Program

Rackham Building 4th floor, 915 E Washington St, Ann Arbor, MI
May 28-30, 2025

The SciFM25 Conference program features a stellar lineup of speakers, engaging panel discussions, and workshops aimed at exploring the latest advancements in scientific foundation models in the age of AI.

On the first day, May 28, attendees can participate in a series of workshops and tutorials designed to provide hands-on learning opportunities and facilitate networking.

The following two days, May 29 and 30, will feature keynote addresses, invited talks, and panel discussions with distinguished experts from academia, national labs, policy experts, industry, and venture firms, including Bill Dally, Chief Scientist & SVP, NVIDIA.

Program

9:00am - 9:45am Sean Welleck (CMU): Mathematical Reasoning with LLMs (talk)
9:45am-10:30am Venkat Viswanathan (U Michigan): Building and using Extreme-scale Molecular Foundation Models (talk)
10:30am-10:50am Break
10:50am - 12:20pm Sean Welleck (CMU): Test-Time Scaling for Mathematical Reasoning (tutorial)
12:20pm - 1:20 pm Lunch
1:20-2:50 pm NVIDIA: Generative AI for spatiotemporal physics (workshop)

Building, training and fine-tuning Generative models for Physics
GenAl model for high-resolution regionalization of global weather models
Decomposable multiscale Neural Operators for automotive applications

3:10-4:40 pm NVIDIA: Training and adapting reasoning models for science (tutorial)
4:40-5:30 pm Office hours / Open discussion with experts

Keynote Addresses, Invited Talks & Panel Discussions

8:45 - 9:00 am Karthik Duraisamy (U Michigan): Welcome, plan, spirit for the two days
9:00 - 9:30 am Rick Stevens (Argonne): AI for science, energy & national security
9:30 - 10:15 am Keynote address: Bill Dally (NVIDIA)
10:15 - 10:30 am Break
10:30 - 11:15 am Hani Goodarzi (ARCInstitute / UCSF): Foundation models for Biology across all domains of life
11:15 am - 12:15 pm Panel discussion: National Ecosystem on AI for Science, Energy & Security

Jason Pruet (Los Alamos national Laboratory) Chair
Thomas Mason (Los Alamos National Laboratory)
Paul Kearns (Argonne National Laboratory)
Helena Fu (DOE Office of Critical and Emerging Technologies)
Bill Dally (Chief Scientist & SVP, NVIDIA)

12:15 - 1:45 pm Lunch & Poster competition
1:45 - 3:45pm Session: Science of Foundation Models & Agents

Heng Ji (UIUC)
Michael Mahoney (Berkeley / LBNL)
Rebecca Willett (UC)
Surya Ganguly (Stanford / Andreessen Horowitz)

3:45 - 4:00pm Break
4:00 - 5:00pm Panel discussion: Capabilities & Gaps in Foundational Methods & Algorithms, Directions for Future Research

Rebecca Willett (UChicago)
Michael Mahoney (Berkley)
Sean Welleck (CMU)
Michael Chertkov (ASU)
Surya Ganguly (Stanford / Andreessen Horowitz)
Ian Foster (Argonne)

Keynote Addresses, Invited Talks & Panel Discussions

9:00 - 10:30 am Session : Creativity / Novelty / Emergence

Lav Varshney (UIUC)
Mario Krenn (Max Planck)
James Evans (U Chicago)

10:45 - 11:45 am Panel discussion: Creativity / Novelty / Emergence

Lav Varshney (UIUC)
Mario Krenn (Max Planck)
James Evans (U Chicago)
Surya Ganguli (Stanford / Andreessen Horowitz)
UM AI Lab Representative
Markus Buehler (MIT)

11:45 am - 1:00pm Lunch & Poster competition
1:00pm-1:45pm Markus Buehler (MIT): Agentic Self-Organizing Graph Reasoning for Scientific Discovery

1:45pm- 3:15pm Session:

Prasanna Balaprakash (ORNL)
Ian Foster (Argonne / U. Chicago)
Arvind Ramanathan (Argonne)

3:30pm- 4:00 pm Helena Fu (DoE Office of Critical and Emerging Technologies)
4:00pm- 4:45 pm Panel discussion: AI & Energy Infrastructure & Policy

Rick Stevens (Argonne) Chair
Helena Fu (DoE)
Tanya Das (Director, AI & Energy, Bipartisan Policy Institute)
James Evans (UChicago)
Todd Allen (U Michigan)
Jason Pruet (LANL)

