Programme

Time
:30	Badges & Planning 08:30 – 09:00 Social
09:00	Introduction to IR 09:00 – 10:30 Prof. Iadh Ounis Lecture
:30
10:00
:30	Coffee break (on site) 10:30 – 11:00 Break
11:00	IR Evaluation 11:00 – 12:30 Prof. Iadh Ounis Lecture
:30
12:00
:30	Lunch break (univ. cafeteria) 12:30 – 13:30 Break
13:00	Lunch break (univ. cafeteria) 12:30 – 13:30 Break
:30	Domain-specific IR 13:30 – 15:00 Prof. Udo Kruschwitz Lecture
14:00
:30
15:00	Coffee break (on site) 15:00 – 15:30 Break
:30	Symbolic AI / Knowledge Graphs 15:30 – 17:00 Prof. Marta Sabou Lecture
16:00
:30
17:00	Debriefing and teams 17:00 – 18:30 Lucian Gruia Hackathon
:30
18:00
:30
19:00	Welcome Reception — Zaganu craft beer bar, Bucharest new town 19:00 – 22:00 Social
:30
20:00
:30
21:00
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Time
09:00	Temporal Question Answering 09:00 – 10:30 Prof. Adam Jatowt Lecture
:30
10:00
:30	Coffee break (on site) 10:30 – 11:00 Break
11:00	Hands-On Graph Neural Networks: From Theory to Practice 11:00 – 12:30 Octavian Radu Lecture
:30
12:00
:30	Lunch break (univ. cafeteria) 12:30 – 13:30 Break
13:00	Lunch break (univ. cafeteria) 12:30 – 13:30 Break
:30	Explainable AI and IR 13:30 – 15:00 Prof. Henning Müller Lecture
14:00
:30
15:00	Coffee break (on site) 15:00 – 15:30 Break
:30	Working session 15:30 – 18:30 Lucian Gruia Hackathon
16:00
:30
17:00
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18:00

Time
09:00	Data Management for IR 09:00 – 10:30 Dr. Florina Piroi Lecture
:30
10:00
:30	Coffee break (on site) 10:30 – 11:00 Break
11:00	Injecting Context into LLMs 11:00 – 12:30 Prof. Gabriella Pasi Lecture
:30
12:00
:30	Lunch break (univ. cafeteria) 12:30 – 13:30 Break
13:00	Lunch break (univ. cafeteria) 12:30 – 13:30 Break
:30	Effects of Large Model Biases in IR 13:30 – 15:00 Dr. Adrian Popescu Lecture
14:00
:30
15:00	Coffee break (on site) 15:00 – 15:30 Break
:30	Safety of LLMs in IR 15:30 – 17:00 Prof. Wojciech Kusa Lecture
16:00
:30
17:00	Experience exchange via visit of the labs 17:00 – 18:30 CAMPUS Research Institute
:30
18:00

Time
09:00	RAG & Generative Retrieval 09:00 – 10:30 Dr. Svitlana Vakulenko Lecture
:30
10:00
:30	Coffee break (on site) 10:30 – 11:00 Break
11:00	NeuraSearch: Brain Machine Interfaces & IR 11:00 – 12:30 Prof. Yashar Moshfeghi Lecture
:30
12:00
:30	Lunch break (univ. cafeteria) 12:30 – 13:30 Break
13:00	Lunch break (univ. cafeteria) 12:30 – 13:30 Break
:30	14th PhD Symposium on Future Directions in Information Access 13:30 – 17:30 Prof. Yashar Moshfeghi , Dr. Anirban Chakraborty Workshop
14:00
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15:00
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16:00
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17:00
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18:00
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19:00	Gala dinner — Hanu' lui Manuc, Bucharest old town 19:00 – 22:00 Social
:30
20:00
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21:00
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Time
09:00	Agentic Retrieval-Augmented Generation as a Knowledge Representation Layer 09:00 – 10:30 Lucian Gruia Lecture
:30
10:00
:30	Coffee break (on site) 10:30 – 11:00 Break
11:00	Agentic Retrieval-Augmented Generation as a Knowledge Representation Layer 11:00 – 12:30 Lucian Gruia Lecture
:30
12:00
:30	Lunch break (univ. cafeteria) & Group photo 12:30 – 13:30 Break
13:00
:30	Final working session 13:30 – 15:00 Hackathon
14:00
:30
15:00	Coffee break (on site) 15:00 – 15:30 Break
:30	Teams presentations and final exam 15:30 – 17:30 Hackathon
16:00
:30
17:00
:30	Closing remarks 17:30 – 18:00 Social

Legend: Lecture Workshop Hackathon Social Break