The Public Interdisciplinary Lecture Series (PILS) has an explicit focus on teaching. It is a series of lectures of up to 30 minutes explaining key concepts to people from other fields. PILS is been carried out jointly by the Cluster of Excellence PhenoRob and TRA Sustainable Futures, University of Bonn (TRA6) since fall 2024.
Establishing Cohort Studies in the Global South: Experiences from Ghana
Ina Danquah, Hertz-Chair “Innovation for Planetary Health” and Research Professor of the Transdisciplinary Research Area “Sustainable Futures” at the University of Bonn, gives a Public Interdisciplinary Lecture [PILS] on the topic of ” Establishing Cohort Studies in the Global South: Experiences from Ghana”.
Modeling microbial dynamics and matter cycling in soil systems
Holger Pagel, Professor for Soil System Modeling at the University of Bonn and the Institute of Bio- and Geoscience of the Forschungszentrum Jülich, gives a PhenoRob Interdisciplinary lecture [PILS] on the topic of “Modeling microbial dynamics and matter cycling in soil systems”.
AGRASIM: a new research facility for simulating the effects of climate change on agroecosystems
Nicolas Brüggemann, Professor for Terrestrial Biogeochemistry at the University of Bonn and Head of the research group “Plant-Soil-Atmosphere Exchange Processes” at the Forschungszentrum Jülich, gives a PhenoRob Interdisciplinary lecture [PILS] on the topic of “AGRASIM: a new research facility at IBG-3 for simulating the effects of climate change on agroecosystems”.
Complex System Modeling
Wolfram Barfuss, Argelander Professor for Integrated System Modeling for Sustainability Transitions (TRA Sustainable Futures) at the University of Bonn, gives a PhenoRob Interdisciplinary lecture [PILS] on the topic of “Complex System Modeling”.
Spatial Optimization via Mathematical Programming: Fundamentals and Applications
Jan-Henrik Haunert, Professor and head of the Geoinformation Group, Institute of Geodesy and Geoinformation (IGG) at the University of Bonn, gives a PhenoRob Interdisciplinary Lecture [PILS] on “Spatial Optimization via Mathematical Programming: Fundamentals and Applications in Harvest Scheduling, Districting, and Visualizing Trade Agreements”.
Physically modelled scaling and ML retrievals of plant traits from remotely sensed spectral observ.
Zbyněk Malenovský presents in this PhenoRob Interdisciplinary Lecture Series [PILS] “Physically modelled scaling and machine-learning retrievals of plant functional traits from remotely sensed spectral observations” He is an optical remote sensing and plant eco-physiology scientist based at the University of Bonn.
An overview of plant representations in 3D and its implications
Eduard Zell, who is currently leading a new research group at the PhenoRob Cluster of Excellence (University of Bonn), that focuses on the acquisition and post-processing of 4D data, mainly plants and soon again humans, gives a PhenoRob Interdisciplinary lecture [PILS] on the topic of “An overview of plant representations in 3D and its implications”.
Pathways for reducing pesticide risk
Niklas Möhring, Professor and head of the Production Economics Group, Institute for Food and Resource Economics (ILR) at the University of Bonn gives a PhenoRob Interdisciplinary Lecture [PILS] on “Pathways for reducing pesticide risk”.
Metabolic responses to phosphate deficiency
Peter Dörmann, Head of the Institute for Molecular Physiology and Biotechnology of Plants at the University of Bonn gives a PhenoRob Interdisciplinary Lecture [PILS] on “Metabolic responses to phosphate deficiency”.
The Plant Microbiome as Player in Sustainable Crop Production
An Economist’s View on Profit
Thomas Heckelei, Professor and head of the Economic and Agricultural Policy Group, Institute for Food- and Resource Economics (ILR) at the University of Bonn gives a PhenoRob Interdisciplinary Lecture [PILS] on “An Economist’s View on Profit”.
