Events / Orthogonal Weekend

Thursday, may 14, 2026

Arrival and room assignment starting from 15:00

19:30 Dinner at the pizza place Albatros

Friday, may 15, 2026

Room ex Chiesa Santa Margherita Nuova

9:00 – 10:00 Opening remarks from the president Ozalp Babaoglu, Procida’s authorities, and supporters

10:00 – 11:00, two presentations:

• Enrico Savorgnan, “Protocolli di Gossip in Sistemi Distribuiti: ordine senza autorità”
• Gianfranco Vitiello, “Evolving secret-sharing: distribuire segreti in un mondo che cambia”

11:00 – 11:30, Coffee Break in the courtyard and terraces of Santa Margherita Nuova

11:30 – 12:30, two presentations:

• Francesco Giordani, “Caring for Patients: Beyond Just Complexity”
• Ivan Buttignon, “Il Problema del Flusso Massimo – Algoritmi Classici, Sviluppi Recenti e Applicazioni alla Segmentazione di Immagini Mediche”

12:30, Buffet lunch in the courtyard and terraces of Santa Margherita Nuova

15:00 – 16:30, three presentations:

• Silvia Mondin, “Quantum Intuitions: From Qubits to Shor’s Factorization Algorithm”
• Marco Simoncini, “Cooking Up a STARK: Let’s Get FRI’d”
• Monica Jin, “Similar Inputs Hashed Together: Theory and Applications of Locality Sensitive Hashing”

16:30 – 17:00, Coffee Break in the courtyard and terraces of Santa Margherita Nuova

17:00 – 18:00, two presentations:

• Sara Ferraro, “Random Walk in Network Medicine: come navigare tra i componenti cellulari”
• Alberto Vendramini, “Learning Augmented Data Structures”

18:00 – 19:00, HIVE: Alessandro Pace challenges the machine

19:30, Dinner at the Lido di Procida restaurant

21:00, Five-a-side football match in via Giovanni da Procida, 22. Refereed by Maurizio Scotto.

Saturday, may 16, 2026

Room ex Chiesa Santa Margherita Nuova

09:00-10:00, two presentations:

• Samuel Seligardi, “Aligning the Unseen – A Journey Through Sequence Alignment Algorithms”
• Nicola Figus, “When the model goes to the data: a journey through Federated Learning”

10:00 – 11:00, Parallel sessions:

• Meeting with Moreno Muffatto, University of Padova (only first cycle orthogonalists)
• Contaminations with Giovanni Manzini

11:00 – 11:30, Coffee Break in the courtyard and terraces of Santa Margherita Nuova

11:30 – 12:30, Roberto Padovani, “A brief history of early cellular systems and Qualcomm”

12:30, Buffet lunch in the courtyard and terraces of Santa Margherita Nuova

15:00 – 16:30, three presentations:

• Giulia Beraldo, “Thinking like Transformers”
• Matteo Canton, “Queries on compressed string: lower bounds”
• Alberto Barbato, “Influence Maximization: Dai modelli di base all’approccio submodulare”

16:30 – 17:00, Coffee Break in the courtyard and terraces of Santa Margherita Nuova

17:00 – 18:00, two presentations:

• Sonia Sapia, “Machine learning e applicazioni computazionali nell’ambito della Medicina Rigenerativa”
• Dario Moschetti, “The price of silence: how much do we need to talk to solve our problems?”

18:00 – 19:00, Giambattista Parascandolo, OpenAI, “How We Taught Machines to Reason”

19:30, Dinner at the Vivara restaurant

Sunday, may 17, 2026

Room ex Chiesa Santa Margherita Nuova

09:00 – 10:00, two presentations:

• Kristjan Tarantelli, “The PSD Matrix: A Revolution on Max-Cut”
• Federico Mingardi, “Finding ATCG – Compressed data structures for bioinformatics”

10:00 – 11:00, Roberto De Prisco, Mathematics and Music (outreach seminar)

11:00 – 11:30, Coffee Break in the courtyard and terraces of Santa Margherita Nuova

11:30 – 12:30, two presentations:

• Ludovico Cappellato, “Reed-Solomon: the hidden gem of QR Cødəs”
• Simone Moretti, “The DIVA of Range Filtering”

12:30, Conclusions

12:45, Buffet lunch in the courtyard and terraces of Santa Margherita Nuova