ML4SEG 2026 | Sicily

Sunday, 14 June 2026 — Arrival Day

Time	Event	Details / Notes	Place
14:00	🚌 Shuttle Depart to the Conference	Transport service provided 📍 Meeting Point: inside the terminal, before the exit doors after baggage reclaim (Arrivals Schengen area). Contact: Leda 📞 +39 347 9246190	Catania Airport
19:00	🚌 Shuttle Depart to the Conference	Transport service provided 📍 Meeting Point: inside the terminal, before the exit doors after baggage reclaim (Arrivals Schengen area). Contact: Leda 📞 +39 347 9246190	Catania Airport
14:00 – 21:00	Registration Arrival & Registration	Attendee Arrival, Hotel Check-in, On-site Registration	Baia Samuele
18:30 – 20:00	🥂 Welcome Reception	Icebreaker at Baia Samuele - cocktails & networking	Baia Samuele
20:00	🍽 Dinner	Included in Full Board	Baia Samuele

📍 Airport Meeting Point — Sunday, 14 June

Catania Fontanarossa Airport — Arrivals Hall

🟢 Where to meet the shuttle

After collecting your baggage, head to the Arrivals area (Schengen). The meeting point is inside the terminal, before the exit doors — follow the YES ✅ direction in the photo (not the red NO ❌ exit).

🕑 Shuttle departures: 14:00 & 19:00

📍 Place: Catania Fontanarossa Airport — Arrivals Hall

👤 Contact person: Leda 📞 +39 347 9246190

Leda will be waiting at the meeting point with a sign. If you cannot find her, call the number above.

Monday, 15 June 2026

Time	Type	Speaker & Title
07:30 – 08:30	🍳 Breakfast
08:30 – 09:00	Ceremony	Opening Ceremony Welcome Address by the ML4SEG 2026 Organizing Committee
09:00 – 10:00	🎤 Keynote Lecture	Maarten V. de Hoop (Rice University) Stochastic In-Context Foundation Models (Keynote: 55 min presentation + 5 min Q&A)
10:00 – 10:30	☕ Coffee Break
📂 Oral Session 1 — Seismic Monitoring, Catalog Quality & ML-Based Phase Detection (Chair: Chris Marone)
10:30 – 10:35	Intro	Session Introduction by Chair
10:35 – 11:05	★ Invited (30')	Laura Laurenti Toward Generalizable Seismic Intelligence: From Task-Specific Models to Foundation Models and Explainable AI (Invited: 25 min presentation + 5 min Q&A)
11:05 – 11:25	Oral (20')	Sacha Lapins Scale-Aware Seismic Phase Arrival Detection via Continuous Dilatable Convolutional Kernels (Oral: 15 min presentation + 5 min Q&A)
11:25 – 11:45	Oral (20')	Miguel Neves Unsupervised Discrimination of Earthquakes and Blasts in Norway Using Representation Learning (Oral: 15 min presentation + 5 min Q&A)
11:45 – 12:00	🌅 Discussion	Informal Discussion & Networking (15 min)
12:00 – 14:00	🍽 Lunch Break (served from 12:45)
📂 Oral Session 2 — DAS Technology, Seismic Denoising & Waveform Signal Processing (Chair: Chris Johnson)
14:00 – 14:05	Intro	Session Introduction by Chair
14:05 – 14:35	★ Invited (30')	Ivan Dokmanic Warpology: Mechanistic Surrogates for Waves, Grains, and Vortices (Invited: 25 min presentation + 5 min Q&A)
14:35 – 14:55	Oral (20')	Niko Dahmen Earthquake Seismogram Denoising Across Time, Time–Frequency, and Hybrid Domain Approaches (Oral: 15 min presentation + 5 min Q&A)
14:55 – 15:15	Oral (20')	Marie Gärtner Unsupervised Encoding of Seismo-Volcanic Signals of a Full Eruptive Cycle at Piton de la Fournaise (2014–2023) (Oral: 15 min presentation + 5 min Q&A)
15:15 – 15:35	Oral (20')	Chen Gu Time-Reversal Neural Operator for Earthquake Rupture Inversion via Data Fusion of Broadband Arrays and Submarine DAS (Oral: 15 min presentation + 5 min Q&A)
15:35 – 15:55	Oral (20')	Yichen Zhong Deep Learning-Based Urban Acoustic Source Identification from DAS Data in the Time-Space-Frequency Domain (Oral: 15 min presentation + 5 min Q&A)
15:55 – 16:30	☕ Coffee Break
16:30 – 18:00	📋 Poster Session A: Seismology, DAS & Earthquake Physics Thematically paired with Oral Sessions 1 & 2 📌 Poster size: max 70 × 120 cm, portrait orientation A-01 \| Andrea Sollai (Univ. Naples Federico II) Automated AI Agent for Earthquake Location and Magnitude Estimation: Application to Campi Flegrei Caldera 2014–2025 Seismicity A-02 \| Aurora Bassani (Sapienza Univ. Rome) AI Framework for Ground-Motion Prediction Across the Italian Seismic Network A-03 \| Dario Jozinovic (ETH Zurich) Template Matching Using Deep Learning A-04 \| HE Yufeng (Tsinghua Univ.) Source Localization from Submarine DAS Data Using Deep Bayesian Beamforming A-05 \| Ilaria Oliveti (INGV) Masked Graph Neural Network for Rapid Ground Motion Prediction in Italy A-06 \| Jiawei He (Tsinghua Univ.) Diffusion-Based Denoising for Submarine DAS Seismic Monitoring A-07 \| Alfio Marco Borzì (Univ. Catania) Reconstructing Significant Wave Height from Microseism Data Using Machine Learning: Sicily Channel Case Study A-08 \| Chenrui Fan (Tsinghua Univ.) Integrating Game Engine and PINN for Multi-Scale Building Cluster Earthquake Scenarios
20:00	🍽 Conference Dinner

