What is the Bertinoro International Spring School?
The Italian Computer Science PhD granting institutions under the auspices of GRIN, organizes an annual school offering graduate-level courses aimed at PhD students in Computer Science. In addition to introducing students to timely research topics, the school is meant to promote acquaintance and collaboration among young European researchers.
The three courses that will be offered this year are:
- An Introduction to Reinforcement Learning: from Fundamentals to AI Agentic Systems by Mirco Musolesi
- Artificial Social Intelligence by Alessandro Vinciarelli
- Harnessing Parallel Computing Resources via Structured Programming Models by Marco Danelutto
Note! The evaluation for each course is possible through a final exam or project as determined by the instructor.
The daily schedule admits laboratory and/or working group activities to be organized in addition to the lectures. Consult the program page for more information.
School participants are also invited to take part, on a voluntary basis, in a pitch session during which they will present their Ph.D. project.
Who can attend?
The school is open to PhD students from all European countries, and to students from other countries who are enrolled in a PhD program in Computer Science.
Where and when?
This year the school will be held in Bertinoro, Italy from May 25th to 29th, 2026. BISS events are held in the University Residential Center located in the small medieval hilltop town of Bertinoro. This town is in Emilia Romagna about 50km east of Bologna at an elevation of 230m above sea level.
How to register?
Informations about the registration process is available in the registration page.