Date
Thursday November 30, 2023 from 10:00 AM to 5:45 PMLocation
Blauwe zaalPhone
+31 40 247 4000Organizer
Eindhoven University of TechnologyCo-organizer
Philips Research and SignifyPrice
freeBuilding
AuditoriumWelcome
Welcome on the event website of Holst Symposium and Holst Memorial Lecture Award 2023.
The Holst Memorial Lecture and Symposium were organized by Philips Research, Signify Research and Eindhoven University of Technology (¹û¶³´«Ã½). The Holst Lecture 2023, the 45th since 1977, was given by Dr. Ian Goodfellow. Ian Goodfellow, a prominent computer scientist and researcher in the field of artificial intelligence (AI), specifically in the subfield of deep learning. He is known for his significant contributions to the development and understanding of generative adversarial networks (GANs), which are a class of AI algorithms used in generating synthetic data, image-to-image translation, and various other applications.

Program
10:00 – 10:30 | Registration |
10:30 – 10:35 | Word of welcome (Symposium) |
10:35 – 10:45 | Introduction to symposium Theme & Program |
10:45 – 11:30 | Jakub Tomczak (incl. 10 minutes Q&A) |
11:30 – 12:15 | Remco Schoenmakers (incl. 10 minutes Q&A) |
12:15 – 14:00 | Lunch Break and Demo's |
14:00 – 14:45 | Cynthia Liem (incl. 10 minutes Q&A) |
14:45 – 15:30 | Panel Discussion |
15:30 – 16:00 | Coffee Break |
16:00 – 16:05 | Word of welcome (Memorial Lecture) and introduction Ian Goodfellow |
16:05 – 17:00 | Holst Memorial Lecture Ian Goodfellow |
17:00 – 17:05 | Award Ceremony |
17:05 – 17:45 | Reception & Drinks |
Holst Symposium: Generative Artificial Intelligence
The Holst Symposium was a live and interactive (networking) event and brought together specialists and students from varied disciplines from both the academic and the business world who were challenged to present their views on future developments of Digital Twinning in their field. The selection of invited speakers was based on topics with the potential to inspire. The Holst symposium consisted of (concise) lectures, presentations, panel discussion and demo’s and were concluded by the Holst Memorial Lecture and an Award Ceremony.
Speakers
Holst Memorial Lecture Day: Unveiling our 19 Demo Speakers
The distinguished lineup of demo speakers for this Holst Memorial Lecture Day was centered around the theme of Generative Artificial Intelligence. All these distinguished experts presented cutting-edge advancements in this transformative field:
Name | Organization | Demo |
Nicola Pezzotti | Philips |
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Kateryna Tymoshenko / Martijn Krans / | Philips | Extracting medical information from clinical notes using Generative AI |
Elwin de Weerdt | Philips | Philips Smartspeed-AI – Increase Speed and Image Quality |
Gennaro Gala | TUE | Probabilistic Integral Circuits |
Loek Tonnaer | TUE | Quantifying and Learning Linear Symmetry-Based Disentanglement |
Koen Minartz | TUE | Equivariant Neural Simulators for Stochastic Spatiotemporal Dynamics |
Marko Petkovic | TUE | Modeling nanoporous materials using deep generative models |
Vlado Menkovski | TUE | Simulation of Nuclear Fusion plasmas with Neural PDE Surrogates |
Tim d'Hondt | TUE | Federated Learning using Bayesian Pseudocoresets |
Kishaan Jeeveswaran | TUE | BiRT: Bio-inspired Replay in Vision Transformers for Continual Learning |
Robin van Hoorn | TUE | Generating Privacy-Preserving Longitudinal Synthetic Data |
Israel Campero Jurado | TUE | An approach of AutoML using LLM and meta-features |
Elahe Arani | TUE | Demo: LINGO-1: Exploring Natural Language for Autonomous Driving |
Pieter de Vreeze | Signify | Copilot for WiZ Customer Service |
Fetze Pijlman | Signify | Generative Models for Systems |
Ralf Schmidt | TUE | Weighted Prompt Engineering: Helpful or Hindering? |
Alvaro Correia | TUE |
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Cristina Nan | TUE |
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Program & Organizing Committee
Mykola Pechenizkiy – Full Professor, Chair Data Mining at ¹û¶³´«Ã½
Milan Petkovic – Head of AI & Data Science R&D Philips & Professor at ¹û¶³´«Ã½, Moderator Panel Discussion Holst Memorial Lecture 2023
Marc de Samber – Research Fellow at Signify, Chairman Holst Memorial Lecture 2023
Kirsten Weijs – Secretary to the Holst Committee, Project Lead Organizing Committee Holst
45th Holst Memorial Lecture Award
The Holst Lecture 2023 was the 45th since 1977.
The nominated Holst Lecturer joins the ranks of eminent scientists and Nobel laureates like Philippe de Gennes, Hendrik Casimir, Ilya Prigogine, Arno Penzias, Nicholas Negroponte, Alan Heeger, J. Craig Venter and Shuji Nakamura.
The first Holst Memorial Lecture was given in 1977 to commemorate the 21st anniversary of ¹û¶³´«Ã½, Eindhoven University of Technology. With support from Philips Research, and (since 2018) Signify, the Holst Lecture became an annual tradition. Candidates for the Award are selected by a committee under the chairmanship of the Rector Magnificus of the ¹û¶³´«Ã½, Head of Research EU Royal Philips and the Head of Research Signify.
Gilles Holst
The general theme chosen for the Holst Memorial Lecture reflects the important contribution of dr. Gilles Holst (1886-1968) to research and technology in the Netherlands:
"The development of applied sciences, particularly mathematics and the natural sciences, for the benefit of industry on the one side and their implications for society on the other."
In his academic career Holst played an essential part in the discovery of superconductivity by Nobel Laureate H. Kamerlingh Onnes, whilst working at the University of Leiden in the Netherlands. However, Gilles Holst will be first and foremost remembered as the founding director of the famous ‘Nat Lab’, the Philips Physics Laboratory in Eindhoven, where he worked between 1914 and 1946. During his lifetime, Gilles Holst was chairman of two committees that were instrumental in the foundation of Eindhoven University of Technology in 1956.
Eindhoven region
The Eindhoven Region, often referred to as Brainport Eindhoven is Europe's leading innovative top technology region and home to Royal Philips, Signify, NXP semiconductors and ASML. Eindhoven University of Technology (¹û¶³´«Ã½) has according to Times Higher ¹û¶³´«Ã½ World University Ranking the highest score for collaboration with industry in the field of academic and scientific research. One of ¹û¶³´«Ã½ distinguished emeriti was Edsger W. Dijkstra, one of the most influential members of computing science's founding generation and Turing Award winner 1972.
