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topic preferences
Written on 14.10.2026 15:04 by Florian Kriegel
Dear all,
Welcome to our seminar "Who does the science in the age of agents?".
So far we have received topic preferences from only a few of you, and the kick-off meeting is approaching. This is a reminder to send us your preferences by e-mail to florian.kriegel@ccb.uni-saarland.de by Monday, 19.10.2026, 23:59 CET, listing at least three topics in order of preference.
If we do not receive your preferences by the deadline, you will be assigned a topic at random.
The topic list:
1. Retrieval Augmented Generation
2. Reasoning and acting
3. Co-Scientist
4. Applications in Biotech: The Virtual Biotech Lab
5. Spatial Agent
6. The Commercial Science Workbench
7. Physical AI
8. Lab in the loop for perturbation design
9. Can an agent replace a PhD? End-to-end automation
10. Multi-agent failure modes
11. Security risks of agentic systems
12. Dual use in biomedical agentic AI
On our CMS page you can go to Information -> Materials and download the file All Seminar topics to get a detailed description of each task. You can further download the extensive task description in this section.
Two further deadlines to keep in mind:
- CMS registration: 19.10.2026, 23:59 CET. If you have not signed up in the CMS yet, please do so before this date.
- LSF registration: 11.11.2026. If your study program requires additional registration steps elsewhere, please complete those as well.
Kick-off: Wednesday, 21.10.2026, 10:00 in building E2.1 room 0.01. Attendance is mandatory, missing it results in exclusion from the course, and your spot will be given to a student on the waiting list.
Looking forward to get to know you next week!
Best regards,
Your Agentic Seminar Team