Tuesday, 16 June 2026

Time	Type	Speaker & Title
07:30 – 09:00	🍳 Breakfast
09:00 – 10:00	🎤 Keynote Lecture	Gregory C. Beroza (Stanford University) Beyond Counting Events: What Makes a Good Earthquake Catalog? (Keynote: 55 min presentation + 5 min Q&A)
10:00 – 10:30	☕ Coffee Break
📂 Oral Session 3 — Foundation Models, Generative AI & Advanced ML Methods (Chair: Ivan Dokmanic)
10:30 – 10:35	Intro	Session Introduction by Chair
10:35 – 10:55	Oral (20')	Sadegh Karimpouli Foundation Models Reveal Seismic Damage Evolution in Fault Zones (Oral: 15 min presentation + 5 min Q&A)
10:55 – 11:15	Oral (20')	Han Zhang Hidden Simplicity Behind Seismic Dispersion Curves Revealed by Unsupervised Learning (Oral: 15 min presentation + 5 min Q&A)
11:15 – 11:35	Oral (20')	Shimon Cohen DeepPinch: Few-Shot Stratigraphic Pinch-Out Detection in Seismic Images via Synthetic Pre-training (Oral: 15 min presentation + 5 min Q&A)
11:35 – 12:00	🌅 Discussion	Informal Discussion & Networking (25 min)
12:00 – 14:00	🍽 Lunch Break (served from 12:45)
📂 Oral Session 4 — Volcano Monitoring, InSAR Remote Sensing & Geodetic Deformation (Chair: Chris Johnson)
14:00 – 14:05	Intro	Session Introduction by Chair
14:05 – 14:35	★ Invited (30')	Jonathan Bedford From Faults to Volumes: The Development of an Invertible Deep Learning Surrogate for Versatile Kinematic Source Modelling (Invited: 25 min presentation + 5 min Q&A)
14:35 – 14:55	Oral (20')	Grégoire Vest Using Neural Networks for InSAR Images Inverse Modeling (Oral: 15 min presentation + 5 min Q&A)
14:55 – 15:15	Oral (20')	Louise Lizè Crustal Fracture Classification and Parameter Estimation from InSAR Displacement Fields with Interpretable Descriptors (Oral: 15 min presentation + 5 min Q&A)
15:15 – 15:35	Oral (20')	Miriana Corsaro AI-Driven Automated and Scalable Processing of DAS Data for Seismic Monitoring (Oral: 15 min presentation + 5 min Q&A)
15:35 – 15:50	🌅 Discussion	Informal Discussion & Networking (15 min)
15:50 – 16:30	☕ Coffee Break
16:30 – 18:00	📋 Poster Session B: Volcano Monitoring, InSAR & Geodetic Applications Thematically paired with Oral Sessions 3 & 4 📌 Poster size: max 70 × 120 cm, portrait orientation B-01 \| Abigail Robinson (Birkbeck, Univ. London) Towards DL Phase Picking for Diverse Volcanic Seismicity: A Case Study at Tungurahua B-02 \| Adriana Iozzia (INGV-OE) Clustering of Tiltmeter Data for Automated Identification of Mount Etna's Active Crater B-03 \| Federica Lanza (Swiss Seismological Service, ETH Zürich) Leveraging Machine Learning to Illuminate Magmatic and Tectonic Processes During the 2024 Unrest at Kīlauea Volcano B-04 \| Flavio Cannavò (INGV-OE) AI-Enabled Digital Twins for Volcano Monitoring: Insights from the DT-GEO Project B-05 \| Mónica Ágreda-López (Univ. Perugia) Deciphering Pre-Eruptive Dynamics in Antarctic and Italian Volcanoes through Machine Learning B-06 \| Simona Caruso (INGV-OE) Advanced Data Model for the Multidisciplinary Cataloguing of Volcanic Ash B-07 \| Vittorio Minio (INGV-OE) Early Detection of Paroxysmal Eruptions at Stromboli Volcano Using Seismic Data B-08 \| Kaan Çökerim (Ruhr Univ. Bochum) Blind Surrogate Inversion of Deformation Sources
20:00	🍽 Conference Dinner

