*More details will be added to the schedule as they become available.*
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Schedule for Tuesday, September 2
| Time (CT) | Session | Location |
|---|---|---|
| 8:00–9:30 a.m. | Breakfast and registration (for tutorial participants and volunteers) | Reception/lobby |
| 9:30–10:30 a.m. | Tutorials (presented by Sam Foreman and Sandeep Madireddy from Argonne National Laboratory) —“Scientific AI at Scale: Architectures and Distributed Training”—AI for science is accelerating as a data-and-model revolution takes hold, with advances in deep learning and foundation models showing that scale unlocks discovery, while translating those gains into scientific value still requires domain-specific design and customization. This tutorial will survey the major modeling architectures and learning approaches used for scientific datasets and tasks, and cover scalable training strategies, including data, model, and pipeline parallelism and distributed I/O, enabling efficient training on leadership-class systems at the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility (ALCF). | SkAI Main Conference Room |
| 10:30–11:00 a.m. | Coffee break & poster set up | |
| 11:00 a.m.–12:00 p.m. | Tutorials—“Scientific AI at Scale: Architectures and Distributed Training” (cont.) | SkAI Main Conference Room |
| 12:00–1:00 p.m. | Lunch (for tutorial participants) | Kitchen-dining area |
| 1:00–1:30 p.m. | Opening • Vicky Kalogera, Northwestern University—Welcome and introduction • Elise Ahn, Northwestern University—Welcome and housecleaning • R. Chris Smith, Interim Division Director, NSF—Opening remarks • Alex Ji, The University of Chicago—Introduction of glossary | Auditorium and Zoom |
| 1:30–2:30 p.m. | Plenary 1—Session chair: Gautham Narayan, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign • Federica Bianco, University of Delaware—“Do Androids Dream of Exploding Stars?” | Auditorium and Zoom |
| 2:30–3:00 p.m. | Poster lightning talks | Auditorium and Zoom |
| 3:00–4:00 p.m. | Coffee break @ posters | SkAI Hub area |
| 4:00–5:20 p.m. | Inference and uncertainty quantification for large and complex data 1—Session chair: Emma Alexander, Northwestern University • Ved Shah, Northwestern University—“ORACLE: A Real-Time, Hierarchical, Deep-Learning Photometric Classifier for the LSST” • Hyosun Park, Yonsei University—“Transformer-based Reduction of PSF Effect and Correlated Noise for Precision Dark Matter Mapping” • Georgios Valogiannis, The University of Chicago—“Saturating Cosmological Information with AI: Field-Level Inference and Beyond” • Shubhendu Trivedi, Fermilab—“Conformal Hierarchical Simulation-based Inference with Local Validity” • Patricia Iglesias-Navarro, Institute of Astrophysics of the Canary Islands—“Simulation-based inference of galaxy properties from JWST pixels” | Auditorium and Zoom |
| 5:20–5:30 p.m. | Day 1 wrap-up: Introduction to the SkAI community Exploration of Emerging Research (SEER) program, Astro-AI glossary, community norms | Auditorium and Zoom |
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