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PROGRAM

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

A PDF version of the agenda is available for download.​

A live interactive Q&A session is available at pigeonhole.at/SCIFM25/.

      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​​

             Program

8:30 am - 9:00 am
Karthik Duraisamy (U Michigan)

Opening remarks: Vision for AI-augmented Discovery Engines & Critical Questions for the Conference

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: An NVIDIA Perspective

10:15 am - 10:30 am
Coffee break

Assembly Hall

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 

  • Karthik Duraisamy (U Michicgan) Chair           • Paul Kearns (LANL)    

  • Bill Dally (NVIDIA)                                                       • Helena Fu (DoE - CET) 

  • Thomas Mason (LANL)                                            • Tanya Das (Bipartisan Policy Institute)  

12:15 pm - 1:45 pm
Lunch break

Poster presentation

Lunch at Ingalls Mall

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 to Scientific Foundation Models

  • Rebecca Willett (U Chicago) - Learned Long-horizon Physics Emulators

3:45 pm - 4:00 pm
Coffee break

Assebmly Hall

4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Panel discussion

Capabilities & Gaps in Foundational Methods & Algorithms; Directions for Future Research

  • Alex Gorodetsky (U Michigan) Chair                • Michael Chertkov (U Arizona)

  • Rebecca Willett (U Chicago)                               • Ian Foster (Argonne)

  • Michael Mahoney (Berkeley / LBNL)                • Sean Welleck (CMU) 

  • Surya Ganguly (Stanford / a16z)                        • Markus Buehler (MIT)

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 (Assembly Hall)
10:50 am - 12:20 pm: Tutorial
Sean Welleck (CMU): Test-Time Scaling for Mathematical Reasoning
12:20 pm - 1:20 pm:
Lunch break. Lunch will be at your discretion.
1:20 pm - 2:50 pm: Tutorial
Carmelo Gonzales and Kristopher Keipert, (NVIDIA): Training and adapting reasoning models for science
3:10 pm - 4:40 pm: Workshop
Kaustubh Tangsali (NVIDIA): AI for spatiotemporal physics
4:40 pm - 5:30 pm:
Office hours / Open discussion with experts
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