Andreas Ziegler

Besten Dank für die Fakten (und auch allgemein ihre politische Arbeit) @jaybadran.bsky.social.

So, wie ich die @evppev.bsky.social kenne, geht es auch immer (etwas) um die Werte und den Schutz von besonders vonurablen Menschen. Auch wenn diese nicht die Mehrheit repräsentieren.

EVP Schweiz: Bundesgesetz über die Individualbesteuerung

Von der Entlastung der Familien wird auch bei der EVP geschrieben: www.evppev.ch/abstimmungen...

Ich bin da etwas verwirrt. Was stimmt an dem beschriebenen Beispiel nicht?

Ich habe gerade anfangs Woche eine Zugverbindung von Zürich über Hamburg nach Stockholm gebucht. Preislich ist das ganz okay. Das Problem das ich sehe ist, dass man gefühlt für jedes Land und ob Nachtzug oder nicht eine andere Webseite/Plattform verwenden muss. Es braucht da eine Webseite für alles.

What's next? Since I'm already trained to deal with tons of trial-and-error, reading/writing, uncertainties, rejections, and growth, some more of all of these until life reveals the next longer-term plan for me.

Some close friends from ZH also made their way to Tübingen. And obviously many (former) colleagues. We had a nice Swabian dinner and some drinks to create some positive memories for me (the years of suffering during the PhD need to be compensated somehow).

I'm super happy, that my family joined this semi-important and maybe life-changing event.

Therefore, I also got my "official" PhD hat. Receiving this hat, made by colleagues with love and creativity is the actual reason why people do a PhD and suffer for years. It's not actually the title.

On January 23rd, I finally defended my PhD.

We live on the wave’s edge, where sea, sand and sky are all mixed up together: we are tossed head over heels in the surf, catching only occasional glimpses of any fixed horizon. Some of us stay there from choice because it is exciting and it feels like the right place to be.

Philip Rack, 1979

Please be patient, those of you who have found a rock to stand on, with those of us who haven’t and with those of us who are not even looking for one.

There are others who live in a state of uncertainty, constantly re-thinking their responses to changing circumstances, trying to hold onto what seems fundamental but impelled to reinterpret, often even unsure where lies the boundary between the fundamental and the interpretation…

Some among us have a clear sense of what is right and wrong – for themselves personally if not for everyone else. They have a reassuring certitude and steadiness which can serve as a reference point by which others may navigate.

I recently got nominated as a member of the Executive Committee of the Quaker Council for European Affairs @qcea.bsky.social (www.qcea.org). I'm grateful for the trust Friends have in me.
I'm looking forward to working with experienced Friends and influencing the policy making in Europe a tiny bit.

These are no stats, but my personal experience.

@deutschebahn.com

Recently there is often no apology and the connecting train in an hour is simply announced as the next possible connection. Without mentioning that we can't make the current connect due to the delay. It's also not uncommon, that the first train in the morning is entirely dropped.

If I travel to Tübingen (DE) with an ICE (I do this almost every week), I officially make my connection in 30-40%, unofficially in 20-30% (if I run like an athlete), and wait an additional hour (in the cold) in around 30%. In most cases I don't get informed about the reason for the delay.

Since I noticed quite a bit of bashing against China (and some might be valid), here is a particular experience from my side.
I took 10 high-speed trains in China. Each of them was punctual, clean, friendly staff and free hot water for instant noodles.

Some of my highlights while traveling in China were: the experience of the wet bathroom in Guilin, my personal proof that it is possible to eat vegetarian in China (although vegan is hard), re-visiting the dormitory at SJTU, and the amazing high-speed train infrastructure in China.

I'm happy that next to some sight seeing and meeting an old friend, I was able to talk about some of my PhD research at Hunan University, ShanghaiTech, and Shanghai JiaoTong University (SJTU).

My talk at SJTU was special for me since I did there my exchange year back in 2011/2012.

I was not aware of this. Since I attended a winter and a summer school, I recommend this to every PhD student. It's so important to connect with peers, and even if your research topics might be very different, it's good to see that others struggle as well and to share what helps to stay sane.

I recently learned this during my U.S. trip between ICRA and CVPR and was quite surprised. I was told this is called the tri-semester (having 3 semesters: spring, summer, and winter).
Students can also take courses during the summer to accelerate their studies.

Many thanks to my co-organizers present today at the workshop: Arren Glover, Giulia D'Angelo and Prof. Dr. Yulia Sandamirskaya and the ones who couldn't be present but helped during the preparation: Tobi Delbruck, Sebastian Otte, Luca Peres, and Jingyue Zhao.

After a debate, we were happy to announce two best paper awards. One to the paper "Depth Estimation from Moving Stereo Event Cameras without Motion Cues" and one to the work "On-Device Self-Supervised Learning of Low-Latency Monocular Depth from Only Events".

Next, our rising star speakers Luna Gava and Suman Ghosh presented some work of their PhD.

After an engaging poster and demo session, Guido De Croon and Jorg Conradt both shared their perspectives of how neuromorohic perception can be used and showed some of their latest research.

I'm super happy that our #NeuRobots workshop at #IROS2025 turned out to be a great community gathering for researchers working on or interested in neuromorohic perception and processing.

The workshop started with Mina A Khoei from SynSense sharing the industry perspective.

How are you dealing with this challenge?

this puts me in an internal conflict of needs.
For now, I acknowledge this conflict and try to spend as much time at my destination of travel.
When I flew to the U.S. in summer, I attended 2 conferences, presented 3 papers and traveled for 2.5 weeks.
After IROS I will travel for 2-3 weeks.

I'm on my way to #IROS in Hangzhou. While I love to meet colleagues from all over the world, appreciate being exposed to robotics research for a whole week, I'm also aware of the environmental impact of my academic "lifestyle".
Having been active in the climate justice movement and being a Quaker...

We have a strong lineup of speakers. With Mina A Khoei from @synsense.bsky.social we have a senior speaker from industry. Guido De Croon and Jorg Conradt will present their work and perspective as senior academics. I'm happy that we also have two rising star speakers, Luna Gava and Suman Ghosh.

IROS 2025 is coming closer and closer. If you are interested in neuromorohic perception for real world robotics, join us at our NeuRobots workshop on October 24th.

If you can't make it to IROS, you can also join us online. Please fill out this form to get the link: forms.gle/QShfrBBURHNP...