INFIERI 2025

1 Sept 2025, 09:00 → 13 Sept 2025, 19:00 Europe/Zurich

University of Pisa and INFN Sezione di Pisa

Registrations are open!

Deadline for scholariship application postponed to April 15th

Welcome to the 8th Edition of INFIERI:
INtelligent signal processing for FrontIEr Research and Industry

We are excited to announce that the 8th edition of the INFIERI Summer School will take place in Pisa, Italy, from September 1 to 13, 2025. Hosted by the University of Pisa and INFN Sezione di Pisa, with the collaboration of Scuola Normale Superiore, the European Gravitational Observatory, and the University of Siena, this edition promises to continue the legacy of excellence that has defined the INFIERI series.

The INFIERI Summer School offers a unique two-week program designed for M.Sc. students, Ph.D. candidates, postdocs, and early-career researchers. The 2025 edition will maintain the school's tradition of cross-disciplinarity, covering the full signal processing chain critical for developing cutting-edge instruments in areas such as particle physics, astrophysics, nanotechnology, and biomedical engineering.

The program includes expert lectures, keynote talks, and hands-on laboratory sessions, where participants will work closely with leading scientists and industry professionals. The in-person format fosters essential interactions and collaborations, ensuring a rich educational experience. Following the success of the 2023 edition, highly skilled undergraduate students will also be invited to participate based on their academic achievements.

Join us in Pisa for an unparalleled opportunity to advance your knowledge and skills in signal processing and instrumentation.

Lectures & Hands-on Labs on Cross-disciplinary, Cutting-edge Research Fields, and High Technologies Development:

• From Astrophysics (Gravitational Waves, HelioPhysics and Sun Exploration) and Particle Physics (Beyond Higgs/Future accelerators & Quantum Experiments) to new paradigms in Nuclear Fission and Fusion.
• From Advanced semiconductors to Quantum sensing, Nano-technologies,  Nano-Biology and Nano-Medicine.
• From Big Data Transfer, beyond-Moore’s-Law High Performance Computing to AI and Quantum Technologies in Science and Industry.

Target audience: M.Sc., Ph.D., postdoc-level physicists and engineers.

GDPR_document.pdf

INFIERI2025_Poster.pdf

INFIERI2025-ProgAtGlance.pdf

PISA-INFIERI2025-Flyer.pdf

Monday 1 September

09:00 → 13:00 OPENING DAY

The Academia, Advanced Research Laboratories and Industrial Firms that will contribute to the school in the Pisa area, together with the Host Institutions: University of Pisa and INFN sezione di Pisa will be presented in this session,
The session will also include a brief presentation of the School series Objectives.

Convener: Andrea Rizzi (Universita & INFN Pisa (IT))

The contributing Academia, Advanced Research Laboratories and Industrial Firms that will contribute to the school in the Pisa area, together with the Host Institutions: University of Pisa and INFN sezione di Pisa will be presented in this session,
The session will also include a brief presentation of the School series Objectives.

13:00 → 14:00 Lunch time

14:00 → 19:00 Hands on Lab: Presentation of all the Labs by Lab organisers

Tuesday 2 September

08:30 → 12:30 INTRODUCTORY VISION ON THE 4 THEORETICAL PILARS of this SCHOOL PROGRAM

THE TOPICS COVERED IN THIS SCHOOL SERIES ARE BASED ON 4 THEORETICAL PILARS:
1) ASTRONOMY/ASTROPHYSICS & COSMOLOGY
2) PARTICLE PHYSICS
3) QUANTUM PHYSICS
4) PLASMA PHYSICS
The introductory vision lectures on the last 2 topics has been introduced in the lectures of this school series at the INFIERI2023 school edition.

THE THEORETICAL LECTURES ON EACH OF THIS 4 TOPICS ARE GIVEN BY EXPERTS IN THE FIELD. THEY WILL INTRODUCE THESE THEORETICAL FRAMEWORKS, CONCENTRATING ON THE MAIN ITEMS, THIS SCHOOL EDITION WILL COVERED.

These theoretical introductions are completed by dedicated masterclasses (i.e. Hands-on theoretical Labs) available to non-expert students in the domain covered by those introductory lectures.

Today: The Lectures and Keynote will be dedicated to 3 ofthe 4 pilars of this school program: Astro & Cosmology, Particle Physics and Plasma Physics  

The introductory vision talk on the fourth pilar, i.e. Quantum Mechanics will be given as a keynote the day after.

