Scientific Calendar Event



Starts 3 Jul 2025
Ends 10 Jul 2025
Central European Time
ICTP
Kastler Lecture Hall (AGH)
Adriatico Guest House Riva Massimiliano e Carlotta, Grignano I - 34151 Trieste (Italy)
The call for applications is open, please click on "Apply here" on the left, in order to submit your application
 
An ICTP Hybrid Meeting

How creative is generative AI: 3 - 5 July 2025
Youth in high dimensions: 7 - 9 July 2025 
The ICTP-IBM AI Prize for Young Scientists: 10 July 2025   For more information on the ceremony and winners, please visit: https://www.ictp.it/prize/ictp-ibm-ai-prize-young-scientists
 
In the first part of this activity, we will discuss to what extent generative artificial intelligence systems that create text or images like ChatGPT or Dall-E are "creative’. To this end, we will bring together a diverse group of experts from the sciences and humanities.

Speakers
Larissa Berger, Uni Siegen, Germany
Alessandro De Cesaris, Università di Torino, Italy
Alice Barale, Università di Milano, Italy
Alexandra Gilliams, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, France
Roberto Trotta, SISSA, Italy
Michael Benzaquen, CNRS, Ecole Polytechnique, Switzerland
Ardavan Vossoughi, Italy
Sergio Canazza, Centro di Sonologia Computazionale, Italy
 

The second part of this activity will see the sixth edition of “Youth in high dimensions”, where we give young researchers from academia and industry the opportunity to gather and present recent results on high-dimensional statistical problems, in areas ranging from machine learning and inference to neuroscience or statistical physics. Typical problems in high-dimensions include estimating noisy signals, analysing (deep) neural-networks, detecting communities in large networks, or modelling disordered spin systems. 
 
This conference aims at reinforcing the links among the interdisciplinary community of scientists working on machine learning, and to connect them with philosophers, artists and sociologists to reflect about the impact and role of this technology, and to bring forward the latest development happening in the high-dimensional world.

Youth is a satellite meeting of Statphys2025 https://statphys29.org/
 
Topics
High-dimensional statistics
Statistical physics
Machine learning
Computational neuroscience
Complex systems
Machine learning for science
Statistical inference
 
Speakers
Lorenzo Bardone, SISSA, Italy
Freya Behrens, EPFL, Switzerland
Simone Bombari, ISTA, Austria
Elizabeth Collins-Woodfin, McGill, Canada
Alex Damian, Princeton, USA
Hadi Daneshmand, MIT, USA
Daniil Dmitriev, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Margalit Glasgow, Stanford, USA
Erin Grant, Gatsby, UK
Brice Huang, MIT, USA
Bingbin Liu, CMU, USA
Vidya Muthukumar, Georgia Tech, USA
Mauro Pastore, ICTP, Italy
Reese Pathak, MIT, Berkeley, USA
Stefano Sarao Manelli, Chalmers, Sweden
Abishek Shetty, Berkeley, USA
Jingfeng Wu, Berkeley, USA
 
The following activity to be held from 10 to 18 July 2025 may also be of interest for you: Advanced School on Foundation Models for Scientific Discovery
 
Research abstracts: Applicants are encouraged to submit an abstract for a poster presentation at the “Youth in high dimensions” activity. During the application, please make sure to use our templates to format your abstract. Templates are available below for download.

Participation: If you don't need any financial support and/or visa, three activities can be followed separately.

Grants: A limited number of grants are available to support the attendance of selected participants, with priority given to participants from developing countries. There is no registration fee.
 
**DEADLINE: 30/04/2025**

Organizers

Jean Barbier (ICTP), Sebastian Goldt (SISSA), Marco Mondelli (Institute of Science and Technology), Fanny Yang (ETH Zurich), Local Organiser: Jean Barbier (ICTP)

Co-sponsors