Fall 2026 Program
Tentative Program
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 2026
Location: Sabino Room, 3rd Floor of Student Union Memorial Center
| 8:30-9:00 | OPENING |
| 8:30-8:40 | Welcome from University of Arizona leadership |
| 8:40-8:50 | DOE / National Laboratory / Genesis perspective |
| 8:50-9:00 | Meeting framing and objectives — organizers: AI for Science & Engineering; collaborations; summer 2027 internships; co-mentored projects |
| SESSION I: 9:00-12:45 | COMPUTING, AGENTIC AI & QUANTUM |
| 9:00-9:30 | Aimee Hungerford, LANL |
| 9:30-10:00 | Ayan Biswas, LANL | Physics Informed Neural Networks for Accelerated Complex Flow Modeling and Discovery |
| 10:00-10:15 | BREAK |
| 10:15-10:45 | Sumathi Lakshmiranganatha, LANL | ArchEvolve: An Evolutionary Agentic AI System for Deep Co-Design |
| 10:45-11:15 | Ruben Villarreal, Sandia | Agent Bayes: A Foundation Model for Bayesian Scientific Reasoning |
| 11:15-11:45 | Prasanna Date, ORNL | Simulating Spiking Neural Networks with SuperNeuroMAT for Energy-Efficient AI |
| 11:45-12:45 | Panel I - From a Student to a National-Lab Researcher: How Does It Actually Work? |
| 12:45-2:00 | LUNCH BREAK - on your own |
| SESSION II: 2:00-5:30 | OPTIMIZATION, ENERGY SYSTEMS & ENGINEERING DECISIONS |
| 2:00-2:30 | Yijiang Li, Argonne | Optimization Meets AI: Foundation Models for Power Grid Operations |
| 2:30-3:00 | Marwan Krunz, UA |
| 3:00-3:30 | Yury Dvorkin, Johns Hopkins University |
| 3:30-3:45 | BREAK |
| 3:45-4:15 | Robert Ferrando, LANL | Sampling Restoration Decisions in Electric Power Distribution Systems |
| 4:15-4:45 | TBD |
| 4:45-5:25 | Moderated session discussion — Bridging Numerical Analysis and Scientific Computing with Agentic Coding |
| 5:25-5:30 | Announcements / Evening Logistics |
| 6:00 | SOCIAL EVENT: Crooked Tooth Brewing Co. (228 E 6th St, Tucson, AZ 85705) |
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 2026
Location: Sabino Room, 3rd Floor of Student Union Memorial Center
| SESSION III: 9:00-12:45 | PHYSICS, FLUIDS & DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS: SCIENTIFIC ML ACROSS SCALES |
| 9:00-9:30 | William Barham, LANL | A Continuum Runge–Kutta Framework for Coupled Eulerian–Semi-Lagrangian Kinetic Models |
| 9:30-10:00 | Yucheng Fu, PNNL | Arbitrary-Geometry Neural Operators for AI-Driven Design of Energy Flow Components |
| 10:00-10:15 | BREAK |
| 10:15-10:45 | Blagoje Djordjevic, LLNL | Digital Twins for Laser-Plasma Wakefield Acceleration |
| 10:45-11:15 | Travis Wheeler, UA |
| 11:15-11:45 | Pooja Siwach, UA | ORAQL: Orchestration of AI for Quantum Leadership |
| 11:45-12:45 | Panel II — What Are the Real Frontiers of AI for Science / Science for AI? |
| 12:45-2:00 | LUNCH BREAK - on your own |
| SESSION IV: 2:00-5:30 | CROSS-DOMAIN AI FOR SCIENCE & COLLABORATION INCUBATOR |
| 2:00-2:15 | Yang Song, UA | AI-enhanced gene-to-Earth system modeling |
| 2:15-2:30 | Barry Ganapol, UA | Solution of the One−Dimensional Monoenergetic Fokker–Planck Equation by Lagrange Interpolation |
| 2:30-2:45 | Alejandro Aceves, SMU / UA Applied Math alumnus | On light filament science |
| 2:45-3:00 | Jianqiang Cheng, UA | Simple yet Effective Approximations for Optimization Under Uncertainty |
| 3:00-3:20 | BREAK |
| 3:20-3:35 | Poster lightning previews — approximately 2–3 minutes each |
| 3:35-4:20 | Poster session / collaboration marketplace |
| 4:20-5:05 | Collaboration incubator — small groups around concrete UA–Lab research / project / internship ideas |
| 5:05-5:25 | Report back — summer 2027 internships, co-mentored projects, follow-up visits, joint proposals |
| 5:25 | Closing remarks |
Last updated 10.21.2026