Eventi

Second Orthogonal Weekend 2025/2026

Certosa di Pontignano, Siena, 21-23 november 2025

Nel Secondo Weekend Ortogonale 2025/26 continua il  programma dell’Anno Accademico della scuola.

Programma

Friday, november 21, 2025

Ore 17 – 19:  Arrivi e sistemazione nelle camere

Ore 19:30: Cena

Ore 21:15: Incontro tra i mentori

Ore 21:15: Attività socio-culturali: canto corale (a cura di Roberto De Prisco), cinema (a cura di Filippo Garagnani)  e teatro (a cura di Riccardo Chimisso e Simone Moretti)

Saturday, november 22, 2025

Ore 09:15: Ozalp Babaoglu, Un saluto dal Presidente

Ore 09:30-10:30 Matteo Ceccarello, Presentazione dei progetti:

  • Progetto per gli allievi del secondo ciclo:  Classical approaches to game playing programs
  • Progetto per gli allievi del primo ciclo: Nearest neighbors and where to find them

Ore 10:30-11:00: Coffee Break

Ore 11:00-12:00:  Lavoro in tre gruppi:

Ore 12:30: Pranzo

Ore 15:00-16:00: Simone Martini, Perché ci sono tanti linguaggi di programmazione?

Ore 16:00-17:30: Zeynep Kiziltan, Getting Started with Research Writing & Publication

Ore 17:30–18:00: Coffee Break

Ore 18:00-19:00:  Alessandro Panconesi, Il giorno dell’asteroide, ovvero la vera storia del deep learning

Ore 19:30: Cena

Ore 21:15: Attività socio-culturali: canto corale (a cura di Roberto De Prisco), cinema (a cura di Filippo Garagnani)  e teatro (a cura di Riccardo Chimisso e Simone Moretti)

Sunday, november 23, 2025

Ore 09:30-10:45: Moreno Muffatto, Innovazione: tecnologie e mercati

Ore 10:45-11:15: Coffee Break

Ore 11:15-12:15: Lavoro in tre gruppi:

Ore 12:15-12:30:  Conclusioni e Prossimi appuntamenti

Ore 12:30: Pranzo

Dalle 13:30 Partenze

 

The lecturers

Alessandro Panconesi

Alessandro Panconesi, La Sapienza

Alessandro is a Full Professor of Computer Science at the University of Sapienza in Rome. He earned his PhD in Computer Science from Cornell University. His research interests cover all aspects of algorithms, with a particular focus on randomized and distributed algorithms, and more recently, machine learning. He is the President of BICI, the Bertinoro International Center for Informatics. He has received international recognition for his research, including the ACM Danny Lewin Best Student Paper Award, the Dijkstra Prize, and faculty awards from IBM, Yahoo!, and Google, as well as two Google Focused Awards. He has served on the program committees of major conferences such as SODA, PODC, ICALP, WWW, and KDD, also taking on leadership roles. He is an associate editor of JCSS.

He is a member of the Board of Directors of ELICSIR and the Board of the Orthogonal School.

Zeynep Kiziltan

Zeynep Kiziltan

Zeynep Kiziltan earned her PhD in Computer Science from Uppsala University (Sweden) in 2004, receiving the award for the best thesis in Artificial Intelligence in Europe from EurAI. She then conducted postdoctoral research at the University of Bologna, where she later became an associate professor at the Department of Computer Science (DISI). Her research focuses on predictive and prescriptive data analysis based on AI, aimed at solving combinatorial optimization problems in various application domains, including high-performance computing (HPC). She has collaborated on numerous scientific projects with companies and international universities, published several papers, and released software and datasets. Since 2021, she has been an elected member of the Board of Directors of the Association for Constraint Programming.

At ELICSIR, she is a mentor for the Orthogonal School.

Lectures

Alessandro Panconesi, La Sapienza

Seminar: Il giorno dell’asteroide, ovvero la vera storia del deep learning

In questo (si spera) agile seminario divulgativo esploreremo alcuni aspetti sorprendenti della rivoluzione del deep learning, con l’obiettivo di fornire una cornice utile per contestualizzare questo importante fenomeno.

Zeynep Kiziltan

Seminar: Getting Started with Research Writing & Publication

Scientific research is not truly complete until its results are published. Yet, scientists’ education is often primarily technical, offering limited training in how to write about and disseminate research work. As participants of the Orthogonal School embark on the exciting journey of scientific research, this is an ideal moment to begin exploring the fundamentals of the research communication process. This introductory lecture will first provide background on research writing and publication in the field of computer science, then focus on how to structure a research paper and what key elements to include to communicate research effectively.

Luogo

Certosa di Pontignano, Siena, Castelnuovo Berardenga

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