Plant Pathology – an Overview
Armin Djamei, Professor of Plant Pathology, Institute of Crop Science and Resource Conservation (INRES) at the University of Bonn gives a PhenoRob Interdisciplinary Lecture [PILS] on “Plant Pathology – an Overview”.
CPlantBox – A Functional-Structural Plant Model
Andrea Schnepf, Professor of Soil-, Root Systems and Rhizosphere Processes at the Institute of Bio- and Geosciences (IBG-3), Forschungszentrum Jülich and at the Faculty of Agriculture, University of Bonn gives a PhenoRob Interdisciplinary Lecture [PILS] on the “Light grey model” CPlantBox.
Carbon and Nutrient Stocks in Soil – a Challenge to Soil Ecology and Environmental Sensing
Wulf Amelung, Professor of Soil Science and Soil Ecology at the Institute of Crop Science and Resource Conservation (INRES), University of Bonn and head of the Agrosphere Institute at IBG-3, Forschungszentrum Jülich gives a PhenoRob Interdisciplinary Lecture [PILS] on carbon and nutrient stocks in soil, which pose a challenge to soil ecology and environmental sensing.
Genome Editing and Its Impacts in Crop Physiology Studies and Modern Breeding
Gabriel Schaaf, Professor and head of the Ecophysiology of Plant Nutrition Group at the Institute of Crop Science and Resource Conservation (INRES), University of Bonn gives a PhenoRob Interdisciplinary Lecture [PILS] on genome editing and its impacts in crop physiology studies and modern breeding
Modeling Interactions of Agricultural Systems with the Terrestrial Water and Energy Cycle
Stefan Kollet, Professor of Integrated Modeling of Terrestrial Systems at the Institute of Bio- and Geosciences (IBG-3), Forschungszentrum Jülich and at the Institute of Geosciences, University of Bonn gives a PhenoRob Interdisciplinary Lecture [PILS] on modeling interactions of agricultural systems with the terrestrial water and energy cycle.
Measuring and Modelling Agricultural Technology Adoption
Jan Börner, Professor of Economics of Sustainable Natural Resource Use and Bioeconomy at the Institute for Food- and Resource Economics (ILR) and at the Center for Development Research (ZEF), University of Bonn gives a PhenoRob Interdisciplinary Lecture [PILS] on the topic of measuring and modelling agricultural technology adoption.
What Is Plant Breeding?
Annaliese Mason, professor of Plant Breeding, Institute of Crop Science and Resource Conservation (INRES) at the University of Bonn gives a PhenoRob Interdisciplinary Lecture [PILS] on the topic of plant breeding for non-experts.
An Introduction to Temporal Visual Data Analysis
Jürgen Gall, professor and head of the Computer Vision Group, Institute of Computer Science at the University of Bonn gives a PhenoRob Interdisciplinary Lecture [PILS] on the topic of temporal visual data analysis.
Roots –Groping in the Dark
Sabine Seidel, Junior Research Group Leader in PhenoRob at the University of Bonn gives a PhenoRob Interdisciplinary Lecture [PILS] on the topic of “Roots – Groping in the Dark”.
How to Conduct Agronomic Field Experiments
Thomas Döring, Professor of Agroecology and Organic Farming, Institute of Crop Science and Resource Conservation (INRES) at the University of Bonn gives a PhenoRob Interdisciplinary Lecture [PILS] on the topic of how to conduct agronomic field experiments.
Deep Generative Models for Agriculture
Ribana Roscher, Professor of Data Science for Crop Systems, Institute of Bio- and Geosciences (IBG-2), Forschungszentrum Jülich, and Institute of Geodesy and Geoinformation (IGG), University of Bonn gives a PhenoRob Interdisciplinary Lecture [PILS] on the topic of deep generative models for agriculture.
3D Reconstruction from Images
Prof. Dr. Sven Behnke, Professor and head of the Autonomous Intelligent Systems Group, Institute of Computer Science at the University of Bonn gives a PhenoRob Interdisciplinary Lecture [PILS] on the topic of 3D Reconstruction from Images.
