ÖAW AI Winter School 2026
from
Monday, 16 February 2026 (08:30)
to
Friday, 20 February 2026 (18:00)
Monday, 16 February 2026
12:00
Welcome
-
Claudius Krause
(
MBI Vienna (ÖAW)
)
Claus Trost
(
Erich Schmid Institute of Materials Science of theAustrian Academy of Sciences
)
Jan Odstrčilík
(
Institut für Mittelalterforschung, ÖAW
)
Kati Heinrich
(
IGF | ÖAW
)
Nicki Holighaus
(
Acoustics Research Institute, Austrian Academy of Sciences
)
Welcome
Claudius Krause
(
MBI Vienna (ÖAW)
)
Claus Trost
(
Erich Schmid Institute of Materials Science of theAustrian Academy of Sciences
)
Jan Odstrčilík
(
Institut für Mittelalterforschung, ÖAW
)
Kati Heinrich
(
IGF | ÖAW
)
Nicki Holighaus
(
Acoustics Research Institute, Austrian Academy of Sciences
)
12:00 - 12:30
Room: Seminar room 1 + 2
12:30
What is AI? Overview lecture: Part I
-
Michal Hradiš
What is AI? Overview lecture: Part I
Michal Hradiš
12:30 - 14:00
Room: Seminar room 1 + 2
regression, classification, generation, language models, etc.
14:00
Coffeebreak
Coffeebreak
14:00 - 14:30
Room: Seminar room 1 + 2
14:30
AI and ML at the Austrian Academy of Sciences
-
Claudius Krause
(
MBI Vienna (ÖAW)
)
AI and ML at the Austrian Academy of Sciences
Claudius Krause
(
MBI Vienna (ÖAW)
)
14:30 - 15:30
Room: Seminar room 1 + 2
15:30
Coffeebreak
Coffeebreak
15:30 - 16:00
Room: Seminar room 1 + 2
16:00
Overview lecture: Part II
-
Michal Hradiš
Overview lecture: Part II
Michal Hradiš
16:00 - 18:00
Room: Seminar room 1 + 2
LLMs and LLM architecture, transformers, supervised and unsupervised training in more detail
Tuesday, 17 February 2026
09:00
Vibe Coding & „Promptotyping”: Part I
-
Christopher Pollin
(
DH Craft Graz
)
Vibe Coding & „Promptotyping”: Part I
Christopher Pollin
(
DH Craft Graz
)
09:00 - 10:30
Room: Seminar room 1 + 2
10:30
Coffeebreak
Coffeebreak
10:30 - 11:00
Room: Seminar room 1 + 2
11:00
Vibe Coding & „Promptotyping”: Part II
-
Christopher Pollin
(
DH Craft Graz
)
Vibe Coding & „Promptotyping”: Part II
Christopher Pollin
(
DH Craft Graz
)
11:00 - 12:30
Room: Seminar room 1 + 2
12:30
Lunchbreak
Lunchbreak
12:30 - 14:00
Room: Seminar room 1 + 2
14:00
Vibe Coding & „Promptotyping”: Part II
-
Christopher Pollin
(
DH Craft Graz
)
Vibe Coding & „Promptotyping”: Part II
Christopher Pollin
(
DH Craft Graz
)
14:00 - 15:30
Room: Seminar room 1 + 2
15:30
Coffeebreak
Coffeebreak
15:30 - 16:00
Room: Seminar room 1 + 2
16:00
Vibe Coding & „Promptotyping”: Part III
-
Christopher Pollin
(
DH Craft Graz
)
Vibe Coding & „Promptotyping”: Part III
Christopher Pollin
(
DH Craft Graz
)
16:00 - 18:00
Room: Seminar room 1 + 2
Wednesday, 18 February 2026
09:30
Bias in Machine Learning
-
Philip Winter
(
VRVis
)
Bias in Machine Learning
Philip Winter
(
VRVis
)
09:30 - 11:00
Room: Seminar room 1 + 2
11:00
Coffeebreak
Coffeebreak
11:00 - 11:30
Room: Seminar room 1 + 2
11:30
OpenEuroLLM and other developments on AI infrastructures
OpenEuroLLM and other developments on AI infrastructures
11:30 - 12:30
Room: Seminar room 1 + 2
12:30
Lunchbreak
