Tuesday, March 28th
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Agenda
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8:45 am - 9:00 am: Welcome Address
Paul Alivisatos, President of the University of Chicago; John D. MacArthur Distinguished Service Professor in the Dept. of Chemistry
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9:00 am - 9:45 am: AI+Science - An Overview of the Field
Rick Stevens, Associate Laboratory Director, Computing, Environment and Life Sciences, Argonne; Professor of Computer Science, University of Chicago
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9:45 am - 11:45 am: Climate Science and AI
9:45 am: “Machine Learning in Climate Modeling: Challenges and Potential”
Gavin Schmidt, Director of Goddard Institute for Space Studies, NASA
10:30 am: BREAK
11:00 am: “Explainable AI for Climate Science: Opening the Black Box to Reveal Planet Earth”
Elizabeth Barnes, Professor of Atmospheric Science at Colorado State University
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11:45 am - 12:30 pm: Biology and AI (Part 1)
11:45 am: “Deep learning for genomic discovery”
Anshul Kundaje, Assistant Professor of Genetics and Computer Science at Stanford University
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12:30 pm - 1:30 pm: Lunch
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1:30 pm - 4:00 pm: Biology and AI (Part 2)
1:30 pm: “Deciphering the immune system using single-cell genomic data”
Samantha Riesenfeld, Assistant Professor in the Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering
2:15 pm: “AI Inspired Neuroscience and Brain-Inspired AI”
David Freedman, Professor Department of Neurobiology and The College, Neuroscience Institute at the University of Chicago
3:00 pm: “How machine learning is changing protein engineering”
Jennifer Listgarten, Professor in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences Dept. at the University of California Berkeley
3:45 pm: BREAK
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4:00 pm - 4:45 pm: AI Methods in Science and Engineering
“Causal Representation Learning – A Proposal”
Caroline Uhler, Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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5:15 pm - 6:30 pm: Reception and Student Poster Session
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8:45 am - 9:00 am: Welcome Address