Seminars 2026

The CERN STEAM Academy Seminar Series brings together speakers from academia, research institutes, and industry to discuss current challenges and emerging developments in scientific computing, software, data science, and related fields. Here you can find available all the recordings of the 2026 seminar speakers.

Networking for AI

Frontier of Intelligence

Prof. Bjarne Stroustrup

Columbia University

21st Century C++

Prof. Maciej Besta

ETH Zurich

Towards Effective and Efficient Reasoning Language Models

Prof. Tolga Birdal

Imperial College London

Topological Deep Learning for the Next Generation of AI4Science

Code, Culture, and the Commons: Sustaining the Substrate of Scientific Computing

Diffusion Models for image and video generation

The Secrets to Training World-Class LLMs