08:30 INTRODUCTORY VISION to ASTRONOMY/ASTROPHYSICS & COSMOLOGY

REFERRING TO GALILEO GALILEI, BUT ALSO TO TWO OF THE MOST IMPORTANT TOPICS NOWADAYS IN THE ASTRO/COSMO FIELD, THIS INFIERI SCHOOL EDITION WILL CONCENTRATE ON GRAVITATIONAL WAVES AND SOLAR PHYSICS (=> Dark matter, dark energy, Gravitational waves, Gravity, Heliophysics..)

10:15 COFFEE/TEA BREAK

10:45 INTRODUCTORY VISION to PARTICLE PHYSICS

PARTICLE PHYSICS FIELD IS AT AN EXCITING TIME, ENTERING IN MANY WAYS IN TERRA INCOGNITA:
HIGGS, BEYOND & WHAT"s ELSE?
WHAT FUTURE DIRECTIONS IN HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS?
WHAT's NEXT??
The theoreticians' point of view

Speakers: Michelangelo MANGANO (CERN), Riccardo RATTAZZI (tbc) (EPFL - Ecole Polytechnique Federale Lausanne (CH))

12:30 → 14:00 Lunch time

14:00 → 17:00 Hands on Lab

17:00 → 17:30 Coffee break

17:30 → 19:00 KEYNOTE 1: INTRODUCTORY VISION TO QUANTUM PHYSICS

FROM QUANTUM PHENOMENA TO QUANTUM TECHNOLOGIES
SPEAKER: Asiminia ARVANATAKI (PERIMETER INSTITUTE of THEORETICAL PHYSICS, Canada)
Asimina Arvanitaki (PhD Stanford University, 2008) is the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Aristarchus Chair in Theoretical Physics at Perimeter Institute, where she has been a faculty member since 2014. She previously held research positions at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory at the University of California, Berkeley (2008-11), and the Stanford Institute for Theoretical Physics at Stanford University (2011-14).

Asimina is a particle physicist who specializes in designing new experiments to test fundamental theories beyond the Standard Model. These experiments rely on the latest developments in metrology, such as atomic clocks, and the optical trapping and cooling of macroscopic objects. She recently pioneered a new experiment that can look for new spin-dependent forces in nature at an unprecedented level of precision. Arvanitaki also works on theoretical challenges raised by experimental results, such as a model of particle physics influenced by string theory called "split SUSY." In 2016, she received an Early Researcher Award from the Ministry of Research and Innovation of Ontario.

Wednesday 3 September

08:30 → 12:30 FUNDAMENTAL RESEARCH & ADVANCED HIGH TECH

THREE ADVANCED HIGH TECH TOPICS IMPACTING THE SIGNAL PROCESSING AT THE FRONT-END OF THE INSTRUMENTS ARE PRESENTED IN THOSE LECTURES:
- THE FIRST ONE IS RELATED TO ADVANCES IN SENSOR TECHNOLOGIES AND VERY DEEP SUB-MICROELECTRONICS TO DETERMINE WITH HIGHEST PRECISION, SPACE POSITION AND TIME (4D SPACE) PLUS IN SOME CASES ENERGY (5D SPACE).
- THE SECOND TOPIC IS ON QUANTUM SENSING WHICH ALLOWS FOR EXTREMELY PRECISE MEASUREMENTS. IT TRANSLATES INTO QUANTUM SENSING TECHNOLOGIES WHICH HAVE. A BROAD RANGE OF APPLICATIONS.
-THE THIRD ONE INTRODUCES TO THE INCREASING ROLE OF SUPRACONDUCTIVITY.

08:30 TRACKING PARTICLES: BREAKING SPACExTIME LIMITS

4D/5D Revolution in sensors and associated frontend electronics

10:15 COFFEE.TEA BREAK

10:35 QUANTUM SENSING TECH

Speaker: Steven WORM (Honorarprofessor, Humboldt Universität Department of Physics Head of Astroparticle Detector R&D @ DESY)

11:40 DESIGN and OPTIMIZATION OF ACCELERATOR MAGNETS

For the LHC magnets, the coherence between beam-physics requirements, magnet design, and magnetic measurements has been well established. This is far less evident in future accelerator projects. Hysteresis and eddy currents in iron-dominated magnets affect accelerator performance during fast field ramps to gain circulating beam time or when suppressing demagnetization cycles to save energy.