Lunchbreak
12:30 - 14:00
Room: Seminar room 1 + 2
14:00
AI Strategy at the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW)
-
Bernd Wachmann
(
ÖAW
)
AI Strategy at the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW)
Bernd Wachmann
(
ÖAW
)
14:00 - 14:45
Room: Seminar room 1 + 2
14:45
Governing Machines: From Moderation to Alignment
-
Charlotte Spencer-Smith
(
CMC
)
Governing Machines: From Moderation to Alignment
Charlotte Spencer-Smith
(
CMC
)
14:45 - 15:45
Room: Seminar room 1 + 2
15:45
Coffeebreak
Coffeebreak
15:45 - 16:15
Room: Seminar room 1 + 2
16:15
AI Policy at the Vienna University
-
Laura Gandlgruber
(
Vienna University
)
AI Policy at the Vienna University
Laura Gandlgruber
(
Vienna University
)
16:15 - 17:15
Room: Seminar room 1 + 2
19:00
Dinner at Stöckl im Park
Dinner at Stöckl im Park
19:00 - 22:00
Thursday, 19 February 2026
09:00
From idea to final project: Part I - Data & Code Management
-
Stavrina Dimosthenous
(
University of Manchester
)
From idea to final project: Part I - Data & Code Management
Stavrina Dimosthenous
(
University of Manchester
)
09:00 - 11:00
Room: Seminar room 1 + 2
Github management, workflows, exercises
11:00
Coffeebreak
Coffeebreak
11:00 - 11:30
Room: Seminar room 1 + 2
11:30
From idea to final project: Part II - Data & Code Management
-
Stavrina Dimosthenous
(
University of Manchester
)
From idea to final project: Part II - Data & Code Management
Stavrina Dimosthenous
(
University of Manchester
)
11:30 - 12:30
Room: Seminar room 1 + 2
Github management, workflows, exercises
12:30
Lunchbreak
Lunchbreak
12:30 - 14:00
Room: Seminar room 1 + 2
14:00
From idea to final project: Part III - Data cleaning, reproducability
-
Stavrina Dimosthenous
(
University of Manchester
)
From idea to final project: Part III - Data cleaning, reproducability
Stavrina Dimosthenous
(
University of Manchester
)
14:00 - 15:30
Room: Seminar room 1 + 2
15:30
Coffeebreak
Coffeebreak
15:30 - 16:00
Room: Seminar room 1 + 2
16:00
Introduction to CLIP
-
Felix Schmitt
(
ÖAW | CLIP
)
Introduction to CLIP
Felix Schmitt
(
ÖAW | CLIP
)
16:00 - 17:30
Room: Seminar room 1 + 2
Friday, 20 February 2026
09:00
Explainability of Neural Networks in STEM fields
-
Gunnar König
Explainability of Neural Networks in STEM fields
Gunnar König
09:00 - 11:00
Room: Seminar room 1 + 2
11:00
Coffeebreak
Coffeebreak
11:00 - 11:30
Room: Seminar room 1 + 2
11:30
Explainability of Neural Networks in STEM fields
-
Moritz Grosse-Wentrup
Explainability of Neural Networks in STEM fields
Moritz Grosse-Wentrup
11:30 - 12:30
Room: Seminar room 1 + 2
12:30
Lunchbreak
Lunchbreak
12:30 - 13:30
Room: Seminar room 1 + 2
13:30
Evaluation and Interpretability of NLP systems
-
Pia Sommerauer
(
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
)
Evaluation and Interpretability of NLP systems
Pia Sommerauer
(
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
)
13:30 - 15:00
Room: Seminar room 1 + 2
15:00
Wrapup & Networking
Wrapup & Networking
15:00 - 16:00
Room: Seminar room 1 + 2