Events / Orthogonal Weekend

Friday, march 20, 2026

18-19 Arrival and room assignment

19:30 Dinner

Saturday, march 21, 2026

09:00-11:00, four presentations:

• Daniele Muscillo, “Dallo spettro alla sicurezza: expander graphs tra teoria e crittografia”
• Elettra Palmisano, “Visual Cryptography for color images”
• Filippo Garagnani, “Denoising Score Matching”
• Veronica Di Gennaro, “Towards a Unified theory of Explainable AI”

11:00-11:15 Coffee Break

11:15-12:45, three presentations:

• Umberto Crema, “A linear generative model for 3D Human Faces”
• Alessandro Dario, “The Euclidean MST: a rough journey”
• Daniele Bignardi, “Analisi beyond worst-case: instance optimality di algoritmi per cammini minimi”.

13:00 Lunch

15:00-16:00, two presentations:

• Riccardo Chimisso, “How Hard Is Factoring? Classical and Quantum Approaches”
• Manuel Cieri,  “What if: from counterfactual worlds to semantic kernels”

16:00-17:00 Parallel sessions:

• Contaminations with Giovanni Manzini
• Two presentations:
  • Samuele Manclossi, “Rice’s theorem: a strong and general undecidability result”
  • Geraldine Montella, “Stable Matching: dal modello classico al Byzantine Stable Matching”

• Nicolò Cappa, “The Vertex Cover Problem: computational bounds and studied approaches”
• Marco Tessari, “Alla scoperta del Cover Tree”
• Lisa Vecchi,  “Mathematical Programming for Change Point Detection”
• Antonella Coviello, “Neuro-symbolic AI and Thinking Fast and Slow with SOFAI”

20:00 Dinner

Sunday, march 22, 2026

09:30-11:00, three presentations:

• Marco Fasoli, “Tutti i nodi vengono al Server: il sistema Parameter Server per il training distribuito”
• Sara Giuriati, “Dynamic Programming: From Fundamentals  to Molecular Graph Distances”
• Nancy Kalaj,  “Contrastive Learning Across Modalities: Understanding CLIP”

11:00-11:15 Coffee Break

11:15-12:15 Parallel sessions:

• Contaminations with Giovanni Manzini
• Two presentations:
  • Carlotta Nunziati, “The Illusion of Thinking in LRM: Icarus’ mad flight”
  • Francesco Visonà, “Algorithms with Predictions: What Works and What Doesn’t”

12:15-12:30  Conclusions and next events

12:30 Lunch