Programme

21 - 30 June, Gyulechica, Rila Mountain

Programme

Link for the online class https://bit.ly/marchev-class

The programme is subject to constant change, so make sure to check it regularly. All supporting materials and recorded videos are linked in the classes.
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2024-06-21 Openning

before 19:30 Accomodation

20:00 - 20:30 Organizational issues

20:30 - 21:00 Networking exercise

2024-06-22 Fundamentals

09:30 - 13:00 Angel Marchev, Sr. - The scientific method & General Systems Theory: a systematic approach to research (Online)

14:00 - 15:00 Angel Marchev, Sr. - For fact based worldview (Online)

15:00 - 17:00 Workshop: Angel Marchev, Jr. - Introduction to software environments & GPT prompting for modeling

17:00 - 19:30 Workshop: Explaining the cases

2024-06-23 Data mining

09:30 - 13:00 Alexander Efremov, Kaloyan Haralampiev - Data mining: methods & main tasks

14:00 - 17:00 Workshop: Kaloyan Haralampiev - Introduction to Orange with static data

17:00 - 19:30 Workshop: Teamwork on case assignments

2024-06-24 Probabilities

09:30 - 10:30 Tsvetana Spassova - Statistical testing

10:45 - 11:45 Radoslav Rusinov - Introduction to probability

12:00 - 15:00 Angel Marchev, Jr. - Time series analysis basics

15:30 - 16:30 Kaloyan Haralampiev - Bayesian paradigm

16:45 - 17:30 Kaloyan Haralampiev - Time series case study: Fourier transform

17:30 - 19:30 Workshop: Teamwork on case assignments

2024-06-25 Complexity

09:30 - 13:00 Angel Marchev, Sr. - Cybernetics studying complex systems with feedback (Online)

14:00 - 15:00 Workshop: Deyan Radev - Writting a scientific article (Online)

15:00 - 17:00 Workshop: Angel Marchev, Jr. - Feature engineering

17:00 - 19:30 Workshop: Teamwork on case assignments

2024-06-26 Applications

09:30 - 11:00 Milen Chechev - Current forecasting approaches and challenges (Online)

11:30 - 13:00 Martin Boyanov - Introduction to LLMs, RAG & llm2vec

14:00 - 17:00 Workshop: Yasen Kiprov - AI for coding (Online)

17:30 - 19:30 Workshop: Teamwork on case assignments

2024-06-27 Artificial Neural Networks

09:30 - 11:00 Stanimir Kabaivanov - Introduction to Artificial Neural Networks (Online)

11:30 - 13:00 Mihail Motzev - Statistical Learning Networks (Online)

14:00 - 17:00 Workshop: Evgeni Marinov - Graph artificial neural networks (Online)

17:30 - 19:30 Workshop: Teamwork on case assignments

2024-06-28 Artificial Intelligence

09:30 - 11:00 Angel Marchev, Jr. - Introduction to artificial intelligence

11:30 - 13:00 Laura Tolosi - LLMs & NLP (Online)

14:30 - 17:00 Workshop: Demir Tonchev - Workshop: Make your own AI

17:00 - 19:30 Workshop: Teamwork on case assignments

2024-06-29 Self-organization & adaptation

09:30 - 13:00 Angel Marchev, Sr., Angel Marchev, Jr. - Multi-stage selection procedure and Self-organization

14:00 - 16:00 Workshop: Pavel Nikolov - Evolutionary alghorithm for hyperparameter optimization

16:00 - 17:00 Peter Nikolov - Practical introduction to quantum computing

17:30 - 19:30 Workshop: Teamwork on case assignments

2024-06-30 Perspectives

09:30 - 11:00 Sergey Vichev - RAGSQL: the concept

11:30 - 13:00 Nikolay Dimitrov - FetchAI: AI + Crypto (Online)

14:00 - 17:00 Conference - presentation of the solutions to the case assignments

17:00 - 17:30 Closing ceremony