VISOR Kickoff

Thursday 15 Jan 2026, 14:00 → 17:00 Europe/Berlin

Room 2030 (2nd floor) (CDCS)

Gregor Kasieczka (UNI/EXP (Uni Hamburg, Institut fur Experimentalphysik))

Welcome to the Kickoff for VISOR!

VISOR is the Hamburg VISTA School of Graduate Research. VISOR provides co-funding for projects on the topic of development or application of AI techniques in the natural sciences and engineering, initiated by pairs of supervisors associated with Hamburg VISTA from different institutions. During this kickoff, the projects that have been selected for funding will be presented, along with exciting talks on AI in biology and medical research. We finish the evening with networking over beer and brezels.

Program

Fabian Kern (AI in Biology) 
Mario Weiss (LLMs and AI in medical research) 
Coffee break 
VISOR student talks
Beer & Brezels 

14:00 → 14:05 Welcome and introduction to Hamburg VISTA and VISOR

Speaker: Gregor Kasieczka (Universität Hamburg)

14:05 → 14:30 AI in Biology

Speaker: Fabian Kern

14:30 → 14:45 LLMs and AI in medical research

Speaker: Mario Weiss

14:45 → 15:15 Coffee break

15:15 → 15:22 VISOR project presentation: Unraveling Viruses' Immune Evasion Strategies through Integrated Sequence, Structure, and Function Analysis

Speaker: Pasquale Lamagna (LIV)

15:22 → 15:29 VISOR project presentation: Clustering of Large Distributed Acoustic Sensing Datasets

Speaker: Oliver Bölt (UHH)

15:29 → 15:36 VISOR project presentation: Interpreting the latent space of variational autoencoders

Speaker: Jesse van Oostrum (TUHH)

15:36 → 15:43 VISOR project presentation: Enhancing next token prediction based pre-training for jet foundation models

Speaker: Joschka Birk (UHH)

15:43 → 15:50 VISOR project presentation: Unlocking Insights via Self-Supervised Analysis of Unlabeled Radio Sky Maps

Speaker: Nicolas Báron Pérez (UHH)

15:50 → 16:50 Beer and Brezels