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

Programme for 13 September and 14 September at CWI, Amsterdam.

Wednesday 13 September – General Meetings

Programme for Wednesday, times and speakers.
Time Subject

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)

Thursday 14 September – Inria-CWI meetings

Schedule of day 2 of the programme
Time Subject

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