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.

Room: Room 203 + Zoom

Brain mechanisms for stabilization and development of acquired skills

Date: May 30, 2025
Time: 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
Speaker: Dr. Kazuhisa Shibata
Location: Max-Planck-Ring 8 + Zoom
Room: Room 203 + Zoom
Host: Dr. Peter Dayan
Contact: maydel.fernandez.alonso@tuebingen.mpg.de

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Dr. Peter Dayan Group Talk

Date: May 9, 2025
Time: 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
Speaker: Tianyuan Teng, Sahiti Chebolu, Azadeh Nazemorroaya
Location: MPI for Intelligent Systems, Max-Planck-Ring 4
Room: Room 203 + Zoom
Host: Dr. Peter Dayan
Contact: maydel.fernandez.alonso@tuebingen.mpg.de

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Photoreceptor resolved psychophysics in the human foveola

Date: Apr 11, 2025
Time: 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
Speaker: Dr. Wolf Harmening
Location: Max-Planck-Ring 8 + Zoom
Room: Room 203 + Zoom
Host: Dr. Manuel Spitschan
Contact: maydel.fernandez.alonso@tuebingen.mpg.de

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Engineering biological water diffusion to create new genetic reporters for molecular MRI

Date: Mar 21, 2025
Time: 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
Speaker: Dr. Arnab Mukherjee
Location: Max-Planck-Ring 8 + Zoom
Room: Room 203 + Zoom
Host: Dr. Robert Ohlendorf
Contact: madhushree.pethe@tuebingen.mpg.de

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Operando analysis of commercial battery cells: surface-scan MRI and plug-and-play multi-nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy

Date: Mar 14, 2025
Time: 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
Speaker: Dr. Konstantin Romanenko
Location: Max-Planck-Ring 8 + Zoom
Room: Room 203 + Zoom
Host: Dr. Gabriele Lohmann
Contact: tina.schroeder@tuebingen.mpg.de

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A neural coding logic of how metabolic pathways control motivational drive

Date: Mar 7, 2025
Time: 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
Speaker: Dr. Marc Tittgemeyer
Location: Max-Planck-Ring 8 + Zoom
Room: Room 203 + Zoom
Host: Dr. Ivan de Araujo
Contact: ivan.dearaujo@tuebingen.mpg.de

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Autonomous muscle-driven motion in neuromechanics and biorobotics - learning to point, balance, walk, jump, reduce tremor, flex the spine and fall into the bathtub

Date: Feb 14, 2025
Time: 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
Speaker: Dr. Syn Schmitt
Location: Max-Planck-Ring 8 + Zoom
Room: Room 203 + Zoom
Host: Dr. Peter Dayan
Contact: peter.dayan@tuebingen.mpg.de

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State-dependent neural dynamics in health and disease

Date: Jan 31, 2025
Time: 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
Speaker: Dr. Dennis Nestvogel
Location: Max-Planck-Ring 8 + Zoom
Room: Room 203 + Zoom
Host: Dr. Robert Ohlendorf
Contact: madhushree.pethe@tuebingen.mpg.de

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Neural control of sickness physiology

Date: Nov 29, 2024
Time: 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
Speaker: Dr. Anoj Ilanges
Location: Max-Planck-Ring 8 + Zoom
Room: Room 203 + Zoom
Host: Ivan de Araujo
Contact: ivan.dearaujo@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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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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