Artificial Intelligence (AI) is increasingly pervasive in social interaction, business, science and technology, health, and the humanities, and impacts all aspects of human activity. Thus, this workshop is the third of a series organized by Academia Europaea to examine AI’s links with important areas of science and technology, such as material science, medicine and health, brain science and psychology, computational methods, cybersecurity, to identify both potential advances, and stumbling blocks, including the massive growth of energy consumption by AI and the challenges it poses to intellectual property, privacy and security.

Researchers interested in participating are invited to contact Professor Erol Gelenbe MAE, Chair of the Academia Europaea Informatics Section, at seg@iitis.pl.

Participation in the event is free of charge, but attendance is by invitation only.

Programme Overview#

DAY 1 / 16th November (MONDAY)#

8.30 - 9.30 am Coffee and Registration

Before attending any meeting or session at the workshop, please complete the registration process.

Address: ul. Janiszewskiego 8, 50-372 Wrocław
Building D20

9:30 - 9:45 am Opening by the Rector of Wrocław University of Science and Technology

9:45 - 10:30 am Erol Gelenbe MAE, Fellow French National Academy of Technologies & Science Academy of Turkey, Foreign Fellow Royal Academy of Belgium, Polish Academy of Sciences, Foreign Fellow Indian National Science Academy, IITIS-PAN, Gliwice, Poland
“Introduction: AI Viewed as Optimization and Simulation””

10:30 - 11:00 am Włodzisław Duch, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Toruń, Poland
“Searching for Signs of Consciousness in Large Language Models”

11.00 - 11:30 am Balazs Pozsgay, Eötvös Lorand University, Budapest, Hungary
“The Use of AI in Mathematical Physics”

11.30 am - 12:00 pm Maciej Piasecki, Wrocław University of Science and Technology, Wrocław, Poland
“Beyond English – Building Large Language Models for Polish and Slavic Languages”

12:00 - 1:00 pm Lunch Break

1:00 - 1:30 pm Barbara Hammer MAE, Fellow Acatech, University of Bielefeld, Germany
“Foundation models and where to find them”

1:30 - 2:00 pm Gabriella Pasi MAE, Fellow Istituto Lombardo, University of Milano Bicocca, Italy
“Context and Knowledge Awareness in Large Language Models”

2:00 - 2:30 pm Maciej Ogorzałek MAE, Fellow Polish Academy of Sciences, Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland
“Computer-Assisted Skin Cancer Diagnosis”

2:30 - 3:00 pm Alan Smeaton MAE, Fellow Royal Irish Academy, Dublin City University, Dublin, Irleand
“AI and information seeking: Addressing how AI companies have taken over the way that information finds us, and replaced the way we used to find information”

3:00 - 3:30 pm Maria Carla Calzarossa, University of Pavia, Italy
“Another Look at Explainability”

3:30 - 4:00 pm Coffee Break

4:00 - 4:30 pm Jean-Michel Kantor, Université Paris-Cité, France
“The future of AI: Iissues and limits”

4:30 - 5:00 pm Ngoc Thanh Nguyen, Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Poland, Chair IEEE SMC TC on Computational Collective Intelligence
“The Wisdom of Crowds: Sentiment Analysis Meets Collective Intelligence”

5:00 - 5:30 pm Ying-Cheng Lai MAE, Arizona State University, United States of America
“Reservoir Computing: Machine Learning Meets Nonlinear Dynamics”

5:30 - 6:00 pm Adrian Horzyk, AGH University of Kraków, Kraków, Poland
“Beyond Classical GNNs: Associative Graph Intelligence and Self-Optimizing Neural Architectures”

DAY 2 / 17th November (TUESDAY)#

9.30 - 10:00 am Boris Mirkin MAE, Birkbeck College, University of London, United Kingdom
“S. Kulczynski’s similarity index: A cornerstone for structuring research in Data Science 2002-2024″

10:00 - 10:30 am Katarzyna Filus, IITIS-PAN, Gliwice, Poland
“Cognitive psychology-inspired methods for neural network testing”

10:30 - 11:00 am Piotr Gawron, Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Center of the Polish Academy of Sciences, and AGH Center of Excellence for Artificial Intelligence, Kraków, Poland
“Quantum machines and methods for machine learning”

11:00 - 11:30 am Przemysław Kazienko, Wrocław University of Science and Technology, Wrocław, Poland
“Navigating the AI Frontier: Balancing Responsible Innovation and Human Skills”

11:30 am - 12:00 pm Mert Nakip, IITIS-PAN, Gliwice, Poland
“Tiny Machine Learning”

12:00 - 1:00 pm Lunch Break

1:00 - 4:00 pm Research and Industry Posters

Workshop Registration#

On-site registration for invited participants will open on Monday, November 16th at 8:30 AM.

You can register in Building 20, Ground Floor, at the following address:
ul. Janiszewskiego 8, 50-372 Wrocław

Campus Map#

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