Program 2024

Monday, August 19, 2024

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

Tuesday, August 20, 2024

7:30 - 8:30 Breakfast (Ferrantes Bay View Room)
8:30 - 9:00 Introduction & Welcome | Jonathan Carter (LBNL) | Sudip Dosanjh (LBNL) |

Session 1: Foundation Models 1 | Session Chair: Kristofer Bouchard (LBNL) |
9:00 - 9:30 Polymathic AI: Advancing Science through Multidisciplinary AI | Francois Lanusse (Flatiron Institute) |
9:30 - 10:00 Modern Aspects of Time Series Forecasting | Berni Wang (AWS) |
10:00 - 10:30 Making the Self-Driving "Net" Work: Unlocking the Power of Abundant (Unlabeled) Network Telemetry Data with Network Foundation Models | Arpit Gupta (UCSB) |
10:30 - 11:00 Morning Break

Session 2: Foundation Models 2 | Session Chair: Ben Erichson (LBNL) |
11:00 - 11:30 Midas - Uniting data efforts at Los Almos National Laboratory to create a solid foundation for National Security AI models | Michael Ham (LANL) |
11:30 - 12:00 Towards Scientific AI Foundation Models at NERSC | Shashank Subramanian (LBNL) |
12:00 - 12:30 Foundation Models for Planetary-Scale Science | Aditya Grover (UCLA) |
12:30 - 13:30 Lunch hosted by HPE

Session 3: Panel: Foundation Models for Science | Session Chair: Silvia Crivelli (LBNL) |
13:30 - 14:30 Moderator: Silvia Crivelli (LBNL)
Speakers: Brian Van Essen (LLNL) | Prasanna Balaprakash (ORNL) | Francois Lanusse (Flatiron Institute) | Michael Mahoney (LBNL) | Venkat Vishwanath (ANL) |
14:30 - 15:00 Afternoon Break

Session 4: Science Applications | Session Chair: Jay Srinivasan (SLAC) |
15:00 - 15:30 Improving College Student’s Engagement and Retention Using Artificial Intelligence | Mohamed Abouzahra (CSUMB) |
15:30 - 16:00 Experimental Data Pipelines Over Wide Area Networks | Mario Cromaz (LBNL) |
16:00 - 16:30 Data-Intensive Computing at the Experimental Cosmic Frontier | Adam Bolton (SLAC) |
16:30 - 18:00 Poster Reception (Ferrantes Bay View Room) | Early-career staff and postdocs throughout the DOE labs to present |

Wednesday, August 21, 2024

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

Session 5: National AI Intiatives and Inter-Agency Collaboration | Session Chair: Sudip Dosanjh (LBNL) |
9:00 - 9:45 AI and Data: Making sense of it all | Ana Kupresanin (LBNL) |
9:45 - 10:00 Short Break
10:00 - 10:30 A Perspective from UK National AI Research Resource (AI RR) Deployments and Federation | Sadaf Alam (Univ of Bristol, UK) |
10:30 - 11:00 Morning Break
11:00 - 12:30 Panel: Inter-Agency Collaboration on Research Infrastructure
Moderator: Sudip Dosanjh (LBNL)
Speakers: Sadaf Alam (Univ of Bristol, UK) | Thuc Hoang (NNSA, USA) | Katie Antypas (NSF, USA) | Phil Marshal (SLAC, USA) | Amy Justice (Yale Univ, USA) | Ben Evans (ANU, Australia) |
12:30 - 13:30 Lunch hosted by IBM (Ferrantes Bay View Room)

Session 6: Next Generation Infrastructure for Science | Session Chair: Lavanya Ramakrishnan (LBNL) |
13:30 - 14:00 Beyond Boundaries: Hybrid Computing and the Cloud Frontier | Brian Abrahamson (PNNL) |
14:00 - 14:30 Connecting Science with the Integrated Research Infrastructure | Debbie Bard (LBNL) |
14:30 - 15:00 High Performance Data Facility: Status and Plans | Amber Boehnlein (JLAB) |
15:00 - 15:30 Afternoon Break

Session 7: Panel: Supporting Data in Science | Session Chair: Lavanya Ramakrishnan (LBNL) |
15:30 - 17:00 Moderator: Lavanya Ramakrishnan (LBNL)
Speakers: Dula Parkinson (LBNL) | Salman Habib (ANL) | Giri Prakash (ORNL) | Brian Sammuli (General Atomics) | Markus Diefenthaler (JLAB)
17:00 - 17:15 Pre-dinner Address by Dell Technologies
18:15 - 22:15 Dinner at Monterey Bay Aquarium hosted by Dell Technologies

Thursday, August 22, 2024

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

Session 8: Next Generation of HPC Systems | Session Chair: Neil Mehta (LBNL) |
8:30 - 9:30 Panel: Future of Science-Driven HPC Systems in a Big-AI and Big-Data World
Moderator: Judy Hill (LLNL)
Speakers: Rangan Sukumar (HPE) | Jim Sexton (IBM) | Austin Ellis (AMD) | Geetika Gupta (NVIDIA) | Claudio Desanti (DELL) |
9:30 - 10:30 Panel: Future of Storage Systems
Moderator: Jim Ang (PNNL)
Speakers: Bob Vassar (Weka) | James McKenna (DDN) | Steve Simms (LBNL) | Rob Ross (ANL) |
10:30 - 11:00 Morning Break

Session 9: Disruptive Technologies | Session Chair: Katie Klymko (LBNL) |
11:00 - 11:30 The Role and Challenges of Data in Using Quantum Computers for Machine Learning | Jarrod McClean (Google) |
11:30 - 12:00 Thermodynamic Computing | Gavin Crooks (NORMAL Computing) |
12:00 - 13:00 Panel: Disruptive Technologies
Moderator: Katie Klymko (LBNL)
Speakers: Gavin Crooks (NORMAL Computing) | Jarrod McClean (Google) | Nicolas Sawaya (Azulene Labs) | Anastasiia Butko (LBNL) |
13:00 - 14:00 Lunch (Ferrantes Bay View Room)
14:00 - Adjourn