Program Overview
Each ESSAI course lasts for one week (5 days * 1.5 hours per day). Courses are categorized as Introductory (I) and Advanced (A). Tutorials will take place in a single day, in the afternoon, for 2*45 minutes. There are also 2 keynotes scheduled for 19:00 on Monday July 15th and Monday July 22nd.
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Registration
Registration will be open from 8:00am on Monday July 15 and 22, and from 9:00am any other day. Please come early to pick up your registration material because courses will start at 9:00am sharp!
Coffee and Lunch Breaks
The coffee and lunch breaks will take place in Building 12, in the large open space outside the Auditorium.
Poster Sessions
There will be two poster sessions that will take in the foyer of Building 12 on Tuesday July 16 and Tuesday July 23 starting during the coffee break at 15:30. Participants presenting a poster are invited to attach their posters to the available poster boards before the sessions and leave them there for the whole school duration. The assigned poster board will be made known to them during registration. Poster presenters are also invited to be near their poster board during the sessions so that they can present their poster to other interested participants.
The poster should be no more than 841mm wide and 1189mm tall (size A0) in portrait orientation. We will provide tape to hold the posters to panels. Please do not make a poster larger than the recommended size.
CLAIRE Rising Researchers Network Workshop
The day before ESSAI starts, CLAIRE Rising Researchers Network is organizing a workshop for the attendees. The first part focuses on mental health in academia and starts with a panel discussion aimed at addressing the mental health challenges faced by Ph.D. students and young researchers. Topics could include: coping with stress and anxiety; Balancing work and personal life; Handling critical feedback and publication pressures; Promoting a supportive academic culture.
| CLAIRE Rising Researchers Network Workshop | |||||
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| July 14 ~ Auditorium (Building 12) | |||||
| 09:45 - 10:00 | Opening | ||||
| 10:00 - 11:00 |
Panel discussion ~ Ph.D life Discussion about common challenges and struggles during your Ph.D |
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| 11:00 - 11:15 | Coffee Break | ||||
| 11:15 - 12:45 | Workshop | ||||
| 12:45 - 14:45 | Lunch Break | ||||
| 14:45 - 15:30 |
Invited talk Advancing Generative and Trustworthy AI: Key Projects at Fraunhofer IAIS |
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| 15:30 - 16:15 |
Invited talk helvia.ai: Anatomy of GenAI Chatbots and Cost-effective LLM Use |
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| 16:15 - 16:30 | Coffee Break | ||||
| 16:30 - 17:15 |
Invited talk ESA Φ-lab: Current Projects and Future Perspectives – Earth Observation, Artificial
Intelligence, and Quantum Computing |
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| 17:15 | Closing words and Dinner | ||||
| ESSAI & ACAI 2024 | |||||
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| Week 1 ~ July 15-19 | |||||
| 09:00 - 10:30 |
Tensor Computations for Machine Learning (A) CANCELLED |
Introduction to Constraint Satisfaction (I) Auditorium - Building 12 |
Integrated Knowledge-based and Data-driven Reasoning, Control, and Learning in Robotics: Robustness, Rationality, and Explainable Agency (A) Conference Hall - Building 12 |
Self-Governing Multi-Agent Systems (I) Library - Building 15 |
Agent-Based Simulation in Complex Networks (I) INN - Building 8 |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Coffee Break | ||||
| 11:00 - 12:30 |
Formal Aspects of Strategic Reasoning and Game Playing (I) Conference Hall - Building 12 |
Unlocking Data Insights: Introduction to Data-Centric AI (I) Library - Building 15 |
Logic-based specification and verification of multi-agent systems (A) INN - Building 8 |
Logic-Based Explainable Artificial Intelligence (A) Auditorium - Building 12 |
Large Language Models, Societal Harms, and their Mitigation (I) IBA - Building 20 |
| 12:30 - 14:00 | Lunch Break | ||||
| 14:00 - 15:30 |
Fairness and Explainability: Models, measurements, and mitigation strategies (A) Auditorium - Building 12 |
The Legislation Game: Introduction to Legal Issues in Artificial Intelligence and Large Language Models (I) Conference Hall - Building 12 |
Game-Theoretic Approach to Temporal Synthesis (A) Library - Building 15 |
Probabilistic Circuits: Tractable Representations for Learning and Reasoning (A) INN - Building 8 |
