ERIK MCLEAN / UNSPLASH

Physikalisches Kolloquium

Freitag, 15. November 2024 17:00 Uhr  The Great Robot Accelerator: Collective Learning of Optimal Embodied AI

Prof. Dr. Sami Haddadin, Technische Universität München Robots have achieved unprecedented performance jumps over the last decade. As of today, however, robot design and build are laborious and suboptimal, costly and constitute a major limitation in achieving the anticipated robotics revolution. At the same time, we see intelligent machines that learn and perform tasks, and are able to generalize their skills to new contexts. However, robot learning faces seemingly unsolvable hurdles such as disembodied machine learning not being able to leverage our understanding of the physical reality, finding energy and time efficient solutions, or generalize to complex and dynamic manipulation skills. In this talk, I will discuss the autonomous Co-Evolution of Embodiment and Intelligence as the central challenge of robotics. Only, when robots will evolve in an AI-propelled highly evolutionary process, we can finally reach the tipping point and automatically synthesize general purpose robots. I will introduce the concepts of Collective Learning and Optimal Embodied AI as two main pillars vital to this transformation towards an AI-Accelerated Robot Evolution.

Teilchenkolloquium

Astronomisches Kolloquium

Dienstag, 5. November 2024 16:30 Uhr  The Nature of "Little Red Dots"

Professor Jenny Greene, Princeton University One of the most surprising results from JWST has been the discovery of a large population of compact red sources at z>4, with very red rest-frame optical colors, blue UV slopes, and broad Balmer lines. The compact sizes and luminous broad lines strongly suggest that these objects are powered by accreting supermassive black holes, but their lack of evidence for X-ray emission or hot dust in the mid-infrared calls that conclusion into question. Regardless, their high number densities (~2-5% of the galaxy population) makes them an important new contribution to the high-redshift galaxy census. I will discuss our ongoing efforts to understand the nature of this population, and what they may teach us about the growth of black holes and/or galaxies. Those unable to attend the colloquium in person are invited to participate online through Zoom (Meeting ID: 942 0262 2849, passcode 792771) using the link: https://eu02web.zoom-x.de/j/94202622849?pwd=dGlPQXBiUytzY1M2UE5oUDRhbzNOZz09 During her visit to Heidelberg, Prof. Morabito will be available for meetings by arrangement with her host, Nadine Neumayer (neumayer@mpia.de).

Zentrum für Quantendynamik Kolloquium

Mittwoch, 13. November 2024 16:30 Uhr  tba

Dr. Juliette Simonet, Institute for Quantum Physics, Universität Hamburg