Camp Info

The South Carolina AI4Science Summer Camp is meant to introduce students to AI and scientific discovery with the help of lectures, tutorials, and most importantly hands-on activities. The objective is to actively engage and inspire the students. Students should come in with some Python programming experience, curiosity, and enthusiasm to learn!

This AI4Science summer camp is made possible by the sponsorship of College of Engineering and Computing and College of Arts and Sciences of University of South Carolina (USC) and by our commitment to broad impact efforts as encouraged by the National Science Foundation Major Research Instrumentation (MRI) Program under Award 2320292, "Track 2 Acquisition of a High-Performance Computing Cluster for Boosting Artificial Intelligence Enabled Science, Engineering, and Education in South Carolina"

Camp Director:  Prof. Jianjun Hu, Prof. Ming Hu

Camp Coordinator: Nicholas Miklaucic

Program staff: 

• Krystal Dubose

Graduate students:

• Nicholas Miklaucic

• Lai Wei

• Qinyang Li

• Rongzhi Dong

AI4Science Camp details:

1. Lectures by USC faculty on AI, scientific computing, materials discovery, and high-performance computing

2. Coding training in Python by instructors, using popular machine learning frameworks

3. Exercises supervised/mentored by graduate student TAs

4. Hands-on demos of substantial AI applications developed at USC
   
   

Program Summary:

• In-person classes location:
  M. Bert Storey Innovation Center Room 1400 (First Floor)
  University of South Carolina
  550 Assembly St
  Columbia, SC 29201

• July 21 (USC):
  Arrival time: 9 AM
  Departure time: 4 PM

• July 22–July 31 (At home on Zoom):
  Start time: 9 AM
  End time: 4 PM

• August 1 (USC):
  Arrival time: 9 AM
  Departure time: 4 PM

• Lunch time: 12–1 PM

• The students completing the camp receive a non-credit certificate.

• For questions, contact ai4sciencescamp@gmail.com