SIKS-DACS Symposium: Advances in Game AI and its Applications
The International Symposium “Advances in Game AI and its Applications” will give an overview of recent developments in Game AI for a wide range of domains. The Symposium is sponsored by the Department of Advanced Computing Sciences (DACS), the Netherlands Research School for Information and Knowledge Systems (SIKS), and the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society.
The event is part of the advanced components stage of the educational program for SIKS PhD students. The symposium will be followed by the public defence of Tom Pepels’ Ph.D. Thesis, entitled "Monte-Carlo Tree Search is Work in Progress".
REGISTRATION DEADLINE: May 25th, 2025
Program
| 08:30 - 08:55 | Walk-in | - |
| 08:55 - 09:00 | Welcome | Prof. Dr. Mark Winands, Maastricht University |
| 09:00 - 09:40 | "Explainable AI in Chess" | Prof. Dr. Yngvi Björnsson, Reykjavik University |
| 09:40 - 10:20 | "Can an LLM play Chess?" | Prof. Dr. Aske Plaat, Leiden University |
| 10:20 - 10:45 | Coffee Break | - |
| 10:45 - 11:25 | "Eterna is Solved" | Prof. Dr. Tristan Cazenave, Université Paris-Dauphine |
| 11:25 - 12:05 | "A Kaggle Data Science Competition about Dozens of Algorithms Playing over a Thousand Games" | Dr. Dennis Soemers, Maastricht University |
| 12:05 - 12:45 | "Designing Human-AI Interaction through Play" | Prof. Dr. Jichen Zhu, IT University of Copenhagen |
| 12:45 - 13:15 | Lunch Break | - |
| 13:15 - 13:55 | "Mastering Board Games by External and Internal Planning with Language Models" | Dr. Marc Lanctot, Google DeepMind |
| 13:55 - 14:00 | Closing | - |
| 16:00 | "Monte-Carlo Tree Search is Work in Progress" | Soon-to-be Dr. Tom Pepels Maastricht University |
Confirmed speakers
Prof. Dr. Yngvi Björnsson
Prof. Dr. Aske Plaat
Prof. Dr. Tristan Cazenave
Dr. Dennis Soemers
Prof. Dr. Jichen Zhu
Dr. Marc Lanctot
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