BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:icalendar-ruby CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/Vienna BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20260329T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=-1SU;BYMONTH=3 TZNAME:CEST END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20261025T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=-1SU;BYMONTH=10 TZNAME:CET END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260921T021438Z UID:1789983000@ist.ac.at DTSTART:20260921T113000 DTEND:20260921T123000 DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Lena Schwarz & Jiawei Bao\nhosted by Jorryt Matthee & Martin Hetzer\nAbstract: Lena Schwarz | Mapping Developmental Dynamics of Autism Spectrum DisorderMouse Models at Single-Cell ResolutionAutism spect rum disorder (ASD) is associated with a wide range of risk genes\, yet how distinct mutations lead to overlapping clinical features remains poorly u nderstood. ASD is also diagnosed more often in males than females\, but th e molecular basis of this sex disparity remains unclear.We used single-nuc leus multi-omics sequencing to simultaneously examine gene expression and chromatin accessibility in 251 samples from eleven monogenic ASD mouse mod els. The dataset included both sexes\, two brain regions\, and three devel opmental stages. Across models\, ASD-associated mutations delayed radial g lial cell progression and transiently affected neural lineage specificatio n. The strongest transcriptional alterations occurred during the perinatal period\, particularly in excitatory and inhibitory neurons. These changes included reduced expression of synaptic and ion-channel-related genes\, p otentially reflecting homeostatic adaptations. Although several molecular alterations were shared across models\, each mutation also produced a dist inct molecular signature.Convergence was most pronounced at the early post natal stage\, a putatively critical period of cortical maturation and refi nement. At later developmental stages\, the shared molecular processes  i ncreasingly diverged\, identifying the early postnatal period as a key win dow of ASD-related molecular vulnerability. We also observed marked sex-sp ecific effects\, with females frequently displaying broader transcriptiona l dysregulation and larger effect sizes than males.Overall\, our findings reveal dynamic\, developmentally regulated molecular consequences of genet ically diverse ASD-associated mutations. They identify both convergent and mutationspecific mechanisms\, emphasize the importance of sex-dependent e ffects\, and provide a comprehensive view of developmental cellular and mo lecular dynamics across models of ASD.____________________________________ ___________________________________________Jiawei Bao | The Pulsing of th e Tropical Climate SystemWeather forecasts keep us prepared for the week a head\, while climate projections warn us of long-term changes over coming decades. But what about the weeks and months in between? This middle groun d\, known as the subseasonal-to-seasonal timescale\, remains one of the mo st challenging frontiers in atmospheric science\, yet it is precisely the timescale that matters most for managing floods\, droughts\, and food secu rity. In this talk\, I will walk through how scientists predict weather a nd climate\, the tools and models involved\, and why the gap in between ha s proven so difficult to bridge. I will then introduce a newly discovered phenomenon in the tropics — the Tropics-Wide Intraseasonal Oscillation ( TWISO) — a coherent pulse that links tropical weather phenomena across t he globe\, not just within one region or system\, on timescales of weeks t o months. It looks as if the tropical climate system is pulsing together. By capturing signals that existing frameworks miss\, TWISO offers a promis ing new avenue for improving predictability in the tropics\, with potentia l benefits for communities most vulnerable to extreme weather. LOCATION:ISTA | Central Building | Raiffeisen Lecture Hall\, ISTA ORGANIZER:diana.zubcevic@ista.ac.at SUMMARY:Lena Schwarz & Jiawei Bao: ISTA PostDoc Award URL:https://talks-calendar.ista.ac.at/events/6386 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260921T021438Z UID:1790074800@ist.ac.at DTSTART:20260922T130000 DTEND:20260922T180000 