Physics and Data Science, International School for Advanced Studies (SISSA) Trieste, Italy
"Correlated multimodal generative learning"

2:45 PM Keynote
Prof. Dr. Ron Meir
Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
"Learning and Forgetting in Continual Learning"

3:15–3:45 PM Break

3:45 PM Keynote
Prof. Dr. Reimer Kühn
Emeritus Professor of Statistical Physics, Department of Mathematics, King’s College London
"Schrödinger Operators Defined on Graphs with Correlated Random Potentials"

4:15 PM Keynote
Prof. Dr. Ole Winther
DTU Compute, Technical University of Denmark, Copenhagen
"Some of the things we found in Manfred's drawer"

4:45 PM Wrap up
Prof. Dr. Manfred Opper, Professor Emeritus TU Berlin

5:00 PM Reception

The Event will take place at BIFOLD, Franklinstr.28/29, 10587 Berlin, floor 7.
Please register your attendance here.