We also review the challenges of the next generation of high-field superconducting magnets that will require coupled electromagnetic, mechanical, thermal, and electric simulations from the onset of the design process. We go through the different design steps and the required tools for numerical field computation and optimization. In simulating transient effects in quenching superconducting magnets, we are confronted with the coupling of physical subsystems and extreme nonlinearities and uncertainties in the material parameters.

Speaker: Stephan RUSSENSCHUK (CERN)

12:30 → 14:00 Lunch time

14:00 → 17:00 Hands on Lab

17:00 → 17:30 Coffee break

17:30 → 19:00 KEYNOTE 2: INTRODUCTORY VISION TO PLASMA PHYSICS

SOLID→ LIQUID→ GAS→ PLASMA. PLASMA IS THE MOST ABUNDANT ENERGY SOURCE OF THE UNIVERSE AND YET SO MYSTERIOUS. THIS 4TH STATE OF THE MATTER IS EVERYWHERE IN THE TOPICS COVERED IN THE SCHOOL, FROM ASTRO/COSMO, THE SUN TO NUCLEAR FUSION.

Thursday 4 September

08:30 → 13:30 INTELLIGENCE on DETECTORS, THE HEP CASE: PREPARING THE HEP FUTURE

The YEAR 2025 IS A NEW IMPORTANT YEAR on the PATH TO FINAL DECISIONS ON THE NEXT GENERATION HEP MACHINE(S) TO BE BUILT OVER THE WORLD.
THIS 4 HOURS SESSION WILL REVIEW THE. PROJECTS, i.e. THE LEPTON HIGGS FACTORY(IES), A 100 TEV HADRON COLLIDER, A 3-10 TeV MUON COLLIDER, from the PHYSICS. and DETECTORS VIEWPOINT & WITH A FOCUS ON THE INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE DIFFERENT PROJECTS.

THIS 4 HOURS SESSION WILL BE ORGANIZED TO REFLECT THE INTERPLAY & CHALLENGES BETWEEN THE MAIN FUTURE PROJECTS

08:30 OVERVIEW of the PROJECTS for THE FUTURE of HEP, WORLDWIDE

Speaker: Frank ZIMMERMANN (TBC) (CERN)

09:15 MODEL-BASED SYSTEMS ENGINEERING for the NEXT GENERATION of NORMAL ACCELERATOR SUPRACONDUCTING MAGNETS

S. Russenschuck holds the role of principle apply physicist at the Technology Division TE at CERN (CH). He is the leader of the test and magnetic measurement section in the magnet group.

We present Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) as a methodology that enables data-driven modeling and traceable design workflows of magnets and field transducers.

The aim is to create models updated by magnetic measurements, which allow the extrapolation of performance parameters regarding different powering cycles, manufacturing defects, and varying material parameters. To enable MBSE processes, we must place six “columns” on a common foundation: the physical objects (magnets and field transducers), data layers (numerical models and measured data), and software tools for design and analysis.

Data-driven models (hybrid twins) contain the physical description of a nonlinear dynamical system, the simulated system's response and observation functions, and a disturbance model derived from measurements.

Speaker: Stephan RUSSENSCHUCK (CERN)

10:00 THE FCC PROJECT for FUTURE of HEP at CERN

Speaker: Patrick JANOT (CERN)

10:40 COFFEE/TEA BREAK

11:00 A 100 TeV HADRONIC COLLIDER: THE DETECTOR CHALLENGES TO FACE THE NEW PHYSICS REACHES

Speaker: Werner RIEGLER (CERN)

11:40 THE CePC/SppC for FUTURE of HEP in CHINA

Speaker: Joao GUIMARAES COSTA (IHEP and CAS, CHINA)

12:20 A HIGH ENERGY, 3-10 TEV MUON COLLIDER

Speaker: Isobel OJALVO (tbc) (Princeton University (USA))

13:00 QUESTIONS/ANSWERS by students to the Panel of lecturers

Panel Moderated by one Experimentalist and one Theoretician (TBA)

13:30 → 14:30 Lunch time

14:30 → 17:30 Hands on Lab

17:30 → 18:00 Coffee break

18:00 → 19:30 KEYNOTE 3: INTELLIGENCE ON DETECTORS, THE HEP CASE (CONT'd)

THE HEP QUANTUM EXPERIMENTS AS an EXAMPLE CASE.
This lecture will discuss the revolution of quantum technology on HEP experiments and how it introduces intelligence on the detectors in Particle Physics experiments with some show cases.

