AI4Science Events

AI4Science Lab meetings, mini workshops, and hackatons are organised about once a month at Amsterdam Science Park. The meetings are usually not recorded or broadcast as a video conference. To be added to the annoucements mailing list of AI4Science, send your request to ai4science.info@gmail.com stating your name, position, and affiliation.

Coming Lab Meetings

Mini workshop: Agentic AI for Science Tasks

Many of us, if not all, are nowadays using LLMs for our daily work, for example for writing, coding, retrieving information, or automating tasks. However, as new AI models and functionalities develop rapidly, it is not easy to keep up with all the possibilities offered by generative AI and agentic AI, and to adapt our working habits to get the most out of them. This interactive meeting on Agentic AI for Science Tasks is aimed at discussing interesting use-cases and exchangng ideas.

Speakers:

• Prof. dr. J.M. (Joris) Mooij
• Dr. D. (David) Dubbeldam
• Dr. J. (Jeroen) Zuiddam
• Prof. P.T. (Paul) Groth

Organiser(s):

• Bernd Ensing

Lemma Hackathon

Come join us for a one-day working session where students and postdocs (ideally 10 to 15) each bring one research problem and use Lemma, a web platform for planning, running and writing up research with an AI agent, to take it from a question to a written-up result. A scientist from Axiomatic AI is in the room or on call for questions the room cannot answer. You bring the problems. We bring the tool, the structure, and access for the day.

This hackathon is primarily intended for PhD students and postdocs in the physical sciences, mathematics and engineering. The day works best for people who already know a problem well enough to judge whether an answer is right. Below is a tentative schedule for the day.

Organisers:

• Balder ten Cate (ILLC)
• Marco del Tredici (Axiomatic AI)

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Mini workshop: Starting a deeptech AI startup

Thinking of starting a deeptech AI startup?

This mini workshop is for UvA students and researchers wanting to know more about how to bring your scientific research towards a startup. We will tell more about the academic startup journey and provide practical information but also will give attendees enough time to interact with the speakers among an academic entrepreneur who went through all this.

Speakers:

• TBA

Organisers:

• Peter Westerhuijs
• Drs. M.J. (Marcel) Bartels

SBI in Physics and Astronomy Kick-off Event

Simulation-based inference (SBI) is playing an increasingly important role in particle physics, astrophysics and cosmology. Various research groups at Science Park are playing an internationally visible role in its development and application, but are currently somewhat disconnected from each other. To connect students and researchers who are using or developing SBI, or who are just interested in getting involved, we aim to establish a regular meeting series, with a shape, form and content tuned to your needs or interests.

In order to kick this off and get to know each other, we plan a Amsterdam Science Park SBI in Physics & Astronomy Kick-off event (late October/early November)

The event will be half day, with longer and shorter presentations, and with ample time for discussions. The goal of the event is to provide a first quick overview of ongoing and planned activities, set the context, and conclude with concrete plans for events during the academic year.

Draft agenda:

• 2-3 shorter overview talks about opportunities and open challenges of applying SBI in particle physics, astronomy and astroparticle physics/cosmology
• coffee break
• breakout discussions on various SBI topics
• Joined discussion to converge on topics and format for regular meetings about SBI

We aim for a joint lunch before/after the event.

Organisers:

• Dr. D. (Daniela) Huppenkothen
• Dr. O (Oliver) Rieger
• Prof. dr. W. (Wouter) Verkerke
• Dr. C. (Christoph) Weniger

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