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| - | <HTML><table><tr valign="top"><td>2026-05-07</td><td>Justus Piater is a panelist at a public discussion on <a href="https://www.uibk.ac.at/de/medien-kommunikation/kommunikation/intern/">Invited | + | <HTML><table><tr valign="top"><td>2026-05-20</td><td>Simon Haller-Seeber appears in the media: <a href="https://www.digital.tirol/page.cfm?vpath=news&rnpageid=42902"> |
| + | Digitale Bildung aktiv erleben: Der RoboCupJunior Austrian Open 2026 in Tirol</a>. (Interview im Rahmen des RoboCup Junior Austrian Open)</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2026-05-07</td><td>Justus Piater is a panelist at a public discussion on <a href="https://www.uibk.ac.at/de/medien-kommunikation/kommunikation/intern/">Invited | ||
| expert interview on “Human-robotics relations: What does the | expert interview on “Human-robotics relations: What does the | ||
| future hold?”</a>, Innsbruck. (Public event organized by the Department of Media, Society and Communication, Universität Innsbruck)</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2026-04-15</td><td>Justus Piater gives an invited talk <i>Some Latest Results in Robot Learning of Structure by | future hold?”</a>, Innsbruck. (Public event organized by the Department of Media, Society and Communication, Universität Innsbruck)</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2026-04-15</td><td>Justus Piater gives an invited talk <i>Some Latest Results in Robot Learning of Structure by | ||
| Interaction</i> at <a href="https://airov.at/2026/workshop/TactileRobotics.html">Austrian | Interaction</i> at <a href="https://airov.at/2026/workshop/TactileRobotics.html">Austrian | ||
| - | Robotics Workshop</a>, Leoben. (Annual workshop of the GMAR; at AIRoV 2026)</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2026-04-08</td><td>Justus Piater gives an invited talk <i>Generative KI: Funktionsweise, Möglichkeiten und | + | Robotics Workshop</a>, Leoben. (Annual workshop of the GMAR; at AIRoV 2026)</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2026-04-08</td><td>Simon Haller-Seeber and Justus Piater co-organize the <a href="https://robocupjunior.at/">RCJ2026 - Robocup Junior Austrian Open: 08.-10.4.2026</a>.</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2026-04-08</td><td>Justus Piater gives an invited talk <i>Generative KI: Funktionsweise, Möglichkeiten und |
| Grenzen</i> at SchulleiterInnen-Tagung „IT-Sicherheit und KI-Einsatz in | Grenzen</i> at SchulleiterInnen-Tagung „IT-Sicherheit und KI-Einsatz in | ||
| - | der Schule“, Pädagogische Hochschule Tirol. (Veranstaltung für Schulleitungen der Bildungsdirektion für Tirol) <span class="actions"><a href="javascript:void(0)" onclick="showHide('newsitem2', 'Abstract')">[Abstract]</a></span><blockquote id="newsitem2Abstract" style="display:none">Generative KI-Systeme wie ChatGPT und Midjourney haben | + | der Schule“, Pädagogische Hochschule Tirol. (Veranstaltung für Schulleitungen der Bildungsdirektion für Tirol) <span class="actions"><a href="javascript:void(0)" onclick="showHide('newsitem5', 'Abstract')">[Abstract]</a></span><blockquote id="newsitem5Abstract" style="display:none">Generative KI-Systeme wie ChatGPT und Midjourney haben |
| die Welt im Sturm erobert. Wie können wir sie produktiv nutzen? | die Welt im Sturm erobert. Wie können wir sie produktiv nutzen? | ||
| Wie können wir mit den Herausforderungen umgehen, die durch sie | Wie können wir mit den Herausforderungen umgehen, die durch sie | ||
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| funktionieren. Daraus ergeben sich ein realistisches Verständnis | funktionieren. Daraus ergeben sich ein realistisches Verständnis | ||
| für ihre Möglichkeiten und Grenzen sowie einige grundlegende | für ihre Möglichkeiten und Grenzen sowie einige grundlegende | ||