DESCRIPTION:Abstract: We are excited to announce the 2nd annual Neuroscienc e Faculty Symposium organized by your student neuroscience track represent atives!Every neuroscience PI will hold a brief talk discussing their lab' s current research. The symposium will include catered breaks! Please als o join us for the Pizza Reception following the talks.We look forward to seeing you all there! LOCATION:Raiffeisen Lecture Hall\, ISTA ORGANIZER: SUMMARY:Neuroscience Faculty Symposium URL:https://talks-calendar.ista.ac.at/events/6589 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260921T021438Z UID:6a1e9cbf72e58407814214@ist.ac.at DTSTART:20260922T150000 DTEND:20260922T160000 DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Domenico Cafiero\nhosted by Robert Seiringer\nAbstract : Anyons are 2d identical quantum particles with an intermediate exchange symmetry characterized by representations of the braid group. In the abeli an case\, they can be modelled through the so-called magnetic representati on\, namely as a system of bosons with an Aharonov-Bohm flux attached to e ach particle.In this talk\, I will discuss the construction of self-adjoin t Hamiltonians\, different from the Friedrichs realization\, for a system of three abelian anyons. I will focus in particular on the Ter-Martirosyan -Skornyakov extensions. This family of Hamiltonians turns out to be parame trized by a suitable boundary operator\; I will present a complete classif ication of its self-adjoint realizations and compute the negative spectrum for the specific case of interest. These results shed light on the possib le occurrence of Thomas instability in the three-anyon model. Joint work w ith Michele Correggi (PoliMi) and Davide Fermi (PoliMi). LOCATION:Office Bldg West / Ground floor / Heinzel Seminar Room (I21.EG.101 )\, ISTA ORGANIZER:boosthui@ist.ac.at SUMMARY:Domenico Cafiero: On the three-body Hamiltonian for abelian anyons URL:https://talks-calendar.ista.ac.at/events/6566 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260921T021438Z UID:1790092800@ist.ac.at DTSTART:20260922T180000 DTEND:20260922T190000 DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Klaus-Robert Müller\nhosted by ÖAW\nAbstract: Abstra ctIn recent years\, machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) methods have begun to play a more and more enabling role in the sciences and in industry. In particular\, the advent of large and/or complex data c orpora has given rise to new technological challenges and possibilities. I n his talk\, Müller will touch upon the topic of ML applications in the s ciences\, in particular in medicine and if time permits also in chemistry. He will also discuss possibilities for extracting information from machin e learning models to further our understanding by explaining nonlinear ML models. Finally\, Müller will briefly discuss perspectives and limitation s.BioKlaus-Robert Müller is Professor for Machine Learning at TU Berlin a nd at Korea University\, Seoul. He is director of BIFOLD – one of 5 perm anently funded German national AI centers. He is a member of Leopoldina\ , BBAW and Acatech and an external scientific member of the Max-Planck S ociety. Among others he received the Berlin Science prize\, the Vodafone I nnovation Award\, the Hector Science award\, the Feynman award\, the IEEE CIS Neural Network Pioneer Award and the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz prize. Consecutively from 2019 on he became ISI Highly Cited Researcher. His rese arch interests are in AI for the sciences and in the foundations of AI.Pho to: © Bifold LOCATION:Dr. Ignaz Seipel-Platz 2\, 1010 Vienna\, Austria\, ISTA ORGANIZER:events@ista.ac.at SUMMARY:Klaus-Robert Müller: AI for the Sciences: towards Understanding URL:https://talks-calendar.ista.ac.at/events/6288 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260921T021438Z UID:6a8ec4a176df3637528802@ist.ac.at DTSTART:20260923T130000 DTEND:20260923T140000 DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Fabian Gundlach\nhosted by Tim Browning\nAbstract: We give asymptotics for the total number of interlaced simultaneous ordered factorizations of integers n_1 <= X_1 and n_2 <= X_2. The answer is surpri sing. LOCATION:Central Bldg / O1 / Mondi 4 (01.01.011 (Mondi4 is next to Mondi Th ree))\, ISTA