Email not displaying correctly? *View it* in your browser. [image: IAISS 2026] <https://u9436285.ct.sendgrid.net/ls/click?upn=u001.dsBJlyaSCnb5nD32aHyVojsew...> Call for Participation <https://u9436285.ct.sendgrid.net/ls/click?upn=u001.dsBJlyaSCnb5nD32aHyVoudvq...> International Artificial Intelligence Summer School -IAISS 2026 <https://u9436285.ct.sendgrid.net/ls/click?upn=u001.dsBJlyaSCnb5nD32aHyVoizV3...> , *Registration: by August 23* <https://u9436285.ct.sendgrid.net/ls/click?upn=u001.dsBJlyaSCnb5nD32aHyVoudvq...> Register Now <https://u9436285.ct.sendgrid.net/ls/click?upn=u001.dsBJlyaSCnb5nD32aHyVoudvq...> 5 Days. World-Class Experts. Tuscany. 🧠 A Full-Immersion Experience in Frontier AI Join us for an unforgettable week of cutting-edge lectures on AI and Generative AI, delivered by some of the most renowned researchers in the field — set against the stunning backdrop of the Tuscan coast. 📍 *Riva del Sole Resort & SPA*, Castiglione della Pescaia, Tuscany, Italy 🗓 *September 20–24, 2026* 🔗 2026.iaiss.cc <https://u9436285.ct.sendgrid.net/ls/click?upn=u001.dsBJlyaSCnb5nD32aHyVoizV3...> ✉️ iaiss@icas.cc 🎤 Meet Your Lecturers An extraordinary faculty from leading institutions across the globe — each delivering up to four lectures on the frontiers of AI research: *Stefano V. Albrecht* — Nanyang Technological University, Singapore - Introduction to Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning - If Multi-Agent Foundation Models is the Answer, What is the Question? - Becoming an AI Researcher: Practical Advice for Graduate Students *Rafal Bogacz* — University of Oxford, UK - Predictive coding: training neural networks with local rules - Predictive coding: advantages over backpropagation - Predictive coding: implementation *Giuseppe De Giacomo* — University of Oxford, UK - Foundations of Guardrailing Agentic AI via Temporal Synthesis (3-part course) *Christoph Feichtenhofer* — Meta Superintelligence Labs, USA - On the impact of data for vision-language learning (parts 1–2) - Building frontier visual segmentation models *Sven Giesselbach* — T-Systems International, Germany - Agentic AI (parts 1–3) *Jamie Hayes* — Google DeepMind, UK - Agentic Security: how to attack and defend against prompt injection (2 parts) *Sumi Helal* — University of Bologna, Italy - Two lectures — titles to be announced *Albert Q. Jiang* — Mistral AI, Paris & University of Cambridge, UK - Machines That Prove: Foundations of AI for Formal Methods and Mathematics - Machines That Reason: Foundation Models and the State of the Art in AI for Mathematics - Machines That Discover: The Future of Automated Mathematics *Marine Le Morvan* — INRIA Saclay, France - The rise of Tabular Foundation Models - TabICL: an open Tabular Foundation Model - Next frontiers for TFMs *Bruno Lepri* — FBK, Italy - Three lectures — titles to be announced *Sebastian Risi* — Sakana AI, Japan & IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark - Three lectures — titles to be announced *George Paliouras* — NCSR "Demokritos", Athens, Greece - Complex Event Recognition/Forecasting and Applications - Large-Scale Probabilistic Complex Event Recognition/Forecasting - Neuro-Symbolic Reasoning and Learning for Complex Event Recognition/Forecasting *Panos Pardalos* — University of Florida, USA - Impact of AI and Optimization on the economics of sustainability 👉 Explore the full lecturer bios <https://u9436285.ct.sendgrid.net/ls/click?upn=u001.dsBJlyaSCnb5nD32aHyVopUCQ...> 👉 Browse the lecture program <https://u9436285.ct.sendgrid.net/ls/click?upn=u001.dsBJlyaSCnb5nD32aHyVopUCQ...> 🏆 Present Your Own Research Want to share your work with a world-class audience? 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