Reinforcement Learning Summer School

June 3rd β€” 12th 2026, Milan

Week 1

03/6
WEDNESDAY
04/6
THURSDAY
05/6
FRIDAY
8:00-8:30 AM Registration
πŸ“Aula Emilio Gatti
8:30-9:00 AM Opening Remarks
πŸ“Aula Emilio Gatti
9:00-10:30 AM MDPs & Dynamic Programming
Leif Döring
πŸ“Aula Emilio Gatti
Basics of RL II
Vincent François-Lavet
πŸ“Aula Emilio Gatti
Policy Gradient
Semih Cayci
πŸ“Aula Emilio Gatti
10:30-11:00 AM Coffee break
πŸ“Spiazzo Ala Nuova
11:00-12:30 PM Basics of RL I
Shie Mannor
πŸ“Aula Emilio Gatti
Function Approximation
Vincent François-Lavet
πŸ“Aula Emilio Gatti
Deep RL
Matteo Hessel
πŸ“Aula Emilio Gatti
12:30-2:00 PM Lunch break
πŸ“Spiazzo Ala Nuova
2:00-3:30 PM Basics of RL I
RLSS Staff
πŸ“Aula Emilio Gatti
MCTS
Slides
Emmanuel Esposito,
Gianmarco Genalti

πŸ“Aula Emilio Gatti
Basics of RL II
RLSS Staff
πŸ“Aula Emilio Gatti
3:30-5:00 PM Poster session
πŸ“Trifoglio
Poster session
πŸ“Trifoglio
5:00-7:00 PM Welcome reception
πŸ“Spiazzo Ala Nuova

Week 2

08/6
MONDAY
09/6
TUESDAY
10/6
WEDNESDAY
11/6
THURSDAY
12/6
FRIDAY
9:00-10:30 AM Stochastic Bandits
Tor Lattimore
πŸ“Aula 3.0.3
Contextual Bandits
Claire Vernade
πŸ“Aula 3.0.3
Multi-agent RL
Giorgia Ramponi
πŸ“Aula 3.0.3
RL & LLMs
Michal Valko
πŸ“Aula 3.0.3
RL for Health
Kelly Zhang
πŸ“Aula 3.0.3
10:30-11:00 AM Coffee break
πŸ“Porticato 3.0.3
11:00-12:30 PM Adversarial Bandits
NicolΓ² Cesa-Bianchi
πŸ“Aula 3.0.3
Performance Difference Lemma and PO Methods
Gergely Neu
πŸ“Aula 3.0.3
Meta RL
Aviv Tamar
πŸ“Aula 3.0.3
Real-world RL
Marcello Restelli
πŸ“Aula 3.0.3
Robotics
Georgia Chalvatzaki
πŸ“Aula 3.0.3
12:30-2:00 PM Lunch break
πŸ“Porticato 3.0.3
2:00-3:30 PM Bandits
Emmanuel Esposito,
Gianmarco Genalti

πŸ“Aula 3.0.3
Deep RL I
Antonin Raffin
πŸ“Aula 3.0.3
Deep RL II
Antonin Raffin
πŸ“Aula 3.0.3
World models
Michal Valko
πŸ“Aula 3.0.3
Final quiz
πŸ“Aula 3.0.3
3:30-5:00 PM Free time and networking Closing ceremony
πŸ“Aula 3.0.3
5:00-7:00 PM Closing reception
πŸ“Aula 3.0.3

Legend:Β  LecturesPractical sessionPoster sessionFinal quiz


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