Upcoming Events

Conference  •  06.02.2025 - 07.02.2025  •  Institut Polytechnique de Paris, École Polytechnique Campus, Route de Saclay, 91120 Palaiseau, France

9:30 am - 5:30 pm

AI, Science, and Society Conference

Daniel Cremers, MCML

We are pleased to announce that Daniel Cremers, Director of the MCML, will be a featured speaker at the upcoming conference titled “AI, Science, and Society: Connections, Collectives, and Collaboration.” This interdisciplinary event is scheduled to …

Lecture  •  06.02.2025  •  LMU Munich, Ludwigstr. 28 VG/II; Room 211b

11:00 am - 12:00 pm

Causal Discovery: What Can We Learn From Heterogeneous Noise?

Alexander Marx, TU Dortmund

Causal discovery aims to learn causal networks, i.e., directed acyclic graphs (DAGs), from observational data. Although the problem is not feasible in the most general form, as it is not possible to infer causal relations from pure correlations, we …

MCML Stammtisch  •  06.02.2025  •  Gasthaus FUX, Türkenstraße 38, 80799 München

6:00 pm - 8:00 pm

MCML Stammtisch - February Edition

Join Us for an Evening of Connection and Conversation

We heartily invite to the next MCML-Stammtisch edition, taking place on Thursday, February 6th, at 6 pm, at Gasthaus FUX, Türkenstraße 38, Munich (very close to “U3 Universität”). Happy to see you there.

AI Keynote Series  •  13.02.2025  •  Online via Zoom

10:00 am - 11:30 am

Simplifying Debiased Inference via Automatic Differentiation and Probabilistic Programming

Alex Luedtke, Department of Statistics, University of Washington

The speaker would introduce an algorithm that simplifies the construction of efficient estimators, making them accessible to a broader audience. ‘Dimple’ takes as input computer code representing a parameter of interest and outputs an efficient estimator. Unlike standard approaches, it does not require users to derive a functional derivative known …

BMBF Event  •  07.03.2025  •  BMBF Berlin, Kapelle-Ufer 1, 10117 Berlin

10:00 am - 1:00 pm

Technologie von morgen, Probleme von gestern? Was tun gegen den Gender Gap in der Künstlichen Intelligenz?

BMBF Event on International Women’s Day 2025

The central event of the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) on International Women’s Day 2025 will focus on the gender gap in AI and ask: “Tomorrow’s technology, yesterday’s problems? What to do about the gender gap in AI?” In addition to a keynote speech, a moderated panel discussion is planned in which experts from science, research …

Bootcamp  •  26.03.2025  •  Leibniz Rechenzentrum, Boltzmannstr. 1, 85748 Garching bei München

9:00 am - 2:15 pm

LRZ Bootcamp With NIVIDA on Accelerated Distributed Computing

Train Multiple Systems and Learn About New Tools

The LRZ (Leibniz Supercomputing Centre) BDAI Team, together with NVIDIA, is organizing a Bootcamp on Accelerated Distributed Computing - powered by NVIDIA on March 26, 2025, at 9 AM. The key topics addressed are:
1. Training Parallelization - Various methods to split and optimize training across multiple systems, including data/model parallelism and …

Hackathon  •  28.03.2025 - 30.03.2025  •  LMU Munich, Main Building

DataFest 2025

Call for Applications

Join the DataFest Germany on March, 28-30, 2025, a 48-hour competition challenging teams of students to analyze complex datasets. The DataFest is a student competition for data analysis (“hackathon”) in which bachelor and master students of all disciplines can participate. In teams of 2-5 people, you will analyze a large and complex data set over a …

Pitchtalk Series  •  02.04.2025  •  tbd

MCML Industry Pitchtalks With appliedAI

Join Us for Networking and Insights

On April 2nd, we will welcome appliedAI and some of their industry partners from industry to the MCML for a Meetup as part of our “MCML Pitchtalks with Industry”. Some of our junior members and research staff from appliedAI and their partners will engage in exchange of ideas on AI Agentic Systems, RAG Methods, Generative AI and AGI-Benchmarking. …

Pitchtalk Series  •  10.04.2025  •  Bain&Company, Karlsplatz 1, 80335 München

5:00 pm - 9:00 pm

MCML Industry Pitchtalks With Bain & Company

Join Us for Networking and Insights

On April 10th, we will be invited to Bain & Company for a Meetup in our series MCML Pitchtalks with Industry. Some of our junior members and research staff from Bain & Company will show each other’s research on decision-theoretic methods, uncertainty quantification, and generative AI. Join us for a lively meetup, and feel free to reach out to …