The agenda for the symposium is as follows:
Monday, April 7th
Monday will start after lunch with a panel on AI applications to theoretical physics research where we will hear from leaders of institutes/initiatives using AI for astro, particle, and quantum physics and building foundation models for scientific data: Vicky Kalogera (SkAI Institute), Jesse Thaler (IAIFI), Roger Melko (PIQuIL, Open Quantum Design), and Shirley Ho (Polymathic AI). This will be followed by a colloquium by Geoffrey Hinton (University of Toronto).
Tuesday, April 8th
The program for the 8th is all about aspects of automating what we do as theoretical physicists.
It will include 4 sessions of talks and panels grouped by topic. Along the theme of 'bringing together physicists, engineers, AI researchers, and entrepreneurs' these are
(Physicists) Foundation Models for Theoretical Physics
keynote: Franck Cappello from Aurora GPT at Argonne
panel: Mario Krenn (AI Scientist Lab @ Max Planck), Moritz Munchmeyer (benchmarks for theoretical physics), Ioana Ciuca (UniverseTBD cofounder)
(Entrepreneurs) Startups Accelerating Theoretical Physics
keynote: Stephen Wolfram* founder of Mathematica (virtual)
panel: Axton Pitt (Litmaps), Xiaoliang Qi (txyz.ai), Oleg Ruchayskiy (prophy.ai)
(Engineers) Processing the Data of Theoretical Physics
keynote: Steinn Sigurdsson director of the ArXiv
panel: Deyan Ginev (LaTeXML), Richard Zanibbi (DPRL @ RIT), Peter Koepke (Naproche)
(AI Researchers) Harnessing Breakthroughs in Big Tech
keynote: Jared Kaplan* cofounder of anthropic (virtual)
panel: Yuri Chervonyi (DeepMind), Gaurav Sahu (MILA) + TBC
Each of these sessions will have a 30 min keynote followed by 3x10 minute talks by speakers who will then participate in a 30 minute panel on the topic.