ORGANIZER:boosthui@ist.ac.at SUMMARY:Fabian Gundlach: Counting interlaced factorizations URL:https://talks-calendar.ista.ac.at/events/6639 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260921T021438Z UID:1790240400@ist.ac.at DTSTART:20260924T110000 DTEND:20260924T120000 DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Prof. Yves Geerts\nhosted by Rafal Klajn\nAbstract: Lo uis Pasteur and Pierre Curie dreamed of directing chiral symmetry breaking using external magnetic and electric fields. [Chem. Rev. 1998\, 98\, 2391 ] Their attempts failed due to time-inversion symmetry\, theoretically exp lained by Laurence Barron. [JACS 1986\, 108\, 5539] Dissipative non-equili brium conditions break this symmetry and allow the separation of enantiome rs under the influence of erroneous chirality\, as recently demonstrated b y Ron Naaman and Francesco Tassinari. [Chem. Sci. 2019\, 10\, 5246. Cryst. Growth Des. [2021\, 21\, 2925] With my team\, we have undertaken a resear ch project to further our understanding by directing deracemization toward s R or S enantiomers using chirality-induced spin selectivity (CISS). [Acc . Chem. Res.] [2020\, 53\, 2659] I will report on our latest results and t he prospects for realizing Pasteur and Curie's long-held dream. LOCATION:Seminar Room C | Moonstone\, ISTA ORGANIZER:hcai@ist.ac.at SUMMARY:Prof. Yves Geerts: Spin-directed Chiral Symmetry Breaking URL:https://talks-calendar.ista.ac.at/events/6579 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260921T021438Z UID:6aa7cc7f86cf5144155787@ist.ac.at DTSTART:20260924T140000 DTEND:20260924T150000 DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Pavel Arkhipov\nAbstract: Continual counting under pur e differential privacy is one of the simplest and most well-studied proble ms in the continual observation model. Given a binary stream $x_1\, \\ldot s\, x_n \\in \\{0\,1\\}$\, the goal is to release\, at each time $t$\, an approximation to the prefix sum $\\sum_{i=1}^t x_i$. The entire output seq uence must satisfy $\\epsilon$-differential privacy\, while making the acc uracy as good as possible. We consider the maximum expected squared error over all times $t$ as our accuracy score. Very recently\, it was shown tha t the correct asymptotics for this error is $\\Theta(\\epsilon^{-2} \\log^ 3 n)$ for factorization-based mechanisms.We give a construction using a ge neral matrix factorization mechanism\, improving the leading constant for the mean squared error. The mechanism starts from a good-quality low-dimen sional factorization and lifts this factorization to arbitrarily large dim ensions.On the lower-bound side\, we show a very simple $\\Omega(\\epsilon ^{-2}\\log^3 n)$ lower bound for the special case of factorizations whose matrices have entries in {0\, 1}.This talk covers a subset of our paper wi th Nikita Kalinin (https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.08963) LOCATION:Mondi Seminar Room 3\, Central Building\, ISTA ORGANIZER:joanders@ist.ac.at SUMMARY:Pavel Arkhipov: TCS Seminar - Differentially Private Continual Coun ting via Matrix Factorization: Constructions and Lower Bounds URL:https://talks-calendar.ista.ac.at/events/6619 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260921T021438Z UID:1790341200@ist.ac.at DTSTART:20260925T150000 DTEND:20260925T180000 DESCRIPTION:hosted by ISTA\nAbstract: Join a lively peertopeer event design ed for postdocs navigating the job search.Share practical tips\, vent comm on frustrations\, celebrate successes\, and exchange honest advice — all in a relaxed speednetworking format that reminds you: you’re not alone in this process!Food\, fun\, facilitation\, and meaningful connections inc luded.The Maria Gugging hills are waiting for you! LOCATION:Moonstone Seminar Room F+G\, ISTA ORGANIZER:boris.cesnik@ista.ac.at SUMMARY:PAW Closure Networking Event URL:https://talks-calendar.ista.ac.at/events/6495 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260921T021438Z UID:1790587800@ist.ac.at DTSTART:20260928T113000 DTEND:20260928T123000 DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Francesco Locatello\nhosted by Christoph Lampert\nAbst ract: Causality at Machine Learning Scale and ComplexityDistinguishing coi ncidence from cause-and-effect relationships is a central challenge in AI (and science): which patterns just co-occur\, and which signal causality? Statistical causality offers a rigorous framework for this question\, but it assumes clean\, low-dimensional\, structured data\, which clashes with the raw\, high-dimensional observations of machine learning applications\, including in science. In this talk\, I will present how we can now learn causal structure directly from unstructured data using deep learning\, bri dging between the modeling power of causality and the scalability properti es of machine learning. I will also highlight some cross-disciplinary coll aborations my group has built\, uniquely enabled by ISTA.  