18:00 QUANTUM OBSERVABLES in PARTICLE PHYSICS (HEP)

Speaker: Prof. Fabio MALTONI (tbc) (Universite Catholique de Louvain (UCL) (BE) and Università di Bologna)

18:45 QUANTUM HEP EXPERIMENTS

Speaker: Steven WORM (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron and Humbolt University in Berlin (DE))

Friday 5 September

08:30 → 13:20 THE APPLIED PHYSICS DAY: RENEWABLE ENERGIES, THE NUCLEAR ENERGY CASE

This session will introduce this active research field and stress the main R&D developments on both the Nuclear Fission and Nuclear Fusion applications on this field. It will also show how these research activities are benefitting from European and or international Research Laboratories such as MYRRHA and ITER.
It will briefly also introduce in those lectures the broad field of applications beyond the use as Energy source.

The industrial aspects will be developed in the Symposium on High Tech and Fundamental Science.
Several Hands on Lab are foreseen for this important overall topic.

Convener: Cinzia DA VIA (Manchester University (UK) and SUNY-STONYBROOK, NY, USA)

Nuclear Energies: Challenges, Projects, New Paradigm

Interplay with fundam. Science

08:30 GLACIERS and CLIMATE CHANGE: THE LONG- and SHORT-TERM PERSPECTIVES

Speaker: Prof. Matteo Spagnolo is a glaciologist at the University of Aberdeen and the director of the Scottish Alliance for Geoscience, Environment and Society (SAGES). He obtained a BSc in Natural Sciences at the University of Pisa (Italy), an MSc in GIS and Remote Sensing at the IAO in Firenze (Italy), a Geology PhD at the University of Genova (Italy), before moving to the UK in 2007. Matteo applies various field, Geographic Information System and remote sensing techniques to the study of glacial landforms and glacier response to climate and other forcing (e.g. volcanism). He has worked in alpine and subglacial environments, from the Andes to the Arctic, looking at land surface, subsurface and seabed evidence of past and present-day glacier dynamics. His current research includes the history of glaciations, the interaction between volcanoes and glaciers, the recent evolution of glaciers in the Himalayas in response to climate, and glaciers as water resources under current/future scenarios of global warming.

Abstract: Climate represents the main driver controlling the growth and demise of Earth’s ice masses, which in turn play a major role in many physical and biological processes, including sea level, ocean currents, ecosystems, and climate itself, not to mention human activities. Thus, it is no surprise that shrinking and disappearing glaciers are often referred to as amongst the most dramatic evidence of recent, increased warming. Climate, and hence glaciers, have changed often in historical and geological times. The past evolution of glaciers, and history of glaciations, can therefore be used as a way to decipher past climate changes, essential to contextualise current climatic trends and scenarios, and to refine future predictions. In this talk, Prof. Matteo Spagnolo will use evidence of past glaciations (landforms and sediments), ice cores and other geological climate proxies to present a fascinating “recent” (hundred years timescale) and geological (million years timescale) overview of what we know about the Earth’s climate history.

Speaker: Matteo SPAGNOLO (University of Aberdeen)

09:10 RESEARCH and DEVELOPMENTS ON NUCLEAR FISSION; ALTERNATIVES TOWARDS A NEW WAY TO USE NUCLEAR FISSION FOR ENERGY APPLICATIONS

INTRODUCTION TO NUCLEAR FISSION ENERGY and MYRRHA A MULTIPURPOSE ACCELERATOR-DRIVEN SYSTEM FOR R&D PRE-DESIGN STUDY COMPLETION

Speaker: Hamiit Ait ABDERRAHIM (tbc) (SCK-CEN, BE (Deputy Head of SCK-GEN and Head of MYRRHA LAB))

10:00 RESEARCH and DEVELOPMENTS on NUCLEAR FUSION: MAGNETIC CONFINEMENT and LASER FUSION

13:20 → 14:20 Lunch time

14:20 → 17:20 Hands on Lab

17:20 → 17:50 Coffee break

17:50 → 19:20 KEYNOTE 4: EXPLORING THE SUN: SOLAR PHYSICS FROM GALILEO GALILEI TO XXI CENTURY'?

