SIKS-DACS Symposium: Advances in Game AI and its Applications

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SIKS-DACS Symposium: Advances in Game AI and its Applications

Wednesday, June 4, 2025

Location: Maastricht, the Netherlands, Maastricht University, Department of Advanced Computing Sciences, Paul-Henri Spaaklaan 1, C1.005

https://www.maastrichtuniversity.nl/events/siks-dacs-symposium-advances-game-ai-and-its-applications

 

Overview:

The international symposium “Advances in Game AI and its Applications” will give an overview on recent developments in Game AI for a wide range of domains. The event is sponsored by the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society, SIKS, and DACS. The symposium will be followed by the public defence of Tom Pepels’ Ph.D. Thesis, entitled "Monte-Carlo Tree Search is Work in Progress".

 

Program  (tentative)

08:30 - 08:55: Walk in

​08:55 - 09:00: Welcome (prof. dr. Mark Winands)

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) (Tentative)

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 hrs: Public Ph.D. defence by Tom Pepels at Minderbroedersberg 4-6, Maastricht University

 

Participation is free. Please register (see details in URL above) before May 25^th, 2025.

 

Best regards,

 

Mark Winands

Dennis Soemers