Philosophy and Mathematics of Situated Agency
PaMoSA 2026
Conference at the University of Oulu, Finland, June 22.-24.2026
Conference Organizers
Dr.
Kalle Timperi
Random dynamical systems, low dimensional geometry,
mathematical models for robotics
Kalle Timperi is a post-doctoral researcher at the Perception Engineering group at the Centre of Applied Computing, University of Oulu. In his PhD, Kalle studied the geometry of boundaries of attractors in random dynamical systems with bounded noise. This work was carried out in the ITN Critical Transitions in Complex Systems (CRITICS). Currently, Kalle studies general mathematical models for agent-environment coupling, in particular questions related to information processing in this context.
Dr.
Vadim Weinstein
Mathematical logic, embodied cognition
Vadim Weinstein (né Kulikov) defended his PhD in mathematical logic in 2011 at the University of Helsinki and has worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the Kurt Gödel Research Center for Mathematical Logic in Vienna, Mittag-Leffler Institute in Stockholm, University of Helsinki, Aalto University, and is currently a senior research fellow at the University of Oulu. After his PhD, Vadim got interested in the mind sciences and completed an MSc in cognitive science at the University of Vienna in 2016. He has published in a wide range of areas from generalized and classical descriptive set theory to knot theory and philosophy of cognition and artificial intelligence. His main interest is to tie mathematical logic with the modern understanding of human mind and brain
Professor
Adrian Wieczorek
Phenomenological Ontology, Situated Mind, Philosophy of Perception
Adrian Wieczorek is Assistant Professor of Philosophy of Cognition at Technische Universität Berlin. Before, he worked as Research Assistant at the Chair of Metaphysics and Ontology at LMU Munich. He is author of the monograph "Konstitutive Bedingungen mentaler Repräsentation" (De Gruyter 2024). Research areas include situated cognition, perception, and intentionality. With Vadim Weinstein, he works on a radical non-representational account of robotics. His main project at TU Berlin is developing a phenomenologically informed ontology of situated cognition called "Situational Framework Analysis".
Local hosts
Dr.
Hannah Erickson
Graph theory, computational geometry for robotics
Hannah Erickson received her Ph.D. degree from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2014. She is a postdoctoral researcher at the Centre for Applied Computing, University of Oulu, Finland, working in the Perception Engineering group. Her main research interests are graph theory and computational geometry problems in robotics.
Mr.
Filip Georgiev
Reinforcement learning, embedded software, virtual reality
Filip Georgiev is a PhD student at the Perception Engineering group, Centre of Applied Computing in the University of Oulu. He obtained his BSc from Fontys University of Applied Sciences, specializing in embedded software and virtual reality. In his MSc, obtained from the University of Oulu, Filip studies minimal mathematical models of grid cell functionality. Filip has also acted as the team leader in several startup competitions, often guiding prize-winning teams.