AITHYRA AI for Science School
From August 31 to September 7, 2025 in Vienna
STEM education and the training of future scientists, innovators, and high-tech entrepreneurs play a key role in Ukraine's future recovery. The Ukrainian education system excels at identifying gifted youths and at nurturing them in specialised STEM schools and a highly-developed culture of science olympiads and research competitions. This experience should be studied and supported at the highest level, recognizing it as a national asset. Collaborative projects in STEM education between Ukraine and the EU will be to everyone's benefit and promote Ukraine's further integration into the EU.
The AITHYRA Science School in Artificial Intelligence is a one-week program for Ukrainian high school students who have excelled in science competitions. The goal of the program is to enhance their understanding of modern AI, demonstrate its applications in life and natural sciences, and foster entrepreneurial thinking. During their week in Vienna, participants will follow a specially designed curriculum led by internationally renowned AI experts from the Austrian Academy of Sciences, the University of Vienna, Institute of Science and Technology and TU Wien.
The Science School is organized by the research institute AITHYRA in cooperation with the team of Projekt MmF.
Simons Science School in Chemistry and Physics 2024
AITHYRA
AITHYRA is a young research institute for biomedical artificial intelligence based in Vienna. With a generous donation from the Boehringer Ingelheim Foundation it was founded in 2024 by the Austrian Academy of Sciences. AITHYRA is led by world-renowned AI expert Michael Bronstein, internationally award-winning life scientist Georg Winter, and experienced science administrator Anita Ender. The institute’s research focuses on applying state-of-the-art AI approaches to problems in the life sciences, bringing together experts from various fields.
The participants of the AITHYRA AI for Science School are Ukrainian prize-winners of national and international science competitions in physics, astronomy, computer science, chemistry, and biology. They are students of Ukraine’s most successful specialized science schools: the Ukrainian Physics and Mathematics Lyceum in Kyiv, the Lviv Physics and Mathematics Lyceum, and the Kyiv Natural Sciences Lyceum No. 145.
Program
Sunday, August 31
- 11:30 Arrivals in Vienna
- 11:30 − 13:00 Check-in at Hotel Geblergasse
- 13:30 − 14:30 Lunch at TBA
- 16:00 − 18:30 Free time and sports in Donaupark
- 19:00 − 20:00 Dinner at TBA
Monday, September 1
Location:
University of Vienna
Faculty of Mathematics
Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1
Lecture Hall 14 (2nd floor)
- 07:30 − 08:00 Breakfast at Hotel Geblergasse
- 09:00 − 09:20 Opening ceremony by
- Michael Eichmair
- Dmytro Rzhemovskyi
- TBA
- 09:30 − 10:45 Talk by Yllka Velaj (University of Vienna)
- Basics of Modern AI
- 11:00 − 12:15 Talk by Philipp Petersen (University of Vienna)
- Introduction to Neural Networks
- 12:30 − 13:15 Lunch at Mensa Kolingasse
- 18:30 − 19:15 Dinner by Radatz at the Faculty of Mathematics
Tuesday, September 2
Location:
University of Vienna
Faculty of Mathematics
Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1
Lecture Hall 14 (2nd floor)
- 07:30 − 08:00 Breakfast at Hotel Geblergasse
- 09:30 − 10:45 Talk by TBA
- TBA
- 11:00 − 12:15 Talk by Gramoz Goranci (University of Vienna)
- Algorithms with Predictions
- 12:30 − 13:15 Lunch at Mensa Kolingasse
- 18:30 − 19:15 Dinner by Radatz at the Faculty of Mathematics
Wednesday, September 3
Location:
Institute of Science and Technology Austria
- 07:30 − 08:00 Breakfast at Hotel Geblergasse
- 09:10 − 09:45 Bus transfer to ISTA (Bus No. 400)
- 10:00 − 11:30 Talk by Alex Bronstein (Technion, ISTA)
- Learning to see at the age of AI
- 11:45 − 12:15 ISTA Presentation
- 12:30 − 13:00 Lunch at ISTA's cafeteria
- 13:15 − 14:30 Talk by Tim Vogels (ISTA)
- Computational Neuroscience and Neurotheory
- 18:30 − 19:15 Dinner by Radatz at the Faculty of Mathematics
Thursday, September 4
Location:
TU Wien
Campus Freihaus
Wiedner Hauptstraße 8–10
- 07:30 − 08:00 Breakfast at Hotel Geblergasse
- 08:15 − 09:30 Free time
- 10:30 − 12:00 Talk by Emanuel Büechi (TU Wien)
- Climate Change Adaptation using Machine Learning and Earth Observation Data
- 12:15 − 13:00 Lunch at TU Wien's Cafeteria
Location:
TU Wien
TBA
- 14:00 − 15:30 Talk by Esther Heid (TU Wien)
- How to Encode Chemistry: Graph Models for Molecule and Reaction AI
- 18:30 − 19:15 Dinner by Radatz at the Faculty of Mathematics
Friday, September 5
Location:
University of Vienna
Faculty of Mathematics
Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1
Lecture Hall 14 (2nd floor)
- 07:30 − 08:00 Breakfast at Hotel Geblergasse
- 08:15 − 09:30 Free time
- 10:30 − 12:00 Talk by Claudius Krause (ÖAW, HEPHY)
- Machine Learning for Particle Physics
- 12:15 − 13:00 Lunch at Mensa Kolingasse
- 13:30 − 14:00 Meeting with Heinz Fassmann, the President of the Austrian Academy of Sciences
- 14:00 − 15:30 Talk by Michael Bronstein (ÖAW, University of Oxford, University of Vienna)
- AI for Biology
- 18:00 − 20:00 Dinner and Meet&Greet with scientists at Sägewerk
Saturday, September 6
- 07:30 − 08:00 Breakfast at Hotel Geblergasse
- 09:00 − 11:00 Grand Tour of Schönbrunn
- 12:30 − 13:30 Lunch by Radatz at the Faculty of Mathematics
- 13:30 − 17:30 Free time
- 18:00 − 19:00 Dinner at TBA
Sunday, September 7
- 07:30 − 08:00 Breakfast at Hotel Geblergasse
- 09:00 − 12:00 Free time, e.g., visit to TBA
- 12:30 − 13:30 Lunch at TBA
- 16:30 Departure to Ukraine
Speakers
Coordinator and Contact Person
For any questions regarding AITHYRA AI for Science School, please feel free to contact Dmytro Rzhemovskyi via email at dmytro.rzhemovskyi@univie.ac.at .
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Participating Schools
Kyiv Natural Science Lyceum No. 145
Lviv Physics and Mathematics Lyceum
Ukrainian Physics and Mathematics Lyceum (Kyiv)