Visitors and seminars

Visiting Professors and Visiting Researchers

Visiting professors and researchers are appointed for one or two semesters, based on the proposals made by the members of our department.

  • Salil Vadhan (Harvard University). Academic year 2023-2024, second semester
  • Nicolas Brunel (Duke University). Academic year 2023-2024, first and second semester 
Long-Term Visitors
  • Kobbi Nissim (Georgetown University), May 2024 - Jul 2024
  • Abhishek Jain (NTT), May 2024 -Jun 2024
  • Andrej Bogdanov (Ottawa), May 2024 - Jun 2024
  • Siu On Chan, Oct 2024 - Dec 2024
  • Siyao Guo (NYU Shanghai), Mar 2023 - Jun 2023
  • Akshima (NYU Shanghai), Mar 2023 - Jun 2023
  • Pavel Hubáček (Charles University), Jan 2022 - Jun 2022

Information about short-term visitors can be found in the webpages of individual research groups.

Seminar Series on Computing Sciences

Speakers in the Seminar Series on Computing Sciences are nominated by the members of our department based on their scientific achievements. We invite them to present their research to the academic community at Bocconi.

  • 2024-01-31: Volkan Cevher (EPFL)
    Key Challenges in Foundation Models (... and some solutions!)
  • 2024-02-21: Gerard Ben Arous (NYU)
    Dynamical spectral transition for optimization in very high dimensions 
  • 2024-02-27: Fabrizio Grandoni (IDSIA Lugano)
    Unsplittable Flow on a Path
  • 2024-04-10: Sophie Huiberts (CNRS)
    Open problems about the simplex method
  • 2024-04-23: Pietro Lio (Cambridge University)
    Actionable and Responsible AI in Medicine
  • 2024-05-27: Michela Carlotta Massi (Human Technopole)
    Machine Learning aiding genomics and precision medicine at scale
  • 2024-06-12: Shay Moran (Technion)
    A Combinatorial Characterization of Minimax in 0/1 Games
  • 2024-09-30: Pietro Perona (Caltech)
    A number sense as an emergent property of the manipulating brain
  • 2024-12-12: Yiming Wang (Fondazione Bruno Kessler)
    Addressing Vision Tasks with Large Foundation Models: How far can we go without training?
  • 2023-01-25: Giulio Biroli (ENS)
    Renormalization Group Theory and Machine Learning
  • 2023-02-01: Maria Chiara Angelini (Sapienza)
    Limits and performances of Monte Carlo algorithms for hard inference problem
  • 2023-03-15: Bissan Ghaddar (Ivey Business School)
    Optimizing Power Network Operations
  • 2023-04-19: Neil Olver (LSE)
    Thin trees for laminar families
  • 2023-06-08: David Zuckerman (University of Texas at Austin)
    Almost Chor-Goldreich Sources and Adversarial Random Walk
  • 2023-06-14: Agnese Seminara (Università di Genova) 
    Reinforcement learning for olfactory navigation
  • 2023-06-21: Amedeo Roberto Esposito (IST Austria)
    A functional perspective on Information Measures
  • 2023-06-28: Hinrich Schuetze (LMU, Munich)
    Glot500: Scaling Multilingual Corpora and Language Models to 500 Languages
  • 2023-10-30: Bernhardt von Stengel (LSE)
    Zero-Sum Games and Linear Programming Duality
  • 2023-11-15: Chiara Gallese (University of Turin) 
    Ethical and legal aspects of Data Science 
  • 2023-11-29: Jean Barbier (ICTP, Trieste)
    Fundamental limits in structured PCA, and how to reach them 
  • 2023-12-05: Maciej Lewenstein (ICFO Institute of Barcelona)
    Universal representation by Boltzmann machines with Regularised Axons
  • 2022-09-21: Alessandro Rudi (ENS Paris)
    More advanced models for functions with constraints, with applications to non-convex optimization and beyond
  • 2022-10-12: Elias Koutsoupias (Oxford University)
    The Nisan-Ronen conjecture
  • 2022-11-23: Stefano Leonardi (Sapienza)
    Mechanism Design and Online Selection with Limited Information
  • 2022-12-21: Kenneth Harris (University College London)
    A transcriptomic axis predicts state modulation of cortical interneurons
Occasional Seminars

We welcome talks by researchers who visit Bocconi for the purpose of scientific collaboration, attending a conference nearby, or happen to be in Milan for some other reason. Speakers in our Occasional Seminars vary from junior researchers to top international scholars. Please contact Marek Elias if you think that your talk would be interesting to our scientific community.

