2025 PROGRAM

Monday, August 18, 2025

19:00 - 21:00 Welcome Reception (Ferrantes Bay View Room)

Tuesday, August 19, 2025

7:30 - 8:30 Breakfast (Ferrantes Bay View Room)
Opening | Neil Mehta (LBNL) |
8:30 - 9:00 Introduction & Welcome | Jonathan Carter (LBNL) | Sudip Dosanjh (LBNL) |
9:00 - 9:30 The Edge of Tomorrow: Real-time AI for Science | Nhan Tran, (FNAL) |
9:30 - 10:00 The Frontier of Frontier Models for Frontier Science | Daniel Freeman (Anthropic) |
10:00 - 10:30 Morning Break

Session 1: Robust AI at Scale | Session Chair: Ana Kupresanin (LBNL) |
10:30 - 11:00 From Data to Discovery: Building Reliable Foundation Models for Science | Bhavya Kailkhura (LLNL) |
11:00 - 11:30 Efficient AI at Scale: Perspectives from LLMs and Beyond | Yue Dong (UC Riverside) |
11:30 - 12:00 Using AI to Unlock Unprecedented Scales in Computational Chemistry | Ray Gao (Meta, FAIR Chemistry) |
12:00 - 13:30 Lunch hosted by IBM
13:30 - 15:00 Panel: Integrated Intelligence: Lab-Industry Partnerships that Fuse Data, AI & HPC for Scientific Discovery
Moderator: Steven Farrell
Speakers: | Andy Hock (Cerebras) | Steve Boesel (Google Cloud) | Daniel Caroll (Dell) | Rangan Sukumar (HPE) | Murali Emani (ANL) | Wahid Bhimji (LBNL) |
15:00 - 15:30 Afternoon Break

Session 2: Facility / AI Integration | Session Chair: Goran Konjevod (LLNL) |
15:30 - 16:00 From Reactive Debugging to Proactive Detection: ML for Performance-Aware Software Development | Tanzima Islam (Texas State University) |
16:00 - 16:30 TBD | Fred Poitevin (SLAC) |
16:30 - 17:00 Poster presenter lightening round
16:30 - 18:00 Poster Reception (Ferrantes Bay View Room)

Wednesday, August 20, 2025

7:30 - 8:30 Breakfast (Ferrantes Bay View Room)

Session 3: HPC innovations and challenges | Session Chair: Sudip Dosanjh (LBNL) |
9:00 - 9:30 Collaborative Crystallography | Petrus Zwart (LBNL) |
9:30 - 10:00 TBD | Surya Ganguli (Stanford) |
10:00 - 10:30 Morning Break
10:30 - 12:00 Panel: Future HPC systems and challenges in the changing landscape
Moderator: Lavanya Ramakrishnan (LBNL)
Speakers: | Jim Lujan (LANL) | Hai Ah Nam (LBNL/NERSC) | Jini Ramprakash (ANL) | Matt Sieger (ORNL) | Dan Stanzione (TACC) |
12:00 - 13:30 Lunch hosted by Dell Technologies | Matt Walker (Dell) | (Ferrantes Bay View Room)

Session 4: Workflow orchestration through Integrated Research Infrastructure | Session Chair: Debbie Bard (LBNL) |
13:30 - 14:00 Ships, Satellites, and Supercomputers: Integrating Resources for IceCube in the Age of AI | Benedict Riedel (WIPAC), (University of Wisconsin–Madison) |
14:00 - 14:30 Next-Gen Ecology: Generating AI-Ready Data Across a Continental Scale Observatory | Christine Laney (NEON) |
14:30 - 15:00 Accelerating Access to Advanced Energy Resources – Authoritative Data & AI Solutions To Unlock Innovation | Kelly Rose (NETL) |
15:00 - 15:30 Afternoon Break
15:30 - 17:00 Panel: The Future of Computing and Data Systems in an Integrated Ecosystem
Moderator: Jay Srinivasan (SLAC)
Speakers: | Bob Ciotti (CTG Federal/WEKA) | Austin Ellis (AMD) | Al Ford (SuperMicro) | Chris George (Intel) | Gustav Horn (NetApp) |
17:00 - 17:15 Pre-dinner address by HPE
18:15 - 22:15 Dinner at Monterey Bay Aquarium hosted by HPE

Thursday, August 21, 2025 - THEME: Future Architectures

7:30 - 8:30 Breakfast (Ferrantes Bay View Room)

Session 5: Scaling research with Quantum Computing | Session Chair: Jonathan Carter (LBNL) |
9:00 - 9:30 TBD | Jerry Chow (IBM Quantum) |
9:30 - 10:00 When the qubits are ready, will the national labs be? | Andrew Baczewski (SNL) |
10:00 - 10:30 Morning Break
10:30 - 12:00 Panel: Building the Quantum Future: Industry Perspectives on Scalable Hardware
Moderator: Katherine Klymko (LBNL/NERSC)
Speakers: | Reza Nejabati (Cisco Quantum Research) | Nate Gemelke (QuEra) | Jenni Strabley (Quantinuum) | Jerry Chow (IBM) | Pete Shadbolt (PsiQuantum) |
12:00 - 13:30 Lunch (Ferrantes Bay View Room)

Session 6: Quantum-in-the-loop | Session Chair: Hai Ah Nam (LBNL) |
13:30 - 14:00 TBD | Sam Stanwyck (Nvidia) |
14:00 - 14:30 Elucidating the Reactive Molecular Dynamics of ATP hydrolysis with Near-term Quantum Computing and Machine Learning | Grant Rotskoff (Stanford University) |
14:30 - 15:00 Machine Learning for Quantum Control | Murphy Niu (Google Quantum AI team) |
15:00 - 15:30 Afternoon Break
15:30 - 17:00 Panel: Integrating quantum computing and HPC
Moderator: Johannes Blaschke (LBNL, NERSC)
Speakers: Jin Sung Kim (NVIDIA) | Ang Li (PNNL) | Norm Tubman (NASA) | Amir Shehata (ORNL) | Ermal Rrapaj (LBNL, NERSC) |
17:00 - Adjourn