The CERN STEAM Academy Seminar Series brings together speakers from academia, research institutes, and industry to discuss current challenges and emerging developments in scientific computing, software, data science, and related fields.
Seminars are open to the full CERN community. External participants are also welcome to follow the seminars online via webcast when available.
No registration is required.
Seminar Programme
25 June 2026, 16:00-17:00
Dr. Laura Promberger (AMD)
DevOps at ROCm™: Catalyst for developers to match the speed of AI
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30 June 2026, 16:00-17:15
Dr. Alan Judge (Arista)
Networking for AI
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1 July 2026, 16:00-17:15
Dr. Raia Hadsell (Google DeepMind)
Frontier of Intelligence
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2 July 2026, 14:30-16:00
Prof. Tolga Birdal (Imperial College London)
Topological Deep Learning for the Next Generation of AI4Science
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14 July 2026, 16:00-17:15
Prof. Bjarne Stroustrup (Columbia University)
21st Century C++
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28 July 2026, 16:00-17:30
Prof. Maciej Besta (ETH Zurich)
Towards Effective and Efficient Reasoning Language Models
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11 August 2026, 16:00-17:15
Dr. Ralf Gommers (Quansight)
Code, Culture, and the Commons: Sustaining the Substrate of Scientific Computing
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13 August 2026, 16:00-17:15
Dr. Sander Dieleman (Google DeepMind)
Diffusion Models for image and video generation
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20 August 2026, 16:00-17:30
Dr. Lewis Tunstall (Hugging Face)
The Secrets to Training World-Class LLMs
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