How to measure 3D Structure (while driving or flying)
Dr. Lasse Klingbeil from the Institute of Geodesy and Geoinformation at the University of Bonn gives a PhenoRob Interdisciplinary Lecture [PILS] on the topic of how to measure 3D structure (while driving or flying).
Impact of Plant Diseases on Optical Properties
Anne-Katrin Mahlein, Director of the Institute of Sugarbeet Research (IfZ), Institute of Sugarbeet Research, University of Göttingen, gives a PhenoRob Interdisciplinary Lecture [PILS] on the topic of “Impact of Plant Diseases on Optical Properties”.
Georeferencing with GNSS
Heiner Kuhlmann, Spokesperson of the Cluster of Excellence PhenoRob at the University of Bonn, gives a PhenoRob Interdisciplinary Lecture [PILS] on the topic of “Georeferencing with GNSS”.
Causality without randomized experiments – from Potential Outcomes to Causal Machine Learning
Hugo Storm, Junior Research Group Leader at the Cluster of Excellence PhenoRob at the University of Bonn, gives a PhenoRob Interdisciplinary Lecture [PILS] on the topic of “Causality without randomized experiments – from Potential Outcomes to Causal Machine Learning”.
What My Neural Net Doesn’t Know – Predicting Uncertainty in Deep Learning (PILS Lecture)
Marija Popović, Junior Research Group Leader at the Cluster of Excellence “PhenoRob” and Institute of Geodesy and Geoinformation at the University of Bonn gives a PhenoRob Interdisciplinary Lecture [PILS] on the topic of “What My Neural Net Doesn’t Know – Predicting Uncertainty in Deep Learning”.
Dynamic Modelling of Crops and Cropping Systems
Frank Ewert, Professor and head of the Crop Science Group at the Institute of Crop Science and Resource Conservation (INRES), University of Bonn and Scientific Director of Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF) gives a PhenoRob Interdisciplinary Lecture [PILS] on the topic of “Dynamic Modelling of Crops and Cropping Systems”
Coupling Perception and Action Planning for Mobile Robots
Maren Bennewitz, professor and head of the Humanoid Robotics Group, Institute of Computer Science at the University of Bonn gives a PhenoRob Interdisciplinary Lecture [PILS] on the topic of “Coupling Perception and Action Planning for Mobile Robots”.
What does it mean to publish data FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable)
Juliane Fluck, Professor of Information Management, Institute of Geodesy and Geoinformation (IGG) at the University of Bonn, gives a PhenoRob Interdisciplinary Lecture [PILS] on the topic of “What does it mean to publish data FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable)”
Measuring plant structure and function with light – photons, pigments and their interaction
Uwe Rascher, Professor of Quantitative Physiology of Crops, Institute of Bio- and Geosciences (IBG-2), Forschungszentrum Jülich and Institute of Crop Science and Resource Conservation (INRES), University of Bonn, gives a PhenoRob Interdisciplinary Lecture [PILS] on the topic of “Measuring plant structure and function with light – photons, pigments and their interaction”.
Neural Network Basics for Image Interpretation by C. Stachniss (PILS Lecture)
Neural Network Basics for Image Interpretation by Cyrill Stachniss. The PhenoRob Interdisciplinary Lecture Series called PILS is a series of lectures of up to 30 min explaining key concepts to people from other fields. The series is part of the Cluster of Excellence PhenoRob at the University of Bonn. #UniBonn #StachnissLab #robotics #learning #neuralnetworks
PILS – The PhenoRob Interdisciplinary Lecture Series – Welcome
The PhenoRob Interdisciplinary Lecture Series called PILS is a series of lectures of up to 30 min explaining key concepts to people from other fields. The series starts in January 2022 and is part of the Cluster of Excellence PhenoRob at the University of Bonn.