Program

WiML Symposium

Wednesday July 16th, 2025

The WiML Symposium 2025 program book is here.

All events are scheduled in local time (PDT). The room location is West Meeting Room 211-214.

The program includes talks, breakout sessions, program breaks, round tables, poster session, and panel discussion (color-coded).

09:30 - 10:00 WiML Symposium Registration

10:00 - 10:15 Introduction & Opening Remarks 

10:15 - 10:35 Talk 1: "Aurora: A foundation model of the Earth system" - Ana Lucic (University of Amsterdam)

10:35 - 10:55 Talk 2: "Using AI to Understand AI" - Sarah Elizabeth Schwettmann (Transluce / MIT)

10:55 - 11:15 Talk 2: "Towards a theory of scaling in deep learning" - Leena Vankadara (UCL) 

11:15 - 11:30 Short Break

11:30 - 12:15 Panel Discussion "Redefining Success: Evolving Careers in AI" - Panel: Amy Zhang (US), Eleni Triantafillou (UK), Sarah Schwettmann (US), Meg Risdal (Google)

Moderator: Serena Booth

12:25 - 12:55 Parallel Breakout Q&A with the Speakers

13:00 - 14:00 Lunch and Mentoring and Sponsors Roundtables