2026 Program

Monday, August 24, 2026

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

Tuesday, August 25, 2026

7:00 - 8:30 Breakfast (Ferrantes Bay View Room)
8:30 - 8:40 Opening | Neil Mehta (LBNL/NERSC) |
8:40 - 9:00 Welcome and Overview | Jonathan Carter (LBNL) |
9:00 - 10:00 Science in the Age of AI | Kathy Yelick (LBNL) |
10:00 - 10:30 Morning Break

Session I: AI-for Science methods | Session Chair: Corneel Casert (LBNL/NERSC) |
10:30 - 11:00 Learning and designing large-scale interventions | Jiaqi Zhang (Broad Institute) |
11:00 - 11:30 Multimodal Reasoning models for Science | Sandeep Madireddy (ANL) |
11:30 - 12:00 Has AI taken the Epistemic Turn? | Tirthankar Ghosal (ORNL) |
12:00 - 13:30 Lunch hosted by Dell | Michael Hayden |
13:30 - 15:00 Panel: Integrated Intelligence, Genesis Mission
Moderator: Ana Kupresanin (LBNL)
Panelists: | Earl Lawrence (LANL) | Court Corley (PNNL) | Dana Grisham (SNL)) | Dan Ratner (JLab) | | Brian Spears (LLNL) |
15:00 - 15:10 Special Announcement
15:10 - 15:30 Afternoon Break

Session II: AI-for-Science applications | Session Chair: Wahid Bhimji (LBNL/NERSC) |
15:30 - 16:00 Scaling quantum accuracy from DFT to MLIPs: Progress, Pitfalls, and Prospects | Brandon Wood (Meta) |
16:00 - 16:30 Advances in Machine Learning for Earth System Modeling | Jaideep Pathak (NVIDIA) |
16:30 - 17:00 Early Science and Near-term outlook from Foundation models and Agents in Fundamental Physics | Ben Nachman (SLAC) |
17:00 - 18:30 Poster Reception (Ferrantes Bay View Room)
Dinner on your own

Wednesday, August 26, 2026

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

Session III: DOE engagement - Future technologies | Session Chair: Hai Ah Nam (LBNL/NERSC) |
9:00 - 9:30 Exponential quantum advantage in processing massive classical data | Robert Huang (Oratomic) |
9:30 - 10:00 AI for Science in the open — Perspectives from Berkeley & Project Jupyter | Fernando Perez (UC Berkeley) |
10:00 - 10:30 Morning Break

Session V: Genesis Mission Infrastructure | Session Chair: Jay Srinivasan (SLAC) |
15:30 - 16:00 Accelerating Discovery with the American Science Cloud | Deborah Bard (LBNL/NERSC) |
16:00 - 16:30 Can Genesis be Everything Everywhere All at Once? | Dana Grisham (SNL) |
16:30 - 17:00 Developing a Modern Data Facility for the Genesis Mission | Karlo Berket (LBNL) | Drew Paine (LBNL) |
17:00 - 17:15 Pre-dinner address | Sarah Sheldon (IBM) |
18:15 - 22:15 Dinner at Monterey Bay Aquarium (Details below)
17:45 - 18:15 Buses to Monterey Bay Aquarium (Buses depart every 15 minutes)
18:15 - 20:45 Reception, Strolling Dinner
21:30 - Buses depart Monterey Bay Aquarium (Buses depart every 15 minutes)

Thursday, August 27, 2026

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

Session VI: Future Architectures | Session Chair: Katie Klymko (LBNL/NERSC) |
9:00 - 9:30 Computing with Imperfect Quantum Hardware | Irfan Siddiqi |
9:30 - 10:45 Panel: National Quantum Initiative Research Centers
Moderator: Brian Austin (LBNL/NERSC)
Panelists: | David van Zanten (Fermilab) | Travis Humble (ORNL) | Bert de Jong (LBNL) | Sam Stein (PNNL) | Matthew Otten (UW-Madison) |
10:45 - 11:15 Morning Break
11:15 - 12:30 Panel: Scaling to Utility
Moderator: Tim Proctor (SNL)
Panelists: | Sam Stanwyck (NVIDIA) | Robin Blume-Kohout (SNL) | Jonathan King (Atom Computing) | Aaron Szasz (Google/Quantum) | Sarah Sheldon (IBM Quantum) |
12:30 - 12:35 Closing Remarks
12:35 - 13:30 Lunch (Ferrantes Bay View Room)

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