Name: ÖAW AI Winter School 2026
Start: 2026-02-16T08:30:00+01:00
End: 2026-02-20T18:00:00+01:00
Location: Campus Akademie, Bäckerstraße 13, 1010 Wien

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

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