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Artist: Ilya Margolin
On NOVEMBER 6-7, 2025 the Los Alamos- Arizona Days Conference will be held in person at the SALA in Los Alamos, NM.
There will be 4 topic sessions: Data Science & AI, Multi-Physics, Fusion Energy Systems, and Materials Science. The tentative schedule is as follows:
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 2025 Location:
| WELCOME 8:15-8:30 | TBA |
|---|---|
| SESSION I: AI and DATA SCIENCE 8:30-12:00 | Organizers? |
| 8:30-8:50 Keynote | James Ahrens (LANL) Data Science at LANL - overview of the area and research directions |
| 8:50-9:20 | Marek Rychlik (UA) Data mining from scanned .pdf documents |
| 9:20-10:00 | Nicholas Taylor (LANL), MIke Ham (WRS Division), Geoffrey Fairchild (LANL) Data Management R&D |
| 10:00-10:20 | Coffee Break |
| 10:20-10:40 | Barney Maccabe ? (UA) UA Plans in AI and Data Science |
| 10:40-11:00 | Robyn Miller and Juston Moore (LANL) Provably accurate surrogate models |
| 11:00-11:30 | Ann Zabludoff (UA) AstroDB and Causal AI |
| 11:30-11:50 | Joel Maldonado (UA Student) Artificial Intelligence of Large Data Sets (on example of ARC-AGI dataset) |
| 11:50-12:10 | Discussion on next steps in collaboration |
| 12:10-1:30 | Lunch Break |
| SESSION II: MULTI PHYSICS 1:30-4:30 | Organizers? |
| 1:30-2:00 | |
| Break | |
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 2025 Location:
SESSION III: 9:00-12:00PM | Misha Chertkov (UA) Horst Hahn (UA) Wes Even (LANL) Chris Fryer (LANL) |
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| 9:00-9:30 | John Kline (LANL) Overview of our FES programs |
| 9:30-10:00 | Horst Hahn (UA) Fusion Engineering at UA |
| 10:00-10:20 | Sam Jones (LANL) Modeling resistive walls for MFE |
| 10:20-10:40 | Coffee Break |
| 10:40-11:00 | UA or LLNL visitor - TBD |
| 11:00-11:20 | Damyn Chipman and Brian Haines (LANL) Laser modeling methods for indirect drive ICF |
| 11:20-11:40 | UA Speaker - TBD |
| 11:40-12:00 | Discussion of the next step in FES collaborations |
| 12:00-1:30 | Lunch Break |
SESSION IV: 1:30-4:00PM | Olesya Zhupanska (UA) Brenden Hamilton (LANL) |
| 1:30-2:00 Keynote | Olesya Zhupanska (UA) Composite materials for extremes: integrating micromechanics- and continuum-level modeling |
| 2:00-2:20 | Avanish Mishra (LANL) Accelerating Materials Discovery via Generative AI |
| 2:20-2:40 | Sheila Whitman (UA Student) Learning microstructure–property relationships with foundational vision transformer representations |
| 2:40-3:00 | Coffee Break |
| 3:00-3:30 Keynote | Ben Nebgen (LANL) Optimizing plasticizer composition for targeted polymer properties utilizing machine learned interatomic potentials |
| 3:30-3:50 | Ed McDugald (UA Student) A generative model for solid-liquid interfaces |
| 3:50-4:10 | Brayan Murgas (LANL) TBD |
| 4:10-4:30 | Discussions of next steps in collaboration |