Agenda – Artificial Intelligence (AI) Expo
The Laboratory’s Artificial Intelligence (AI) Initiative invites you to join an exposition of the rich and diverse AI research occurring across campus. Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) has a unique suite of expertise, compute capabilities, and user facilities to accelerate scientific breakthroughs. ORNL has demonstrated new capabilities in materials science, engineering design, modeling, optimization and control, smart laboratory and facilities, accelerated learning, and scalability using AI. AI has also been used in a wide range of domains across the laboratory and outside the laboratory.
The goal of the AI Expo is to:
- Showcase ORNL’s AI capabilities
- Highlight outstanding science and engineering based on AI across different domains
- Enable possible collaboration opportunities between domain experts and AI experts across the laboratory
- Highlight potential domain science needs addressable with AI
- Identify potential research topics in AI
The Expo will be held April 2nd in the ORNL Conference Center (Bldg. 5200) and consists of keynote speeches, poster presentations, and a mini hackathon featuring hands-on experiences with frontier AI models, such as OpenAI’s o1 and Anthropic’s Claude 3.5 Sonnet models. ORNL staff interested and involved in AI research and application are welcome to attend.
Call for posters: The AI Expo welcomes posters on any AI-related research including AI applications, foundational AI, generative AI, large language models, AI security, energy efficiency in AI, math and computer science, and hardware and software. If you would like to present a poster, please send a title, author list, and a short abstract (less than 100 words) to [email protected] by March 14th.
Call for mini-hackathon participants: Access to OpenAI’s o1 and Anthropic’s Claude 3.5 Sonnet models will be provided during the mini-hackathon event at the AI Expo. Participants will collaborate with a small team to evaluate the potential of these models in solving specific scientific challenges and will report the findings at the end of the hackathon. If you would like to participate in the mini-hackathon, please send a short description (less than 100 words) of scientific challenge you intend to address during the mini-hackathon to [email protected] by March 14th.
Our capacity for this event has been reached, so we’ve had to close registration early. Thank you for your interest!
Wednesday, April 2, 2025
| Time | Description | Location | Presenter |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8:00 a.m. | Welcome and Opening Remarks | Conference Center A, B, C | Susan Hubbard, Deputy for Science and Technology Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
| 8:15 a.m. | AI Initiative Overview | Conference Center A, B, C | Prasanna Balaprakash, Artificial Intelligence Programs Director Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
| 8:30 a.m. | AI for Discovery, Not Just Scale: Purpose-Built Models in Science | Conference Center A, B | Amarda Shehu, Vice President and Chief AI Officer George Mason University |
| 9:20 a.m. | Break and Poster Session Setup | Conference Center C and Lobby | |
| 9:30 a.m. | Poster Session | ||
| 11:50 a.m. | Working Lunch: Could AI Ever Pose an Existential Threat? - The Safety and Security Dimensions of the Super-Intelligent AI | Conference Center A, B | Edmon Begoli, Artificial Intelligence Programs Director Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
| 1:00 p.m. | Neural Operators for Scientific Applications: Learning on Function Spaces | Conference Center A, B | Jean Kossaifi, Senior Research Scientist NVIDIA |
| 1:50 p.m. | Break | Conference Center | |
| 2:00 p.m. | Mini Hackathon | Conference A, B | |
| 4:30 p.m. | Mini Hackathon Report Out | Conference Center A, B | |
| 5:00 p.m. | Adjourn |