Program

Sunday, April 27, 2025

Arrival

7:30 PM: Welcome Reception & Dinner
Meet in the Reitz Union Lobby (in front of the Chamber conference room, near the grand staircase)

Monday, April 28, 2025

9:00 – 9:20 AM: Opening Remarks

Session 1 (Chair: Greg Stewart)

9:20 – 9:55 AM: David Larbalestier: Beyond High Tc what else do we need?

9:55 – 10:30 AM: Alex Gurevich: High temperature superconductivity hampered by normal state properties

10:30 – 11:00 AM: Coffee Break

11:00 – 11:35 AM: Alexey Kolmogorov: En route to high-Tc ambient-pressure superconductivity

11:35 – 12:10 PM: Roxana Margine: Advances in ab initio modeling of phonon-mediated superconductivity

12:10 – 12:45 PM: James Hamlin: AI Meets the Lab: Experimental Tests of Predicted Superconductors

12:45 – 2:15 PM: Lunch Break

Session 2 (Chair: Benjamin Geisler)

2:15 – 2:50 PM: Tyrel McQueen: Frontiers in AI-enabled Materials Discovery

2:50 – 3:25 PM: Francesco Belli: High Pressure Hydrides: Design Principles and Machine Learning Descriptors for Biased Searches

3:25 – 3:55 PM: Coffee Break

3:55 – 4:30 PM: Michael John Hutcheon: Moving superconductors from hard disks to laboratories: the gap between materials theory and experiment

4:30 – 5:05 PM: Mingda Li: Constraint generative model of quantum materials candidates

5:30 – 7:30 PM: Poster Session and Networking with Refreshments

Tuesday, April 29, 2025

9:15 – 9:20 AM: Recap of Day 1 and Overview of Day 2

Session 3 (Chair: Richard Hennig)

9:20 – 9:55 AM: Chris Wolverton: AI-Accelerated Materials Discovery

9:55 – 10:30 AM: Sasa Dordevic: Searching for New Families of Superconductors with AI

10:30 – 11:00 AM: Coffee Break

11:00 – 11:35 AM: Ben Miller: A Few Generative Models for Crystals

11:35 – 12:10 PM: Maya Martirossyan: Open Materials Generation (OMG) with Stochastic Interpolants

12:10 – 12:30 PM: Pawan Prakash: Guided Diffusion for the Discovery of New Superconductors

12:30 – 12:45 PM: Benjamin Geisler: Discovery of high critical magnetic field superconductors

12:45 – 2:15 PM: Lunch Break

Session 4 (Chair: James Hamlin)

2:15 – 2:50 PM: Pascal Friederich: Machine learning for materials property prediction and inverse materials design

2:50 – 3:25 PM: Kamal Choudhary: AtomGPT for Forward and Inverse Design of Superconductors

3:25 – 3:55 PM: Coffee Break

Session 5 (Chair: Peter Hirschfeld)

3:55 – 4:30 PM: Trupti Mohanty: Generative AI Approaches for Predicting Crystal Structures and Actionable Data Insights

4:30 – 5:05 PM: Jason Gibson: Rethinking the Room-Temperature Moonshot:  AI for Practical Superconductors

5:05 – 6:00 PM: Podium Discussion: Towards Room-Temperature Superconductivity with AI

6:30 – 9:00 PM: Banquet Dinner - Southern Style

Wednesday, April 30, 2025

Departure