Annual Symposia

Scientific Discovery in the Age of AI

Speakers and panelists:

• William Dally, Chief Scientist and Senior Vice President, NVIDIA
• Thomas Mason, Director of Los Alamos National Laboratory and President and CEO of Triad National Security, LLC
• Paul K. Kearns, Director of Argonne National Laboratory
• Rick Stevens, Associate Laboratory Director of Argonne National Laboratory
• Helena Fu, Director of the Office of Critical and Emerging Technologies
• Hani Goodarzi, Associate Professor at the University of California, San Francisco, and Core Investigator at the Arc Institute
• Mario Krenn, Research Group Leader at the Max Planck Institute
• Tanya Das, Director of AI and Energy Technology Policy at the Bipartisan Policy Center
• Surya Ganguli, Professor at Stanford University
• Markus J. Buehler, Professor at MIT
• Heng Ji, Professor of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• Prasanna Balaprakash, Director of AI Programs at Oak Ridge National Laboratory
• Rebecca Willett, Professor at the University of Chicago
• Ian Foster, Director of the Data Science and Learning Division, at Argonne National Laboratory
• Sean Welleck, Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University
• Arvind Ramanathan, Computational Biologist in the Data Science and Learning Division, Argonne National Laboratory & Senior Scientist, University of Chicago Consortium for Advanced Science and Engineering
• Michael Mahoney, Professor of Statistics, UC Berkeley & Leader of the Machine Learning and Analytics Group, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory & Vice President and Director of Big Data Group, International Computer Science Institute
• Michael Chertkov, Professor of Mathematics and Chair of the Graduate Interdisciplinary Program in Applied Mathematics at the University of Arizona
• Lav Varshney, Associate Professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• Qiaozhu Mei, Associate Dean for Research and Innovation and Professor at the University of Michigan
• Todd Allen, Professor and Department Chair of Nuclear Engineering and radiological Sciences at the University of Michigan
• Venkat Viswanathan, Associate Professor of Aerospace Engineering Department at the University of Michigan
• Lu Wang, Associate Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Michigan
• Mosharaf Chowdhury, Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Michigan
• Alex Gorodetsky, Associate Professor of Aerospace Engineering at the University of Michigan

SciFM24 Conference

Scientific Foundation Models

Speakers and panelists:

• Jason Pruet, Director of National Security AI, Los Alamos National Laboratory

• Ian T. Foster, Director of Data Science and Learning Division, Argonne National Laboratory

• Animashree Anandkumar, Bren Professor of Computing and Mathematical Sciences, California Institute of Technology

• John Wei, Ph.D., MBA, Investment Director, Applied Ventures, LLC

• Heng Ji, Professor of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign

• Petros Koumoutsakos, Herbert S. Winokur, Jr. Professor of Computing in Science and Engineering, Harvard University

• Venkat Viswanathan, Associate Professor of Aerospace Engineering, University of Michigan

• Sean Welleck, Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University

• Alvaro Velasquez, Program Manager, DARPA Information Innovation Office (I2O)

• Arvind Ramanathan, Computational Biologist in the Data Science and Learning Division, Argonne National Laboratory & Senior Scientist, University of Chicago Consortium for Advanced Science and Engineering

• Michael Mahoney, Professor of Statistics, UC Berkeley & Leader of the Machine Learning and Analytics Group, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory & Vice President and Director of Big Data Group, International Computer Science Institute

• Payel Das, Research Staff Member and Manager, AI Science, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center

• Jonathan Carter, Associate Laboratory Director, Computing Sciences, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

• Rajesh Swaminathan, Partner, Khosla Ventures

• Jean-Luc Cambier, Director of Research Programs, Office of the Secretary of Defense.

• Alfred Hero, Program Director, Computing and Communication Foundations, National Science Foundation

2019 Symposium

Computational Science: Classical Origins, New Frontiers

Speakers included:

• Marsha Berger, New York University Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences
• Marisa Eisenberg, University of Michigan
• Carla Gomes, Institute for Computational Sustainability
  Cornell University
• Jan Hesthaven, Dean, School of Basic Sciences EPFL, Switzerland
• Necmiye Ozay, University of Michigan
• Stephen Wolfram, Founder and CEO, Wolfram Research, Creator of Mathematica

2018 Symposium

Computation: A Pillar of Science and a Lens to the Future

Speakers included:

• Cynthia Chestek, U-M Biomedical Engineering and EECS
• Alison Marsden, Stanford
• Cleve Moler, MathWorks
• Raju Namburu, Army Research Lab
• Stephen Smith, U-M Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
• Beth Wingate, Exeter

2016 Symposium

MICDE Annual Symposium

Speakers included:

• Irene Qualters, Director, NSF Division of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure
• Linda Petzold, University of California, Santa Barbara
• Mark Taylor, Sandia National Laboratory
• James Sethian, University of California, Berkeley
• Zoltan Cendes, Co-Founder of Ansoft Corp. (now ANSYS), Adjunct Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University