Seminar Session – ERC Advanced Grant Project IMMENSE

The seminar session “Toward Mechano Intelligence” is organised within the framework of the ERC Advanced Grant project IMMENSE.

The event will take place on Wednesday, January 21st, 2026, in the Castigliano Room, and will feature a series of invited talks.

Programme

9:30 – 9:45
Introduction
Alberto Corigliano

9:45 – 10:15
Sequential Planning and Spatial Navigation Through Active Inference
Giovanni Pezzulo
Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies – CNR Roma

10:15 – 10:45
Emergent Collective Cognition in Multi-Agent Systems: An Integrated Approach Combining Active Inference and Information Theory
Domenico Maisto
Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies – CNR Roma

10:45 – 11:10
Coffee break

11:10 – 11:40
On the Structure of Compositional Intelligence: Hierarchical Representations and the Reuse of Neural Computation
Francesco Donnarumma
Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies – CNR Roma

11:40 – 12:00
Recent Deep Learning & Reduced Order Modeling for Simulation, Discovery and Control of Large-Scale Systems
Andrea Manzoni
MOX, Dipartimento di Matematica – Politecnico di Milano

12:00 – 12:20
Active Inference for Perception, Action, and Learning in Mechanical Systems
Matteo Torzoni
Dipartimento di Ingegneria Civile e Ambientale – Politecnico di Milano

12:20 – 12:30
Conclusion
Alberto Corigliano

Abstracts and speakers’ biographies are available by clicking here.