Grand Opening of the ELLIS Institute Tübingen
24 June 2024 News
Distinguished guests, scientific workshops and groundbreaking research – the ELLIS Institute Tübingen’s Grand Opening took place last week.
To start the week of festivities off, a workshop in collaboration with CIFAR took place on Tuesday and Wednesday. For two full days, distinguished scientists collaborated on topics related to ‘World Models: Causality, Neuroscience, and AI Safety’ at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems in Tübingen.
On Thursday, a scientific symposium with accomplished researchers like Turing award winner Yann LeCun, Max Welling and the Institute’s Scientific Director and ELLIS President Bernhard Schölkopf was organized. On Friday, the Grand Finale was celebrated by representatives of Hector Foundation, the Ministry of Science, Research and Arts Baden-Württemberg and the City of Tübingen.
The ELLIS Institute Tübingen is set to become a world-renowned center for pioneering basic research in the field of artificial intelligence. The Institute aims to attract the world's best machine learning talent, providing them with outstanding conditions to conduct research in a state-of-the-art facility located in Tübingen, Germany. It is the first of its kind, endorsed by the ELLIS Network and funded by the Hector Foundation and the state of Baden-Württemberg.
“The ELLIS Institute will advance modern AI – in Tübingen, embedded in European values. We want to attract the brightest talents to build a very special place for science”, says Bernhard Schölkopf.
More information
Find a summary of the opening events on the website of the ELLIS Institute Tübingen (German version here).
Read the news release of the Ministry of Science, Research and Arts Baden-Württemberg here.
The Grand Opening of the ELLIS Institute Tübingen was embedded in the Cyber Valley Days featuring a wide program that emphasized entrepreneurship and scientific innovation originating from Baden-Württemberg. Read more here.
Learn more about the CIFAR Workshop "World Models: Causality, Neuroscience, and AI Safety" here.
ELLIS Institute Tübingen: institute-tue.ellis.eu
View impressions of the events on the LinkedIn and X accounts of the ELLIS Institute Tübingen.
ELLIS is creating a network of research sites distributed across Europe and Israel consisting of ELLIS Units and ELLIS Institutes. Currently, there are 41 ELLIS Units and 1 Associate Unit in 17 countries. The first ELLIS Institute in Tübingen was established in Tübingen. The long-term goal is to establish a set of world-class ELLIS Institutes, each acting as the core of a local AI ecosystem.
