Programme

20 - 29 June, Rila Lakes Hut, 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.

2025-06-20 Openning

before 19:30 Accomodation

20:00 - 20:30 Organizational issues

20:30 - 21:00 Networking exercise

2025-06-21 Fundamentals

09:30 - 13:00 Angel Marchev, Sr. - The scientific method & General Systems Theory: a systematic approach to research
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14:00 - 15:00 Angel Marchev, Sr. - For fact based worldview (Online)
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15:00 - 17:00 Workshop: Angel Marchev, Jr. - Introduction to software environments & GPT prompting for modeling
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17:00 - 19:30 Workshop: Explaining the cases

2025-06-22 Data mining

09:30 - 13:00 Alexander Efremov, Kaloyan Haralampiev - Data mining: methods & main tasks
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14:00 - 17:00 Workshop: Kaloyan Haralampiev - Introduction to Orange with static data
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17:00 - 19:30 Workshop: Teamwork on case assignments

2025-06-23 Probabilities

09:30 - 10:30 Tsvetana Spassova - Statistical testing
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10:45 - 11:45 Radoslav Rusinov - Introduction to probability
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12:00 - 15:00 Angel Marchev, Jr. - Time series analysis basics
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15:30 - 16:30 Kaloyan Haralampiev - Bayesian paradigm
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16:45 - 17:30 Kaloyan Haralampiev - Time series case study: Fourier transform
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17:30 - 19:30 Workshop: Teamwork on case assignments

2023-06-24 Complexity

09:30 - 13:00 Angel Marchev, Sr. - Cybernetics studying complex systems with feedback
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14:00 - 15:00 Workshop: Deyan Radev - Writting a scientific article (Online)
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15:00 - 17:00 Workshop: Angel Marchev, Jr. - Feature engineering
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17:00 - 19:30 Workshop: Teamwork on case assignments

2025-06-25 Applications

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

11:30 - 13:00 TBD
<!–Martin Boyanov - Introduction to LLMs, RAG & llm2vec

14:00 - 17:00 Workshop: TBD
<!–Yasen Kiprov - AI for coding (Online)

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

2025-06-26 Artificial Neural Networks

09:30 - 11:00 Stanimir Kabaivanov - Introduction to Artificial Neural Networks (Online)
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11:30 - 13:00 Mihail Motzev - Statistical Learning Networks (Online)
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14:00 - 17:00 TBD
<!–Workshop: Evgeni Marinov - Graph artificial neural networks (Online)

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

2025-06-27 Artificial Intelligence

09:30 - 11:00 Angel Marchev, Jr. - Introduction to artificial intelligence
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11:30 - 13:00 TBD
<!–Laura Tolosi - LLMs & NLP (Online)

14:30 - 17:00 Workshop: Demir Tonchev - Workshop: Make your own AI
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17:00 - 19:30 Workshop: Teamwork on case assignments

2025-06-28 Self-organization & adaptation

09:30 - 13:00 Angel Marchev, Sr., Angel Marchev, Jr. - Multi-stage selection procedure and Self-organization
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14:00 - 16:00 Workshop: Pavel Nikolov - Evolutionary alghorithm for hyperparameter optimization
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16:00 - 17:00 Peter Nikolov - Practical introduction to quantum computing
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17:30 - 19:30 Workshop: Teamwork on case assignments

2025-06-29 Perspectives

09:30 - 11:00 TBD
<!–Sergey Vichev - RAGSQL: the concept

11:30 - 13:00 TBD
<!–Nikolay Dimitrov - FetchAI: AI + Crypto (Online)

14:00 - 17:00 Conference - presentation of the solutions to the case assignments
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17:00 - 17:30 Closing ceremony