Events Archive

Munich AI Lectures  •  17.07.2025  •  Room B006, Main LMU Building, Geschwister-Scholl-Platz 01, 80539 Munich

5:00 pm - 7:00 pm

Deep Learning Theory: What We Know, What We Are Learning, and What Remains Unclear

Prof. Dr. Guido Montúfar​, UCLA

On 17 July 2025, Guido Montúfar will give a talk as part of the Munich AI Lectures series. The lecture, titled “Deep Learning Theory: What we know, what we are learning, and what remains unclear," addresses the mathematical foundations of deep learning and the rapidly developing theory behind neural networks.

Munich AI Lectures  •  09.07.2025  •  Plenarsaal of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities (BAdW), Alfons-Goppel-Straße 11, 80539 Munich

6:30 pm - 9:00 pm

Foundational Methods for Foundation Models for Scientific Machine Learning

Prof. Dr. Virginia Dignum, Umeå University

The next edition of the Munich AI Lecture series will take place on Wednesday, July 9, 2025, at 6:30 PM in the Plenarsaal of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Munich.

Meetup  •  09.07.2025  •  Online

The Best of CVPR 2025 Series

Cecilia Curreli, MCML

On July 9, 2025, Voxel51 is hosting a virtual “Best of CVPR” event, bringing together some of the most exciting work from this year’s CVPR conference.

MCML Diversity Stammtisch  •  08.07.2025  •  Gasthaus FUX - Türkenstraße 38, 80799 München

6:00 pm - 9:00 pm

MCML Diversity Stammtisch

Join Us for an Evening of Connection and Conversation

Feeling out of place in academia? First in your family to go to university? Navigating language or cultural barriers in Germany? Neurodivergent? Or simply passionate about inclusion?

Lecture  •  08.07.2025  •  LMU Center for Advanced Studies, Seestraße 13, 80802 Munich

12:15 pm - 1:45 pm

Lunch Talk: Understanding of Non-Verbal Behavior by Multimodal AI Systems

With MCML Members Philipp Wicke and Sven Mayer.

In this talk the Understanding of Non-Verbal Behavior by Multimodal AI Systems will be discussed. Speaker: Philipp Wicke
(MCML/LMU)
Respondent: Sven Mayer
(MCML/LMU) Only with registration!

Festival  •  03.07.2025 - 06.07.2025  •  Deutsches Museum, Munich

Festival of the Future 2025

Björn Ommer, MCML

The Festival of the Future 2025 gathers leading experts from science, technology, and art to explore innovations shaping our future. The event features talks, panel discussions, and interactive exhibits on topics like artificial intelligence, sustainability, and space exploration. Björn Ommer, our PI, will be among the speakers, sharing insights on …

Summit  •  02.07.2025  •  Kohlebunker (Motorworld) München-Freimann

2:00 pm - 8:00 pm

MCML Munich AI Day 2025

MCML Celebrates Second Summit

We are happy to invite you to this year’s MCML Munich AI Day, hosted by the Munich Center for Machine Learning (MCML) on 2nd July 2025. Join national and international AI researchers, policymakers, industry leaders, and media representatives as we explore the most pressing AI-related questions of our time. The event aims to discuss the …

Masterclass  •  02.07.2025  •  Kohlebunker (Motorworld) München-Freimann

11:00 am - 12:00 pm

Masterclass Entrepreneurship

Join Us for Networking and Insights

The other Masterclass will be on Entrepreneurship, in collaboration with TUM Venture Labs and the LMU Innovation and Entrepreneurship Center. The Masterclass on Entrepreneurship will last from 11 to 12 am. There will be two impulses from members of the respective collaboration partners on how to build your own company, and on ways of getting …

Masterclass  •  02.07.2025  •  Kohlebunker (Motorworld) München-Freimann

9:00 am - 12:00 pm

Masterclass Science Communication

Join Us for Networking and Insights

This masterclass will be in collaboration with the Tübingen AI Center and RhetAI, coordinated by Verena. The workshop will last from 9 to 12 am. Learn how to communicate your research and how to make your work accessible, engaging, and impactful beyond academic circles. This course equips you with the tools to share your research with broader …

Workshop  •  01.07.2025  •  House of Communication, August-Everding-Straße 25, 81671 Munich

5:30 pm - 9:00 pm

Part 2: Comparing Notes on Trustworthy AI

Risk vs. Reward?! Implementing AI Agents in Startups, SMEs, and Public Organisations

The next “Comparing Notes on Trustworthy AI” event by the Bavarian AI Act Accelerator dives into whether AI agents are truly worth it for startups, SMEs, and public organisations – especially when resources are limited.

Lecture  •  26.06.2025  •  CAS, Seestraße 13, 80802 Munich

6:30 pm - 9:00 pm

Bayesian Insights on Polarization and Disagreement

Prof. Leah Henderson, Ph.D. (CAS Fellow/Groningen)

As part of the CAS Research Focus “Bayesian Reasoning: A Grammar of Science?”, the Center for Advanced Studies (CAS) is hosting a lecture by Leah Henderson from the University of Groningen.

Colloquium  •  25.06.2025  •  LMU Department of Statistics and via zoom

4:15 pm - 5:45 pm

Practical Causal Reasoning as a Means for Ethical ML

Isabel Valera, Uni Saarbrücken

In this talk I will give an overview of the role of causality in ethical machine learning, and in particular, in fair and explainable ML. In particular, I will first detail how to use causal reasoning to study fairness and interpretability problems in algorithmic decision making, stressing the main limitations that we encounter when aiming to …

Summer School  •  23.06.2025 - 27.06.2025  •  Penck Hotel Dresden, Ostra-Allee 33, 01067 Dresden, Germany

1:00 pm - 12:30 pm

11. International Summer School on AI and Big Data

Mehwish Alam, Télécom Paris
Fredrik Heintz, Linköping University
Ralf Koerrenz, University Jena
Philipp Lorenz-Spreen, TU Dresden University of Technology
Anand Subramoney, Royal Holloway, University of London

The 11th International Summer School on AI and Big Data brings together graduate students, PhD students, researchers, and professionals interested in the areas of Artificial Intelligence, Big Data, and Machine Learning. This year, the focus will be on Language Models and their applications, especially in areas such as education and ethics. What to …

Colloquium  •  11.06.2025  •  LMU Department of Statistics and via zoom

4:15 pm - 5:45 pm

Veridical Data Science and PCS Uncertainty Quantification

Bin Yu, Berkeley

Data Science is central to Al and has driven most of the recent advances in biomedicine and beyond. Human judgment calls are ubiquitous at every step of the data science life cycle (DSLC): problem formulation, data cleaning, EDA, modeling, and reporting. Auch judgment calls are often responsible for the “dangers” of Al by creating a universe of …

Colloquium  •  04.06.2025  •  LMU Department of Statistics and via zoom

4:15 pm - 5:45 pm

Democratizing Methods

Jennifer Hill, New York University

The past few decades have seen an explosion in the development of freely available software to implement statistical methods and algorithms to help explore and analyze data. However, researchers tend to assume that releasing software packages implementing specific methods is sufficient for ensuring that the tools are adopted and used correctly. …