

Conceptual and Mathematical Foundations of Embodied Intelligence
Program & Videos
All talks will be held in the Leibniz-Saal (E1 05),
Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences (Leipzig, Inselstraße 22).
Wednesday, February 27, 2013 | ||
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09:00 - 09:10 | Welcome | |
09:10 - 10:00 | Nihat Ay (Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences, Germany) On the role of mathematics within the field of embodied intelligence | |
10:00 - 10:30 | Coffee & Tea | |
10:30 - 11:30 | Thomas Metzinger (Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, Germany) Body-representation and self-consciousness: from embodiment to minimal phenomenal selfhood | |
11:30 - 12:00 | Coffee & Tea | |
12:00 - 13:00 | Paul Bourgine (École Polytechnique, France) Paradigms and models of embodied intelligence | |
13:00 - 15:15 | Lunch break | |
15:15 - 16:15 | Kevin O'Regan (Centre National de Recherche Scientifique, France) (joint work with Alban Laflaquière, Alexander Terekhov) A theoretical basis for how artificial or biological agents can construct the basic notion of space | |
16:15 - 17:00 | Poster session | |
17:00 - 18:00 | Helge Ritter (Universität Bielefeld, Germany) Manual intelligence and embodiment | |
19:00 | Dinner at Ratskeller Leipzig (à la carte and on individual payment) | |
Thursday, February 28, 2013 | ||
09:00 - 10:00 | Naftali Tishby (The Hebrew University, Israel) Information flow in sensation & action and the emergence of [reverse] hierarchies | |
10:00 - 10:30 | Coffee & Tea | |
10:30 - 11:30 | Daniel Polani (University of Hertfordshire, United Kingdom) The role of information in formation of cognitive organization | |
11:30 - 12:00 | Coffee & Tea | |
12:00 - 12:30 | Keyan Ghazi-Zahedi (Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences, Germany) Quantifying morphological computation | |
12:30 - 13:00 | Georg Martius (Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences, Germany) Information driven self-organization of complex robotic behaviors | |
13:00 - 15:15 | Lunch break | |
15:15 - 16:15 | Frank Pasemann (Universität Osnabrück, Germany) Neurodynamics in the sensorimotor loop | |
16:15 - 17:00 | Poster session | |
17:00 - 18:00 | Randall D. Beer (Indiana University, USA) Information and dynamics in brain-body-environment systems | |
Friday, March 01, 2013 | ||
09:00 - 10:00 | Jürgen Schmidhuber (Istituto Dalle Molle di Studi sull'Intelligenza Artificiale, Switzerland, and Technische Universität München, Germany) Optimal AI - neural network ReNNaissance - theory of fun | |
10:00 - 10:30 | Coffee & Tea | |
10:30 - 11:30 | Karl Friston (University College London, United Kingdom) Embodied inference and free energy | |
11:30 - 12:00 | Coffee & Tea | |
12:00 - 13:00 | David Krakauer (University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA) Agents and their artefacts: a natural history of ex-bodiment | |
13:00 - 14:00 | Buffet lunch at the MPI MiS Conference Center | |
14:00 - 15:00 | Concluding discussion |
Date and Location
February 27 - March 01, 2013
Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences
Inselstraße 22
04103 Leipzig
Germany
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Scientific Organizers
- Nihat Ay, MPI for Mathematics in the Sciences
- Ralf Der, MPI for Mathematics in the Sciences
- Keyan Ghazi-Zahedi, MPI for Mathematics in the Sciences
- Georg Martius, MPI for Mathematics in the Sciences
Administrative Contact
Antje VandenbergMPI for Mathematics in the Sciences
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