If you divide the lab year roughly into presenting science vs. creating science, then September is the month when we all come back to our labs and get busy tinkering, implementing and piloting new ideas. We’ve spent the last few weeks doing just that and are still getting new input through our regular Reading Club, which everyone actively attends. Our team is now almost complete for the next few months (but wait for the next post) and I am happy to have such a wonderful team that is highly motivated to do good science.

We are very happy to welcome Laura van Zantwijk as a new PhD student in the MIAlab. Laura did her Master in Utrecht and has already contributed to many successful research projects on active perception. Welcome to Berlin Laura. We are so happy to have you here.

We participated at the spontaneous RIPE workshop in Berlin. What a great opportunity to learn more about relations from so many smart people. Hopefully, this workshop will take place again next year.

One of the annual highlights in our research calendar is just around the corner. The MIAlab is flying to VSS. Sven will be giving a talk on Saturday with the title “What Newton did not know about Newton’s cradle: Separating visual routines for cause and effect” in the talk session “Perception of Relations, Intuitive Physics.” A lot of other cool talks are in the same session and we are very excited.