Argonne will host the first in a series of AI for Science town hall meetings to be held at U.S Department of Energy (DOE) national laboratories. The Chicago AI for Science meeting is scheduled for Monday July 22, and Tuesday, July 23, 2019, in the Building 240 Conference Center. Registration is required.
The DOE national laboratories are convening four town hall meetings aimed at collecting community input on the opportunities and challenges facing the scientific community in the era of convergence of high-performance computing and artificial intelligence (AI) technologies and the expected integration of large-scale simulation, advanced data analysis, data-driven predictive modeling, theory, and high-throughput experiments.
The town halls will engage the DOE science community in a series of broad and open discussions about opportunities that can be realized by advancing and accelerating the development of AI capabilities specifically for science and science use cases. Participants will discuss application opportunities from the DOE Office of Science as well as selected topics from energy and technology domains, including approaches combining experiments, traditional modeling and simulation, and machine/deep learning, and specifically address those opportunities that involve the DOE science user facilities. In addition to the domain-centered questions, the meetings will convene broad expertise in software, data infrastructure, mathematics and AI foundations research, and hardware and architecture research. An underlying focus of all town halls will be data, including generation, curation, sharing, and acceleration of data-driven models. The town halls will not explicitly address data policy issues, but instead will focus on the scientific technical and computing issues.
Town Hall Outcomes
These town halls will frame the overall opportunities and the research and facilities advancements needed to drive AI-related agendas in alignment with DOE missions. An integrated, consolidated town hall report from the four town halls will be delivered. The report will outline the most compelling problems where AI could have an impact and will outline the requirements needed for research and facilities to realize these opportunities.
Registration
The town halls are open to research staff at universities, national laboratories, and industry. Participants are responsible for their own expenses. Space is limited, registration is required, and will be prioritized across the labs. Do not make any travel arrangements until you have received a confirmation email and have completed all registration steps. To attend an AI for Science town hall, begin by filling out the appropriate registration link found on the event webpage.
Town Hall Information
- Chicago AI for Science Town Hall
Argonne National Laboratory
July 22-23, 2019
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Draft agenda - Oak Ridge AI for Science Town Hall
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Aug. 20-21, 2019
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Draft agenda - Berkeley AI for Science Town Hall
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Sept. 11-12, 2019
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Draft agenda - Washington DC AI for Science Town Hall
Oct. 22-23, 2019
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Draft agenda