SPEAKER: TBA

Solar Physics (Heliophysics) is the branch of astrophysics that specializes in the study of the Sun. It intersects with many disciplines of pure physics and astrophysics.
After an introduction on this section of Astrophysics this keynote will present the latest developments in this Field and the main challenges ahead.

Saturday 6 September

08:30 → 09:00 BUS TRANSPORTAION

09:00 → 17:30 INTELLIGENCE ON DETECTORS: THE ASTROPHYSICS CASE

N.B. The school is hosted on Saturday Sept 6, at the EUROPEAN GRAVITATIONAL OBSERVATORY, EGO. and besides the lectures, will include a visit of this Laboratory. No hands-on Lab on that day (see Monday 8 schedule)

THE FIRST PART OF THE "JOURNEY OF THE SIGNAL" FROM THE FRONT END OF THE INSTRUMENTS TO THE. FAR END PROCESSORS, DEDICATED TO "INTELLIGENCE ON DETECTORS", ENDS ON THE SATURDAY OF THE FIRST WEEK, WITH THE ASTRO/COSMO CASE.

THE EXAMPLE-CASES WILL BE DEDICATED TO THE PROJECTS ON THE TWO TOPICS PRESENTED IN THIS SCHOOL EDITION, i.e. GW & THE SUN PHYSICS.

09:00 NEXT GENERATION OF GW EXPERIMENTS: part 1

10:50 COFFEE/TEA BREAK

11:10 VISIT OF EGO LABORATORY

12:30 LUNCH AT EGO LABORATORY

14:00 NEXT GENERATION OF GW EXPERIMENTS: part 2

17:30 → 18:00 COFFEE/TEA BREAK

18:00 → 19:30 KEYNOTE 5: EXPLORATION OF THE SUN: THE NEW INSTRUMENTS AND EXPERIENCES

18:00 SOLAR ORBITER (ESA)

Speaker: Milan MAKSIMOVITCH (Observatoire de PARIS, FR)

18:45 PARKER SOLAR PROBE (NASA)

Speaker: Nour RAOUAFI(TBC) (NASA and J. Hopkins, USA)

19:30 → 20:00 BUS TRANSPORTATION

Sunday 7 September

08:00 → 20:00 FREE DAY: VISITS of some key places in TUSCANY

THE WONDERFUL TUSCANY WHERE PISA IS LOCATED IS A RENOWN PLACE NOT ONLY IN ITALY BUT ALSO IN THE WORLD, FOR THE MARVELOUS LANDSCAPE, THE IMMENSE CULTURAL HERITAGE AND AT THE SAME TIME THE HIGHLY SKILLED EDUCATIONAL, INDUSTRIAL AND RESEARCH MANY FACETED ACTIVITIES.

NOTE: ALSO ORGANIZED BY FIRENZE-INFN A VISIT TO THE CULTURAL HERITAGE LABORATORIES

Monday 8 September

08:30 → 11:30 HANDS ON LAB SPECIAL SESSION

This hands on Lab session is in place of the one scheduled on Saturday afternoon,
Therefore, on that day, there will be 2 Hands-on Lab session that both are obligatory to attend.

11:30 → 12:15 WALKING FROM THE LABS TO THE LECTURE HALL + COFFEE BREAK

----------> FROM HANDS-ON LAB SESSION to LECTURE HALL <------------

12:15 → 13:15 ADVANCES in DATA TRANSFER TECHNOLOGIES

THE SECOND WEEK IS DEDICATED TO THE "JOURNEY OF THE DATA" EXTRACTED FROM THE INSTRUMENTS TO THE FAR END DATA PROCESSING. IT WILL FOCUS ON THE NEW TECHNOLOGIES ON DATA TRANSMISSION, AND ADVANCED SIGNAL AND DATA PROCESSING BASED ON IA & QUANTUM TECHNOLOGIES AS WELL AS NANOTECHNOLOGIES.

IT WILL START WITH THE ADVANCES on DATA TRANSMISSION:
- One hour introductory lecture, at the end of the morning,
- followed by a keynote session at the end of the day on that same topic.
A lecture on Quantum Communication on the Quantum Day, will complete this topic.

Hands on Labs dedicated to the data transmission will allow to deepen the knowledge on this important topic in the signal processing in both fundamental and applied research.