LOCATION:Raiffeisen Lecture Hall\, ISTA ORGANIZER:diana.zubcevic@ista.ac.at SUMMARY:Francesco Locatello: Tenure Talk URL:https://talks-calendar.ista.ac.at/events/6548 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260921T021438Z UID:1790928000@ist.ac.at DTSTART:20261002T100000 DTEND:20261002T110000 DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Elisa De Ranieri\nhosted by Charles Roques-Carmes\nAbs tract: Publishing in influential journalsEver wondered how high-impact jou rnals select content for publication and how peer review works? In this ta lk\, I will discuss the editorial process at these journals\, which typica lly rely on professional editors\, focusing in particular on the Cell Pres s portfolio and introducing Newton\, our flagship physics journal. I will also share my views on current trends in scientific publishing\, and prov ide tips on how to maximise the fit of your manuscript for high-impact jou rnals and on how to deliver an appropriate reviewer report if you are invi ted to review a manuscript.  Elisa De Ranieri\, Editor-in-Chief\, Newto nElisa obtained her PhD in physics from the University of Cambridge and wo rked as a research scientist at the Hitachi Cambridge Laboratory. Her expe rimental work on semiconductor spintronics included the design\, fabricati on\, and characterization of devices by magneto-transport and magneto-opti cal measurements. Elisa joined Cell Press in 2021 as Head of Author Experi ence and Research Integrity after acquiring extensive editorial and publis hing experience at the Nature portfolio\, working amongst other roles as a n editor for Nature Nanotechnology\, Nature Energy\, and as Editor-in-ch ief for Nature Communications. In 2023-24 she was the Director of Author Experience for Cell Press\, and became the founding Editor-in-chief of Ne wton in 2024. LOCATION:Heinzel Seminar Room\, ISTA ORGANIZER:omerhalil.unal@ista.ac.at SUMMARY:Elisa De Ranieri: Publishing in influential journals URL:https://talks-calendar.ista.ac.at/events/6610 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260921T021438Z UID:1791192600@ist.ac.at DTSTART:20261005T113000 DTEND:20261005T123000 DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Friedrich Stricker & Yuval Wigderson\nhosted by Mikhai l Lemeshko\nAbstract: Friedrich Stricker |Beyond On/Off: Multistate Molecu les and MaterialsA slime mold with no brain and no nervous system can stil l remember: Physarum polycephalum reinforces the tubes of its cytoplasmic network along paths that once carried nutrient flow\, so a stimulus encoun tered minutes ago changes how the organism responds to a stimulus now. His tory is written directly into the material's structure. Synthetic material s have rarely matched this — not because they can't respond to a cue\, b ut because most are built to give one answer\, not many\, and to forget th e moment the stimulus is gone.At the root of that limitation is a simple f act about energy landscapes. In a binary switch\, a stimulus drives the sy stem along one path — on to off\, off to on — so the response is alway s the same regardless of how it got there. In a multistate system\, the sa me stimulus can drive the system along different paths depending on kineti cs\, local environment\, and history: the landscape stops being a fixed tw o-well problem and becomes something the material can be routed through.Ge tting there means tracing a single design logic across three length scales . At the molecular level\, multistate photoswitches give us control over k inetics\, absorption\, and mechanistic pathways — the raw vocabulary of reactivity. Organizing those switches within ordered\, multiphase material s – often liquid crystal elastomers – lets us govern