Wednesday January 28th:

📍​ Venue: Tecnun, Universidad de Navarra, Aula Máster Biblioteca

• 16:00 – 19:00 Red COMONSENS Networking sessions
• 18:00 – 19:00 Red COMONSENS Steering meeting

Thursday January 29th:

📍​ Venue: Tecnun, Universidad de Navarra, Aula Máster Biblioteca

• 9:00 – 9:30 Registration and welcome
• 9:30 – 10:30 Talk by Jan Andreas Siminski, ESA 
  
  Title: Space Debris Research Opportunities 
  Abstract: Space debris poses an increasingly critical threat to the sustainability of space operations. The European Space Agency’s Space Debris Office is advancing technologies and models to better understand and mitigate this challenge. Current developments include improved detection techniques for small, untrackable debris, refined modelling of the orbital environment, and predicting the long‑term debris evolution under different mitigation scenarios. Within ESA’s research and development programmes, recurring opportunities are published for industry and academia to contribute with algorithms and software. This presentation will outline upcoming activities with particular emphasis on topics relevant to the signal processing and information theory community.
• 10:30 – 11:00 Break
• 11:00 – 12:30 Talk by Thomas Erikssonfrom Chalmers University of Technology
  
  Title: The effects of hardware impairments in communication and radar.
  Abstract: In this talk, we will discuss various hardware impairments from different perspectives, and how they affect the signal quality in communication and radar applications. We will include nonlinear amplifiers, I/Q imbalance, phase noise, timing jitter in ADCs etc, and we will show how to model them appropriately. Further, we will discuss how to include these effects in theoretical calculations and simulations, to achieve realistic results. Some online demonstrations will be performed as well.

• 13:00 – 15:00 Free time
• 15:00 – 17:00 Poster session
  Poster chair: Jana de Wiljes from Technische Universität Ilmenau

Friday January 30th:

📍​ Venue: Tecnun, Universidad de Navarra, Aula Máster Biblioteca

• 9:30 – 10:30 Talk by Marios Kountouris, EURECOM, France and Universidad de Granada 
  Title: Goal-Oriented Semantic Networking and Other Daemons
  Abstract: In the era of hyperconnected intelligence, two game-changing technologies are converging: goal- oriented semantic networking and decentralized learning. In this talk, we introduce goal-oriented semantic communication, a paradigm shift that redefines data importance, communication effectiveness, and timing through the lens of information semantics. We outline the fundamental concepts, core principles, and key functionalities required to convey only those information representations and features that are timely, relevant, and valuable for achieving end-users’ goals. We further illustrate how intent-driven utility functions can transform resource utilization, decentralized collaborative learning, and the deployment of generative AI systems. Finally, we discuss how these ideas can be integrated and extended toward an information-theoretic framework for agentic AI, grounded in anthropocentric design principles.

• 10:30 – 11:00 Break
• 11:00 – 12:00 Talk by Petar Popovski from Aalborg University, Denmark
  Title: Low-Latency Classical Communications for Quantum Applications and 1Q Wireless Systems
  Abstract: A recent trend in classical communications, especially the wireless part, is on low latency and high reliability, intended to enable emerging applications, such as real-time Digital Twins or tactile interactions over the internet. From the viewpoint of classical communication, quantum information technology can be seen as a set of new applications, since a number of fundamental operations in distributed quantum systems critically depend on classical communication. Examples include quantum teleportation or Quantum Key Distribution (QKD). This talk will present latency and other measures of timeliness and discuss the basic tradeoffs, relating them to the quantum context. In terms of quantum applications, the talk will present joint communication and entanglement distribution and satellite-aided entanglement distribution. The last part of the talk will present the concept of 1Q, the first generation of wireless systems that integrates classical and quantum communications.
  
• 12:00 – 13:30 Talk by Victor Elvira from University of Edinburgh 
  
  Title: State-space models as graphs
  Abstract: Modelling and inference in multivariate time series is central in statistics, signal processing, and machine learning. A fundamental question when analysing multivariate sequences is the search for relationships between their entries (or the modelled hidden states), especially when the inherent structure is a directed (causal) graph. In such context, graphical modelling combined with sparsity constraints allows to limit the proliferation of parameters and enables a compact data representation which is easier to interpret in applications, e.g., in inferring causal relationships of physical processes in a Granger sense. In this talk, we present a novel perspective consisting on state-space models being interpreted as graphs. Then, we propose novel algorithms that exploit this new perspective for the estimation of the linear matrix operator and also the covariance matrix in the state equation of a linear-Gaussian state-space model. Finally, we discuss the extension of this perspective for the estimation of other model parameters in more challenging models.

• 13:30 – 15:00 Free time
• 16:00 – 17:00 Red COMONSENS Networking sessions.

Saturday January 31th

📍​ Venue: Tecnun, Universidad de Navarra, Aula Máster Biblioteca

• 10:00 – 15:00 Red COMONSENS Networking sessions.