| - | Empfehlungen für den Umgang mit ihnen im Schulbetrieb.</blockquote></td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2025-11-19</td><td>Justus Piater gives an invited talk <i>Structural Understanding – The Grand Challenge of Robot | + | Empfehlungen für den Umgang mit ihnen im Schulbetrieb.</blockquote></td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2026-03-31</td><td>Samuele Tosatto gives an invited keynote <i>Accelerating Reinforcement Learning with Off-Policy Data: Promises, Pitfalls, and Future Directions</i> at <a href="https://rl4aa.github.io/RL4AA26/">Reinforcement Learning For Autonomous Accelerators 2026</a>, Liverpool. <span class="actions"><a href="javascript:void(0)" onclick="showHide('newsitem6', 'Abstract')">[Abstract]</a></span><blockquote id="newsitem6Abstract" style="display:none">Reinforcement learning is a promising technique for solving complex control problems in real-world physical systems, such as robotics, plasma stabilization, and particle accelerators. However, RL is often data-hungry, and its classic on-policy formulation is often inefficient, as it disallows data reuse, and unsafe, as it requires the agent to interact with the environment from scratch. |
| - | Learning</i> at <a href="https://elliit.se/news-and-events/focus-period-lund-2025/symposium/">ELLIIT Focus Period Symposium: Robot Learning</a>, Lund University. (The ELLIIT Focus Period Symposium is the highlight of the five-week focus period, during which young international scholars, ELLIIT researchers and other well-established international academics gather in Lund to work together on joint research challenges.) <span class="actions"><a href="javascript:void(0)" onclick="showHide('newsitem3', 'Abstract')">[Abstract]</a></span><blockquote id="newsitem3Abstract" style="display:none">AI has made great progress in recent years, and the | + | Off-policy reinforcement learning offers a more appealing paradigm by enabling the reuse of historical data and the utilization of safe, external behavior sources (such as human operator logs). However, this flexibility comes at a cost: off-policy learning introduces significant theoretical instabilities. In this talk, we will analyze some fundamental difficulties in off-policy reinforcement learning, both in value and policy learning, explore the algorithmic landscape that tames them, and see the future direction in which the field is moving. </blockquote></td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2025-11-19</td><td>Justus Piater gives an invited talk <i>Structural Understanding – The Grand Challenge of Robot |
| + | Learning</i> at <a href="https://elliit.se/news-and-events/focus-period-lund-2025/symposium/">ELLIIT Focus Period Symposium: Robot Learning</a>, Lund University. (The ELLIIT Focus Period Symposium is the highlight of the five-week focus period, during which young international scholars, ELLIIT researchers and other well-established international academics gather in Lund to work together on joint research challenges.) <span class="actions"><a href="javascript:void(0)" onclick="showHide('newsitem7', 'Abstract')">[Abstract]</a></span><blockquote id="newsitem7Abstract" style="display:none">AI has made great progress in recent years, and the | ||
| sophistication of robots has been rising with costs falling. Yet, | sophistication of robots has been rising with costs falling. Yet, | ||
| the capabilities of AI-enabled robots are not keeping pace. I | the capabilities of AI-enabled robots are not keeping pace. I | ||
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| current AI systems. I will discuss several lines of research in my | current AI systems. I will discuss several lines of research in my | ||
| lab that seek to enable robots to generalize better and learn | lab that seek to enable robots to generalize better and learn | ||
| - | faster thanks to explicit notions of structure.</blockquote></td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2025-09-18</td><td>Samuele Tosatto gives an invited keynote <i>Where are all the intelligent robots? A quest for efficiency in reinforcement learning</i> at <a href="https://sarl-plus.github.io/RL-Bootcamp2025/">Reinforcement Learning Bootcamp 2025</a>, Salzburg. <span class="actions"><a href="javascript:void(0)" onclick="showHide('newsitem4', 'Abstract')">[Abstract]</a></span><blockquote id="newsitem4Abstract" style="display:none">As artificial intelligence reshapes our digital world at a breathtaking pace, | + | faster thanks to explicit notions of structure.</blockquote></td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2025-09-18</td><td>Samuele Tosatto gives an invited keynote <i>Where are all the intelligent robots? A quest for efficiency in reinforcement learning</i> at <a href="https://sarl-plus.github.io/RL-Bootcamp2025/">Reinforcement Learning Bootcamp 2025</a>, Salzburg. <span class="actions"><a href="javascript:void(0)" onclick="showHide('newsitem8', 'Abstract')">[Abstract]</a></span><blockquote id="newsitem8Abstract" style="display:none">As artificial intelligence reshapes our digital world at a breathtaking pace, |
