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.
Place: TBA

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

Location: Max-Planck-Ring 8

Peri-saccadic attention-shifts and visual information processing during active vision

Date: Jul 2, 2025
Time: 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
Speaker: Dr. Suresh Krishna
Department of Physiology, McGill University, Canada
Location: Max-Planck-Ring 8
Room: Room 203 + Zoom
Host: Dr. Zhaoping Li
Contact: maria.pavlovic@tuebingen.mpg.de

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Brain theory, what is it or what should it be?

Date: Jun 27, 2025
Time: 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
Speaker: Dr. Günther Palm
Institute of Neural Information Processing, University Ulm
Location: Max-Planck-Ring 8
Room: Room 203 + Zoom: Meeting ID: 852 535 5685 Password: 468631
Host: Dr. Zhaoping Li
Contact: maria.pavlovic@tuebingen.mpg.de

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When peripheral vision is refractory to predictions, extrapolation and memory effects

Date: Mar 15, 2024
Time: 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
Speaker: Dr. Marco Bertamini
Visual Perception Lab, University of Padova, Italy
Location: Max-Planck-Ring 8
Room: room 203 + zoom
Host: Zhaoping Li (Junhao Liang)
Contact: maria.pavlovic@tuebingen.mpg.de

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The development of vision for action after sight restoration from congenital cataracts

Date: Feb 23, 2024
Time: 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
Speaker: Prof. Dr. Marc O. Ernst
Location: Max-Planck-Ring 8
Room: room 203 + zoom
Host: Zhaoping Li (Junhao Liang)
Contact: maria.pavlovic@tuebingen.mpg.de

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Brain-inspired Multimodal Deep-Learning

Date: Jan 19, 2024
Time: 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
Speaker: Dr. Rufin VanRullen
Centre de Recherche Cerveau et Cognition (CerCo), CNRS, Toulouse, France, https://rufinv.github.io/
Location: Max-Planck-Ring 8
Room: room 203 + zoom

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Sensory Consequences of Visual Actions

Date: Dec 8, 2023
Time: 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
Speaker: Prof. Martin Rolfs
Prof. Martin Rolfs is a Heisenberg Professor for Experimental Psychology, Active Perception and Cognition, at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Location: Max-Planck-Ring 8
Room: room 203
Host: Zhaoping Li
Contact: li.zhaoping@tuebingen.mpg.de

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Analysis and modeling of sleep and circadian rhythms

Cybernetic Seminar

Date: Jul 21, 2023
Time: 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
Speaker: Prof. Elizabeth Klerman
Harvard Medical School
Location: Max-Planck-Ring 8
Room: room 203
Host: Manuel Spitschan, Maydel Fernandez Alonso
Contact: maydel.fernandez.alonso@tuebingen.mpg.de

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Learning to see stuff

Date: Mar 13, 2023
Time: 02:00 PM c.t. - 03:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
Speaker: Prof. Dr. Roland W. Fleming
Kurt Koffka Professor of Experimental Psychology, Department of Psychology, Giessen University
Location: Max-Planck-Ring 8
Room: room 203 + zoom
Host: Zhaoping Li (Junhao Liang)
Contact: maria.pavlovic@tuebingen.mpg.de

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