Athens, July 2026

Summer School Program

Two days of talks, discussions, and networking at the intersection of AI and scientific discovery.

Day 1 — July 16

Molecules, Mathematics & Earth

09:15 – 09:45

Registration

09:45 – 10:00
Petros Koumoutsakos

Petros Koumoutsakos

Opening Remarks

10:00 – 10:45
Alexis Boukouvalas

Alexis Boukouvalas

Unlocking Scientific Breakthroughs with AI: From Earth Observation to the Stars

10:45 – 11:30
Stratis Markou

Stratis Markou

Tropical cyclone forecasting at Google

11:30 – 12:15
Elías Cueto

Elías Cueto

Recent advances in geometric and topological deep learning for the simulation of physical phenomena

12:15 – 13:15

Lunch Break

13:15 – 14:00
Alexandre Tkatchenko

Alexandre Tkatchenko

AI-Enabled Quantum Molecular Simulations Beyond AlphaFold and Empirical Potentials

14:00 – 14:45
Julija Zavadlav

Julija Zavadlav

Machine Learning 4 Molecular Simulations

14:45 – 15:30
Lara Roman Castellanos

Lara Roman Castellanos

ML methods for the quantum description of matter: from materials to exoplanets

15:30 – 16:15

Coffee Break

16:15 – 17:00
Zoi Tsangalidou

Zoi Tsangalidou

Agentic workflows in the Life Sciences

17:00 – 17:45
Adam Zsolt Wagner

Adam Zsolt Wagner

Searching in language space to find constructions in mathematics

17:45 – 18:00

Break (Transition to Lightning Talks)

18:00 – 20:00

Lightning Talks

Day 2 — July 17

Life Sciences & AI Methodologies

10:00 – 10:45
William Freeman

William Freeman

Imaging for Science

10:45 – 11:30
Ivo Sbalzarini

Ivo Sbalzarini

Physically and numerically consistent data-driven modeling in biology

11:30 – 12:15
Natasha Latysheva

Natasha Latysheva

AI for Genomics

12:15 – 13:15

Lunch Break

13:15 – 14:00
Yannis Kevrekidis

Yannis Kevrekidis

On the things that do not matter

14:00 – 14:45
Andrea Manzoni

Andrea Manzoni

Unveiling the latent space: deep learning for reduced order modeling, discovery and control of large-scale systems

14:45 – 15:30
Angelos Filos

Angelos Filos

Prediction as Code

15:30 – 16:15

Coffee Break

16:15 – 17:00
Ryutaro Tanno

Ryutaro Tanno

Conversational Medical AI with Eyes, Ears and a Voice

17:00 – 17:45
Alexandra Chronopoulou

Alexandra Chronopoulou

LLM Evaluation: Rubric-Based Benchmarking and Structural Breakdown of Overthinking

17:45 – 18:30

Conversational Panel on AI for Science