| a curious question arises: Where are all the real-world, intelligent robots? | a curious question arises: Where are all the real-world, intelligent robots? | ||
| While we have mastered the generation of text, images, and video by leveraging vast web-scale datasets, | While we have mastered the generation of text, images, and video by leveraging vast web-scale datasets, | ||
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| we can accelerate the journey toward real embodied artificial intelligence.</blockquote></td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2025-07-15</td><td>Justus Piater gives an invited keynote <i>Making robots learn to perceive and act with | we can accelerate the journey toward real embodied artificial intelligence.</blockquote></td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2025-07-15</td><td>Justus Piater gives an invited keynote <i>Making robots learn to perceive and act with | ||
| understanding</i> at <a href="https://www.uibk.ac.at/en/congress/multibody2025/">The | understanding</i> at <a href="https://www.uibk.ac.at/en/congress/multibody2025/">The | ||
| - | 12th ECCOMAS Thematic Conference on Multibody Dynamics</a>, Innsbruck. <span class="actions"><a href="javascript:void(0)" onclick="showHide('newsitem5', 'Abstract')">[Abstract]</a></span><blockquote id="newsitem5Abstract" style="display:none">The flexibility and robustness of current robots is | + | 12th ECCOMAS Thematic Conference on Multibody Dynamics</a>, Innsbruck. <span class="actions"><a href="javascript:void(0)" onclick="showHide('newsitem9', 'Abstract')">[Abstract]</a></span><blockquote id="newsitem9Abstract" style="display:none">The flexibility and robustness of current robots is |
| limited by their lack of understanding of their environment. For | limited by their lack of understanding of their environment. For | ||
| this reason, most robots operate in controlled environments. | this reason, most robots operate in controlled environments. | ||
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| improve abstraction, generalization, robustness, and ultimately | improve abstraction, generalization, robustness, and ultimately | ||
| explainability of robot perception and action.</blockquote></td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2025-07-11</td><td>Justus Piater and Alejandro Agostini give an invited talk <i>Learning Symbols and Abstractions in Robot Planning</i> at <a href="https://www.unibz.it/en/events/abstraction-language-science-engineering">Abstraction: | explainability of robot perception and action.</blockquote></td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2025-07-11</td><td>Justus Piater and Alejandro Agostini give an invited talk <i>Learning Symbols and Abstractions in Robot Planning</i> at <a href="https://www.unibz.it/en/events/abstraction-language-science-engineering">Abstraction: | ||
| - | Language - Science - Engineering</a>, Bolzano. (International Workshop)</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2025-04-25</td><td>Simon Haller-Seeber gives an invited talk <i>AI-powered tools for real-time transcription and translation in action: A self-hosted open-source framework for digital spaces.</i> at <a href="https://www.uibk.ac.at/de/medien/veranstaltungen/tagungen/medien-wissen-bildung-2025/">Medien - Wissen - Bildung 2025: Streifzüge an den Nahtstellen von Medien, Bildung und Philosophie</a>, Universität Innsbruck.</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2025-04-10</td><td>Simon Haller-Seeber gives an invited keynote <i>Hands-on Approaches to Software, Robotics, and AI: Exploring Experiments and Science in Action</i> at <a href="https://iis.uibk.ac.at/public/simon/ECER-2025/">European Conference on Educational Robotics (ECER 2025)</a>, HTL Anichstrasse.</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2025-04-10</td><td>Simon Haller-Seeber and Christopher Kelter teach a tutorial <i>Was sind Roboter, was macht eine KI? Entwickle deine eigene KI und programmiere unsere Minibots</i> at Campustag BG/BRG Sillgasse, Universität Innsbruck.</td></tr></table></HTML> | + | Language - Science - Engineering</a>, Bolzano. (International Workshop)</td></tr></table></HTML> |
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