Thursday, March 30th
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Agenda
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9:00 am - 11:30 am: Chemistry and Materials
9:00 am: “Learning Mechanisms of Rare Events”
Aaron Dinner, Professor in the Dept. of Chemistry, James Franck Institute, and Institute for Biophysical Dynamics and Deputy Dean of Academic Affairs of the Physical Sciences Division at the University of Chicago
9:45 am: “Machine Learning for Molecules and Brains”
Max Welling, Distinguished Scientist, Microsoft Research AI4Science
10:30 am: BREAK
10:45 am: “Machine Learning-Guided Directed Evolution of Functional Proteins”
Andy Ferguson, Associate Professor of Molecular Engineering and Vice Dean of Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion in the Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering at the University of Chicago
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11:30 am - 1245 pm: A Vision of AI and Science
11:30 am: Rebecca Willett, Faculty Director of AI, Data Science Institute; Professor, Statistics, Computer Science, and the College
12:15 pm: A fireside chat with Eric Schmidt, Co-Founder, Schmidt Futures; Former CEO and Chairman, Google, hosted by David Miller, Associate Professor, in the Dept. of Physics, Enrico Fermi Institute, and the College at University of Chicago
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12:45 pm - 1:00 pm: Closing Remarks
Angela Olinto, Dean, Physical Sciences Division; Albert A. Michelson Distinguished Service Professor, Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics; Enrico Fermi Institute
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9:00 am - 11:30 am: Chemistry and Materials