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<p><span style="font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif;">Dear AI scientist/engineer/student/enthusiast,</span></p>
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<p class="v1v1MsoNormal"><span
style="font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif;">Please,
consider attending to our next Excellence Lecture:</span></p>
<p class="v1v1MsoNormal"><span
style="text-decoration: underline;"><span
style="font-size: 18pt;"><strong><span
style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: #236fa1; text-decoration: underline;">"Scale
is religion?"</span></strong></span></span></p>
<p class="v1v1MsoNormal"><em><strong><span
style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: #236fa1;">Prof. Vicky
Kalogeiton (École Polytechnique, IP Paris) </span></strong></em></p>
<p class="v1v1MsoNormal"><strong><span
style="color: #236fa1;"><span
style="font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif;">Abstract</span><span
style="font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif;">:
Intelligent robots do not just respond to command;
they imagine what you meant, what you wanted, what
you believed. And they do this while learning from
very little, and running on a chip in your living
room. In this talk, I will present recent
advances in generative modeling that aim to equip
embodied agents with efficient models that can run
faster, with fewer data, and more efficient models
and imagine possible futures under uncertainty.</span></span></strong></p>
<p class="v1v1MsoNormal"><span style="color: #236fa1;"><span
style="font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif;"> </span><strong><span
style="font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif;">Details</span></strong><span
style="font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif;"></span></span></p>
<p class="v1v1MsoNormal"><span style="color: #236fa1;"><strong><span
style="font-family: 'Segoe UI Emoji',sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Segoe UI Emoji';">📅</span></strong><strong><span
style="font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif;"> Date:
10 February 2026</span></strong><span
style="font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif;"></span></span></p>
<p class="v1v1MsoNormal"><span style="color: #236fa1;"><strong><span
style="font-family: 'Segoe UI Emoji',sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Segoe UI Emoji';">⏰</span></strong><strong><span
style="font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif;"> Time</span></strong><span
style="font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif;">: <strong>17:00-18:00
CET</strong></span></span></p>
<p class="v1v1MsoNormal"><span style="color: #236fa1;"><strong><span
style="font-family: 'Segoe UI Emoji',sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Segoe UI Emoji';">💻</span></strong><strong><span
style="font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif;"> <a
style="color: #236fa1;"
href="https://authgr.zoom.us/j/95504909565?pwd=IbZ638XZusvemOoxaD9KktB6jWf1mH.1"
target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"
moz-do-not-send="true"><span
style="font-weight: normal;">Zoom link</span></a></span></strong><span
style="font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif;"></span></span></p>
<p class="v1v1MsoNormal"><span style="color: #236fa1;"><strong><span
style="font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif;">Meeting
ID: 955 0490 9565</span></strong><span
style="font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif;"></span></span></p>
<p class="v1v1MsoNormal"><span style="color: #236fa1;"><strong><span
style="font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif;">Passcode:
114050</span></strong><span
style="font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif;"></span></span></p>
<p class="v1v1MsoNormal"><span style="color: #236fa1;"><strong><span
style="font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif;"> </span></strong><span
style="font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif;"></span><strong><span
style="font-family: 'Segoe UI Emoji',sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Segoe UI Emoji';">🔗</span></strong><strong><span
style="font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif;"> For
more information, click </span></strong><span
style="font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif;"><a
style="color: #236fa1;"
href="https://www.i-aida.org/events/scale-is-religion/" target="_blank"
rel="noopener noreferrer" moz-do-not-send="true"><strong>here</strong></a></span></span></p>
<p class="v1v1MsoNormal"><span style="color: #236fa1;"><strong><span
style="font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif;"> </span></strong><span
style="font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif;"></span><strong><span
style="font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif;">Lecturer
Short CV: </span></strong><span
style="font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif;">Vicky
Kalogeiton is a Professor at École Polytechnique, IP
Paris and an Ellis member. Before, she was a
research fellow at the University of Oxford and
obtained her PhD from Inria and Edinburgh
University. Part of her thesis won the best poster
award from the University of Grenoble Alpes, and her
master's thesis won the best master's thesis award
from DUTh. Since 2021, projects she supervised have
received several awards, including spotlights at
NeurIPS 2025 and CVPR 2024, a student honorable
mention award at ACCV 2022, and the best paper award
at ICCV-W 2021. She will be Program Chair for CVPR
2027 and Diversity Chair for ICCV 2025. Since 2021,
she has been serving regularly as an Area Chair at
major vision conferences (outstanding Area Chair in
ACCV 2022) and before, she used to serve as a
reviewer, having been awarded six times as an
outstanding reviewer. Her research interests focus
on generative AI using visual data, text, and audio.</span></span></p>
<p class="v1v1MsoNormal"><span
style="font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif;">The <a
href="http://www.i-aida.org/" target="_blank"
rel="noopener noreferrer" moz-do-not-send="true"><strong>International AI Doctoral
Academy (AIDA)</strong></a> is very pleased to
offer you top quality scientific lectures </span></p>
<p class="v1v1MsoNormal"><span
style="font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif;">in the
framework of <a
href="https://www.i-aida.org/event_cat/ai-lectures/"
target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"
moz-do-not-send="true">AIDA AI Excellence Lecture Series</a> on
several current hot AI topics.</span><span
style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; background-color: #fbeeb8;"></span></p>
<p class="v1v1MsoNormal"><span
style="font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif;">These
lectures are disseminated through multiple channels
and email lists (we apologize if you received it
through various channels). If you want to stay
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<p class="v1v1MsoNormal"><span
style="font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif;">Best
regards</span></p>
<p class="v1v1MsoNormal"><strong><span
style="font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif;">Prof.
Enrique Alba</span></strong></p>
<p class="v1v1MsoNormal"><span
style="font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif;">University
of Málaga (SPAIN)</span></p>
<p class="v1v1MsoNormal"><span
style="font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif;">AIDA AI
Excellence Lecture Series Committee Chair</span></p>
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