XIII Optoelectronics and Photonics Winter School
AIT2025
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE FOR TELECOM
19-25 January, 2025
Monte Bondone -Trento (Italy)
Registration deadline: 16 December
The 13th Optoelectronics and Photonics Winter School on Artificial Intelligence for Telecom, to be held from 19 to 25 January 2025 on Monte Bondone (Trento), Italy aims at introducing students and post-docs with an optics/photonics background to the concepts of artificial intelligence applied to telecommunication, focusing on the hot topics that are driving the recent technological and scientific research in this field with an emphasis on photonic integrated circuits.
The school aims to bring together a large number of PhD students and young researchers from all parts of the world who follow a series of lectures on selected topics across a one-week intense schedule. The lectures are held by internationally recognized experts in the field. At the same time, the students are encouraged to enjoy the beautiful location where the school is organized. To this end a lunch break of few hours is considered to allow skiing, hiking, relaxing on the mountains or at the hotel facilities. To easy interaction the number of participants is limited to 50 people.
The University of Ghent (Belgium) and the University of Trento will organize the 13th edition which is also supported by our running projects. Directors will be prof. Peter Bienstman and prof. Lorenzo Pavesi, Scientific managers dr. Stefano Biasi and dr. Alessio Lugnan and Administrative assistants Chiara Rindone and Camilla Kandamulla Arachchige.
The school will initially introduce the state of the art of optical communication for the different transport scenarios (access, metro and long haul as well as within datacenters) discussing both the optical transceivers, the optical nonlinearities and the used approaches to equalise the signals. On the other hand, artificial intelligence models and their use in electronics and photonics devices will be presented with a specific attention to various photonic neural networks which were developed to be used with telcom signals.
In addition to standard classes, rump evening sessions on hot topics in the field with free beers and beverages will be organized to facilitate discussions among students and lecturers. Since this is a residential school, both the students and the lecturers will reside in the same hotel which will easy discussions in an informal venue or on the ski fields.