21 - 30 June, Gyulechica, Rila Mountain
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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before 19:30 Accomodation
20:00 - 20:30 Organizational issues
20:30 - 21:00 Networking exercise
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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