Fourth Orthogonal Weekend

The fourth orthogonal weekend will be held in San Servolo (Venice) from May 16 to 18, 2025.

Friday, May 16

• 18:30 Arrivals and room allocation

• 19:30 Dinner

Saturday, May 17

• 9:30 - 11:00 Student presentations

  • Alessandro Dario, Techniques for balanced allocation: The Power of Two Choices

  • Giulia Beraldo, AlphaFold 2: how AI folds proteins

• 11:00 Coffee break

• 11:30 Paolo Boldi, Algorithmic techniques and where to find them: dynamic programming

• 13:00 Lunch

• 15:30 - 17:00  Student presentations

  • Silvia Mondin, Towards Larger Convolutional Language Models

  • Dario Moschetti, Flavours of Color Refinement

• 17:00 Coffee Break

• 17:30 - 19:00 Student presentations

  • Alberto Vendramini, FLP theorem: Impossibility of Consensus in Asynchrounous Systems

  • Ludovico Cappellato, A raft to conquer the sea of theory

• 19:30 Dinner

Sunday, May 18

• 9:30 - 11:00 Student presentations

  • Francesco Visonà, Locality Sensitive Hashing and the Art of Finding Friends Fast

  • Federico Mingardi, SNARG, what are them?

• 11:00 - 11:15 Coffee Break

• 11:15 - 12:45  Student presentations

  • Antonella Coviello, Prime numbers: from Fermat to RSA and beyond

  • Simone Moretti, Density-based clustering: a critical appraisal of DBSCAN

• 13:00 Lunch

• 14:00 Departures