The 4th AI Winter School of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (OeAW) and the Machine Learning Topical Platform MLA2S is held on January 20 – 24, 2025 in Vienna.

In this week-long event, we offer courses on aspects of Natural Language Processing and Large Language Models, Geometric Deep Learning, Neuro-Symbolic AI, as well as Data Handling, Curation, Processing, and Archiving. So far, Pia Sommerauer (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam), Benjamin Roth (University of Vienna), Emmanuel Sallinger (TU Vienna) and Michael Bronstein (AITHYRA and University of Oxford) have agreed to join our team of external lecturers, which is complemented by colleagues from several OeAW institutes kindly offering lectures, tutoring, or organizational assistance. 

The school is expected to begin on Monday, January 20 in the early afternoon and conclude on Friday, January 24, with sessions from 9 a.m. (2 p.m. on Monday) to 6 p.m. each day, with appropriate coffee and lunch breaks. 

Please visit the school website https://indico.cern.ch/event/1482877/ for more information, including a tentative schedule. If you have any questions, please reach out to the organizers Claudius Krause (HEPHY), Markus Kunzmann (ACDH-CH), and Nicki Holighaus (ISF).

Date: 
20.-24.01.2025

Place: 
Campus Akademie, Seminar Rooms 1 & 2 (Ground Floor)
Bäckerstrasse 13, 1010 Vienna

Registration:
Open until December 22, 2024: https://indico.cern.ch/event/1482877/ 
Due to high demand, there will be a selection process striving to balance the participants across institutes. Acceptance notifications will be sent by December 30, 2024.
Please note that we require participants to pay a small fee of 50€ for their participation after acceptance.