RAML Meetup

15 Jan 2026, 10:00 → 16 Jan 2026, 15:00 Europe/Berlin

Jian-Jia Chen, Raphael Fischer (TU Dortmund University), Sebastian Buschjäger (Lamarr Institute for ML and AI, TU Dortmund)

Thursday 15 January

10:00 → 10:30 Arrival

Grab a coffee and some snacks until everyone is there :)

10:30 → 10:45 Welcome

A guided tour through the next two days.

Speaker: Raphael Fischer (TU Dortmund University)

10:45 → 11:30 TBA

TBA

11:30 → 12:00 Overview of the Resource-Aware Machine Learning Area at Lamarr

Speaker: Jian-Jia Chen

12:00 → 13:00 Lunch Break

We will have lunch at the Cantina of JvF 25 (this is the same building on the ground floor)

13:00 → 14:40 Interactive Clustering

Yes, you read correctly - we will do clustering. High-dimensional, highly personalized with yet to be discovered distance metrics. In all seriousness: We hope to do some interactive clustering with post-its on the whiteboard that will (hopefully) lead to nice discussions on your research ideas and topics.

Speakers: Jian-Jia Chen, Raphael Fischer (TU Dortmund University)

14:40 → 15:00 Coffee Break

15:00 → 16:00 (Some) Highlight Presentations

Speakers: Jian-Jia Chen, Raphael Fischer (TU Dortmund University)

16:00 → 16:15 Wrap-Up

Speakers: Jian-Jia Chen, Raphael Fischer (TU Dortmund University)

16:15 → 18:30 Long Break before dinner

You can check into your hotel, check your E-mails, make sure your cat is fed at home etc.

18:30 → 22:00 Dinner

TBA

Friday 16 January

09:00 → 09:30 Arrival

You know the drill by now: Get some coffee and say hi to everyone arriving

09:30 → 10:30 2026 pitches

You were asked to prepare 1 slide on your research plans for 2026. Now its the time to get them out and present them!

Speakers: Jian-Jia Chen, Raphael Fischer (TU Dortmund University)

10:30 → 10:45 Pre-Lunch Break

10:45 → 12:00 Clustered-Dating

You have put in a lot of work to cluster yourselves the day before, and now it's time to capitalize on it! Dont worry: This is about research only - we do not expect you to find a new life partner. Although it might be a nice success story for Lamarr....

Speakers: Jian-Jia Chen, Raphael Fischer (TU Dortmund University)

12:00 → 13:00 Lunch-Break

We will have lunch at the Cantina of JvF 25 (this is the same building on the ground floor)

13:00 → 13:45 Idea building

Now that you (hopefully) have found your research partner, its time to double-down. We ask you to form small groups with 2-N people in which you build a more concrete research idea. This can be a paper idea, a project proposal, or just some random idea that you want to quickly try out. Try to come up with a short pitch of
a) What you want to do
b) How you want to do it
c) What the timeline is
d) (optional) What resources you need to achieve it

Speakers: Jian-Jia Chen, Raphael Fischer (TU Dortmund University)

13:45 → 14:15 Idea pitches

Well, those ideas are not going to present themselves. So its time to pitch them to the group :-)

Speakers: Jian-Jia Chen, Raphael Fischer (TU Dortmund University)

14:15 → 14:45 Wrap-Up

Time to wrap-up the seminar. Thank you all for being here

Speakers: Jian-Jia Chen, Raphael Fischer (TU Dortmund University)