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News

AALearning
02. February 2026

AALearning project launches to advance safe and reliable AI in fundamental physics

The research project AALearning (Adversarial and Uncertainty-Aware Learning) has officially started with its kick-off collaboration meeting this week. Funded by the German Federal Ministry of…
Prof. Dr. Jürgen Bajorath with Prof. Dr. Kazuhiro Shiozaki, President of NAIST, and Prof. Dr. Kimito Funatsu, Director of the NAIST Data Science Center, at the signing of the research cooperation agreement between the Lamarr Institute and NAIST in Japan.
28. January 2026

New cooperation strengthens international AI research at Lamarr

The Lamarr Institute, the University of Bonn, and the Nara Institute of Science and Technology (NAIST) have launched a long-term research collaboration in artificial intelligence, life sciences, and…
Abstract visualization of a vision-language model illustrating multilingual generalization and scaling effects in artificial intelligence
26. January 2026

Scaling laws of emergent multilingualism in vision-language models

New research identifies scaling laws that explain how vision-language models develop emergent multilingual image captioning abilities through generalization from translation data, even without…
Photo. Portrait of Julia Tjus.
22. January 2026

Prof. Dr. Julia Tjus elected to the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences

Prof. Dr. Julia Tjus has been appointed as an international member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. Her work at the interface of theoretical physics and artificial intelligence strengthens…
Dr. Tim Ruhe, Principal Investigator at the Lamarr Institute, representing the Physics-LLM project on AI-based research data management in physics
20. January 2026

Physics-LLM: New research project within the ErUM-Data funding initiative

Funded by the German Federal Ministry of Research, Technology and Space (BMFTR), Physics-LLM is an ErUM-Data research project developing AI-based tools using large language models to improve research…
Portrait of Petra Wiederkehr, Principal Investigator at the Lamarr Institute for Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence
22. December 2025

Lamarr researcher Prof. Dr. Petra Wiederkehr elected to the German Academy of Science and Engineering (acatech)

Lamarr Principal Investigator Petra Wiederkehr has been elected to Germany’s National Academy of Science and Engineering (acatech)….

Events

18. – 22. Sep 2023
Turin, Italy

ECML PKDD 2023

From the 18th to the 22rd of September 2023, the next European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases will be held in Turin, Italy. The…
9. – 10. Oct 2023
Berlin

All Hands Meeting of the German AI Centers

On October 9 and 10, 2023, the Berlin Institute for the Foundations of Learning and Data (BIFOLD) at TU Berlin invites scientists from the university AI competence centers (BIFOLD, ScaDS.AI…
29. Nov 2023 – 1. Dec 2023
Lamarr Institute, TU Dortmund University

Computer Science & Physics Meet-Up by Lamarr & B3D

From November 29 to December 1, 2023, computer scientists and physicists from the Lamarr Institute and the NRW Cluster for Data-Intensive Radio Astronomy: Big Bang to Big Data (B3D) will come…
29. Nov 2023
AULA, Bildungscampus 6, 74076 Heilbronn

OpenGPT-X x appliedAI Conference

“1 year ‘anno ChatGPT‘: Where does the German economy stand in the use of generative AI?” is the theme of the new OpenGPT-X x appliedAI conference taking place on the 29th of November…
1. – 4. Dec 2023
Shanghai, China

IEEE ICDM 2023

The IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM) is the world’s most prominent research conference in data mining. It will take place between the 1st and the 4th of December 2023 in…
6. Mar 2024
Fraunhofer IAIS

AI4Schools: Workshop for female students

AI is not only for boys! Two special one-day workshops for female students will take place on January 24th and March 6th at Fraunhofer IAIS. They were organized by the Initiative AI4Schools in…