Program
November 15–19, 2026 · Tam Dao, Phu Tho, Vietnam
Tentative schedule. Talks marked as confirmed have a speaker and title agreed; the rest are being finalized.
Day 1 — Sunday, November 15
Arrival and check-in at Tam Dao. No scientific program.
| Time | Item | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Afternoon | Arrival, transfer from Hanoi and Noi Bai airport | Shuttle times to be announced |
| Evening | Check-in and informal welcome | Conference hotel |
Day 2 — Monday, November 16
Opening, plenary talks, and interdisciplinary research.
| Time | Talk | Speaker |
|---|---|---|
| 9:00 | Welcome ceremonyMC: Dr. Trần Hoàng Tùng | Prof. Trần Hồng Thái, President of VAST; representatives of CNRS and of the VAST Department of International Cooperation; Prof. Đinh Thị Mai Thanh and Prof. Daniel Hagimont, chairs |
| 9:25 | Photographs | — |
| Session A — General 2 chairs | ||
| 9:30 | From Calculus to Exascale and new computing paradigms keynote 1 | Michel Daydé CNRS confirmed |
| 10:15 | Coffee break | — |
| 10:30 | Title to be announced keynote 2 | Đoàn Thái Sơn Institute of Mathematics, VAST |
| 11:15 | Title to be announced keynote 3 | Nguyễn Trường Thắng Institute of Information Technology, VAST |
| 12:00 | End of session — lunch | — |
| Session B — Interdisciplinary research and challenges 2 chairs | ||
| 13:30 | Automata Networks at the Heart of Natural Computing | Sylvain Sené Marseille confirmed |
| 14:00 | Complex Systems and Random Walks | Phan Thị Hà Dương IRL FVMA confirmed |
| 14:30 | Title to be announced | Nguyễn Việt Anh IOIT |
| 15:00 | Coffee break | — |
| 15:15 | Title to be announced | Nguyễn Đức Dũng IOIT |
| 15:45 | Title to be announced | Đinh Nho Hào IOM confirmed |
| 16:15 | Title to be announced | Trần Giang Sơn USTH |
| Flash communications and posters 2 chairs | ||
| 16:45 | PhD students and young researchers present ongoing work in 180 seconds | — |
| 19:00 | Dinner | — |
Day 3 — Tuesday, November 17
From mathematics and modeling…
| Time | Talk | Speaker |
|---|---|---|
| Session C1 — Mathematical foundations of data science 2 chairs | ||
| 9:00 | Belief function theory for defining models or combining it with AI | Constance Thierry Rennes confirmed |
| 9:30 | Title to be announced | Lê Hải Khôi USTH |
| 10:00 | Coffee break | — |
| 10:30 | Quantum Approximate Optimization Algorithms for Combinatorial Optimization | Nguyen Viet Hung Clermont confirmed |
| 11:00 | Title to be announced | Cấn Văn Hảo IOM |
| 11:30 | Title to be announced | Lê Xuân Thanh IOM |
| 12:00 | End of session — lunch | — |
| Session C2 — Complex system modeling 2 chairs | ||
| 13:30 | Title to be announced | Speaker to be announced |
| 14:00 | Scheduling Single Round Robin Tournaments with Different Court Types | Lê Xuân Thanh IOM confirmed |
| 14:30 | Title to be announced | Nguyen-Huu Tri IRD |
| 15:00 | Coffee break | — |
| 15:15 | Title to be announced | Giang Anh Tuấn USTH |
| 15:45 | Title to be announced | Benoit Gaudou Toulouse online |
| Flash communications and posters 2 chairs | ||
| 16:15 | PhD students and young researchers present ongoing work in 180 seconds | — |
| 19:00 | Dinner | — |
Day 4 — Wednesday, November 18
…to advanced computing.
| Time | Talk | Speaker |
|---|---|---|
| Session D1 — Distributed infrastructure and edge computing 2 chairs | ||
| 9:00 | Cloud Computing Architectures | Alain Tchana Grenoble confirmed |
| 9:30 | Title to be announced | Daniel Hagimont Toulouse |
| 10:00 | Coffee break | — |
| 10:30 | Title to be announced | Phạm Thanh Giang IOIT |
| 11:00 | Security and cryptography — title to be announced | Nguyễn Minh Hương USTH |
| 11:30 | Parallel Computing and GPU acceleration | Lilian Aveneau Poitiers confirmed online |
| 12:00 | End of session — lunch | — |
| Session D2 — Machine learning and deep learning 2 chairs | ||
| 13:30 | Neural Networks | Sixin Zhang Toulouse confirmed |
| 14:00 | Authoring tools (multimodal) coupled with AI agents | Mohamed Ez-zaouia Rennes confirmed |
| 14:30 | Optimization in machine learning — title to be announced | Nguyen Kim Thang Grenoble |
| 15:00 | Coffee break | — |
| 15:15 | Graph neural networks, multi-level domain decomposition, distributed AI training, AdaGrad for GNNs | Julien Herrmann Toulouse confirmed |
| 15:45 | Reinforcement learning — title to be announced | Đoàn Nhật Quang USTH |
| 16:15 | Few-shot learning — title to be announced | Trần Hoàng Tùng USTH |
| 19:00 | Gala dinner | — |
Day 5 — Thursday, November 19
Applications, then departure.
| Time | Talk | Speaker |
|---|---|---|
| Session E — Applications of interdisciplinary data science 2 chairs | ||
| 9:00 | Genomics and Bioinformatics | Dominique Lavenier CNRS Rennes confirmed |
| 9:30 | Bioinformatics — title to be announced | Nguyễn Thị Phương Thảo IOIT |
| 10:00 | Coffee break | — |
| 10:30 | Title to be announced | Pascal Bourdon Poitiers |
| 11:00 | Title to be announced | Nguyễn Hoàng Hà USTH |
| 11:30 | Title to be announced | Hoàng Đỗ Thanh Tùng IOIT |
| 12:00 | End of session — lunch | — |
| 15:00 | Departure | — |
Optional — Ha Long Bay
Two days and one night, for participants who want to stay on after the closing session.
| Item | Details |
|---|---|
| Duration | 2 days, 1 night |
| Departure | To be announced |
| Cost and booking | To be announced |
Participants should indicate their interest when registering so the organizers can size the booking.