Artificial Intelligence for Science Town Hall Meeting

SPONSORED BY THE U.S. DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
OFFICE OF ADVANCED SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING RESEARCH
Renaissance Washington, DC Downtown Hotel
Washington, DC
October 22-23, 2019

Agenda

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AI for Science Town Hall
Renaissance DC Downtown Hotel, Washington, DC
October 22-23, 2019

Theme: What can we do in AI for Science to Move the Country Forward

Tuesday, October 22, 2019

7:30 a.m.
Registration and Working Continental Breakfast (Ballroom Level Lobby)
8:30 a.m.
Welcome and Introduction (Grand Ballroom North)
Barbara Helland
8:45 a.m.
DOE HQ Opening Remarks (Grand Ballroom North)
Chris Fall (DOE)
9:00 a.m.
Summary from 3 Town Halls [5.27 MB]
Kathy Yelick (LBNL), Rick Stevens (ANL), Jeff Nichols (ORNL)
10:00 a.m.
Break (Ballroom Level Lobby)
10:30 a.m.
How significant will AI be for the energy sector? Quantifying progress and outlining signposts
Claire Curry, Bloomberg New Energy Finance
11:15 a.m.
AI Research Update: What's Going On Around the World, And Our Research Plans For Studying AI for Science [1.25 MB]
Earl Joseph, Hyperion Research
11:45 p.m.
Break for Working Lunch (Ballroom Level Lobby) - Networking and Preparation for Breakout Sessions
1:30 p.m.
Breakout Sessions
  • Machine Learning Foundations and Open Problems (Grand Ballroom North)
    Co-Leads:
    David Womble (ORNL)
    Stefan Wild (ANL)
    Prabhat (LBNL)
  • Facilities Integration and AI Ecosystem (Meeting Room 3)
    Co-Leads:
    Jim Hack (ORNL)
    Mike Papka (ANL)
    Sudip Dosanj (LBNL)
    Inder Monga (LBNL)
  • Earth and Environmental Sciences (Meeting Room 6)
    Co-Leads:)
    Forrest Hoffman (ORNL)
    Rao Kotamarthi (ANL)
    Haruko Wainwright (LBNL)
  • Chemistry, Materials, and Nano Science (Meeting Room 7)
    Co-Leads:
    Cynthia Jenks, (ANL)
    Bert deJong, (LBNL)
  • Engineering and Manufacturing (Meeting Room 8)
    Co-Leads:
    John Turner (ORNL)
    Santanu Chaudhuri (ANL)
    Peter Nugent (LBNL)
  • Nuclear Physics (Meeting Room 9)
    Co-Leads:
    David Dean (ORNL)
    Zein-Eddine Meziani (ANL)
    Brian Quiter (LBNL)
  • Data Life Cycle and Infrastructure (Meeting Room 10)
    Co-Leads:
    Arjun Shankar (ORNL)
    Nicola Ferrier (ANL)
    Wes Bethel (LBNL)
  • Support for AI for Experimental Facilities (Meeting Room 16)
    Co-Leads:
    Ken Herwig (ORNL)
    Doga Gursoy (ANL)
    Peter Zwart (LBNL)
3:15 p.m.
Break(Ballroom Level Lobby)
3:30 p.m.
Startup Innovations in AI Hardware (Grand Ballroom North)
Moderator: Rick Stevens (ANL)
Andy Hock, (Cerebras)
Kunle Olukotun, (SambaNova)
Dale Southard, (Groq)
PANEL
4:30 p.m.
Breakout Summary (Grand Ballroom North)
Valerie Taylor (ANL), Barney Maccabe (ORNL), David Brown (LBNL)
5:00 p.m.
Close-out for the day (Grand Ballroom North)
Barb Helland, DOE
6:00 p.m.
Dinner on your own

Wednesday, October 23, 2019

7:30 a.m.
Registration and Working Continental Breakfast (Ballroom Level Lobby)
8:30 a.m.
Day 2 Welcome (Grand Ballroom North)
Barb Helland, DOE
8:45 a.m.
Breakouts
  • AI for Computer Science (Grand Ballroom North)
    Co-Leads:
    Nagi Rao (ORNL)
    Prasanna Balaprakash (ANL)
    Lavanya Ramakrishnan (LBNL)
  • Biology and Life Sciences (Meeting Room 3)
    Co-Leads:
    Gina Tourassi (ORNL)
    Tom Brettin (ANL)
    Ben Brown (LBNL)
  • High Energy Physics (Meeting Room 6)
    Co-Leads:
    Salman Habib (ANL)
    Paolo Calafiura (LBNL)
  • Smart Energy Infrastructure (Meeting Room 8)
    Co-Leads:
    Teja Kuruganti (ORNL)
    Mihai Anitescu (ANL)
    Tianzhen Hong (LBNL)
  • Software Environments and Software Research (Meeting Room 9)
    Co-Leads:
    Judy Hill (ORNL)
    Rob Ross (ANL)
    Katie Antypas (LBNL)
  • Support for AI at the Edge (Meeting Room 10)
    Co-Leads:
    Steven Young (ORNL)
    Pete Beckman (ANL)
    John Wu (LBNL)
  • Hardware Architectures (Meeting Room 16)
    Co-Leads:
    Jeff Vetter (ORNL)
    Andrew Chien (ANL)
    John Shalf (LBNL)
 
10:15 a.m.
Break (Ballroom Level Lobby)
10:30 a.m.
DOE Headquarters Remarks
Paul Dabbar, DOE
10:45 a.m.
Cross Agency AI Strategies (Grand Ballroom North)
  • Moderator – Lynne Parker (OSTP)
  • DOE – Steve Binkley
  • DOD NSA Research – Adam Cardinal-Stakenas
  • NSF – Erwin Gianchandani
  • NIH – Susan Gregurick
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DOD, DOE, NSF, NIH
11:45 a.m.
Breakout Summary (Grand Ballroom North)
Valerie Taylorr (ANL), Barney Maccabe (ORNL), David Brown (LBNL)
12:15 p.m.
AI "Killer Applications" [3.76 MB] (Grand Ballroom North)
Rick Stevens (ANL), Kathy Yelick (LBNL), Jeff Nichols (ORNL)
1:00 p.m.
Wrap Up (Grand Ballroom North)
Barb Helland, DOE
1:15 p.m.
Working Lunch (Ballroom Level Lobby)
Continue Networking and Coordination of Town Hall Report