Schedule

Friday, September 12, 2025

Location: Room CUC-MPW, Cohon University Center (opens in a new tab)

• 10:00 - 10:15: Opening
• 10:15 - 11:00: Invited Talk - Chenglei Si (Stanford)
• 11:00 - 11:45: Invited Talk - Gabe Gomes (CMU)
• 11:45 - 13:00: Lunch + Poster Session
• 13:00 - 13:45: Invited Talk - Akari Asai (CMU)
• 13:45 - 14:30: Invited Talk - Keyon Vafa (Harvard)
• 14:30 - 16:30: Breakout Sessions:
  • Discussion: Autonomous Systems for Science (3:00-4:00pm)
  • Discussion: Building Scientific Foundation Models
  • Hands-on: CMU Cloud Lab Visit (3:00-4:00pm)
  • Discussion: Panel on Biomedical Discovery (3:30-4:30pm, Room CUC Dowd)
• 16:30 - 17:00: Group Discussion and Closing

Breakout Session Details

Hands-on: CMU Cloud Lab Visit

Time: Friday, September 12, 3:00-4:00pm (15:00-16:00)
Meeting Location: Cloud Lab Parking Lot (opens in a new tab) at 3:00pm
Transportation: Please share an Uber/Lyft to arrive on time

Join us for a tour of CMU's Cloud Lab - an academic cloud laboratory for remote science research. Learn more about this facility: CMU Cloud Lab Article (opens in a new tab)

Discussion: Panel on Biomedical Discovery

Topic: "How would Generative AI and Automatic Agents accelerate Biomedical Discovery?"
Time: Friday, September 12, 3:30-4:30pm (15:30-16:30)
Location: CUC Dowd Room
Panelists:

• Lei Li
• Martin Zhang
• TBD other panelists