Hosted at the John Hancock Center from June 22–June 26, the goal of the program is to introduce a new generation of diverse, interdisciplinary graduate students and postdocs to the emerging field of AI+Science. We also hope this program can build community across institutions and spur new research directions focused on AI-enabled scientific discovery across the physical and biological sciences.

The program is organized by the Eric and Wendy Schmidt AI in Science Fellowship program at the University of Chicago and the University of Chicago Data Science Institute. The AI + Science Summer School is co-hosted by the National Institute for Theory and Mathematics in Biology (NITMB) and SkAI Institute at the John Hancock Center in downtown Chicago. Applications are due April 22. 

View tentative agenda here.

Date & Location

  • June 22–June 26, 2026
  • John Hancock Center
  • 172 E Chestnut St, Chicago, Illinois

Apply to the 2026 AI + Science Summer School here

Contact Information:  Victoria Flores (vflores@uchicago.edu)

 

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Speakers

Jonathan Weare

Pritzker AI+Science Visiting Scholar

Bingqing Cheng

Assistant Professor, UC, Berkeley

Greg Shakhnarovich

Professor, Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago

Earl Bellinger

Assistant Professor of Astronomy, Yale University

Francisco Villaescusa-Navarro

Research Scientist of Cosmology, Simons Foundation; Visiting Research Scholar at Princeton University

Ramon Nogueira

Assistant Professor in Theoretical and Computational Neuroscience, University of Chicago

Philippe Rigollet

Professor of Mathematics, MIT

Emma Alexander

Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Electrical and Computer Engineering, Northwestern University

Rose Cersonsky

Assistant Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Niall Mangan

Assistant Professor of Engineering Sciences and Applied Mathematics, Northwestern University
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