Wednesday, 17 June 2026 — Morning Sessions + Afternoon Field Trip

Time	Type	Speaker & Title
07:30 – 09:00	🍳 Breakfast
09:00 – 10:00	🎤 Keynote Lecture	Yehuda Ben-Zion (University of Southern California) Localization of Low Magnitude Seismicity Before Larger Earthquakes (Keynote: 55 min presentation + 5 min Q&A)
10:00 – 10:30	☕ Coffee Break
📂 Oral Session 5 — Earthquake Forecasting, Seismicity Patterns & Pre-seismic Signals (Chair: Maurizio Petrelli)
10:30 – 10:35	Intro	Session Introduction by Chair
10:35 – 10:55	Oral (20')	Michele Magrini From Foreshock-Aftershock Classification to Time-Dependent Seismic Cycle Monitoring: Station-Wise CNN-SHAP Analysis of Norcia 2016 (Oral: 15 min presentation + 5 min Q&A)
10:55 – 11:15	Oral (20')	Gabriele Paoletti Deep Learning and Ray Path Analysis: Spatiotemporal Variations in Fault Zone Properties During the Seismic Cycle (Oral: 15 min presentation + 5 min Q&A)
11:15 – 11:35	Oral (20')	Patricia Martínez-Garzón Detection of (A)seismic Transients Using Unsupervised Machine Learning and Deep Learning (Oral: 15 min presentation + 5 min Q&A)
11:35 – 12:00	🌅 Discussion	Informal Discussion & Networking (25 min)
12:00 – 14:00	🍽 Lunch Break (served from 12:45)
15:00	🚌 Gathering	Boarding Shuttle Buses at Baia Samuele
16:00 – 19:00	🏛️ Conference Field Trip	Guided Tour at Ragusa Ibla
20:00	🥂 Gala Dinner	Special Gala Conference Dinner
23:00	🚌 Return Shuttle	Shuttle buses return to Baia Samuele hotel

