PROGRAM

Lake Como School of Advanced Studies

September 19-23, 2022

Villa del Grumello (Como, ITALY)

September 19, 2022

9:30 Welcome and opening: Structure of the School and Program Presentation

Stefania Bandini, Francesca Gasparini (University of Milano-Bicocca, ITALY)


9:45 Welcome from the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence

Gianluigi Greco (University of Calabria, ITALY)


10:00 AI, Logistics and Complex Systems: perspectives from an AI user

Katsuhiro Nishinari (RCAST, The University of Tokyo, JAPAN)


11:00 Coffee break


SESSION 1 - THREE SHADES OF (GOOD-OLD) MODERN ML: CAUSAL, LIFELONG AND RELATIONAL

Cared by the AIxIA Working Group on "AI & ML" - Chair: Davide Bacciu (University of Pisa)


11:30 Deep learning for Graphs

Davide Bacciu (University of Pisa, ITALY)


13:00 Lunch break


14:00 Introduction to Continual Learning

Vincenzo Lomonaco (University of Pisa)


15:30 Coffee break


16:00 Causality-inspired ML: what can causality do for ML? The domain adaptation case

Sara Magliacane (University of Amsterdam and MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab, USA)


17:30 Working groups

Tutor: Aurora Saibene (University of Milano-Bicocca, ITALY)


September 20, 2022


SESSION 2 - ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE FOR HUMAN MACHINE INTERACTION

Chair: Francesca Gasparini (University of Milano-Bicocca)


9.30 Wearable devices and sensors technologies

Francesca Gasparini (University of Milano-Bicocca, ITALY)


9.45 Expanding Human Capacities with Wearable AI

Evangelos Niforatos (TU Delft , THE NETHERLANDS)


11:00 Coffee break


11:30 Sensors at Work: Personal Devices for Supporting Well-Being and Productivity

Silvia Santini (UniversitĂ  della Svizzera Italiana, USI Lugano, SWITZERLAND)


13:00 Lunch break


14:00 Learning from Biological Intelligence of Insects

Ryohei Kanzaki (RCAST, The University of Tokyo, JAPAN)


14:30 How affective Virtual Reality can contribute to AI research

Francesco Ferrise (Politecnico di Milano, ITALY)


15:30 Coffee break


16:00 Tech Demo

Chair: Aurora Saibene (University of Milano-Bicocca)

Francesco Ferrise (Politecnico di Milano, ITALY)

Evangelos Niforatos (TU Delft , THE NETHERLANDS)

Sarah Cosentino (Waseda University, Tokyo, JAPAN)


17:30 Working groups

Tutor: Alessandra Grossi (University of Milano-Bicocca, ITALY)


September 21, 2022


SESSION 3 - AI MEETS PHYSICS: A GLANCE

Chair: Marta Calvi (University of Milano-Bicocca)


9:30 Open-source software development in quantum computing

Nathan Shammah (Unitary Fund, ITALY)


10:30 A quantum solution to a classic Machine Learning problem

Cristiano De Nobili (University of Milano-Bicocca, ITALY)


11:00 Coffee break


11:30 Ultrafast Machine Learning Inference at the Large Hadron Collider

Thea Klaeboe Aarrestad (ETH, Zurich, SWITZERLAND)


12:30 Graph Neural Networks for Particle Physics

Julian García Pardiñas (University of Milano-Bicocca, ITALY)


13:00 Lunch break


SESSION 4 - AI, LANGUAGE AND COMPUTATION

Chair: Enza Messina (University of Milano-Bicocca)


14:00 Why is Imagination Mightier than Knowledge? Draw feature concepts with your pens, mightier than swords

Yukio Ohsawa (The University of Tokyo, JAPAN)


14:45 Topic Modelling Meets Neural Language Model

Elisabetta Fersini (University of Milano-Bicocca, ITALY)



15:30 A Gentle Introduction to Bayesian Optimization and Its Application to Hyperparameter Tuning

Antonio Candelieri (University of Milano-Bicocca, ITALY)


16:15 Coffee break


16:30 Profiling Neural Language Models

Alessio Miaschi (Institute for Computational Linguistics, CNR, Pisa, ITALY)


17:30/19:00 Working groups: Living Labs contribute to enhancing participant's organisational citizenship behaviour (OCB)

Sae Kondo (MIE University, JAPAN)


September 22, 2022


SESSION 5 - AI AND HEALTH

Cared by the AIxIA Working Group on "AI & HEALTH" - Chair: Fabio Stella (University of Milano-Bicocca)


9:30 AI and HEALTH: a new Working Group of AIxIA

Gianluigi Greco (University of Calabria, ITALY)


10:30 Coffee Break


11:00 Deep Learning in medical imaging

Pierangela Bruno (University of Calabria, ITALY)


13:00 Lunch break


14:00 Argument-Based Computational Persuasion for Behaviour Change in Healthcare

Ivan Donadello (Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, ITALY)

15:30 Coffee break


16:00 Bayesian (Causal) networks for Healthcare, Medicine and Biology

Fabio Stella (University of Milano-Bicocca, ITALY)


17:30 Working groups

19:30 Social Dinner

"Le Serre" - Villa del Grumello


September 23, 2022

SESSION 6 - AI AND SUSTAINABILITY

Chair: Stefania Bandini (University of Milano-Bicocca)

Event organized by the AMPEL Project (Fondazione CARIPLO)


9:30 The AI Carbon Footprint and Responsibilities of AI Scientists

Guglielmo Tamburrini (UniversitĂ  di Napoli Federico II, ITALY)


10:30 Adding intelligence to ageing and longevity: a call to action for all of us

Nic Palmarini (National Innovation Centre Ageing, Newcastle - UK)


11:30 Coffee break


12:00 Computer Science and Sustainability: actual challenges and future perspective and the contribution of Informatics Europe

Christian Napoli (University Rome "La Sapienza", ITALY and Informatics Europe)


12:30 Fighting multi-dimensional poverty through AI

Francesca Gasparini (University of Milano-Bicocca, ITALY)


13:00 Lunch break

14:00 Students presentations

15:30 Coffee break

16:00 Students presentations

17:30 Closure of the Summer School