Program

Wednesday, June 24th

• 10:00 - 11:00:
  Registration
  
  

• 11:00 - 11:05:
  Welcome, w/ Pierre Baldi and Robert Jenssen
  
  

• 11:05 - 11:30:
  Pres. #1: Pierre Baldi,  University of California, Irvine

"The Theory of Synaptic Neural Balance"

• 11:30 - 11:55:
  Pres. #2: Masashi Sugiyama - RIKEN

"Recent Advances in Reward Modeling for Reinforcement Learning"

• 11:55 - 12:05:
  Coffee break

• 12:05 - 12:30:
  Pres #3:  Line Clemmensen - University of Copenhagen
  
  

• 12:30 - 12:55:
  Pres #4:  Wojciech Samek - Technical University of Berlin & Fraunhofer Heinrich-Hertz-Institut
    

• 13:00 - 14:00:
  Lunch

• 14:00 - 14:25:
  Pres #5:  Alessio Micheli - University of Pisa
  
  

• 14:25 - 14:50:
  Pres #6: Ida Häggstöm - Chalmers University of Technology
  
  

• 14:50 - 15:15:
  Pres #7:   Deniz Erdogmus - Northeastern University
    

• 15:15 - 15:40:
  Coffee break
    

• 15:40 - 16:05:
  Pres #8:  Gregoire Montavon - Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin

"Building Robust and Transparent AI Models in Imperfect Data Environments"

• 16:05 - 16:30:
  Pres #9: Michael Felsberg -  University of Linkøping

"What would be Hilbert’s problems of AI? "

• 16:30 - 16:55:
  Pres #10: Antonio Orvieto - ELLIS Institute Tubingen & Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems

"Optimization theory correctly models LLM pretraining "

• 16:55 - 17:20:
  Pres #11: Alessandro Sperdutti - University of Padova

• 17:25 - 17:45:
  Walk to Mix-kiosken

• 17:45 - 21:00:
  Mingling and dinner at Tromsø Wilderness Center

• 21:00:
  Drive back to Tromsøya

Thursday, June 25th

• 08:30 – 09:00:
  Registration and coffee
  
  

• 09:00 - 09:25:
  Pres #12: Stephan Mandt - University of California, Irvine
  
  

• 09:25 - 09:50:
  Pres #13:  Aasa Feragen - Technical University of Denmark

"AI fairness? It's harder than you think"

• 09:50 - 10:15:
  Pres #14: Andrea Passerini - University of Trento 
    

• 10:15 - 10:35:
  Coffee break
    

• 10:35 - 11:00:
  Pres #15: Mads Nielsen - University of Copenhagen
  
  

• 11:00 - 11:25:
  Pres #16: Marius Kloft - Technical University of Kaiserslautern

"Advances in Deep Anomaly Detection"

• 11:25 - 11:50:
  Pres #17:  ??
  
  

• 11:50 - 12:05
  Leg stretch
  
  

• 12:05 - 12:30:
  Pres #18: Mingh Ha Quang, RIKEN
  
  

• 12:30 - 12:55:
  DL2026 Special Talk:  "A Call for Help by the Sámi AI Lab" by  Lars Ailo Bongo - UiT The Arctic University of Norway / Sami University College

• 13:00 - 14:00:
  Lunch

• 14:00 - 16:30:
  Work session: AI Risks, Challenges and  Key Opportunities (placeholder)

• 14:00 – 14:25: "Addressing AI Challenges: Failures and Frameworks" by Pierre Baldi, University of California, Irvine

• 14:25 - 14:50: Work

• 14:50 - 15:15: Coffee break

•   15:15 - 15:40: Work

• 15:40 - 16:05: Work

• 16:05 - 16:30: Plenary discussion

• 17:20 - 18:30:
  Pust sauna (for those that may be interested in sauna and swimming in the Arctic!)
  
  

  • 17:20: Meet-up and change clothes

  • 17:30 - 18:30: Sauna

• 20:00 - 22:30:
  Dinner at Maskinverkstedet

Friday, June 26th

• 08:30 – 09:00:
  Registration and coffee
  
  

• 09:00 - 09:25:
  Pres #20: Adín Ramírez Rivera - University of Oslo
  
  

• 09:25 - 09:50:
  Pres #21: Robert Jenssen - UiT The Arctic University of Norway & University of Copenhagen
  
  

• 09:50 - 10:15:
  Pres #22: Kerstin  Bach - Norwegian University of Science and Technology

• 10:15 - 10:35:
  Coffee break

• 10:35 - 11:00:
  Pres #23:  Rasmus Larsen - Technical University of Denmark
  
  

• 11:00 - 11:25:
  Pres #24(?):
  
  

• 11:25 - 12:30:
  Conclusion of Thursday's work session & closing

• 12:45 - 13:45:
  Lunch break
  
  

• 13:45 - 16:00:
  Social gathering at Bryggejentene kafé on the Kvaløya country side for those that may be interested. We check this out during the workshop.