7:00 - 8:00 am: Breakfast
8:00 - 8:10 am: Opening Remarks
Chair: John Kitchin, Carnegie Mellon University
8:10 - 8:30 am: Boris Kozinsky, Harvard University
8:30 - 8:50 am: Andy Peterson, Brown University
8:50 - 9:10 am: Shyue Ping Ong, University of California, San Diego
9:10 - 9:30 am: Marc Porosoff, University of Rochester
9:30 - 9:50 am: Amir Barati Farimani, Carnegie Mellon University
9:50 - 10:20 am: 30 mins Coffee Break
Chair: Hongliang Xin, Virginia Tech
10:20 - 10:40 am: Anatoly Frenkel, Stony Brook University
10:40 - 11:00 am: Bryan Goldsmith, University of Michigan
11:00 - 11:20 am: Randall Meyer, ExxonMobil
11:20 - 11:40 am: Kirsten Winther, SLAC/Stanford University
11:40 - 12:00 pm: Hao Li, Tohoku University
12:00 - 1:30 pm: Lunch
Chair: Núria López, Institute of Chemical Research of Catalonia
1:30 - 1:50 pm: Johannes Voss, SLAC/Stanford University
1:50 - 2:10 pm: Andrew Rosen, Princeton University
2:10 - 2:30 pm: Kamal Choudhary, National Institute of Standards and Technology
2:30 - 2:50 pm: Joseph Montoya, Toyota Research Institute
2:50 - 3:10 pm: Núria López, Institute of Chemical Research of Catalonia (ICIQ)
3:10 - 3:40 pm: 30 mins Coffee Break
Chair: Neil Schweitzer, Northwestern University
3:40 - 4:00 pm: Milad Abolhasani, North Carolina State University
4:00 - 4:20 pm: Shijing Sun, University of Washington
4:20 - 4:40 pm: Paulami Majumdar, Dow
4:40 - 5:00 pm: Chong Liu, University of California, Los Angeles
5:00 - 6:00 pm: Break
8:00 am Day 1 - noon Day 2: Early Career Investigators Poster Session
Brandon Bukowski, Johns Hopkins University
Fanglin Che, University of Massachusetts, Lowell
Rui Ding, University of Chicago
Kasun Gunasooriya, The University of Oklahoma
Emma Hu, Georgia Institute of Technology
Tyler Josephson, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Ritesh Kumar, University of Chicago
Mingjie Liu, UF
Pengfei Ou, Northwestern University
Daniel Schwalbe-Koda, University of California, Los Angeles
Evan Spotte-Smith, Carnegie Mellon University
Tibor Szilvasi, University of Alabama
Siwen Wang, Toyota North America
Zisheng Zhang, University of California, Los Angeles
Jiayu Peng, MIT
Joseph Gauthier, TTU
Muhammed Shuaibi,Meta
6:00 - 9:00 pm: Dinner (Bub City)
7:00 - 8:00 am: Breakfast
Panel 1: What are the technological gaps and barriers in AI that hinder achieving scientific breakthroughs, particularly in catalysis for a sustainable future?
Moderator: Hongliang Xin, Virginia Tech
8:00 - 8:40 am:
Long Qi, Ames Lab
Teodoro Laino, IBM Research Europe - Zurich
Zack Ulissi, Meta/CMU
Xiaonan Wang, Tsinghua University
8:40 - 9:40 am: Panel Discussion
9:40 - 10:10 am: 30 mins Coffee Break
Panel 2: What is the future of AI for driving scientific discovery, and how different stakeholders can help shape the vision in catalysis?
Moderator: John Kitchin, Carnegie Mellon University
10:10 - 10:50 am:
Suljo Linic, University of Michigan
Wendy Shaw, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
AJ Medford, Georgia Institute of Technology
Tian Xie, Microsoft Research
10:50 - 11:50 am: Panel Discussion
11:50 am - 12:00 pm: Concluding Remarks
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