12:15 INTRODUCTION TO THE HIGH RATE/HIGH SPEED DATA TRANSMISSION CHALLENGES & SOLUTIONS

13:15 → 14:30 Lunch time

14:30 → 17:30 Hands on Lab

17:30 → 18:00 Coffee break

18:00 → 19:30 KEYNOTE 6: ADVANCES IN DATA TRANSFER TECHNOLOGIES (CONT'D)

SOLID→ LIQUID→ GAS→ PLASMA. PLASMA IS THE MOST ABUNDANT ENERGY SOURCE OF THE UNIVERSE AND YET SO MYSTERIOUS.  THIS 4TH STATE OF THE MATTER IS EVERYWHERE IN THE TOPICS COVERED IN THE SCHOOL, FROM ASTRO/COSMO, THE SUN TO NUCLEAR FUSION.

18:00 WIRELESS DATA TRANSMISSION

Speaker: Fabrizio PALLA (tbc) (Universita & INFN Pisa (IT))

18:45 TRANSCONTINENTAL DATA TRANSMISSION

Speaker: Rafael LOZANO (tbc) (ELLA Link (Brazil Head))

Tuesday 9 September

08:30 → 12:30 POST MOORE, POST EXASCALE HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING ERA

AFTER DATA TRANSMISSION, THE NEXT CHALLENGING STEP IS ON HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING, HPC.

THIS SESSION TACKLES THE NOVEL DEVELOPMENTS/ADVANCES ON BOTH HARDWARE & SOFTWARE.

The cross-disciplinary and worldwide facets of this field will be highlighted by experts and key projects from Europe (EuroHPC-JU Enterprise), Asia (Tokyo University) and USA (Keynote talk). Some of them will also organized hands-on Labs (e.g. Tokyo University representatives).

08:30 NEW CHALLENGES AND DEVELOPMENTS ON HPC, THE EUROHPC-JU ENTERPRISE

09:40 DISAGGREGATING SYSTEM ARCHITECTURES (e.g. MEMORY SYSTEMS) FOR FUTURE HPC AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE WORKLOAD

With staff experience averaging more than 20 years, our seasoned team of design engineers and manufacturing professionals have solid expertise in high-density, low-power products. They work in deep submicron nodes with a keen eye for cost-size-weight reduction and design sustainability. They have created sensors, FPGAs, SerDes, memory chips (DRAM, MRAM, and RRAM), ASICs, AI systems, and many other ingenious devices.

As pioneers in advanced packaging and heterogeneous integration, our team boasts an admirable record of creating successful state-of-the-art products.

Speaker: Robert PATTI (CeO NHanced-Semiconductors, USA)

10:30 COFFEE/TEA BREAK

11:00 INNOVATIVE SUPERCOMPUTING, by Integrations of Simulations/Data/Learning , ON LARGE-SCALE HETEROGENEOUS SYSTEMS

Lecturer: KENGO NAKAJIMA, Professor in the Supercomputing Research Division of the Information Technology Center at the University of Tokyo since 2008. Prior to joining the University of Tokyo in 2004, he spent 19 years in industry.
Also a deputy director of RIKEN R-CCS (Center for Computational Science) since 2018.
His research interest covers computational mechanics, computational fluid dynamics (CFD), numerical linear algebra, parallel iterative algorithms, parallel preconditioning methods, multigrid methods, parallel programming models, adaptive mesh refinement (AMR), and parallel visualization.
He holds a B.Eng (1985, Aeronautics, University of Tokyo), an MS (1993, Aerospace Engineering, University of Texas at Austin), and a PhD (2003, Engineering Mechanics, University of Tokyo).

Abstract: Recently, supercomputing has been changing dramatically. Integration/convergence of Simulation/Data/Learning (S+D+L) is important towards Society 5.0 proposed by Japanese Government, which enables integration of cyber space and physical space. In 2015, we started the BDEC project (Big Data & Extreme Computing) for development of supercomputers and software for integration of (S+D+L). In May 2021, we started operation of the Wisteria/BDEC-01. It is the first BDEC system, which consists of computing nodes for computational science and engineering with A64FX (Odyssey), and those for Data Analytics/AI with NVIDIA A100 GPU’s (Aquarius). We also develop a software platform “h3-Open-BDEC” for integration of (S+D+L) on the Wisteria/BDEC-01, which is designed for extracting the maximum performance of the supercomputers with minimum energy consumption focusing on (1) Innovative method for numerical analysis by adaptive precision, accuracy verification and automatic tuning, (2) Hierarchical Data Driven Approach based on machine learning, and (3) Software for heterogeneous systems. Integration of (S+D+L) by h3-Open-BDEC enables significant reduction of computations and power consumption, compared to those by conventional simulations. In January 2025, we started to operate the Miyabi system together with University of Tsukuba. Miyabi consists of GPU Cluster with 1,120 nodes of NVIDIA GH200 (Miyabi-G) and 380 sockets of Intel Max 9480 with HBM2e. In this talk, I will mainly introduce the results related to the integration of (S+D+L) using h3-Open-BDEC on Wisteria/BDEC-01, but will also provide an overview of new innovations using Miyabi.

