EVENTS

PIER will host its annual PIER Day at the Bahrenfeld campus.

The event will showcase recent and ongoing joint research activities between DESY and the University of Hamburg (UHH) funded by PIER, as well as explore future collaboration opportunities. A special focus this year will be on AI & Data Science, organized in collaboration with PIER PLUS.

The program includes:

• Highlights from PIER Seed Projects
• Joint research perspectives of DESY and UHH in specific fields
• Keynote Lecture "From Dark Matter to Dark Triad and Back: What Physics Can Teach AI — and What AI Can Teach Physics" by Lucie Flek (University of Bonn): 
  • Both particle physics and AI grapple with complexity, uncertainty, and the search for structure. Drawing on a journey from CERN to language modeling and back, this talk explores how robust data, structured reasoning, and alignment with human understanding can make AI safer — and how foundation models can, in turn, accelerate scientific discovery.
• AI & Data Science in Science City Hamburg Bahrenfeld: Which Initiatives and Ideas Are Out There?
• PIER PLUS Posterwalk "AI and Science: Unexpected Connections and Method Innovation"
• Panel discussion “Science City Hamburg Bahrenfeld and Beyond: Towards an Attractive Hub for AI & Data Science”
  • Discussants:
    • Tilo Böhmann (UHH)
    • Martin Burger (DESY)
    • Lucie Flek (University of Bonn)
    • Beate Heinemann (DESY)
    • Luisa Lucie-Smith (UHH)
    • Ralf Krauter (Moderator)