Agenda
August 6, 2024

8.15am Introductions and Welcome
In Johnson Great Room

Shashank Priya, Vice President for Research, University of Minnesota
Christopher Yang, National Science Foundation
Vipin Kumar, Aidong Zhang, Workshop Organizers

Vipin Kumar's Opening Remarks (video)

8.30am Review of 2023 Workshop Report and Motivation for this Workshop

9.00-10.30am Lightning Talks: How is Generative AI being used in Scientific Disciplines?

9.00-9.40am Group 1: Aidong Zhang, Jiawei Han, Anuj Karpatne, Haifeng Xu
Session Chair: Paul Hanson
Scribe: Aryan Deshwal

9.40-9.50am BREAK

9.50-10.30am Group 2: Sanjay Ranka, Nitesh Chawla, Yan Liu, Michael Mahoney
Session Chair: Aidong Zhang
Scribe: Wei Ding

10.30-10.45am BREAK

10.45am-noon Panel: What is missing in the current state of generative AI to meet  the needs of scientific problems?

Moderator: Nitesh Chawla
Scribes: Anuj Karpatne, Xiaowei Jia
Panelists: Jennifer Dy, Vandana Janeja, Arindam Banerjee, Aryan Deshwal, Wei Ding, Tanya Berger-Wolf

12.00-1.00pm LUNCH
In University Hall

1.00-2.30pm Lightning Talks: What new opportunities in science can be enabled by advances in Generative AI? 

1.00-1.40pm Group 1: Wei Wang, Madhav Marathe, Ananth Grama, David John Gagne
Session Chair: Wei Ding
Scribe: Anuj Karpatne

1.40-1.50 pm BREAK

1.50-2.20pm Group 2: Shuiwang Ji, Ellad Tadmor, Xiaowei Jia
Session Chair: Ananth Grama
Scribe: Aryan Deshwal

2.20-2.35pm BREAK

2.35-4.15pm Panel 2: Next Steps: How to build the next generation ecosystem for Generative AI innovations that is driven by the needs of the scientific community?

Moderator: Tanya Berger-Wolf
Scribes: Wei Ding, Xiaowei Jia
Panelists: Raju Namburu, Chid Apte, Valerie Taylor, David John Gagne, Paul Hanson, Shashi Shekhar

4.15-4.30pm Concluding remarks and plans for completing the report