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Description An ICTP Hybrid Meeting

The seventh edition of “Youth in high dimensions” will give to young researchers 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 (compressed sensing, PCA and tensor decomposition), analysing (deep) neural-networks, detecting communities in large networks, or modelling disordered spin systems. These seemingly unrelated problems share many similarities in their phenomenology and in the tools used to analyse them. The core of the field is made of a very active, diverse and quickly expanding community of physicists, computer scientists, mathematicians, information theorists and engineers, with the common desire to tackle increasingly challenging problems at the forefront of data science.

This conference aims at reinforcing the links among this interdisciplinary community, and in particular of its youngest theory-oriented members, and to bring forward the latest development happening in the high-dimensional world.

Topics
  • High-dimensional statistics
  • Statistical physics
  • Machine learning
  • Computational neuroscience
  • Complex systems
  • Machine learning for science
  • Statistical inference
Speakers
S. D. Buchanan, UC Berkeley, USA
J. Cohen, Flatiron, USA
R. Cosson, NYU, USA
Y. Dandi, EPFL, Switzerland
C. Domine, ISTA, Austria
A. Favero, Cambridge University, UK
J. Gaitonde, Duke University, USA
A. Koloskova, Zurich University, Switzerland
G. Kur, ETH, Switzerland
C. Lauditi, Harvard University, USA
S. Li, Yale University, USA
A. Lotfi, Apple, Switzerland
P. Marion, INRIA Paris, France
E. Nichani, Princeton University, USA
L. Noci, ETH, Switzerland
R. Skerk, ICTP, Italy
N. Tsilivis, NYU, USA

Research abstracts: Applicants are encouraged to submit an abstract for a poster presentation. ​During the application, please make sure to use our templates to format your abstract. Templates are available below for download.
 
Contributed talk: The possibility of giving a contributed talk will be offered to a selection of people who will present a poster.

📢 The students are invited to follow the ceremony for the AI prize, that will be hosted at ICTP on July 23rd.

📢 The following activity to be held from 23 to 31 July 2026 may also be of interest for you: Advanced School in Applied Machine Learning: Uncertainty and Robustness of DL Models for Science | (smr 4228)

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
Go to day
  • Monday, 20 July 2026
    • 08:45 - 09:00
      • 08:45 Registration Formalities 15'
    • 09:00 - 16:00
      • 09:00 Opening Remarks 30'
        Speaker: Jean BARBIER (ICTP, Italy), Elisabetta CORNACCHIA (Bocconi University, Italy), Sebastian Dominik GOLDT (SISSA, Italy), Marco MONDELLI (Institute of Science and Technology, Austria)
      • 09:30 TBD 1h0'
        Chairperson: Sebastian GOLDT (Sissa, Italy) 
        Speaker: Eshaan NICHANI (Princeton University, USA), Pierre MARION (INRIA, France)
      • 10:30 Coffee Break 30' ( Leonardo Building Terrace )
      • 11:00 TBD 1h30'
        Chairperson: Marco MONDELLI (Institute of Science and Technology, Austria)
        Speaker: Anastasia KOLOSKOVA (Zurich University, Switzerland) Romanin COSSON, (New York University, USA)
      • 12:30 Lunch Break 1h30'
      • 14:00 TBD 1h30'
        Chairperson: Elisabetta CORNACCHIA (Bocconi Uiversity, Italy)
        Speaker: Gil KUR (ETH, Zurich), Shuangping LI (Yale University, USA)
      • 15:30 Coffee Break 30' ( Leonardo Building Terrace )
  • Tuesday, 21 July 2026
    • 09:00 - 16:00
      • 09:00 TBD 1h30'
        Chairperson: Jean BARBIER (ICTP, Italy)
        Speaker: Jeremy COHEN (Flatiron Institute, USA), Nikolaos TSILIVIS (New York University, USA)
      • 10:30 Coffee Break 30' ( Leonardo Building Terrace )
      • 11:00 Contributed Talks 1h30'
        Chairperson: Sebastian GOLDT (Sissa, Italy) 
      • 12:30 Lunch Break 1h30'
      • 14:00 TBD 1h30'
        Chairperson: Marco MONDELLI (Institute of Science and Technology, Austria)
        Speaker: Clarissa LAUDITI (Harvard University,USA) Sam D. BUCHANAN (UC Berkeley, USA)
      • 15:30 Coffee Break 30' ( Leonardo Building Terrace )
    • 18:00 - 20:00
      • 18:00 Welcome Reception 2h0' ( Pane Quotidiano, Barcola )
        All Participants are cordially invited to the Welcome Reception
  • Wednesday, 22 July 2026
    • 09:00 - 16:05
      • 09:00 Contributed Talks 1h30'
        Chairperson: Marco MONDELLI (Institute of Science and Technology, Austria)
      • 10:30 Coffee Break 30' ( Leonardo Building Terrace )
      • 11:00 tbd 1h30'
        Speaker: Rudy SKERK (ICP, Italy), Yatin DANDI (EPFL, Switzerland)
      • 12:30 Lunch Break 1h30'
      • 14:00 Contributed Talks 1h30'
        Chairperson: Jean BARBIER (ICTP, Italy)
      • 15:30 Group photo & Coffee break 30' ( Leonardo Building Terrace )
  • Thursday, 23 July 2026
    • 09:00 - 14:00
      • 09:00 TBD 1h30'
        Chairperson: Elisabetta CORNACCHIA (Bocconi Uiversity, Italy)
        Speaker: Clementine DOMINE (ISTA, Austria), Alessandro FAVERO (Cambridge University, UK)
      • 10:30 Coffee Break 30'
      • 11:00 TBD 1h30'
        Chairperson: Sebastian GOLDT (Sissa, Italy) 
        Speaker: Aryo LOTFI (Apple, Switzerland), Pierfrancesco BENEVENTANO (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA)
      • 12:30 Lunch Break 1h30'
    • 14:00 - 17:00 The ICTP-IBM Brahmagupta AI Prize for Early Career Scientists Ceremony
      The Ceremony will be livestreamed at: ictp.it/livestream
      • 14:00 Opening remarks 5' 20'
        Speaker: Atish Dabholkar (Director, ICTP, Italy)
      • 14:20 Announcement and motivation by the jury 10'
        Speaker: Marc MEZARD (Bocconi University, Italy)
      • 14:30 Award ceremony 10'
      • 14:40 Laudatio 20'
      • 15:00 TBD by Winner 45'
      • 15:45 Keynote speech 45'
        Speaker: Eiman KANJO (NTU, UK)
      • 16:30 Group Photo 5'
      • 16:35 Refreshments 25'