Thursday, 18 June 2026

Time	Type	Speaker & Title
07:30 – 09:00	🍳 Breakfast
09:30 – 10:30	🎤 Keynote Lecture	Parisa Shokouhi (Pennsylvania State University) Explainable Physics-Guided Feature Extraction from Time-Lapse Ultrasonic Waveforms for Predicting Laboratory Earthquakes (Keynote: 55 min presentation + 5 min Q&A)
10:30 – 11:00	☕ Coffee Break
📂 Oral Session 6 — Physics-Guided ML, Lab Seismology & Environmental Seismic Sensing (Chair: Gregory C. Beroza)
11:00 – 11:05	Intro	Session Introduction by Chair
11:05 – 11:25	Oral (20')	Sergio Vinciguerra Time Delay Neural Networks Reveal Pressure-Independent Fault Rupture Processes in Laboratory Acoustic Emission (Oral: 15 min presentation + 5 min Q&A)
11:25 – 11:45	Oral (20')	Ke Gao Adaptive Deep-Learning Approach for Laboratory Earthquake Forecasting Using Multi-Channel Acoustic Emission Data (Oral: 15 min presentation + 5 min Q&A)
11:45 – 12:05	Oral (20')	Arka Roy High-Resolution Lithospheric Thickness Model of the Southern Indian Shield Using Physics-Informed Neural Networks (Oral: 15 min presentation + 5 min Q&A)
12:05 – 12:25	Oral (20')	Jonas Michael Automatic Analysis of Seismic Waveforms for Sea-Ice Properties Estimation (Oral: 15 min presentation + 5 min Q&A)
12:25 – 12:45	Oral (20')	Paul Martin Mai From Fundamental Earthquake Rupture Physics to Machine-Learning Infused Ground-Motion Simulations (Oral: 15 min presentation + 5 min Q&A)
12:45 – 12:50	🌅 Short Discussion	Informal Discussion & Networking (5 min)
12:50 – 14:00	🍽 Lunch Break (served from 12:45)
📂 Oral Session 7 — Geothermal Energy, Critical Minerals & Multi-scale Subsurface AI (Chair: Paul Johnson)
14:00 – 14:05	Intro	Session Introduction by Chair
14:05 – 14:35	★ Invited (30')	Velimir Vesselinov Beyond Prospectivity Maps: Multimodal Geospatial AI for Critical Mineral Systems and Geothermal Prospectivity Exploration (Invited: 25 min presentation + 5 min Q&A)
14:35 – 15:05	★ Invited (30')	Daniel O'Malley In-Context Learning Enables Global Geothermal Temperature Prediction from Sparse Local Observations (Invited: 25 min presentation + 5 min Q&A)
15:05 – 15:25	Oral (20')	Sandro Malusa The Transparent Earth: A Multimodal Foundation Model for Earth Sciences (Oral: 15 min presentation + 5 min Q&A)
15:25 – 15:45	Oral (20')	Javier E. Santos N-Dimensional Field Reconstruction from Sparse Observations (Oral: 15 min presentation + 5 min Q&A)
15:45 – 16:15	☕ Coffee Break
16:15 – 18:00	📋 Poster Session C: Lab Seismology, Forecasting, Multi-hazard & Earth Resources Thematically paired with Oral Sessions 5, 6 & 7 📌 Poster size: max 70 × 120 cm, portrait orientation C-01 \| Gabriele Benedetti (Univ. Iceland) GPU Accelerated SEAS Simulations for Machine Learning Applications C-02 \| Graziano Larocca (INGV-OE) Towards ML-Based Characterization of Seismo-Volcanic Events at a Closed-Conduit Volcano: Mt. Melbourne, Antarctica C-03 \| Leticia Garay Romero (Univ. Bologna / INGV) Application of Data Science and Machine Learning for Prediction of Induced Seismicity C-04 \| Mario Valerio Gangemi (Univ. Catania) Seismology on Rivers: A ML Approach to Monitor Extreme Floods Generated by Cyclonic Storms C-05 \| Salvatore D'Amico (INGV Roma 2 / Univ. Catania) Physics-Guided ML for Meteotsunami Detection from Co-located Microbarometer and Tide-Gauge Records at Mazara del Vallo C-06 \| Xu Han (GFZ Helmholtz) Machine Learning Based Prediction of Laboratory Fault Peak Slip-Rate Trends Using Seismicity Catalog C-07 \| Zhixiong Leng (SUSTech) Meta-Learning for Few-Shot Forecasting of Laboratory Earthquakes C-08 \| Bharath Shanmugasundaram (ENS PSL) Quality Evaluation of Assimilation-Based Forecast of Rate-and-State Governed Fault Analog
20:00	🍽 Conference Dinner
21:00	📽️ Movie Projection	"The AI Doc: Or How I Became an Apocaloptimist" Location: Conference Room

Friday, 19 June 2026 — Closing Day

Time	Event	Details / Panelists
07:30 – 09:00	🍳 Breakfast
09:00	Early Departures	Shuttle Early Departures to Catania Airport
09:30 – 11:00	🗣 Panel Discussion	The Next Decade of AI in Solid Earth Geoscience Panelists: all Invited Speakers \| Moderator: Paul Johnson
11:00 – 11:30	☕ Coffee Break
11:30 – 12:30	🏆 Closing Ceremony	Closing Remarks, Best Poster Awards
12:30	🍽 Farewell Lunch
14:00	Departures	Shuttle Departures to Catania Airport - End of ML4SEG 2026