N.B. A dedicated Hands-on Lab is organised on this advanced HPC topic in collaboration with the U. of Tokyo IT Center.

Speaker: Kengo NAKAJIMA (Information Technology Center, The University of Tokyo, Japan RIKEN Center for Computational Science (R-CCS), Japan)

12:30 → 14:00 Lunch time

14:00 → 17:00 Hands on Lab

17:00 → 17:30 Coffee break

17:30 → 18:30 KEYNOTE 7: COMPUTING BEYOND MOORE'S LAW

Wednesday 10 September

08:30 → 12:30 THE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE DAY

AI IS INDEED PLAYING AN INCREASING KEY ROLE AT ALL STAGES OF THE SIGNAL AND DATA PROCESSING.

THIS VAST TOPIC WILL BE COMPLEMENTED BY A DEDICATED SESSION AT THE SYMPOSIUM ON HIGH TECH x FUNDAMENTAL RESEARCH and SEVERAL HANDS-ON LABS

08:30 AI FAST EVOLVING TECHNOLOGY: WHERE DO WE STAND? MAIN CHALLENGES, LIMITS and PERSPECTIVES

Speaker: TBA

10:20 COFFEE/TEA BREAK

10:40 AI FOR FUNDAMENTAL RESEARCH: THE HEP CASE

Speaker: Maurizio PIERINI (CERN)

11:35 AI EMBEDDED IN HARDWARE: from smart pixels to eFPGA and the multiple applications.

Including ML-based qubit readout

Speaker: James HIRSCHAUER (Fermi National Laboratory, FNAL, Il, USA)

12:30 → 14:00 Lunch time

14:00 → 17:00 Hands on Lab

17:00 → 17:30 Coffee break

17:30 → 19:00 KEYNOTE 8: ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND ETHICS; GENERATIVE AI

SPEAKER: Francesco MARCELLONI (University of PISA), Professor of Data Processing Systems at the Department of Information; Vice Rector of UNIPI for international cooperation and relations.

ABSTRACT: This talk will be about the potential risks of AI — including generative AI — and how these risks can be addressed from both a technological and legislative perspective.

BIO: graduated in Electronic Engineering in 1991 and Ph.D. in Electronics, Information and Telecommunications Engineering in 1996, both from the University of Pisa. After a period of time spent at the University of Twente (the Netherlands), his academic career has continued at the University of Pisa first as a researcher, then as associate professor and finally as a full professor in Data Processing Systems.
Francesco Marcelloni’s teaching activities have been centred around the core subjects of the degree course in Computer Engineering and the advanced courses in Data mining for the Master’s degree course in Computer Engineering and Bionics Engineering. From 2003 to 2007, he headed three educational projects, financed by the Tuscan Region, for vocational modules in new university degrees.
His research interests are aimed principally at computational intelligence and its engineering applications, with original and innovative contributions relative to fuzzy classification, multi-objective evolutionary algorithms, genetic fuzzy systems and fuzzy clustering algorithms. Recently, his research focused on Big Data, proposing new classifiers on the Spark and Hadoop platforms, on smart cities, with new approaches to the identification of traffic accidents, monitoring energy consumption in the home and on data compression in sensor nodes.

Thursday 11 September

08:30 → 12:30 THE QUANTUM DAY

THE EXPERIMENTAL OUTCOMES FROM QUANTUM PHENOMENA LEADING TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF QUANTUM TECHNOLOGIES ARE PLAYING AN INCREASING KEY ROLE AT ALL STAGES OF THE SIGNAL AND DATA PROCESSING e.g. QUANTUM SENSING, QUANTUM COMPUTING AND QUANTUM COMMUNICATION.
Lectures in this school session have already introduced this overall topic with 1) QUANTUM PHYSICS PHENOMENA and QUANTUM TECHNOLOGIES and 2) QUANTUM SENSING, plus 3) THE QUANTUM HEP EXPERIMENTS.

