Yogyakarta, October 24, 2025 – The Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, Universitas Gadjah Mada (UGM), officially concluded the UGM Workshop Series on Explainable and Sustainable AI 2025 under the theme “Shaping the Future of AI: A New Approach to AI based on Interaction Spaces Theory.” The five-day workshop was held from October 20 to 24, 2025, at Meeting Room 1, 3rd Floor, Department of Mathematics, FMIPA UGM.
Throughout the workshop, participants took part in a series of lectures, in-depth discussions, and collaborative sessions focused on developing foundational theories to build Artificial Intelligence (AI) that is more general, explainable, responsible, and sustainable.
The workshop covered seven main topics:
- Definition of Interaction Space – discussion, exercises, and case studies;
- Clock Functions and Embedding Theorem;
- Fuzzy Logic Based Indicators;
- Review: Mathematical Definition of Complex Systems and Complex Adaptive Systems and their examples;
- Review: Cause–Effect Preserving Functors and Simultaneous Interactions;
- Open Research Project: Introduction to “ARC-AGI”; and
- Open Research Project: Introduction to “Recognize When Two Objects Are Equal or Not.”
In the closing session, the Head of the Department of Mathematics FMIPA UGM, Dr. Nanang Susyanto, S.Si., M.Sc., M.Act.Sc., expressed his appreciation to all participants and speakers for their active engagement throughout the event. He emphasized the importance of continuing fundamental research collaborations in the fields of analysis and AI, and integrating both areas to strengthen scientific development in the future.
“We hope this workshop is not the end, but rather the beginning of a long journey in building interaction spaces for a better future of AI. Let us continue to collaborate, discuss, and advance both fundamental and applied research,” said Dr. Nanang in his closing remarks.
The workshop was organized through collaboration between the Department of Mathematics, Universitas Gadjah Mada, the University of Vienna, and the ASEAN-European Academic University Network (ASEA-UNINET).
With the conclusion of this workshop, it is expected that sustainable cross-institutional research collaborations will continue to grow, fostering new ideas and theoretical foundations for the development of explainable and sustainable AI.
Keywords: Artificial Intelligence, Interaction Spaces Theory
Writer: Shafira Fauzia Untsa
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