4:45-5:00 pm Poster winners, Passing of the ‘token’ to SciFM’26 Chicago

Program

9:00 am - 9:45 am	Sean Welleck (CMU)	Mathematical Reasoning with LLMs (talk)
9:45 am - 10:30 am	Venkat Viswanathan (U Michigan)	Building and using Extreme-scale Molecular Foundation Models (talk)
10:30 am - 10:50 am	Coffee break
10:50 am - 12:20 pm	Sean Welleck (CMU)	Test-Time Scaling for Mathematical Reasoning (tutorial)
12:20 pm - 1:20 pm	Lunch break
1:20 pm - 2:50 pm	NVIDIA	Training and adapting reasoning models for science (tutorial)
3:10 pm - 4:40 pm	NVIDIA	Generative AI for spatiotemporal physics (workshop) Building, training and fine-tuning Generative models for Physics GenAl model for high-resolution regionalization of global weather models Decomposable multiscale Neural Operators for automotive applications
4:40 pm - 5:30 pm		Office hours / Open discussion with experts

8:45 am - 9:00 am	Karthik Duraisamy (U. Michigan)	Welcome, plan, questions for the two days
9:00 am - 9:30 am	Rick Stevens (Argonne)	AI for Science, Energy & National Security
9:30 am - 10:15 am	Bill Dally (NVIDIA)	Keynote: AI for Science: A NVIDIA perspective
10:15 am - 10:30 am	Coffee break
10:30 am - 11:15 am	Markus Buehler (MIT)	AI That Can Think, Reason and Discover
11:15 am - 12:15 pm	Panel discussion	National Ecosystem on AI for Science, Energy & Security Jason Pruet (LANL) Chair • Representative (OSTP, White House) Thomas Mason (LANL) • Bill Dally (NVIDIA) Paul Kearns (LANL) • Tanya Das (Bipartisan Policy Institute) Helena Fu (DoE - CET) • Representative (Open AI)
12:15 pm - 1:45 pm	Lunch break	Poster presentation
1:45 pm - 3:45 pm	Session	Science of Foundation Models & Agents Heng Ji (UIUC) - AI plays medicinal chemist and material scientist Michael Mahoney (Berkeley / LBNL) - Does scientific computing have anything to offer scientific foundation models Rebecca Willett (U. Chicago) - Learned long-horizon physics emulators
3:45 pm - 4:00 pm	Coffee break
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Panel discussion	Capabilities & Gaps in foundational methods & algorithms, Directions for future research Karthik Duraisamy (U Michigan) Chair • Michael Chertkov (ASU) Rebecca Willett (UChicago) • Ian Foster (Argonne) Michael Mahoney (Berkeley / LBNL) • Sean Welleck (CMU) Surya Ganguly (Stanford / a16z) Markus Buehler (MIT)

9:00 am - 10:30 am	Session	Creativity / Novelty / Emergence Lav Varshney (UIUC) - Scientific Creativity: Limits, Approaching Limits, and Breaking Limits Mario Krenn (Max Planck) - Towards an artificial muse for new ideas in science Surya Ganguly (Stanford / a16z) - Theories of creativity and reasoning in Generative AI
10:30 am - 10:45 am	Coffee break
10:45 am - 11:45 am	Panel discussion	Creativity / Novelty / Emergence Jason Pruet (LANL) Chair • James Evans (U Chicago) Mario Krenn (Max Planck) • Lav Varshney (UIUC) Markus Buehler (MIT) • Lu Wang (U Michigan) To be confirmed Surya Ganguli (Stanford / Andreessen Horowitz)
11:45 am - 1:15 pm	Lunch break	Poster presentations
1:15 pm - 2:00 pm	Hani Goodarzi (ARC Institute / UCSF)	Generative Biology: Reading and Writing the Language of Life (plenary talk)
2:00 pm - 2:30 pm	Prasanna Balaprakash (ORNL)	Advancing scalable and trustworthy foundational models for science at ORNL
2:30 pm - 3:00 pm	Ian Foster (Argonne / UChicago)	Data Fabric to Autonomous Discovery: Middleware that Powers Scientific Foundation Models
3:00 pm - 3:15 pm	Coffee break
3:15 pm - 3:45 pm	Arvind Ramanathan (Argonne)	Automation and Generative AI Accelerated Biotherapeutic Design
3:45 pm - 4:30 pm	Panel discussion	AI + Energy: Funding, Ecosystem & Policy Rick Stevens (ANL) Chair • Tanya Das (Bipartisan Policy Institute) Jason Pruet (LANL) • James Evans (UChicago) Helena Fu (DoE - CET) • Todd Allen (U Michigan) Mosharaf Chowdhury (U Michigan)
4:30 pm - 5:00 pm	Karthik Duraisamy (U. Michigan) & Ian Foster, (Argonne)	Poster winners, Passing of the 'token' to SciFM26 Chicago

