Name: INAF SCHOOL OF AI
Start: 2026-04-14T09:00:00+02:00
End: 2026-04-17T15:00:00+02:00
Location: INAF Astronomical Observatory of Capodimonte (Naples)

INAF SCHOOL OF AI

from Tuesday, 14 April 2026 (09:00) to Friday, 17 April 2026 (15:00)

Monday, 13 April 2026
Tuesday, 14 April 2026
14:00 Welcome and Logistics
14:00 - 14:30
Room: Auditorium Nazionale Ernesto Capocci
Contributions

14:00 Welcome - Pietro Schipani (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

14:05 USC-C - Andrea Possenti (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

14:15 AI Thematic Group - Simone Riggi (INAF - Osservatorio Astrofisico di Catania)

14:25 Info & Logistics - Giuseppe Riccio (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))
14:30 Introduction
14:30 - 15:40
Room: Auditorium Nazionale Ernesto Capocci
Contributions

14:30 Introduction to Machine Learning - Simone Riggi (INAF - Osservatorio Astrofisico di Catania)

15:00 Data basics & formats - Farida Farsian (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))
15:40 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
15:40 - 16:10
16:10 Introduction
16:10 - 18:00
Room: Auditorium Nazionale Ernesto Capocci
Contributions

16:10 Data Cleaning - Simone Riggi (INAF - Osservatorio Astrofisico di Catania)

17:10 Data Transformation - Farida Farsian (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

17:40 Tutorial - Data Cleaning & Transformation - Farida Farsian (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF)) Simone Riggi (INAF - Osservatorio Astrofisico di Catania)
18:00 Flash Talks
18:00 - 19:00
Room: Auditorium Nazionale Ernesto Capocci
Contributions

18:00 Quantum Markov Chain Monte Carlo for Cosmological Functions - Giuseppe Sarracino (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

18:10 DeepLandforms: A Deep Learning Computer Vision Toolset Applied to a Prime Use Case for Mapping Planetary Skylights - Giacomo Nodjoumi (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

18:20 The GalRSG project: Red Supergiants on the brink of core-collapse - Mario Lauriano (INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Palermo, Università di Padova)
Wednesday, 15 April 2026
09:30 Supervised Learning
09:30 - 11:00
Room: Auditorium Nazionale Ernesto Capocci
Contributions

09:30 Supervised Learning Part I - Theory - Stefano Cavuoti (INAF - Astronomical Observatory of Capodimonte Napoli)
11:00 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
11:00 - 11:30
11:30 Supervised Learning
11:30 - 13:00
Room: Auditorium Nazionale Ernesto Capocci
Contributions

11:30 Supervised Learning Part I - hands-on session - Stefano Cavuoti (INAF - Astronomical Observatory of Capodimonte Napoli)
13:00 Lunch & Group Photo
Lunch & Group Photo
13:00 - 14:15
14:15 Supervised Learning
14:15 - 15:30
Room: Auditorium Nazionale Ernesto Capocci
Contributions

14:15 Supervised Learning Part II - Theory and Hands-on session - Giuseppe Angora (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))
15:30 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
15:30 - 16:00
16:00 Supervised Learning
16:00 - 17:30
Room: Auditorium Nazionale Ernesto Capocci
Contributions

16:00 Supervised Learning Part II - Hands-on - Giuseppe Angora (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))
17:30 Flash Talks: Flash Talks
Flash Talks
17:30 - 18:30
Room: Auditorium Nazionale Ernesto Capocci
Contributions

17:30 Machine Learning and Super resolution for radio astronomical data analysis - Giorgia Vitanza (INAF - Osservatorio Astrofisico di Catania)

17:40 The first extragalactic Mg-K anticorrelation - Deimer Antonio Alvarez Garay (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

17:50 Multimodal Foundation Models for Galaxy Classification in Abell S1063 - Lorenzo Santo (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

18:00 Tracing the Roots of the Early Evolution of the Milky Way through Pulsations (TREE) - Emanuela Luongo (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))
Thursday, 16 April 2026
09:30 Unsupervised Learning
09:30 - 11:00
Room: Auditorium Nazionale Ernesto Capocci
Contributions

09:30 Unsupervised Learning Part I - Theory and Hands-on Session - Ylenia Maruccia (INAF - Astronomical Observatory of Capodimonte)
11:00 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
11:00 - 11:30
11:30 Unsupervised Learning
11:30 - 13:00
Room: Auditorium Nazionale Ernesto Capocci
Contributions

11:30 Unsupervised Learning Part II - Francesco Schilliro' (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))
13:00 Lunch
Lunch
13:00 - 14:00
14:00 Unsupervised Learning
14:00 - 15:30
Room: Auditorium Nazionale Ernesto Capocci
Contributions

14:00 Unsupervised Learning Part III - Theory - Ylenia Maruccia (INAF - Astronomical Observatory of Capodimonte)
15:30 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
15:30 - 16:00
16:00 Unsupervised Learning
16:00 - 17:00
Room: Auditorium Nazionale Ernesto Capocci
Contributions

16:00 Unsupervised Learning Part III - Hands-on Session - Ylenia Maruccia (INAF - Astronomical Observatory of Capodimonte)
18:00 Walking tour of the hystorical center
Walking tour of the hystorical center
18:00 - 19:30
Friday, 17 April 2026
09:30 Anomaly Detection
09:30 - 11:00
Room: Auditorium Nazionale Ernesto Capocci
Contributions

09:30 Anomaly Detection theory - Stefano Cavuoti (INAF - Astronomical Observatory of Capodimonte Napoli)
11:00 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
11:00 - 11:30
Room: Auditorium Nazionale Ernesto Capocci
11:30 Anomaly Detection
11:30 - 13:00
Room: Auditorium Nazionale Ernesto Capocci
Contributions

11:30 Anomaly Detection Hands-on - Stefano Cavuoti (INAF - Astronomical Observatory of Capodimonte Napoli)
13:00 Lunch
Lunch
13:00 - 14:00

14:00 Closing Remarks: Discussion and closing remarks
Discussion and closing remarks
14:00 - 15:00
Room: Auditorium Nazionale Ernesto Capocci

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