KICK-OFF international research collaboration Inria-CWI - full programme

12:00-13:00

Welcome and Lunch in Forum (CWI)

13:00-13:30

Introduction in Turing

• Ton de Kok, General Director CWI
• Cécile Vigouroux, International Relations Director and Member of the Executive Committee, Inria
• Han La Poutré, CWI and Pietro Congedo, Inria – Scientific Directors of the Inria- CWI partnership

13:30-15:30

Keynotes in Turing

• Benjamin Smith (Inria): The transition to quantum-safe cryptography
• Pablo César (CWI): Human Interaction
• Jacques Sainte-Marie (Inria): ICT, environment & energy
• Harry Buhrman (CWI): Quantum Computing and Quantum Information

15:30-16:00

Break in the foyer (Turing)

16:00-17:00

Panel in Turing

Societal & industrial challenges and digital sovereignty of the EU through Inria-CWI partnership.

• Joost Geurts - Inria - Deputy Director for European Partnerships
• Philippe Guillotel - InterDigital - Distinguished Scientist
• Aymeric Bonnaud - Naval Group - Scientific Director
• Rob van der Mei - CWI - Principal Researcher and Strategist
• Alexander Rinnooy Kan - Chair Institute Advisory Committee CWI
• Nanda Piersma - Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences & CWI - Professor

17:00-18:30

Networking and drinks in Forum (CWI)

9:00-10:30

Presentation Sessions on different topics, in parallel sessions (on combined topics).

A. Systems
Room: Euler 1

• Inria - Ana Busic (DYOGENE): Distributed control and reinforcement learning for energy networks
• CWI - Valentin Robu (IAS): Designing decentralised energy systems with strategic agents
• Inria - Stéphane Huot & Géry Casie (LOKI): Loki - Technology & Knowledge for Interaction
• CWI - Abdallah El Ali (DIS): Affective Interactive Systems
  

B. Mathematical Optimization
Room: Euler 2

• CWI - Rob van der Mei (ST): Saving Lives with AI-based Healthcare Logistics
• Inria - Maxime Ogier (INOCS): Applications of Operations Research in healthcare
• CWI - Guido Schäfer (N&O): Optimization under strategic decision making
• Inria - Marianne Akian (TROPICAL): Tropical geometry, optimization, and zero-sum games
  

C. Languages
Room: M290

• Inria - Benoit Combemale (DiverSE): from software engineering to language engineering
• CWI - Tijs van der Storm (SWAT): SWAT: language engineering for software engineering
• Inria - Vladimir Zamdzhiev (QuaCS): Inria project team QuaCS (Quantum Computation Structures)
  

D. Data and AI Explainability
Room M390

• CWI - Stefan Manegold (DA): Data Systems Research at CWI
• Inria - Oana Balalau (CEDAR): NLP for Journalism: Current Progress and Open Challenges
• CWI - Davide Ceolin (HCDA): Responsible AI for Culture and Media
• CWI - Eric Pauwels (IAS): Towards Explainable MCTS
  

E. Applied Mathematics with Machine Learning
Room: Matrix One 'Yellow'

• Inria - Tommaso Taddei (MEMPHIS): Challenges and opportunities in model order reduction of complex fluid flows
• CWI - Benjamin Sanderse (SC): Preserving structure in building reduced models of fluid flows
• Inria - Thomas Moreau (MIND): A framework for efficient Bi-level optimization
• CWI - Tristan van Leeuwen (CI): Computational Imaging - from theory to practice
• CWI - Aditya Gilra (ML): Learning transition models of environments for reinforcement learning
  

F. Machine Learning
Room: Matrix One 'Green'

• Inria - Pierre Gaillard (THOTH): Online portfolio selection
• CWI - Peter Grünwald (ML): E is the new P
• Inria - Cristian Preda (MODAL): Categorical functional data as a model for patient pathway
• CWI - Wouter Koolen (ML): On the Computation of Saddle Points arising in Bandit Problems
• Inria - Samir Perlaza (NEO): Generalization Guarantees of Machine Learning Algorithms

10:30-11:00

Research discussions about collaborations in parallel sessions

11:00-11:30

Break in the foyer (Turing & Euler)

11:30-12:00

Feedback on discussions and conclusion in one joint session in the Euler room

12:00-13:30

Lunch (on the spot or take-away) in the foyer (Turing & Euler)

13:30

End of kick-off