how changes at th e molecular level propagate into changes in structural order. And by shapi ng how these material meet a stimulus — through its geometry — we conv ert molecular-scale reactivity into coordinated\, purposeful behavior at t he macroscale. Molecular design\, material organization\, and geometry are n't separate levers\; each constrains and amplifies the next\, and it's th is chain that lets us engineer function rather than just response.This cha in — molecule\, assembly\, geometry — is a first step toward a larger goal: materials in which a past stimulus leaves a physical trace that bias es the path taken by future stimuli\, built not from external control but from molecular architecture that intrinsically encodes state. Programming reactivity\, assembly\, and geometry together is how we move from isolated switches to physically intelligent\, multifunctional matter._____________ ___________________________________________________________________Yuval W igderson |Finding Structure in ChaosPareidolia refers to the human tenden cy to see patterns in unstructured chaos. Examples of pareidolia can range from the benign (seeing constellations in the night sky) to the destruct ive (gambling one's savings on the imagined patterns of a roulette wheel' s outcomes).However\, sometimes the patterns really are there! In fact\, in many cases\, we can prove this mathematically: no matter how complex an d chaotic a system may seem\, it must contain some given structure within it. In this talk\, I will give a gentle introduction to Ramsey theory\, th e fascinating area of mathematics that studies such theorems\, and discuss some of the major questions we still cannot answer. LOCATION:ISTA | Central Building | Raiffeisen Lecture Hall\, ISTA ORGANIZER:diana.zubcevic@ista.ac.at SUMMARY:Friedrich Stricker & Yuval Wigderson: Inaugural Lecture URL:https://talks-calendar.ista.ac.at/events/6357 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260921T021438Z UID:68498ab73a3db369081593@ist.ac.at DTSTART:20261006T110000 DTEND:20261006T120000 DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Morten Kjaergaard\nhosted by Johannes Fink\nAbstract: I will discuss recent results from our lab on developing a tight control-a nd-feedback loop between rapid FPGA-based advanced logic and superconducti ng qubit control\, which enables qubit characterization\, optimization\, g ate benchmarking\, and parameter estimation on millisecond wall-clock time scales. I will introduce our work on a suite of sparse-sampling and on-FPG A inference methods\, including efficient estimators for exponential and s inusoidal response functions as well as on-FPGA implementations of NelderM ead optimization\, golden-section search and an adaptive Bayesian updating algorithm. With this approach\, we estimate T1 in a few milliseconds and find highly surprising dynamics at these rapid timescales\, we optimize re adout parameters in roughly 100 ms\, we optimize pulse amplitudes in 1 ms\ , we perform Clifford randomized benchmarking in 107 ms\, and sustain more than 74\,000 consecutive recalibrations during a 6-hour closed-loop run. These approaches enable in situ recalibration that can track evolving qubi t dynamics and enable new approaches to maximizing superconducting qubit p rocessor performance and reveal new physics of state-of-the-art quantum pr ocessors. LOCATION:Office Bldg West / Ground floor / Heinzel Seminar Room (I21.EG.101 )\, ISTA ORGANIZER:swiddman@ist.ac.at SUMMARY:Morten Kjaergaard: Superconducting qubit control on millisecond tim escales: from rapid feedback to new qubit dynamics URL:https://talks-calendar.ista.ac.at/events/6555 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260921T021438Z UID:1791797400@ist.ac.at DTSTART:20261012T113000 DTEND:20261012T123000 DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Suvi Gezari Stock\nhosted by Zoltan Haiman LOCATION:Raiffeisen Lecture Hall\, ISTA ORGANIZER:diana.zubcevic@ista.ac.at SUMMARY:Suvi Gezari Stock: Institute Colloquium | Suvi Gezari Stock URL:https://talks-calendar.ista.ac.at/events/6590 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260921T021438Z UID:1792141200@ist.ac.at DTSTART:20261016T110000 DTEND:20261016T120000 DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Justus Bruggenjurgen\nhosted by Julian Leonard\nAbstra