“Core-AI 2026” Thematic School

  • Category: Seminar Series
  • Dates: March 11–May 13, 2026
  • Schedule: at 4 p.m.
  • Location: Montpellier

Launch of the Core-AI 2026 Thematic School, a series of seminars and mini-courses funded by the COLORS Long-Term Thematic Project and dedicated to the fundamentals of artificial intelligence, bringing together leading international researchers.

Audience: doctoral students , postdoctoral researchers, engineers, researchers, Professors, and anyone interested in deepening their understanding of the fundamentals of AI.

Program

March

  • March 11 — Nirupam Gupta (University of Copenhagen)
    Robustness, Privacy, and Fairness in Distributed Learning
    (co-organized by ML-MTP) – LIRMM Seminar Room, Building 4 – 4:00 p.m.
  • March 17 — Arnak Dalalyan (CREST – ENSAE)
    Generative Models and GAN Theory – LIRMM Seminar Room, Building 4 – 4:00 p.m.
  • March 25 — Axel Ngonga Ngomo (University of Leipzig)
    Knowledge Graphs – Jean-Jacques Moreau Lecture Hall, Building 2, St. Priest – 3:00 p.m.

April

  • April 1 — Marie-Jeanne Lesot (LIP6, Sorbonne University)
    Explainable AI: Methods and Risks – LIRMM Seminar Room, Building 4 – 4:00 p.m.
  • April 9 — Hadrien Hendrikx (Inria Grenoble)
    Distributed Optimization
    (co-organized by ML-MTP) – Jean-Jacques Moreau Lecture Hall, Building 2, St Priest – 4:00 p.m.
  • April 15–16 — Mini-course (2 half-days)
    , Dino Ienco & Giuseppe Guarino (INRAE Montpellier)
    Semi-supervised learning and domain adaptation – Jean-Jacques Moreau Lecture Hall, Building 2, St Priest – 4:00 p.m.

May

  • May 6 — Céline Robardet (INSA Lyon)
    : Understanding and Explaining Graph Neural Networks – Jean-Jacques Moreau Lecture Hall, Building 2, St Priest – 4:00 p.m.
  • May 13 — Gérard Biau (Sorbonne University – French Academy of Sciences)
    -Learning with Physical Constraints (PINNs, Physics-Informed Kernel Learning)
    (session subject to extension) – Peytavin Lecture Hall at Polytech – 4:00 p.m.

About Core-AI

Core-AI highlights the fundamental principles, theoretical methods, and methodological approaches that underpin modern artificial intelligence.

The school offers a well-rounded science curriculum covering:

  • Learning Theory
  • Reliability and trust
  • Distributed deep learning
  • Generative models and kernels
  • Large-scale data structures (graphs, computer vision, remote sensing)
  • Explainability and Responsible AI

For more information, as well as to view the school’s other dates and events, please refer to the registration form.

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