In this overview talk, I will present several short projects reflecting the current research agenda of the Neuroinformatics group to provide links for possible future collaborations.

In the winter semester 2023/24 we will resume our popular public lecture series "FIAS Forum". For the first date on September 21, 2023, we were able to win Volker Mosbrugger. The chairman of our foundation board and president of the Polytechnische Gesellschaft Frankfurt will talk about the sustainability crisis and its impact on the scientific landscape.

The options of quantum computing and benchmarks of some of the most powerful supercomputers will be presented by Kristel Michielsen. She will give an example from aircraft industry.

On Oct. 25, 2023, FIAS and Goethe University will host a joint colloqium under the heading "Science Perspectives". Professor Steven Rayan will speak. The director of the Centre for Quantum Topology and Its Applications (quanTA) and Professor, Mathematics and Statistics, University of Saskatchewan, he is a specialist in quantum computing and quantum materials.

Thanks to a generous donation from the Giersch Foundation, FIAS can present the "FIAS Senior Fellow Laureatus" award for the 5th time. In 2023, the prize goes to Prof. Dr. Thomas Südhof.

We cordially invite you to a special moment in our FIAS Forum series. On 07.12.23, Prof. Dr. Eckhard Elsen, the Scientific Director of FIAS, will introduce himself to the Frankfurt public for the first time with his lecture "Dynamics of Scientific Research in Germany". Prof. Elsen, with extensive experience at DESY and as former Director of Research and Computing at CERN, brings an expertise that provides an exclusive insight into the German and international research landscape. His lecture will scrutinize the dynamics of existing structures by using specific examples to highlight locations, potential, sustainability and the fundamental importance of research.