HERE THE SESSION WIIL CONCENTRATE ON QUANTUM COMPUTING & QUANTUM COMMUNICATION which play or will play essential roles in the data transmission and data processing.

08:30 QUANTUM COMPUTING/COMPUTERS: WHAT CAN BE ALREADY ACHIEVED, LONG TERM PERSPECTIVES with A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF Q.C. TECHNOLOGIES

10:15 COFFEE OR TEA BREAK

10:45 QUANTUM COMMUNICATION: PRESENT STATUS, CHALENGES & MAIN PERSPECTIVES

• SHORT DISTANCE USES and APPLICATIONs
• LONG DISTANCE CHALLENGE

Speakers: Jain-Wei PAN (tbc) (UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA, HEFEI, CHINA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES, CN), Valerio PRUNERI (tbc) (The INSTITUTE OF PHOTONICS SCIENCES, ICFO Barcelona)

12:30 → 14:00 Lunch time

14:00 → 17:00 Hands on Lab

17:00 → 17:30 Coffee break

17:30 → 19:30 KEYNOTE 9, "SPECIAL KEYNOTE" : MENS SANA IN CORPORE SANO

This special "keynote" indeed follow the traditional session on "Mens sans in corpora sano" which includes this year the choice between participating to either the RUN or the FOOTBALL session.

THEY ARE OPENED TO THE PARTICIPATION OF BOTH THE SCHOOL ATTENDANTS AND THE LECTURERS/LAB ORGANIZERS.
ALL ARE STRONGLY ENCOURAGED TO PARTICIPATE and AWARDS WILL BE DELIVERED TO THE WINNERS.

Friday 12 September

08:30 → 12:30 NANO-TECHNOLOGY/-BIOLOGY/-MEDICINE

NANOTECHNOLOGIES ARE PLAYING AN INCREASING IMPORTANT ROLE AT THE FOREFRONT OF THE SIGNAL PROCESSING AS WELL AS IN SEVERAL STEPS OF THE DATA PROCESSING. HERE THE FOCUS IS ALSO ON ITS THE MULTIFACETS APPLICATIONS IN SEVERAL FUNDAMENTAL AND APPLIED FIELDS, ESPECIALLY BIOLOGY AND MEDICINE

THE SEVERAL ASPECTS PRESENTED HERE WILL BE COMPLETED BY A SESSION IN THE SYMPOSIUM ON HIGH TECH x FUNDAMENTAL RESERACH, FOCUSING ON THE HIGH TECH SIDE OF THIS TOPIC and ALSO HANDS ON LABs.

08:30 INTRODUCTION TO NANOTECHNOLOGY

09:30 INTRODUCTION TO NANOBIOLOGY

10:20 COFFEE/TEA BREAK

10:50 FROM NANOBIOLOGY TO NANOMEDICINE TO MICRORNA...etc...

11:40 FLASH THERAPY

12:30 → 14:00 Lunch time

14:00 → 17:00 Hands on Lab

17:00 → 17:30 Coffee break

17:30 → 19:00 KEYNOTE 10: FUNDAMENTAL SCIENCES & CULTURAL HERITAGE

Conveners: Francesco TACCETTI (INFN-Firenze, LABEC-INFN), Lorenzo GIUNTINI (INFN-Firenze, LABEC-INFN)

Saturday 13 September

08:30 → 14:00 SCIENCE & HIGH TECH SYMPOSIUM

THIS SESSION IS DEDICATED TO PRESENTATIONS BY HIGH TECH EXPERTS FROM THE INDUSTRAIL WORLD.

08:30 ENERGY & THE XXI CENTURY

10:20 COFFEE/TEA BREAK

10:40 AN AI-WORLD?

12:40 SUMMARY: TO BE ORGANIZED

13:15 → 14:15 Lunch time

14:15 → 19:00 POSTERS SESSION

THIS IS THE LAST BUT NOT THE LEAST SESSION OF THIS SCHOOL EDITION:

The school attendants will present their poster, i.e the summary of their ongoing research and/or technological activities to all their colleagues as well as a jury of experts.
The 3 elected as the best ones will get an award and visible recognition.

Note that:
1) the posters will be posted over the whole duration of the school in a dedicated place with visibility not only to the school attendants but also any other visitor in the place of exposition of the posters.
2) When registering to the school, the students will have to indicate the tittle of their poster and send as well a short abstract, as included in the registration form.