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New Center for the Co-constructive Artificial Intelligence

Future AI systems, and AI-based robots in particular, must be able to understand and gauge not only their own actions, but also those of others. Researchers from the universities of Bielefeld, Bremen, and Paderborn are consolidating their research in this area in the Joint Research Center on Cooperative and Cognition-enabled AI (CoAI JRC).

News from the University of Cologne

Professor Joybrato Mukherjee Becomes the New Rector of the University of Cologne

Professor Joybrato Mukherjee, President of Justus Liebig University Giessen, was elected by the members of the University Election Assembly to be the future Rector of the University of Cologne on 10 May 2023. Mukherjee will thus succeed Professor Axel Freimuth, who has held the office since 2005 and is no longer available for another term due to his age. The handover of office is planned in October 2023.

News from Campus OWL

ERC Consolidator Grant for Benjamin Gess at Bielefeld University for research on the impact of randomness on chaos

How can we use mathematics to capture and describe complex systems that seem to be driven by randomness? And how can we describe the fact that even the slightest fluctuations can lead to major changes in climate dynamics? Benjamin Gess at Bielefeld University focuses on mathematical structures that capture the interaction of random events and complex behavior. For his work he will receive two million Euros over a five-year period from the European Research Council Consolidator Grant.

News from the Hasso-Plattner-Institute (HPI)

Health economist Ariel Dora Stern joins HPI with Humboldt Professorship

International gain for the joint Digital Engineering Faculty of HPI and University of Potsdam: The renowned scientist Prof. Dr. Ariel Dora Stern, Associate Professor at Harvard Business School, joins the Digital Health Cluster at the Hasso Plattner Institute with a Humboldt Professorship.

News from TU Munich

Technical University of Munich has a new Liaison Officer in the US

Tim Bombosch is located in San Francisco and joined TUM on May 22, 2023.

News from the University of Cologne

Prof. Malte Gather Wins ERC Advanced Grant for His Work on Overcoming the Fundamental Dispersion Limit of Optical Interference

Alexander von Humboldt Professor at the University of Cologne receives funding from the European Research Council (ERC) – 2.5 million euros over five years – for his work on overcoming the fundamental dispersion limit of optical interference.

News from the Hasso-Plattner-Institute

How to democratize Artifical Intelligence?

The effort to expand access and usage of Large Language Models (LLMs) was the main topic during the first KISZ-Talk of the KI-Servicezentrum Berlin-Brandenburg (KISZ-BB)—the AI Service Center at the Hasso Plattner Institute in Potsdam.