9th Advanced Course on Data Science & Machine Learning – ACDL 2026, from AI Agents to Agentic AI

About

ACDL 2026 is a full-immersion 5-day course in Riva del Sole Resort & SPA - Tuscany on cutting-edge advances in AI, Deep Learning, LLMs, Data Sc., Generative AI, AI Agents & Agentic AI with lectures delivered by world-renowned experts.

📝 LECTURERS:
Each Lecturer will hold up to four lectures on one or more research topics.
🔗 https://acdl2026.icas.events/lecturers/

It follows the (partial) list of the confirmed 👩‍🏫 ACDL 2026 Lecturers:

Anirudh Goyal, Google DeepMind & Mila, Université de Montréal, Canada
Arthur Gretton, UCL & Google DeepMind, UK
Katja Hofmann, Microsoft, UK
Arnulf Jentzen, University of Münster, Germany
Pushmeet Kohli, Google DeepMind, UK
Panos Pardalos, University of Florida, USA
Michal Valko, Stealth Startup, INRIA, MVA at ENS Paris-Saclay, France
David van Dijk, Yale University, USA
Jason Weston, META, USA
More Lecturers TBA

📑 LECTURES: TBA
🔗 https://acdl2026.icas.events/lectures/

Course leader

Giuseppe Nicosia, University of Catania, Italy & Panos Pardalos, University of Florida, USA

Target group

PhD students, PostDocs, Industry Practitioners and Junior Academics (only up to assistant professors) will be typical profiles of the ACDL attendants. The Course will involve a total of 36–40 hours of lectures, according to the academic system the final achievement will be equivalent to 8 ECTS points for the PhD Students (and strongly motivated Master Students – BSc Students) attending the Course (https://acdl2026.icas.events). At the end of the advanced course each attendant will receive the Formal Certificate of Attendance in which it will be written that the advanced course is worth exactly 8 ECTS credits

Course aim

The 9th Advanced Course on Data Science & Machine Learning – ACDL 2026 is a full-immersion five-day Course at the Riva del Sole Resort & SPA (Castiglione della Pescaia – Grosseto – Tuscany, Italy) on cutting-edge advances in AI Agents, Agentic AI, Deep Learning, Data Science, AI and Generative AI with lectures delivered by world-renowned experts. The Course provides a stimulating environment for PhD students, Post-Docs, Junior Academics (only up to assistant professors), early career researches, and industry leaders (and highly motivated, promising and brilliant Master students / BSc students). Participants will also have the chance to present their results with talks or posters, and to interact with their colleagues, in a convivial, professional and productive environment.

We have enough room to accommodate the first 250 participants. So don’t wait and register! Registration is based on first-come-first served.

To participate in the ACDL 2026, all attendants must:

(1/2) register for the course by February 23, 2026 (late registration: from February 24 to April 23) and
(2/2) book accommodation at the course venue, “Riva del Sole Resort & SPA” by April 23, 2026, (late accommodation: from April 24 to May 23); all attendants must stay at the “Riva del Sole Resort & SPA”. Booking accommodation at the Riva del Sole must be made exclusively using the accommodation form attached to the registration confirmation email. No other methods must be used (if you use other booking methods the hotel will cancel the reservation). Finally, it is not possible to extend the stay, the special accommodation rates are valid only for the period of the course, no exceptions will be made. To contact the Riva del Sole Resort & SPA (the course venue) use the following email: booking.events@rivadelsole.it

Once accommodation has been booked at “Riva del Sole Resort & SPA“, the participant must send this information (including the Booking Number) to the ACDL organizing committee (acdl@icas.cc).
ACDL is a residential course, so all lecturers and participants must reside in the same Hotel (Riva del Sole Resort & SPA). No exceptions are made.

For privacy reasons, the Hotel can not match people. If you have someone to share the apartment with (or a double room in Hotel), please send to the Hotel ( booking.events@rivadelsole.it ) the name, surname and email address. Otherwise the solution is to book a hotel room in single use.

Please note that only ACDL registered participants can book a room (in hotel or apartment) at the Riva del Sole Resort & SPA with the accommodation form attached in the registration email and with the ACDL Discounted Rates. The Booking Office of the Riva del Sole Resort & SPA will verify the names of the participants and the corresponding registration number to confirm the booking.

Course Language: English

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