Day 1
Breakfast 8:15am-9:10am
2nd floor Promenade (outside of IDA)
9:10 - 9:20am
Marilyn Simons (Simons Foundation)
10:00 - 10:30am
Sanjeev Arora (Princeton)
Break 11:00 - 11:30
12:00 - 12:30pm
Lunch + coffee 1:00 - 2:00pm
Note : All parallel sessions contain talks each <= 30 mins (including Q&A).
Chairs of parallel sessions will help make sure parallel sessions end on time.
2:00 - 3:30pm
(IDA, Chair: Mike McCabe)
Ryan Adams: Symmetries in AI Models for Materials and Mechanics
Jascha Sohl-Dickstein: Advice for a young investigator in the first and last days of the Anthropocene
Michael Pritchard: Climate in a Bottle
(3rd Floor Classroom 162, Chair: Francois Lanusse )
Rajesh Ranganath: Transforming Causal Inference into Meta-prediction
Alberto Bietti: Some mechanisms in Transformers and their emergence
Akari Asai: Beyond Scaling: Frontiers of Retrieval-Augmented Language Models
Break 3:30 - 4:00
4:00 - 5:00pm
(IDA, Chair: Siavash Golkar)
Zelda Mariat: Developing Multi-scale Foundations Models, for treatments and beyond
Guillermo Sapiro (Princeton): A Wearable-Based Aging Clock Associates with Disease and Behavior
(3rd Floor Classroom 162, Chair: Rudy Morel)
Miles Cranmer: Decoding Physics in Foundation Models: The Interpretability Effort at Polymathic AI
Nathan Kutz: Leveraging Latent Space Structures for Training Physics Based Models
Short Break 5:00 - 5:15pm
5:15 - 6:00pm
Ashvin Chhabra (Moderator), Zelda Mariet, Alex Rives, Davis Treybig & Max Welling
Reception 6-8pm
IDA Promenade
8:00pm
Enjoy NYC at Night!
Day 2
Breakfast 8:15am-9:20am
2nd floor Promenade (outside of IDA)
9:30 -11am
Session Chair: Laure Zanna
10:00 - 10:30am
Break 11:00-11:30am
Lunch 1:00-2:00pm
2pm-2:45pm
Scott Sarlin (moderator), Pushmeet Kohli, Yann LeCun, Eric Schmidt
Break 2:45-3:00pm
Note : All parallel sessions contain talks each <= 30 mins (including Q&A).
Chairs of parallel sessions will help make sure parallel sessions end on time.
3:pm - 4pm
(IDA, chair: Lucas Meyer)
Michael McCabe: Going with the Flow: Scaling Foundation Models for Continuum Dynamics
Adam Brown: LLMs, reasoning, and the future of theoretical physics
(3rd Floor Classroom 162, chair: Sebastian Wagner-Carena)
Aditi Krishnapriyan: The evolving landscape of neural network model design choices and the new era of post-training model distillation methods: navigating speed, accuracy, and scalability trade-offs in the age of (some) large-scale scientific data
Jutta Rogal: Combining Machine Learning and Statistical Mechanics to Accelerate Molecular Simulations
(5th Floor Classroom, chair: Francois Lanusse )
Dana Weinstein: CHIPs for AI and AI for CHIPS
Johann Brehmer: Prompt to perovskite: on the cusp of on-demand material generation
Short Break 4 - 4:15pm
4:15 - 5:00pm
Anastasia Gamick (moderator), Mark Greaves, Tom Kalil, Tom Secunda , David Spergel
Short Break 5 - 5:15pm
5:15 - 6:00pm
Panelists: Camille Fournier (moderator), Peter Battaglia, Ian Fisk, Jonathan Frankle, Aviv Regev
Dinner 6-8pm
11th Floor 162 Fifth Ave. New York
8:00
Enjoy NYC at Night!
Day 3
Breakfast 8:15am-9:15am
2nd floor Promenade (outside of IDA)
9:30-11:30am
Session Chair: Laure Zanna
Break 11:30-12pm
Note : All parallel sessions contain talks each <= 30 mins (including Q&A).
Chairs of parallel sessions will help make sure parallel sessions end on time.
12 - 1pm
(IDA, Chair: Mariel Petee )
Syed Bahauddin Alam: Real-Time Digital Twin-Enabling AI for Energy Systems: Path Towards Foundation Model
Nat Trask: Structure preserving finite element exterior calculus for foundation models
(3rd Floor Classroom 162, Chair: Lucas Meyer)
Johannes Brandstetter: The next wave of scientific breakthroughs is in the latent space
Jeff Schneider: Machine learning for Nuclear Fusion in Tokamaks
Lunch 1:00-2:00pm
2:00 - 3:30
(IDA: Laure Zanna)
Dima Kochkov: Earth System Foundation Models in the AI era
Campbell Watson: Foundation models for Earth and beyond
Chris Bretherton: AI for weather and climate modeling: How do foundation modeling concepts apply?
(3rd Floor Classroom 162: Kyunghyun Cho)
Ksenia Sokolova: Deep learning for precision health
Will Chapman: The Community Research Digital Intelligence Twin Platform
Eric Oermann: How to build Foundation Models for Healthcare
Break 3:30 - 4:00
4:00 - 5:00pm
(IDA, Chair: Francois Lanusse)
Sebastian Wagner-Carena: A Data-Driven Prism: Multi-View Source Separation with Diffusion Model Priors
Kevin Yager: The Future of Autonomous Physical Science
(3rd Floor Classroom 162, Chair: Mariel Petee)
Michael Mahoney: Foundational Methods for Foundation Models for Scientific Machine Learning
Rudy Morel: DISCO: learning to DISCover an evolution Operator from data
Short Break 5:00 - 5:15pm
5:15-6:15pm
Session Chair: Shirley Ho
5:15 - 5:45
Official close