Past IPMU Conferences

Conference locations

  • July 2024: Lisboa, Portugal
  • July 2022: Milan, Italy
  • July 2020: Lisboa, Portugal (virtual)
  • July 2018: Cadix, Spain
  • July 2016: Eindhoven, The Netherlands
  • July 2014: Montpellier, France
  • July 2012: Catania, Italy
  • July 2010: Dortmund, Germany
  • June 2008: Málaga, Spain
  • July 2006: Paris, France
  • July 2004: Perugia, Italy
  • July 2002: Annecy, France
  • July 2000: Madrid, Spain
  • July 1998: Paris, France
  • July 1996: Granada, Spain
  • July 1994: Paris, France
  • July 1992: Palma de Mallorca, Spain
  • July 1990: Paris, France
  • July 1988: Urbino, Italy
  • July 1986: Paris, France

IPMU Plenary speakers from 1986

  • Janos ACZEL (University of Waterloo, Canada)
  • Kenneth ARROW (Stanford University, USA), Nobel Prize
  • Nadia BERTHOUZE (UCL Interaction Centre, UK)
  • Jim BEZDEK (University of West Florida, Pensacola, USA)
  • Piero BONISSONE (General Electric, USA)
  • Gloria BORDOGNA (IREA CNR, Italy)
  • Ruth BYRNE (Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland)
  • Rita CASADIO (University of Bologna, Italy)
  • Luisa COHEUR (Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisbon, Portugal)
  • Inés COUSO (University of Oviedo, Spain)
  • Keeley CROCKETT (Manchester Metropolitan University, UK)
  • Philip DAWID (University College, London, UK)
  • Kalyanmoy DEB (Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur)
  • Dieter DENNEBERG (Universitat Bremen, Germany)
  • Arthur DEMPSTER (Harvard University, USA)
  • Marcin DETYNIECKI (CNRS, UPMC, France)
  • Antonio DI NOLA (University of Salerno, Italy)
  • Marco DORIGO (Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium)
  • Chris DYER (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)
  • Mário FIGUEIREDO (IT / Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal)
  • Paul M. FRANK (University of Duisburg, Germany)
  • Dov GABBAY (Imperial College, U.K.)
  • Gerd GIGERENZER (Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany)
  • Itzhak GILBOA (Tel-Aviv University and HEC, France)
  • Lluis GODO (IIIA-CSIC, Spain)
  • David GOLDBERG (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champain, USA)
  • Stephen GROSSBERG (Boston University, USA)
  • Thierry Marie GUERRA (Université Polytechnique Hauts-de-France, France)
  • Joseph HALPERN (Cornell University, USA)
  • Enrique HERRERA-VIEDMA (University of Granada, Spain)
  • Cesar A. HIDALGO (University of Toulouse, France and University of Manchester, UK)
  • Marianne HUCHARD (University of Montpellier, France)
  • Richard JEFFREY (Princeton University, USA)
  • Daniel KAHNEMAN (Princeton University, USA) Nobel Prize
  • James M. KELLER (University of Missouri, USA)
  • Walter KINTSCH (University of Colorado at Boulder, USA)
  • Teuvo KOHONEN (Helsinki University of Technology, Finland)
  • George KLIR (Binghampton University, USA)
  • Natalio KRASNOGOR (Newcastle University, U.K.)
  • Henry E. KYBURG (University of Rochester, USA)
  • Steffen L. LAURITZEN (University of Aalborg, Denmark)
  • Vladimir LIFSCHITZ (Stanford University, USA)
  • Guiseppe LONGO (Universita di Trieste, Italy)
  • Ramon LOPEZ DE MANTARAS (CSIC Barcelona, Spain)
  • Melanie MITCHELL (Portland State University, USA)
  • John D. LOWRANCE (SRI International, USA)
  • Christophe MARSALA (Université Pierre et Marie Curie, France)
  • Rudyard MICHALSKI (University of Illinois at Urbana - Champain, USA)
  • Serafín MORAL (Universidad de Granada, Spain)
  • Katharina MORIK (University of Dortmund, Germany)
  • Nikhil R. PAL (Indian Statistical Institute, India)
  • Judea PEARL (University of California at Los Angeles, USA)
  • Gregory PIATETSKY-SHAPIRO (Geneve Consulting Group, USA)
  • Tomaso A. POGGIO (Dept. of Brain & Cognitive Sciences, MIT, USA)
  • Henri PRADE (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, France)
  • Illya PRIGOGINE (Instituts Internationaux de Physique et de Chimie, Belgium), Nobel Prize
  • Dan RALESCU (University of Cincinnati, USA)
  • Armando ROCHA (UNICAMP, Brazil)
  • Enric RUSPINI (SRI International, USA)
  • Stuart RUSSEL (UC Berkeley, USA)
  • Andrew SAGE (George Mason University, USA)
  • Christian de SAINTE MARIE (IBM France Center for Advanced Studies, France)
  • Bernhard SCHÖLKOPF (Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Germany)
  • Björn W. SCHULLER (University of Augsburg, Germany)
  • Berthold SCHWEIZER (University of Massachusetts, USA)
  • Romano SCOZZAFAVA (Universita La Sapienza, Italy)
  • Glenn SHAFER (Rutgers University, USA and Royal Holloway College, University of London, U.K.)
  • John SHAWE-TAYLOR (University of Southampton, U.K.)
  • Prakash SHENOY (University of Kansas, USA)
  • Andrzej SKOWRON (University of Warsaw, Poland)
  • Roman SLOWINSKI (Poznan University, Poland)
  • Philippe SMETS (Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium)
  • David SPIEGELHALTER (Medical Research Council, G.B.)
  • Michio SUGENO (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan)
  • Tomohiro TAKAGI (Meiji University, Japan)
  • Toshiro TERANO (LIFE, Japan)
  • Enric TRILLAS (Madrid University, Spain)
  • Barbara TVERSKY (Stanford University and Columbia Teachers College, USA)
  • Vladimir Naumovich VAPNIK (NEC Laboratories in Princeton, New Jersey, USA; Royal Holloway, University of London, UK; Columbia University, New York, USA)
  • Wolfgang WAHLSTER (German Research Center for AI, DFKI GmbH, Germany)
  • Peter P. WAKKER (Erasmus University, The Netherlands)
  • H.S. WHITE (University of California at San Diego, USA)
  • Michael WOOLDRIDGE (University of Liverpool, U.K.)
  • Yiyu YAO (University of Regina, Canada)
  • Ronald YAGER (Iona College, USA)
  • Tukeshi YAMAKAWA (Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan)
  • Lotfi A. ZADEH (University of California at Berkeley, USA)
  • Hanz J. ZIMMERMANN (RWTH Aachen, Germany)
  • Ingrid ZUKERMAN (Monash University, Australia)