The Departments of Mathematics of the major Milano Universities (Università di Milano, Politecnico di Milano, Università di Milano-Bicocca and Università Bocconi) are pleased to announce the inaugural cycle Mathematics Colloquium of Milano. 

Over the years to come, mathematicians of international prominence will present and discuss the most important new ideas and breakthroughs in contemporary mathematics and its applications. Each lecture should be suitable for a general mathematical audience, especially Ph.D. students and Post-docs.

The Department of Decision Sciences is pleased to host the fourth lecture of the Mathematics Colloquium of Milano series. Please note that registration is required.

Keynote Speaker: Cédric Villani, Université Lyon 1

Title: Scientific and society challenges behind the confusing power of artificial intelligence

Abstract: Since the 2012 breakthrough of neural networks, Artificial Intelligence has made rapid progress and made the headlines all over the world. In 2017, as a mathematician and Member of Parliament, I was in charge of preparing the French national AI strategy, leading me to review all the issues related to the status of AI in terms of science, applications, society and political issues, as well as economic and ecological challenges. The experimental nature of the field, the amazing bluff and buzz which go with it, and the impressive amounts of money poured into these techniques, make the case all the more tricky and interesting. How can we scientists, experts and non-experts, cope with this special situation?

About the speaker: Cédric Villani is a French mathematician renowned for his work in analysis, particularly in optimal transport, kinetic theory, and partial differential equations. He received the EMS Prize in 2008, the Fermat Prize in 2009, the Henri Poincaré Prize in 2009, and the Fields Medal in 2010 for his groundbreaking contributions to the theory of the Boltzmann equation and Landau damping. Villani has held leading academic positions, including the directorship of the Institut Henri Poincaré and the honorary professorship at HEC Paris. He is a member of both the French Academy of Sciences and the Pontifical Academy of Sciences. rom 2017 to 2022, he served as a member of the French Parliament, where he chaired the parliamentary office for scientific evaluation and led the national commission on artificial intelligence, producing the influential 2018 report 'For a Meaningful Artificial Intelligence: Toward a French and European Strategy'. 

When: 10 July 2025 at 4:30pm

Where: Aula Magna Gobbi (Via Ulisse Gobbi 5, floor -1)

Find the whole program at: www.mathcm.it