ct: TBA LOCATION:Sunstone Bldg / Ground floor / Big Seminar Room A\, ISTA ORGANIZER:Stephanie.Dolot@ist.ac.at SUMMARY:Justus Bruggenjurgen: Quantum Seminar | Justus Bruggenjurgen URL:https://talks-calendar.ista.ac.at/events/6608 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260921T021438Z UID:1792393200@ist.ac.at DTSTART:20261019T090000 DTEND:20261021T170000 DESCRIPTION:hosted by Jorryt Matthee\nAbstract: First light on the ELT is n ominally three years away. Time is ticking for us to start thinking about how to best use the ELT. The Austrian Academy of Science is financing a se ries of 5 yearly meetings leading up to first light. The main aim is to br ing together the future ELT community and to help build the science cases and proposals that will shape the ELT’s initial observing periods. A key goal of the meeting is to connect the instrument builders with the future users of the ELT\, in order to educate the community for how to best make use of these instruments once they are on-sky.This three-day meeting aims to cover numerous discussions on early ELT science topics across instrume nts\, as well as simulated observations that guide observing strategies. T he meeting will complement traditional scientific presentations with a sim ulation hackathons in the afternoons.For 2026\, the scientific focus is on science and simulations at the edge of the sensitivity limits enabled by the large collecting power of the ELT’s 40m mirror. LOCATION:Moonstone Building\, ISTA ORGANIZER:niels.eelman@ista.ac.at SUMMARY:Austrian ELT Workshop URL:https://talks-calendar.ista.ac.at/events/6616 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260921T021438Z UID:1792402200@ist.ac.at DTSTART:20261019T113000 DTEND:20261019T123000 DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Wilfrid Jean Louis\nhosted by AURAS\nAbstract: Wilfrid Jean Louis | AURAS Survey 2026: The PhD and Postdoc Experience at ISTATh e AURAS 2026 survey gathered feedback from more than 220 PhD students and postdocs at ISTA\, 45% of the institute’s PhD students participated. The survey explored different aspects of the experience at ISTA\, including r esearch and working environments\, workload and well-being\, teaching and courses\, career development\, workplace safety\, institutional support\, representation\, and track communities. In this colloquium\, AURAS will p resent the main findings of the survey\, highlighting both positive aspect s of the institute experience and areas where students and postdocs see op portunities for improvement. The presentation will also discuss difference s across tracks and identify themes that emerged across the institute as a whole. LOCATION:Raiffeisen Lecture Hall\, ISTA ORGANIZER:diana.zubcevic@ista.ac.at SUMMARY:Wilfrid Jean Louis: Special Colloquium | AURAS | Wilfrid Jean Louis URL:https://talks-calendar.ista.ac.at/events/6614 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260921T021438Z UID:1794220200@ist.ac.at DTSTART:20261109T113000 DTEND:20261109T123000 DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Lauren O'Connell\nhosted by Lora Sweeney\nAbstract: Ti tle | Lessons from Poison Frogs on Ecological Tuning of Animal Behavior a nd PhysiologyAbstract |Behavior and physiology are the substrates of natu ral selection. Our overarching goal is to understand how new traits in phy siology and social behavior have evolved from existing genetic and cellula r components using poison frogs as research organisms. First\, we want to understand how organisms evolve ways to evade predation by using natural p roducts that target the nervous system. Animals with a rich diversity of c hemical defenses must also protect their own nervous systems from toxicity . We recently discovered toxin sponge proteins that bind deadly toxins and transport them to specific locations in poison frogs. Such a system is ri pe for reverse engineering drug carriers to better understand how chemical defenses evolve. Second\, we want to understand how new social behaviors evolve through changes in nervous system function using a comparative\, or ganismal approach. We have established poison frog tadpoles as a model sys tem for infant social behavior\, where species have evolved new communicat ion and social behaviors based on their rearing environments. Together\, t hese research avenues are