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There are still some spots available on the Advanced Course on Generative AI - ACDL 2024. To participate your registration fee has to be received by *23 May* so please register asap! See you in Tuscany in June!

                                      https://acdl2024.icas.events  

#ACDL2024, An Interdisciplinary Course: From Deep Learning to Generative AI

ACDL 2024  is a full-immersion 5-day course in Tuscany on cutting-edge advances in AI, Deep Learning, LLMs, Data Sc. & Generative AI with lectures delivered by world-renowned experts. 


If
 you want to learn
 NLP, Generative AI
 Transformers, Diffusion Models,
 Large language models,
 Vision - Large-scale vision models,
 Vision and language,
 Beyond vision and language,
 Multimodal Foundation Models  
 and much more
then
 take part in ACDL 2024! ;-)

Riva del Sole Resort & SPA - Tuscany, Italy, June 10-14
https://acdl2024.icas.events  
acdl@icas.cc

EARLY REGISTRATION: by May 23 (AoE)
https://acdl2024.icas.events/registration/
Oral Presentation Submission Deadline: by May 23 (AoE)

LECTURERS:
Each Lecturer will hold up to four lectures on one or more research topics.
https://acdl2024.icas.events/lecturers/

* Joseph Sifakis, Verimag Laboratory, Grenoble, France  *Turing Award*
Lecture: “Artificial Intelligence: Where We Are, Where We Are Going?”

* Gabriel Barth-Maron, DeepMind, London, UK
4 Lessons on "Multimodal Foundation Models"

* Sergiy Butenko, Texas A&M University, USA
“Cluster-detection Methods in Network-based Data Analysis”
“Continuous Approaches to Cluster-Detection Problems in Networks ”

* Sven Giesselbach, Fraunhofer Institute - IAIS, Germany
5 Lessons on "Introduction on Foundation Models"

* Ramin Hasani, MIT, USA
4 Lessons on "Continuous Neural Networks / Liquid Neural Networks"

* Nora Kassner, DeepMind, London, UK
"Large Language Models: Life after Pre-training"
"Large Language Models: Evaluation"
"Large Language Models: Reasoning and Factuality"
"Large Language Models: Retrieval augmentation and Tool-use"

* Petros Koumoutsakos, Harvard University, USA
“Machine Learning for Modeling and Control of Complex Systems” 1/2
“Machine Learning for Modeling and Control of Complex Systems” 2/2
“Solving forward and inverse problems with and without neural networks”
“Bayesian Uncertainty Quantification”

* Maria Liakata, The Alan Turing Institute, UK
4 Lessons on "Longitudinal Language Processing with User Generated Content"

* Panos Pardalos, University of Florida, USA
Lecture TBA
Topics: Data Science, Application to Neuroscience

* Jakub M. Tomczak, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands
4 Lessons on “Deep Generative Modelling”

* Rianne van den Berg, Microsoft Research Amsterdam, The Netherlands
3 Lessons on "Diffusion Models"

* Pascal Van Hentenryck, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
3 Lessons on "Fusing Machine Learning and Optimization for Engineering"

* Max Welling, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Lecture "Generalized Belief Propagation Algorithms for Tensor Network Contractions"


PAST LECTURERS: https://acdl2024.icas.events/past-lecturers/

ACDL 2024 VENUE: https://acdl2024.icas.events/venue/
Riva del Sole Resort & SPA
Località Riva del Sole‚ Castiglione della Pescaia (Grosseto)
CAP 58043‚ Tuscany‚ Italy
p: +39-0564-928111
e: booking.events@rivadelsole.it
w: https://www.rivadelsole.it/en/

PAST EDITIONS: https://acdl2024.icas.events/past-editions/

REGISTRATION:  https://acdl2024.icas.events/registration/

CERTIFICATE & 8 ECTS:
PhD students, Postdocs, Industry Practitioners, Junior and Senior Academics, and will be typical profiles of the ACDL attendants. The Course will involve a total of 36-40 hours of lectures, according to the academic system the final achievement will be equivalent to 8 ECTS points for the PhD Students (and some strongly motivated master student) attending the Course. At the end of the course, a formal certificate will be delivered indicating the 8 ECTS points.

TO PARTICIPATE IN ACDL 2024, all attendants must

(1/2) register for the course (by May 23) and
(2/2) book accommodation at the course venue, Riva del Sole Resort & SPA‚ (by May 23); all attendants must stay at the Riva del Sole Resort & SPA.

Once accommodation has been booked at Riva del Sole Resort & SPA‚ the participant must send this information (including the Booking Number) to the ACDL organizing committee (acdl@icas.cc).

ACDL is a residential course, so all lecturers and participants must reside in the same Hotel (Riva del Sole Resort & SPA). No exceptions are made.
 
For privacy reasons, the Hotel cannot match people. If you have someone to share the apartment with, please send to the Hotel (booking.events@rivadelsole.it) the name, surname and email address. Otherwise the solution is to book an apartment in single use.

Anyone interested in participating in ACDL 2024 should register as soon as possible.

See you in Riva del Sole in June!
         Giuseppe Nicosia & Panos Pardalos - ACDL 2024 Directors.
         ACDL 2024 Scientific & Organizing Committees.  

https://acdl2024.icas.events  
acdl@icas.cc