Program Agenda
12:00PM — 1:00PM
Lunch, Poster Viewing, Demos, and Research Highlights
1:00PM — 1:15PM
Welcome & Opening Remarks
H. Birali Runesha
Associate Vice President for Research Computing, Director of the Research Computing Center (RCC)
Andrew Ferguson
Professor and Vice Dean for Education and Outreach at the Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering and a Professor of Chemistry at the University of Chicago
1:15PM — 2:00PM
Keynote Address
Computing Futures: Challenges and Opportunities
Daniel A. Reed
Presidential Professor of Computational Science (emeritus) at the University of Utah
2:00PM — 3:00PM
Faculty Lightning Talks
Andrew Ferguson
Professor and Vice Dean for Education and Outreach at the Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering; Professor of Chemistry.
Gentlest ascent dynamics enhanced sampling (GADES)
Wilma Bainbridge
Associate Professor of Psychology
Memory for artwork is predictable by artists and AI
Minglei Zhao
Associate Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
From micrographs to mechanism: leveraging RCC for cryo-EM workflows
Abigail Vieregg
Professor of Physics
Looking for the Highest Energy Astrophysical Neutrinos
Timothy P. Harrison
Professor of Near Eastern Archeology, ISAC Director
Modeling Famine Resilience: Multimodal AI for Climate-Society Dynamics
3:00PM — 3:20PM
Break
3:20PM — 4:10PM
Fireside Chat
Research Reimagined: Discovery in the Age of AI Agents
How AI Is Transforming the Way We Think, Code, Experiment, and Discover
The discussion will explore how increasingly capable AI assistants and agents are reshaping the research process, from developing ideas and analyzing data to designing experiments and accelerating discovery.
David Miller
Professor, Dept. of Physics, Enrico Fermi Institute, and the College.
Greg Shakhnarovich
Professor, Toyota Technological Institute; Professor Part-Time, Dept. of Computer Science.
4:10PM — 4:25PM
Closing Remarks & Awards
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