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Artist: Ilya Margolin
On NOVEMBER 7-8, 2024 , the Arizona -Los Alamos Conference will be held in person at the University of Arizona. Sponsored by the Office for Research, Innovation, and Impact.
There will be 3 topic sessions: Space Exploration (Solar System Studies); Foundational AI-Related Topics; and CHIPS Act (Material Science and Manufacturing) related. The schedule is as follows:
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 2024 Location:ENR2 Building,Room S215
| WELCOME 8:45-9:00 |
Elliott Cheu, Acting Vice President for Research (UA) and (LANL) |
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| SESSION I: CHIPS ACT (Material Science & Manufacturing) 9:00-12:00 |
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| 9:00-9:40 Keynote |
Han Htoon (LANL) Quantum Light Emitters in 0, 1, 2 and 3 Dimensions |
| 9:40-10:05 | Xiaodong Yan (UA) Exploring 2D Materials and Devices for Neuromorphic Computing |
| 10:05-10:30 | Christopher Lane (LANL) First Principles Approach to Identifying Topological Superconductivity for Qubit Platforms |
| 10:30-10:45 | Break |
| 10:45-11:10 | Michael Taylor (LANL) Architector+Machine Learning for Cross-periodic Table Coordination Complexes |
| 11:10-11:35 | Dylan Dyer (UA) Understanding the microscopic properties of single molecule devices |
| 11:35-12:00 | Trevor Stanfill (UA) Engineering correlated states in 2D semiconductor heterostructures via nano-scale gate pattern |
| 12:00-2:00 | Lunch Break |
| SESSION II: SPACE EXPLORATION (SOLAR SYSTEM STUDIES) 2:00-5:00 |
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| 2:00-2:20 | Johnathan Deming (LANL) An Overview of Space Instrumentation Engineering at LANL |
| 2:20-2:40 | Andrea Scorsoglio (UA) Meta-reinforcement learning guidance, navigation, and control for autonomous lunar landing with safe site selection |
| 2:40-3:00 | Pedro Resendiz-Lira (LANL) Spacecraft charging and its impact on space missions |
| 3:00-3:30 | Carly Donahue, Ann Ollila, Nina Lanza (LANL) New Analytical Techniques for Studies of the Lunar Surface and Interior |
| 3:30-3:40 | Break |
| 3:40-4:00 | Andrea D’ambrosio (UA) Leveraging Physics-Informed Neural Networks for Precise Orbit Determination: A New Frontier in Space Situational Awareness |
| 4:00-4:20 | Peter Bloser (LANL) Preparing New Instruments for Spaceflight in the Lab, on Balloons, and in Orbit |
| 4:20-4:40 | Jekan Thanga (UA) Lunar Surface Exploration and Development – Towards a Lunar Technology Ecosystem |
| 4:40-5:00 | Leonard Vance (UA) Small Satellite Flyby Concept to Map Asteroid Apophis During Close Encounter with Earth |
| Dinner outing TBD |
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 2024 Location: ENR2 Building, Room S395
| SESSION III: FOUNDATIONAL AI-RELATED TOPICS 9:00-12:00PM |
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| 9:00-9:20 | Bin Hu (LANL) Foundation Models for Biosecurity and Public Health |
| 9:20-9:40 | Jesse Friedbaum (UA) TAP: Trustworthy Actionable Perturbations |
| 9:40-10:00 | Nishant Panda (LANL) Building A Multiscale Foundation Model for Fracture Physics |
| 10:00-10:20 | Hamidreza Behjoo (UA) Harmonic Path Integral Diffusion |
| 10:20-10:30 | Break |
| 10:30-10:50 | Soumi De (LANL) Toward a foundation model for multi-physics problems |
| 10:50-11:10 | Travis Wheeler (UA) Representation Learning in drug discovery and protein sequence annotation |
| 11:10-11:30 | Aleksandra Pachalieva (LANL) Developing a Foundation Model for Predicting Material Failure |
| 11:30-11:50 | Mayank Singh (UA) Interpretable neuro-symbolic approaches to relation extraction via rules |
| 12:00 | Lunch Break |
Note! The following events will be held at the
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| 2:00-3:00 |
Collaboration opportunities between University of Arizona and Los Alamos National Laboratory: Panel and Discussions |
| 3:30 Applied Math Colloquium |
Earl Lawrence (LANL) LANL's Director's Initiative on AI |
| 5:30 Social Hour at a local pub | |