Sibilla Di Guida
Lecturer
Fabio Pinelli
Mentor
Mirco Tribastone
Lecturer
Gianluca Guadagni
Lecturer, Mentor
Francesca Chiaromonte
Provocateur
Thomas Stewart
Lecturer, Mentor
Tommaso Gili
Lecturer
Marinella Petrocchi
Mentor
Alex Gates
Lecturer
Marco Gori
Provocateur
Katie MacDonald
Lecturer
Giacomo Marzi
Lecturer
Folco Panizza
Mentor
Giacomo Handjaras
Lecturer
Tim Dunne
Facilitator
Fabrizio Silvestri
Lecturer
Marco Pagani
Mentor
Jack van Horn
Mentor
- Guinigi Chapel -
9:00 - Opening remarks/Meeting Objectives
9:15 - Faculty Lectures
Giacomo Marzi (IMT) - Individual Benefits, Collective Risks: How Generative AI Is Reshaping Scientific Research
Gianluca Guadagni (SDS) - Pattern Retrieval on Energy Landscapes: From Biological Memory to Artificial Intelligence
Tomaso Gili (IMT) - From Symmetries to Neurons: A Graph-Theoretic Framework for Biological and Artificial Intelligence
10:30 - Coffee Break
11:00 - Faculty Lectures
Provocateur - Marco Gori (University of Siena) - The Web of Humans and AI
Thomas G. Stewart (SDS-UVA) - Curriculum Adaptation in the Age of LLMs
Katie MacDonald (UVA Architecture) - Bridging Artificial Intelligence and the Material World: From Construction Supply Chains to Future Cities
Reflection & Small Group Discussions
What are the challenges this represents?
Doctorate Lightning Talks
13:00 - Lunch
14:00 - Faculty Lectures
Provocateur- Francesca Chiaromonte (SSSA, Penn State) - Who’s got the steering wheel? Thoughts from a runaway car
Alex Gates (SDS-UVA) - Diffusion or Isolation? Structural Shifts in AI Knowledge Networks
Sibilla di Guida (IMT) - Can ChatGPT Improve Financial Literacy? An Empirical Investigation
Mirco Tribastone (IMT) - Coding with AI: Rethinking How Research Software Gets Made
15:30 - Coffee Break
16:00 - Faculty Lectures
Fabrizio Silvestri (Facebook, University La Sapienza Rome) - Learning with Structured Consistency: Sheaf Neural Networks from Theory to Applications
Giacomo Handjaras (IMT) - Individual traits and experiences predict the content of dreams
Reflection & Discussions
Doctorate Lightning Talks Thinking
18:00 - Break and Activity for Workshop Participants
19:00 - Welcome Cocktail
- Canova room -
9:00 - Meeting Start and Call to Action: Who is in the Room Activities
10:30 - Break
11:00 - Speed Dating and Idea Generation
13:00 - Lunch
14: 00 - Landscape of the Challenge: Making sense of all the challenges we collected during the meeting
15:00 - Break
15:30 - Exploring and Selecting key challenges and developing ideas and potential solutions: Group Reflection & Discussion
18:00 - Finish the day
19:00 - Social activities (not mandatory but strongly encouraged!)
- Canova room -
9:00 - Meeting Start and Call to Action
Round 1 Stewarding Ideas in small groups on Behalf of the full group. Continue developing potential solutions and short presentations.
10:00 - Break
10:30 - Round 2 Stewarding Ideas in small groups on Behalf of the full group. Continue developing potential solutions and short presentations.
12:00 - Lunch
13:15 - Round 3 Stewarding Ideas in small groups on Behalf of the full group. Continue developing potential solutions and short presentations.
15:00 - Break
15:30 - Group Forming - Working Groups. Preparing and first draft project presentations with feedback.
17:45 - Group Reflection & Discussion
Workshop Close
- Canova room -
9:00 - Meeting Start and Call to Action Working Time
10:30 - Break
11:00 - 2nd Draft Project Presentations with feedback
12:00 - Lunch
13:15 - Mentor Meetings and Working Time
17:45 - Close Day
- Canova room and Guinigi Chapel -
9:00 - Meeting Start and Call to Action Working Time
10:30 - Break
12:00 - Lunch
13:00 - Final Project Presentations - (open to the symposium community)
16:00 - Closing
19:30 - Farewell dinner (Ristorante 'Il Mecenate')
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