2025 PROGRAM

Monday, August 18, 2025

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

Tuesday, August 19, 2025

7:00 - 8:30 Breakfast (Ferrantes Bay View Room)
Opening | Neil Mehta (LBNL/NERSC) |
8:30 - 9:00 Introduction & Welcome (San Carlos Ballroom III) | Jonathan Carter (LBNL) | Sudip Dosanjh (LBNL/NERSC) |
9:00 - 9:30 The Edge of Tomorrow: Real-time AI for Science | Nhan Tran (FNAL) |
9:30 - 10:00 From Reactive Debugging to Proactive Detection: ML for Performance-Aware Software Development | Tanzima Islam (Texas State University) |
10:00 - 10:30 Morning Break

Session 1: Robust AI at Scale (San Carlos Ballroom III) | Session Chair: Ana Kupresanin (LBNL) |
10:30 - 11:00 Toward Scientific Superintelligence: Designing Physics-Grounded AI That Thinks, Discovers, and Doubts | 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 | Mohamed Ahmed | (Ferrantes Bay View Room)
13:30 - 15:00 Panel: Integrated Intelligence: Lab-Industry Partnerships that Fuse Data, AI & HPC for Scientific Discovery (San Carlos Ballroom III)
Moderator: Steven Farrell (LBNL/NERSC)
Speakers: | Andy Hock (Cerebras) | Steve Boesel (Google Cloud) | Daniel Caroll (Dell) | Paolo Faraboschi (HPE) |
| Wahid Bhimji (LBNL/NERSC) | Rajeev Thakur (ANL) | Feiyi Wang (ORNL) |
15:00 - 15:30 Afternoon Break

Session 2: Facility / AI Integration (San Carlos Ballroom III) | Session Chair: Goran Konjevod (LLNL) |
15:30 - 16:00 Building a Data Platform for Materials | Aaron Kaplan (LBNL) |
16:00 - 16:30 LCLS Data Deluge – recent stories and future plans | Fred Poitevin (SLAC) |
16:30 - 17:00 Poster presenter lightning round
17:00 - 18:30 Poster Reception (Ferrantes Bay View Room)

Wednesday, August 20, 2025

7:30 - 9:00 Breakfast (Ferrantes Bay View Room)

Session 3: HPC Innovations and Challenges (San Carlos Ballroom III) | Session Chair: Sudip Dosanjh (LBNL/NERSC) |
9:00 - 9:30 Collaborative Crystallography | Petrus Zwart (LBNL) |
9:30 - 10:00 From AI for Science to Science of AI and Back | 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) | Mike Papka (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 (San Carlos Ballroom III) | Session Chair: Debbie Bard (LBNL/NERSC) |
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) | Al Ford (SuperMicro) | Austin Ellis (AMD) | Pradeep Dubey (Intel) | Gustav Horn (NetApp) |
17:00 - 17:15 Pre-dinner address by HPE | Suresh Babu (HPE) |
17:45 - Buses to Monterey Bay Aquarium
18:15 - 22:15 Dinner at Monterey Bay Aquarium hosted by HPE

Thursday, August 21, 2025 - THEME: Future Architectures

7:30 - 9:00 Breakfast (Ferrantes Bay View Room)

Session 5: Scaling research with Quantum Computing (San Carlos Ballroom III) | Session Chair: Jonathan Carter (LBNL) |
9:00 - 9:30 Quantum-centric Supercomputing: Scaling for the Future | 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) | Stefan Ostermann (QuEra) | Jenni Strabley (Quantinuum) | Jerry Chow (IBM) | Mercedes Gimeno-Segovia (PsiQuantum) |
12:00 - 13:30 Lunch (Ferrantes Bay View Room)

Session 6: Quantum-in-the-loop (San Carlos Ballroom III) | Session Chair: Hai Ah Nam (LBNL/NERSC) |
13:30 - 14:00 Software and Systems for Quantum Accelerated Supercomputing | 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