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!!Advances and Challenges of AI
!Date: 16-17 November 2026\\Venue: Wrocław University of Science and Technology, D20 building, Wrocław, Poland
!Organized by Academia Europaea [Wrocław Knowledge Hub|https://acadeuro.wroclaw.pl]

![Conference website|https://acadeuro.wroclaw.pl/events/advances-and-challenges-of-ai]
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__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.__
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Researchers interested in participating are invited to contact [Professor Erol Gelenbe|Member/Gelenbe_Erol] MAE, Chair of the Academia Europaea [Informatics|Acad_Main/Sections/Informatics] Section, at [seg@iitis.pl|mailto:seg@iitis.pl].
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Participation in the event is __free of charge__, but attendance is __by invitation only__.
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!Programme Overview
!DAY 1 / 16th November (MONDAY)
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__8.30 - 9.30 am Coffee and Registration__
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Before attending any meeting or session at the workshop, please complete the registration process.
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__Address:__ [ul. Janiszewskiego 8, 50-372 Wrocław|https://www.google.com/maps/place/D-20+Politechnika+Wroc%C5%82awska/@51.1104224,17.0597113,592m/data=!3m2!1e3!4b1!4m6!3m5!1s0x470fe82ad77f2fc1:0x975e736516ce4742!8m2!3d51.1104224!4d17.0597113!16s%2Fg%2F11h0vqms0k!5m1!1e2?entry=ttu&g_ep=EgoyMDI2MDkwMi4wIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D]\\
[Building D20|https://www.google.com/maps/place/D-20+Politechnika+Wroc%C5%82awska/@51.1104224,17.0597113,592m/data=!3m2!1e3!4b1!4m6!3m5!1s0x470fe82ad77f2fc1:0x975e736516ce4742!8m2!3d51.1104224!4d17.0597113!16s%2Fg%2F11h0vqms0k!5m1!1e2?entry=ttu&g_ep=EgoyMDI2MDkwMi4wIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D]
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__9:30 - 9:45 am Opening by [Arkadiusz Wójs|Member/Wójs_Arkadiusz] MAE, Rector of the Wrocław University of Science and Technology__
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__9:45 - 10:30 am__ [Erol Gelenbe|Member/Gelenbe_Erol] 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”''”
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__10:30 - 11:00 am__ __Włodzisław Duch,__ Nicolaus Copernicus University, Toruń, Poland\\
''“Searching for Signs of Consciousness in Large Language Models”'' 
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__11.00 - 11:30 am__ __Balazs Pozsgay__, Eötvös Lorand University, Budapest, Hungary\\
''“The Use of AI in Mathematical Physics”''
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__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”''
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__12:00 - 1:00 pm Lunch Break__
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__1:00 - 1:30 pm__ [Barbara Hammer|Member/Hammer_Barbara] MAE, Fellow Acatech, University of Bielefeld, Germany\\
''“Foundation models and where to find them”''
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__1:30 - 2:00 pm__ [Gabriella Pasi|Member/Pasi_Gabriella] MAE, Fellow Istituto Lombardo, University of Milano Bicocca,  Italy\\
''“Context and Knowledge Awareness in Large Language Models”''
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__2:00 - 2:30 pm__ [Maciej Ogorzałek|Member/Ogorzalek_Maciej_Jerzy] MAE, Fellow Polish Academy of Sciences, Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland\\
''“Computer-Assisted Skin Cancer Diagnosis”''
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__2:30 - 3:00 pm__ [Alan Smeaton|Member/Smeaton_Alan] 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”''
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__3:00 - 3:30 pm__ __Maria Carla Calzarossa__, University of Pavia, Italy\\
''“Another Look at Explainability”''
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__3:30 - 4:00 pm Coffee Break__
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__4:00 - 4:30 pm__ __Jean-Michel Kantor__, Université Paris-Cité, France\\
''“The future of AI: Iissues and limits”''
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__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”''
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__5:00 - 5:30 pm__ [Ying-Cheng Lai|Member/Lai_Ying-Cheng] MAE, Arizona State University, United States of America\\
''“Reservoir Computing: Machine Learning Meets Nonlinear Dynamics”''
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__5:30 - 6:00 pm__ __Adrian Horzyk__, AGH University of Kraków, Kraków, Poland\\
''“Beyond Classical GNNs: Associative Graph Intelligence and Self-Optimizing Neural Architectures”''
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!DAY 2 / 17th November (TUESDAY)

__9.30 - 10:00 am__ [Boris Mirkin|Member/Mirkin_Boris] MAE, Birkbeck College, University of London, United Kingdom\\
''“S. Kulczynski’s similarity index: A cornerstone for structuring research in Data Science 2002-2024″''
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__10:00 - 10:30 am__ __Katarzyna Filus__, IITIS-PAN, Gliwice, Poland\\
''“Cognitive psychology-inspired methods for neural network testing”''
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__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”''
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__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”''
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__11:30 am - 12:00 pm__ __Mert Nakip__, IITIS-PAN, Gliwice, Poland\\
''“Tiny Machine Learning”''
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__12:00 - 1:00 pm__ Lunch Break
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__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.
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You can register in Building 20, Ground Floor, at the following address:\\
[ul. Janiszewskiego 8, 50-372 Wrocław|https://www.google.com/maps/place/D-20+Politechnika+Wroc%C5%82awska/@51.1104224,17.0597113,592m/data=!3m3!1e3!4b1!5s0x470fe82ad7a20b8d:0xa8150decce79a741!4m6!3m5!1s0x470fe82ad77f2fc1:0x975e736516ce4742!8m2!3d51.1104224!4d17.0597113!16s%2Fg%2F11h0vqms0k!5m1!1e2?entry=ttu&g_ep=EgoyMDI2MDkwMi4wIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D]
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!Campus Map
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