Cybernetics Seminar Series

Internationally known scientific guests present topics that are of general interest - also for colleagues from other research fields. Each seminar is followed by a reception, which provides direct access to the speakers in an informal setting.

Time: Every Friday at 11:00 a.m.
Location: Max Planck House Lecture Hall (Max-Planck-Ring 6, 72076) and via Zoom.
Further notice will be provided in case of any changes to the time or location.

To receive the talk announcements, please send an Email to the contact persons to the left.

Neural Representation of Color in The Pigeon Visual Wulst

Date: May 29, 2026
Time: 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
Speaker: Dr. Laura Busse
Faculty of Biology, LMU Munich
Location: Max Planck House
Room: Lecture Hall
Host: Dr. Zhaoping Li
Contact: maria.pavlovic@tuebingen.mpg.de

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Translating MRI Methods for Perfusion and Anatomy from 3T and 7T into Clinical Applications

Date: May 22, 2026
Time: 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
Speaker: Dr. Kâmil Uludağ
Sunnybrook Research Institute & Department for Medical Biophysics, University of Toronto
Location: Max Planck House
Room: Lecture Hall
Host: Dr. Klaus Scheffler
Contact: tina.schroeder@tuebingen.mpg.de

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One Process, Two Biases: A Precision-Weighting Account of the Vierordt Effect and Serial Dependence

Date: Mar 27, 2026
Time: 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
Speaker: Dr. Zhuanghua Shi
MSense Lab, LMU Munich
Location: Max Planck House
Room: Lecture Hall
Host: Dr. Zhaoping Li
Contact: vladislav.aksiotis@tuebingen.mpg.de

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Vision as looking and seeing through a bottleneck

Date: Mar 20, 2026
Time: 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
Speaker: Zhaoping Li, Vlad Aksiotis
Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics
Location: Max Planck House
Room: Lecture Hall
Host: Dr. Zhaoping Li
Contact: vladislav.aksiotis@tuebingen.mpg.de

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What the brain sees during predator-prey interactions of sky and ground-based animals

Date: Mar 13, 2026
Time: 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
Speaker: Dr. Jason Kerr
Max Planck Institute for Neurobiology of Behavior – caesar
Location: Max Planck House
Room: Lecture Hall
Host: Dr. Ivan de Araujo
Contact: nidhi.manojkumar@tuebingen.mpg.de

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