
Kick-Off Event Ellis Unit Jena
- Date: Jan 12, 2023
- Location: Friedrich Schiller University
- Room: Rosensäle
- Host: Markus Reichstein, Conrad Philipp
- Contact: conrad.philipp@uni-jena.de
Briefly, in the morning we have welcome speeches by
the President of the Friedrich Schiller University Jena Prof. Dr. Walther Rosenthal, the Thuringian Minister for the
Environment, Energy and Nature Conservation Anja Siegesmund, State Secretary for Research, Innovation and
Economic Development Dr. Katja Böhler
and General Manager of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry East Thuringia Peter Höhne, and Dr. Reinhard Scholl (Unites Nations
platform AI4Good at the International Telecommunication Union).
This is followed by a keynote-talk by Prof. Dr. Bernhard Schölkopf (Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems Tubingen) and further invited presentations by Prof. Dr. Jonas Peters (University of Copenhagen), Prof. Dr. Ribana Roscher (Research Center Jülich), Prof. Dr. Jürgen Gall (University of Bonn), Dr. Georg Martius (Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems) and Prof. Dr. Gustau Camps-Valls (University of Valencia).
The scientific program is continued with various flashlight talks from Prof. Dr. Xiaoxiang Zhu (Technical University Munich), Prof. Dr. Hanna Meyer (University of Münster), Prof. Dr. Christian Wirth (University of Leipzig), Dr. Fernando Iglesias-Suarez (German Aerospace Center), Dr. Teja Kattenborn (University of Leipzig), Dr. Ankit Kariryaa (University of Copenhagen), Dr. Richard Turner (Cambridge University) and Francesco Martinuzzi (University of Leipzig).
The flashlight talks will be followed by a Poster session with contributions from the ELLIS unit Jena and ended with a capstone talk and discussion of Prof. Dr. Yoshua Bengio (Université de Montréal).
Find the full programm here: https://www.ellis-jena.eu/ellis-unit-jena-kick-off/