| Sustainable AI, Five Years Later
Dr. Thomas Metcalf
(University of Bonn, Institute for Science and Ethics, Senior Researcher)
In 2021, in a landmark article, philosopher Aimee van Wynsberghe helped inaugurate the present-day study of whether and how AI technology can be sustainable throughout its lifecycle. In the intervening five years, there have been just a few interesting developments in AI. Therefore, it is important to revisit the main philosophical considerations surrounding the nature and importance of sustainable AI. In this lecture, philosopher Thomas Metcalf argues that we now have a clearer view of where and how AI will be sustainable or unsustainable. Dr. Metcalf argues that social sustainability will prove more urgent than environmental and economic sustainability, and that we should think of the sustainability of AI in terms of the sustainability of infrastructures, including academic and democratic infrastructures. | Fakultät für Mathematik und Informatik | Mathematikon, Hörsaal, INF 205, 18.00 Uhr | |
23.07.2026
9:30 AM - 1:00 PM | Compact course: Agentic Test-Driven Development
Dr. Liam Keegan
As agentic coding tools like Claude Code and Codex CLI make generating code faster, validating the correctness of this code becomes more important than ever. In this course you will learn how to apply test-driven development and software testing best practices in the context of agentic software development. By writing tests before the implementation, our test suite not only verifies correctness, but also defines a clear specification of what the code should and should not do. | Scientific Software Center | Mathematikon Bauteil A, Im Neuenheimer Feld 205, in the conference room 5/104 on the 5th floor | |
| Conference: EuCAIF
Workshop
The third “European AI for Fundamental Physics Conference” (EuCAIFCon) will be held in Heidelberg, from 24th to 28th of August 2026. The aim of this event is to provide a platform for establishing new connections between AI activities across various branches of fundamental physics, by bringing together researchers that face similar challenges and/or use similar AI solutions. The conference will be organized “horizontally”: sessions are centered on specific AI methods and themes, while being cross-disciplinary regarding the scientific questions. EuCAIFCon 2026 is organised by EuCAIF | | | |
| IWR School 2026
AI for Science
The summer school is designed for PhD students who want to leverage state-of-the-art AI in their research. Applicants may come from any scientific discipline, including physics, biology, medicine, neuroscience, and climate science.
The school offers a comprehensive overview of key topics in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, including Generative AI, Explainability, Simulation-based Inference, Agentic AI, Robustness and Validation of AI Methods, Vision-Language Models, Self-Supervised Learning, Knowledge Integration, and Causality. In addition to expert lectures, the program features hands-on sessions and best-practice sessions focused on how to use the latest AI tools in research.
Participants are expected to have a solid understanding of the core concepts of machine learning. | Scientific Organizer:
Carsten Rother
Ulrich Köthe
Co-Organizer:
Konrad Zuse School of Excellence in Learning and Intelligent Systems (ELIZA) | Mathematikon
Im Neuenheimer Feld 205
69120 Heidelberg | |