9:00 am - 9:45 am: Talk	Sean Welleck (CMU): Mathematical Reasoning with LLMs
9:45 am - 10:30 am: Talk	Venkat Viswanathan (U Michigan): Building and using Extreme-scale Molecular Foundation Models
10:30 am - 10:50 am:	Coffee break
10:50 am - 12:20 pm: Tutorial	Sean Welleck (CMU): Test-Time Scaling for Mathematical Reasoning
12:20 pm - 1:20 pm:	Lunch break
1:20 pm - 2:50 pm: Tutorial	NVIDIA: Training and adapting reasoning models for science
3:10 pm - 4:40 pm: Workshop - NVIDIA: Generative AI for spatiotemporal physics	Building, training and fine-tuning Generative models for Physics / GenAl model for high-resolution regionalization of global weather models / Decomposable multiscale Neural Operators for automotive applications
4:40 pm - 5:30 pm:	Office hours / Open discussion with experts

8:45 am - 9:00 am: Opening remarks	Karthik Duraisamy (U Michigan): Welcome, plan, questions for the two days
9:00 am - 9:30 am: Talk	Rick Stevens (Argonne): AI for Science, Energy & National Security
9:30 am - 10:15 am: Keynote address	Bill Dally (NVDIA): AI For Science: An NVIDIA Perspective
10:15 am - 10:30 am:	Coffee break
10:30 am - 11:15 am: Talk	Markus Buehler (MIT): AI That Can Think, Reason and Discover
11:15 am - 12:15 pm: Panel discussion: National Ecosystem on AI for Science, Energy & Security	Jason Pruet (LANL) Chair / Representative (OSTP, White House) / Thomas Mason (LANL) / Bill Dally (NVIDIA) / Paul Kearns (LANL) / Tanya Das (Bipartisan Policy Institute) / Helena Fu (DoE - CET) / Representative (Open AI)
12:15 pm - 1:45 pm:	Lunch break & Poster presentations
1:45 pm - 3:45 pm: Session on Science of Foundation Models & Agents	Heng Ji (UIUC): AI plays medicinal chemist; Michael Mahoney (Berkeley / LBNL): Does scientific computing have anything to offer scientific foundation models; Rebecca Willett (UChigago): Learned long-horizon physics emulators
3:45 pm - 4:00 pm:	Coffee break
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm: Panel discussion: Capabilities & Gaps in Foundational Methods & Algorithms, Directions for Future Research	Karthik Duraisamy (U Michigan) Chair / Michael Chertkov (ASU) / Rebecca Willett (UChicago) / Sean Welleck (CMU) / Michael Mahoney (Berkeley / LBNL) / Ian Foster (Argonne) / Surya Ganguly (Stanford / Andreessen Horowitz)

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9:00 am - 10:30 am: Session: Creativity / Novelty / Emergence	Lav Varshney (UIUC): Scientific Creativity: Limits, Approaching Limits, and Breaking Limits / Mario Krenn (Max Planck): Towards an artificial muse for new ideas in science / Surya Ganguly (Stanford / a16z) - Theories of creativity and reasoning in Generative AI
10:30 am - 10:45 am:	Coffee break
10:45 am - 11:45 am: Panel discussion: National Ecosystem on AI for Science, Energy & Security	Jason Pruet (LANL) Chair / Mario Krenn (Max Planck) / Markus Buehler (MIT) / Lav Varshney (UIUC) / James Evans (U Chicago) / Surya Ganguli (Stanford / Andreessen Horowitz) / Lu Wang (U Michigan)
11:45 am - 1:15 pm:	Lunch break and Poster presentations
1:15 pm - 2:00 pm: Plenary talk	Hani Goodarzi (ARC Institute / UCSF): Generative Biology: Reading and Writing the Language of Life
2:00 pm - 2:30 pm: Talk	Prasanna Balaprakash (ORNL): Advancing scalable and trustworthy foundational models for science at ORNL
2:30 pm - 3:00 pm: Talk	Ian Foster (Argonne / UChicago): Data Fabric to Autonomous Discovery: Middleware that Powers Scientific Foundation Models
3:00 pm - 3:15 pm:	Coffee break
3:15 pm - 3:45 pm: Talk	Arvind Ramanathan (Argonne)
3:45 pm - 4:30 pm: Panel discussion: AI + Energy: Ecosystem & Policy	Rick Stevens (ANL) Chair / Jason Pruet (LANL) / Todd Allen (U Michigan) / Helena Fu (DoE - CET) / Tanya Das (Bipartisan Policy Institute) / James Evans (UChicago) / Mosharaf Chowdhury (U Michigan)
4:30 pm - 5:00 pm: Conference summary	Poster winners, Passing of the token to SciFM26 Chicago

#SciFM25: Scientific Discovery in the Age of AI

Ann Arbor, MI

May 28-30, 2025

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