Kick-Off Event Ellis Unit Jena

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
A rich strategic and scientific program for the Kick-off of the ELLIS Unit Jena was assembled, with high-level representatives from two Thuringian Ministries and the United Nations and from science including A.M. Turing Award Laureate Prof. Yoshua Bengio and President of ELLIS and Frontiers of Knowledge Award winner Prof. Bernhard Schölkopf.

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/

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