  • 2024-01-24: Julia Kastner (ETH Zurich)
    On Two Witness Blind Signatures
  • 2024-01-24: Ziyi Guan (EPFL)
    On Parallel Repetition of PCPs
  • 2024-01-25: Lennart Braun (Aarhus University)
    Zero-Knowledge After Prime Time -- Proving Statements Over Z2k
  • 2024-04-17: Sander Borst (CWI Amsterdam)
    Online hypergraph matching
  • 2024-05-17: Moshe Vardi (Rice University)
    AI and Democracy
  • 2024-05-29: Siu On Chan (Chinese University of Jong Kong)
    How Random CSPs Fool Hierarchies
  • 2024-06-05: Kobbi Nissim (Georgetown University)
    A methodology for reconciling computer science and legal approaches to privacy
  • 2024-06-27: Alessandro Chiesa (EPFL)
    On Succinct Arguments from Ideal Hash Functions
  • 2024-06-28: Moni Naor (Weizmann Institute of Science)
    Adjacency Sketches in Adversarial Environments or "Adversaries, What Are They Good For?"
  • 2024-07-10: Elyassaf Loyfer (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
    An elementary proof of the first LP bound for binary codes
  • 2024-09-19: Marco Bressan (University of Milan)
    A Theory of Interpretable Approximations
  • 2024-09-26: Damien Barbier (EPFL)
    On the Atypical Solutions of the Symmetric Binary Perceptron
  • 2024-10-17: Amos Korman (University of Haifa)
    An Algorithmic Perspective to Animal Behavior
  • 2024-11-07: Tatjana Chavdarova (UC Berkeley and Politecnico Milano)
    Learning Dynamics in Multiplayer Games
  • 2024-11-14: Mirko Giacchini (Sapienza University of Rome)
    Learning RUMs from small slates
  • 2024-11-21: Giulia Garcia Lorenzana (ENS Paris)
    Interactions and migration rescuing ecological diversity
  • 2024-12-05: Simone G. Riva (Oxford University)
    Can Computational Biology and Deep Learning help to decode gene regulation?
  • 2024-12-17: Michael Chertkov (University of Arizona)
     
  • 2023-02-10: Steven Skienna
    Measuring Self-Identity, and My Identity
  • 2023-02-27: Chris Jones
    Random Max-CSPs Inherit Algorithmic Hardness from Spin Glasses
  • 2023-03-29: Robin Vacus
    Early Adapting to Trends: Solving Zealot Consensus using Passive Communication
  • 2023-05-10: Kirill Kukharenko
    Polytope Extensions with Linear Diameters
  • 2023-05-22: Joe Naoum-Sawaya
    Optimization Models for Learning Consumer Preferences
  • 2023-07-19: Anindya De
    Testing convex truncation
  • 2023-10-23: Andrej Bogdanov (University of Ottawa)
    Classical simulation of one-query quantum distinguishers
  • 2023-11-08: Lara Cavinato (Politecnico di Milano)
    Representation methods for imaging-based cancer heterogeneity: towards virtual biopsy and prognostic subtyping
  • 2023-11-06: Antonios Antoniadis (University of Twente)
    Learning-Augmented Algorithms via Algorithm-Switching
  • 2022-09-16: Flavio Chierichetti (Sapienza University of Rome)
    A reduction for efficient LDA reconstruction
  • 2022-10-04: Alexander Black
    Small Shadows of Lattice Polytopes
  • 2022-10-10: Giulio Malavolta
    Efficient Verification of Quantum Computation
  • 2022-11-02: Giulia Bernardini
    Disseminating string data ensuring privacy: new combinatorial models and algorithms
  • 2022-11-18: Jacopo Iacovacci
    Network-based strategies for extraction and integration of omics and biomedical image data
  • 2022-11-28: Yuri Faenza
    Stable matchings in choice function models: algorithms, polytopes, and school choice
     
Specialized Seminars

We organize seminars and reading groups on specialized topics, in particular Neuroscience and Machine Learning, and selected topics in Theory of Computing. See Events section of this webpage and the page of the theory group for more details.