Program Committee Chair: Eduardo Vera (DIE/CMM-UChile)

Venue: Beauchef 851, Floor -1, Room B08
Date: 28-30 October 2026

Schedule:

• 10:00-13:00 & 15:00-18:00 (Wednesday 28 & Thursday 29)
• 10:00-13:00 (Friday 30)

Topics:

1. Genomics of microalgae (Chair Alejandro Maass)
2. Artificial Intelligence & applications: XAI, ALeRCE, biology/health (Chair Francisco Förster)
3. High Performance Computing: NLHPC/ScaiLab (Chair Jaime San Martín)
4. Optical & Quantum Computing: (Chair Carla Hermann)

 Final Program (version 8.0, Fri 30 Oct 2026)

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Wednesday 28

10:00 – 10:15    Eduardo Vera (DIE/CMM)
Welcome & background of the symposium

10:15 – 10:45    Joaquim Merino (Lenovo, remote from Brazil)
The new phase of high-performance computing for the next 5 to 10 years

10:45 – 11:15    Carla Hermann (MIRO/DFI)
Keynote on quantum photonics & optical quantum computing

11:15 – 11:45    Coffee break

11:45 – 12:00    Cristóbal Lledó (DFI-UChile)
Continuous-variable quantum computing             

12:00 – 12:30    Stuartt Corder (AURA/NOIRLab)
Frontiers of optical interferometry

12:30 – 12:45    Hubert Condoretti (AURA/NOIRLab)
R&D applications beyond code

12:45 – 13:00    Albert Astudillo (REUNA)
Next-generation optical networks

13:00 – 15:00    Lunch

15:00 – 15:30    Sara Rojas (VTI)
AI in research & education at University of Chile

15:30 – 15:45    Pablo Estévez (DIE)
Early Prediction of Alzheimer’s Disease in Subjects with Cognitive Complaints using Multimodal Learning

15:45 – 16:00    Diego Olguín (DIM)
How to well-align multimodal models: applications to brain imaging modalities

16:00 – 16:15    Mauricio Cerda (IDIA-DCC)
Biomedical data analysis

16:15 – 16:45    Coffee break

16:45 – 17:15    Claudio Muñoz (DIM/CMM)
Physics-informed neural networks (PINN)

17:15 – 17:45    Francisco Förster (IDIA)
Impact of AI in astronomy applications

17:45 – 18:00   Q&A: open discussion
Impact of AI in software development

18:30 – 21:00    Welcome reception

Beauchef 851: Open Patio Esplanade

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Thursday 29

10:00 – 10:15    Welcome coffee

10:15 – 10:45    Alejandro Maass (DIM/CMM)
Predicting functional trails of plankton from space: from biological discoveries to public policies

10:45 – 11:15   Yuji Maeda (NTT)
Advancing the IOWN Concept: NTT’s ongoing challenges in environment and sustainability

11:15 – 11:45    Coffee break

11:45 – 12:15    Guillermo Cabrera-Vives (UdeC)
Update on ALeRCE broker

12:15 – 12:30    Camila Reyes / Emilio Díaz (DCC)
New developments in DashAI

12:30 – 12:45    Jaime Ortega (DIM/CMM) / Valentine Barriere (DCC)
Multimodal satellite imaging analysis

12:45 – 13:00    Marcos Orchard (IDIA-DIE)
Decarbonizing Heavy Mining: transitioning to an electric mine

13:00 – 15:00    Lunch

15:05 – 15:25    Sebastián Mendoza (CMM)
Towards Proteome-Constrained Metabolic Engineering of Cyanidioschyzon merolae for TAG Production

15:25 – 15:45   Sousuke Imamura (NTT)
Tiny Algae, Big impact: transforming the future of aquaculture

15:45 – 16:15    Benoit Dufumier (NeuroSpin CEA, remote from Paris)
Contrastive learning of MRI classification

16:15 – 16:45    Coffee break

16:45 – 17:15    Mónica Vásquez (PUC)
Microalgae-based biomedical and biotechnological applications

17:15 – 17:30    Takashi Kobayashi (NTT)
Satellite data for AI for coastal ecosystem conservation

17:30 – 18:00   Andrew Connelly (Univ of Washington: remote from Seattle)
AI agents in frontier research

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Friday 30

10:00 – 10:30    Florencio Utreras (CMM CopernicusLAC)
CopernicusLAC Chile: ecosystems monitoring services for Latin America & the Caribbean

10:30 – 11:00   Rodrigo Verschae (IDIA)
Impact of AI in precision agriculture

11:00 – 11:30    Coffee break

11:30 – 12:55    Felipe Bravo (IDIA-DCC), Francisco Martínez (DIC), Hanne Van Den Bosch(DIM/CMM), José Palacios (REUNA), Jorge Pérez (CERO)
Discussion panel: Frontier interdisciplinary research in the AI era

12:55 – 13:00    Eduardo Vera (DIE/CMM)
Farewell & symposium wrap-up & conclusions

 

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• UChile = University of Chile
  • VID = Vicerrectoría de Investigación y Desarrollo
  • VTI = Vicerrectoría de Tecnologías de la Información
  • FCFM = Facultad de Ciencias Físicas y Matemáticas
  • CMM = Center for Mathematical Modeling
  • IDIA = Iniciativa de Datos e Inteligencia Artificial
  • DIM = Departamento de Ingeniería Matemática
  • DCC = Departamento de Ciencias de la Computación
  • DIE = Departamento de Ingeniería Eléctrica
  • DAS = Departamento de Astronomía
  • DIC = Departamento de Ingeniería Civil
• PUC = Pontifical Catholic University of Chile
• UdeC = University of Concepción
• MIRO = Millennium Institute for Research in Optics
• REUNA = Chile’s Research & Education Network