10.09.2026

Talk: Jesse van Oostrum

by Jesse van Oostrum, Institute for Data Science Foundations - on Thursday, September 10, 2026 at 11:00 am - in room 5.002, HIPone, Blohmstr. 15, 21079 Hamburg.

Date: Thursday, 10 September 2026, 11:00
Location: Room 5.002, HIP One (and via Zoom)

Models of perception, action selection, and consciousness. Jesse van Oostrum is a PhD student in mathematics with applications to cognitive sciences, supervised by Prof. Nihat Ay. He studies Bayesian networks, information geometry, and the Fisher-Rao gradient of the evidence lower bound. His recent work includes a concise mathematical description of active inference in discrete time.