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| 15:30 - 16:00 | Coffee Break | ||||
| 16:00 - 17:30 | ACAI Tutorials | ||||
| Monday (15/07) | Deep Learning and Computer Vision for Surface Anomaly Detection | Auditorium - Building 12 | |||
| Tuesday (16/07) | Equivariance in Learning for Perception | Auditorium - Building 12 | |||
| Wednesday (17/07) | Complex Event Recognition | Conference Hall - Building 12 | |||
| Wednesday (17/07) | Diffusion Models in Medical Imaging and Analysis | Auditorium - Building 12 | |||
| Thursday (18/07) | Computationally Efficient Learning under Noisy Data | Conference Hall - Building 12 | |||
| Thursday (18/07) | Advancements in Self-Supervised Learning for Speech Technologies | Auditorium - Building 12 | |||
| Friday (19/07) | The Self-Supervised Learning Paradigm in Computer Vision | Auditorium - Building 12 | |||
| Friday (19/07) | Artificial Intelligence for Earth Observation - ESA Φ-lab | Conference Hall - Building 12 | |||
| Monday July 15 | |||||
| 17:45 - 19:30 |
Opening and Keynote Opening remarks Kostas Daniilidis |
Auditorium - Building 12 | |||
| 20:00 | Opening Reception | Foyer - Building 12 | |||
| ESSAI & ACAI 2024 | |||||||
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| Week 2 ~ July 22-26 | |||||||
| 09:00 - 10:30 |
Deep Reasoning in AI with Answer Set Programming (I) Auditorium - Building 12 |
Universal Models and the Chase Procedure (A) Conference Hall - Building 12 |
From Quantity to Quality: The Role of Large Datasets in Language AI Evolution (I) CANCELLED |
Learning Paradigms for Hybrid Decision-Making (I) INN - Building 8 |
Multi-Agent Systems and Evolution (I) IBA - Building 20 |
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| 10:30 - 11:00 | Coffee Break | ||||||
| 11:00 - 12:30 |
Explainable Machine Learning (I) CANCELLED |
Neural-symbolic Knowledge Representation and Reasoning (I) Auditorium - Building 12 |
Introduction to computational argumentation semantics (I) Conference Hall - Building 12 |
AI Governance in Europe: Navigating the AI Act, Establishing AI Offices and Upholding European Principles (I) Library - Building 15 |
Algorithms for Causal Probabilistic Graphical Models (I) INN - Building 8 |
Learning to behave via imitation (A) IBA - Building 20 |
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| 12:30 - 14:00 | Lunch Break | ||||||
| 14:00 - 15:30 |
Quantification: Predicting Class Frequencies via Supervised Learning (I) Library - Building 15 |
Harnessing Scientific AI for Knowledge Discovery in the Open Research Knowledge Graph (A) INN - Building 8 |
Practical AI for Autonomous Robots (I) Auditorium - Building 12 |
Machines Climbing Pearl’s Ladder of Causation (I) Conference Hall - Building 12 |
Explainable AI via Argumentation: Theory & Practice (I) IBA - Building 20 |
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| 15:30 - 16:00 | Coffee Break | ||||||
| 16:00 - 17:30 | ACAI Tutorials | ||||||
| Monday (22/07) | Generative Models for Robot Control | Auditorium - Building 12 | |||||
| Tuesday (23/07) | Exploring the Intersection of Voting Theory and AI | Auditorium - Building 12 | |||||
| Wednesday (24/07) | Can Large Language Models Reason and Plan? | Auditorium - Building 12 | |||||
| Thursday (25/07) | The Power of Graph Learning | Auditorium - Building 12 | |||||
| Thursday (25/07) | The European AI-on-Demand Platform for AI Researchers | Conference Hall - Building 12 | |||||
| Friday (26/07) | Self-designing AI Systems | Auditorium - Building 12 | |||||
| Friday (26/07) | Generative AI in Computer Vision | Conference Hall - Building 12 | |||||
| Monday July 22 | |||||||
| 17:45 - 19:00 |
Opening and Keynote Opening remarks Perception for Robotics |
Auditorium - Building 12 | |||||
| Thursday July 25 | |||||||
| 20:30 | Social Event ~ Skyfall bar | ||||||
| Friday July 26 | |||||||
| 17:45 - 18:00 |
Closing |
Auditorium - Building 12 | |||||
Opening Reception
The Opening Reception will take place in the foyer of Building 12, on Monday 15th of July. We welcome you all, right after our keynote speach, to have a drink (or two) and get to know each other!
Social Event
Our Social Event will take place at Skyfall bar, on Thursday 25th of July. Skyfall bar is close to the historic center of Athens, next to the Kallimarmaro stadium. The venue provides an amazing terrace with breathtaking view over some of the city's most famous landmarks, the Acropolis, the Lycabettus Hill and the Zappeion Hall. To reach the venue you can take a 15' walk from Syntagma square through the city center.
