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Computer Vision for Spatial and Physical Intelligence PROGRAMME
Sunday 5 July 2026
Afternoon/Night
| Welcome Drink and Registration at the Conference Centre | 17:00 - 23:59 |
| Dinner at the Village Restaurant | 20:00 |
Monday 6 July 2026
Morning
| Registration at the Conference Centre | 07:30 - 08:30 |
| Opening | 08:30 - 09:00 |
| Lecture 1: Antonio Torralba - TBA | 09:00 - 11:00 |
| Coffee break | 11:00 - 11:30 |
| Lecture 2: Richard Newcombe - TBA | 11:30 - 13:30 |
| School Photo | 13:30 |
| Lunch at the Village Restaurant | 13:40 |
Afternoon
| Lecture 3: Carlo Sferrazza - Humanoid Robot Learning: From Foundations to Visual Perception | 16:00 - 18:00 |
| Reading Group: Meeting with Mentors | 18:00 - 20:00 |
Night
| Dinner at the Village Restaurant | 20:00 |
| Industry meets Students Corner, Student Poster Session 1, Local Wine Tasting | 21:30 |
Tuesday 7 July 2026
Morning
| Lecture 4: Aniruddha Kembhavi - From Molmo to Muse Spark: Data centric recipes for state of the art multimodal models | 09:00 - 11:00 |
| Coffee break | 11:00 - 11:30 |
| Lecture 5: Marco Pavone - Reasoning Models for Physical AI: From Fundamentals to Real-World Applications | 11:30 - 13:30 |
| Lunch at the Village Restaurant | 13:30 |
Afternoon
| Lecture 6: Davide Scaramuzza - Agile Robotics: from Frame Cameras to Neuromorphic Sensors | 15:00 - 17:00 |
Night
| Dinner at the Village Restaurant | 20:00 |
| Student Poster Session 2, Local Wine Tasting | 21:30 |
Wednesday 8 July 2026
Morning
| Lecture 7: Serge Belongie - Challenges in Fine-Grained Image Analysis | 09:00 - 11:00 |
| Coffee break | 11:00 - 11:30 |
| Lecture 8: Sara Beery - The Evolving Science of Evaluation | 11:30 - 13:30 |
| Lunch at the Village Restaurant | 13:30 |
Afternoon
| Guided Tour of Ragusa Ibla | 17:00 - 20:00 |
Night
| Buffet Dinner at Palazzo Arezzo di Donnafugata | 20:00 - 22:00 |
| Free time to explore Ragusa Ibla by Night | 22:00 - 23:00 |
Thursday 9 July 2026
Morning
| Lecture 9: Ruoshi Liu - What Can Robots Learn from Large-Scale Internet Visual Data? | 09:00 - 11:00 |
| Coffee break | 11:00 - 11:30 |
| Lecture 10: Nicolas Heess - Building general purpose robots: Robot learning in the era generative AI | 11:30 - 13:30 |
| Lunch at the Village Restaurant | 13:30 |
Afternoon
| Lecture 11: Cordelia Schmid - Seeing, Understanding, Doing: How Video Models Are Reshaping Robotics | 15:30 - 17:30 |
| Project Aria Presentation and Aperitivo with Meta at the Swimming Pool | 19:00 - 20:00 |
Night
| Social Dinner at the Restaurant on the Beach with Traditional Sicilian Folk Dance | 20:00 |
Friday 10 July 2026
Morning
| Lecture 12: Silvia Zuffi - Modeling, Capturing, and Understanding Animals in 3D | 09:00 - 11:00 |
| Coffee break | 11:00 - 11:30 |
| Lecture 13: Aleksander Hołyński - TBA | 11:30 - 13:30 |
| Lunch at the Village Restaurant | 13:30 |
Afternoon
| Lecture 14: Dinesh Jayaraman - Stages of Robot Learning | 15:00 - 17:00 |
| Examinations | 17:00 - 18:00 |
| Student Presentations, Best Presentation Prizes | 18:00 - 18:30 |
| Essay Competition Award | 18:30 - 19:00 |
| Closing Ceremony | 19:00 |
Night
| Dinner at the Village Restaurant | 20:00 |
| Disco on the Beach | 22:30 |
Saturday 11 July 2026
| FROM | TO | DEPARTURE - Saturday 11 July 2026 | ARRIVAL - Saturday 11 July 2026 |
| School Location | Catania Airport | 09.00 | 11.00 |