Within this IEEE ITSS Germany Chapter Distinguished Lecture Series 2026, Prof. Marco Pavone (Stanford, NVIDIA) will give a talk entitled “Reasoning Models for Physical AI“. The talk will cover topics including: Reasoning-centric AI for Physical AI systems. Chain-of-thought reasoning in autonomous driving and NVIDIA’s Alpamayo models Model design and training strategies for causal reasoning Tools and datasets …

Within this IEEE ITSS Germany Chapter Distinguished Lecture Series 2026, Prof. Johannes Betz (TUM) will give a talk entitled “Learning to Handle Autonomous Vehicles at the Limits – Lessons Learned from Real-World Autonomous Motorsport“. The talk will cover topics including: Can autonomous vehicles outperform human drivers at the limits of vehicle dynamics. Learning-based motion planning and …

Within this IEEE ITSS Germany Chapter Distinguished Lecture Series 2026, Dr. Tomas Levin (NPRA) will give a talk entitled “Jammertest – The Why, What and How?“ The talk will cover topics including: Why the Norwegian Public Roads Administration initiated the world’s largest open GNSS vulnerability test. GNSS threats such as jamming, spoofing, and meaconing in the context …

Within this IEEE ITSS Germany Chapter Distinguished Lecture Series 2026, Prof. Simona Sacone (UniGE) will give a talk entitled “Horizontal Cooperation Schemes in Container Transportation“. The talk will cover topics including: Cooperation among freight carriers as a lever to reduce emissions and improve efficiency.. A cooperative planning framework for joint assignment of transport orders across carriers. …

Within this IEEE ITSS Germany Chapter Distinguished Lecture Series 2026, Prof. Jack Haddad (Technion) will give a talk entitled “Smarter Traffic Signal Control: Bridging Theory and Real-World Deployment“. The talk will cover topics including: The environmental and economic impact of urban traffic congestion on modern cities. Real time feedback based Max Pressure control, enabling adaptive signal …

Within this IEEE ITSS Germany Chapter Distinguished Lecture Series 2026, Prof. Davide Scaramuzza (UZH) will give a talk entitled “Agile Robotics: From Cameras to Neuromorphic Sensors”. The talk will cover topics including: The expanding role of robots in inspection, agriculture, logistics, automated driving, and search and rescue. Overcoming current limitations in speed, versatility, and robustness. Combining model based …