enabling us to understand the design principles of chemical defense and social behaviors. LOCATION:Raiffeisen Lecture Hall\, ISTA ORGANIZER:diana.zubcevic@ista.ac.at SUMMARY:Lauren O'Connell: Lessons from Poison Frogs on Ecological Tuning of Animal Behavior and Physiology URL:https://talks-calendar.ista.ac.at/events/6550 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260921T021438Z UID:1794825000@ist.ac.at DTSTART:20261116T113000 DTEND:20261116T123000 DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Vivian Kuperberg & Carla Fernandez-Rico\nhosted by Mik hail Lemeshko LOCATION:ISTA | Central Building | Raiffeisen Lecture Hall\, ISTA ORGANIZER:diana.zubcevic@ista.ac.at SUMMARY:Vivian Kuperberg & Carla Fernandez-Rico: Inaugural Lecture | Vivian Kuperberg & Carla Fernandez-Rico URL:https://talks-calendar.ista.ac.at/events/6389 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260921T021438Z UID:68498ab73a3f1770646428@ist.ac.at DTSTART:20261117T110000 DTEND:20261117T120000 DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Sebastian Hofferberth\nhosted by Julian Léonard\nAb stract: TBA LOCATION:Office Bldg West / Ground floor / Heinzel Seminar Room (I21.EG.101 )\, ISTA ORGANIZER:sdolot@ist.ac.at SUMMARY:Sebastian Hofferberth: Quantum Colloquium | Sebastian Hofferberth URL:https://talks-calendar.ista.ac.at/events/6558 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260921T021438Z UID:1795429800@ist.ac.at DTSTART:20261123T113000 DTEND:20261123T123000 DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Kim Modic\nhosted by Mikhail Lemeshko LOCATION:ISTA | Central Building | Raiffeisen Lecture Hall\, ISTA ORGANIZER:diana.zubcevic@ista.ac.at SUMMARY:Kim Modic: Tenure Talk | Kim Modic URL:https://talks-calendar.ista.ac.at/events/6390 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260921T021438Z UID:1795593600@ist.ac.at DTSTART:20261125T090000 DTEND:20261125T170000 DESCRIPTION:hosted by Dan Alistarh\nAbstract: Join us for the second BilA I Industry Day at the Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA)  in Klosterneuburg and get in touch with AI research to foster strong pa rtnerships and accelerate real-world innovation. Leading experts from acad emia and industry will come together to share insights\, showcase results and explore new pathways for bilateral collaboration in AI.Date: November 25\, 2026Venue: Institute of Science and Technology Austria\, 3400 Klost erneuburgRegistration details and the programme will follow soon. What to expect:Updates for key industry players on ongoing research and results from Bilateral AINetworking OpportunitiesInsights into related industrial research and development activities:Keynote speeches from industry and re searchTalks and discussionsPoster sessionsBe part of shaping a shared AI f uture - grounded in research\, driven by innovation. LOCATION:Raiffeisen Lecture Hall\, ISTA ORGANIZER:events@ista.ac.at SUMMARY:BilAI Industry Day 2026 URL:https://talks-calendar.ista.ac.at/events/6602 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260921T021438Z UID:1796639400@ist.ac.at DTSTART:20261207T113000 DTEND:20261207T123000 DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Daniel Robert\nhosted by Scott Waitukaitis LOCATION:Raiffeisen Lecture Hall\, ISTA ORGANIZER:diana.zubcevic@ista.ac.at SUMMARY:Daniel Robert: Institute Colloquium | Daniel Robert URL:https://talks-calendar.ista.ac.at/events/6551 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260921T021438Z UID:1797244200@ist.ac.at DTSTART:20261214T113000 DTEND:20261214T123000 DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Monika Visan & Simone Fatichi LOCATION:Raiffeisen Lecture Hall\, ISTA ORGANIZER:diana.zubcevic@ista.ac.at SUMMARY:Monika Visan & Simone Fatichi: Inaugural Lecture | Monika Visan & S imone Fatichi URL:https://talks-calendar.ista.ac.at/events/6552 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260921T021438Z UID:1800268200@ist.ac.at DTSTART:20270118T113000 DTEND:20270118T123000 DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Lora Sweeney\nhosted by Mario de Bono LOCATION:ISTA | Central Building | Raiffeisen Lecture Hall\, ISTA ORGANIZER:diana.zubcevic@ista.ac.at SUMMARY:Lora Sweeney: Tenure Talk | Lora Sweeney URL:https://talks-calendar.ista.ac.at/events/6387 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR