Arizona - Los Alamos Days Fall 2024

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Arizona Los Alamos Days November 2024

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

Links to recordings:  Part 1, Part 2, Part 3 

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
Zoom: https://arizona.zoom.us/j/84922574145

WELCOME
8:45-9:00
Elliott Cheu, Acting Vice President for Research (UA) and Chris Fryer, Director, CNLS and Lisa Danielson, Director, CSES (LANL)
SESSION I:
CHIPS ACT (Material Science
& Manufacturing)
9:00-12:00
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
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
Zoom: https://arizona.zoom.us/j/84922574145
SESSION III:
FOUNDATIONAL AI-RELATED
TOPICS
9:00-12:00PM
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) and Misha Chertkov (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 
 Math Building, Room 501
2:00-3:00
 
Collaboration opportunities between University of Arizona and Los Alamos National Laboratory: Panel and Discussions
3:30 Applied Math 
Colloquium
Diane Oyen (LANL)  AI Foundation Models for Science
5:30 Social Hour at a local pub