AI for Science Workshop
12-16 December 2022 | Rabat, Morocco
Update Jan, 2023: Thanks to all the participants for coming over to Rabat! The slides have been uploaded, and lectures can be accessed from our Youtube channel.
Update Dec 11th, 2022: Looking forward to kicking off the workshop tomorrow! Follow us on twitter @MachineNassma, and subscribe to our youtube channel @NassmaAI.
Update Nov 14th, 2022: Acceptance notifications have been sent to all accepted participants. If you did not receive any email, then this means you are in the waiting list. We appreciate your patience.
Update Nov 14th, 2022: A tentative program has been uploaded to the program webpage.
Artificial Intelligence offers the promise of revolutionizing the way scientific discoveries are done, and tremendously accelerate their pace. In the past few years, grand challenges which were thought to be unsolvable -- or decades away from being solved -- have seen major advances using AI ranging from protein structure prediction to automating drug discovery. However, major challenges still remain in this nascent field of AI for Science, and the goal of this workshop is to address and discuss those challenges:
Challenge 1: Towards novel methods for AI for Science. The progress of AI methods has mainly been driven by tasks in computer vision and natural language processing, and the same techniques are currently used in tackling scientific problems despite being a very different domain. For example, a specificity of a large number of scientific problems is the strong presence of symmetries and invariances - how can we incorporate such inductive biases in our AI models?
Challenge 2: Tackling the right set of scientific problems. While open problems in Science abound, not all are equally likely of achieving major progress using AI. Which one should we target in priority? What makes a problem particularly suited for being tackled using AI techniques?
Challenge 3: Enabling scientific discoveries with AI. Achieving high-impact scientific discoveries using AI is usually the result of a difficult and lengthy process, involving scientists, but equally important, a robust compute infrastructure, and skilled software engineers. What are the main ingredients for doing scientific discoveries using AI?
Challenge 4: Journey from scientific discovery to a practical application. We will hear from experts on their experience of transitioning from a scientific discovery, which was made possible using AI, to a practical application with a real business value.
Confirmed speakers
Riyadh Baghdadi (NYU AD / MIT)
Lara Román Castellanos (DeepMind)
Laurent Daudet (LightOn.ai)
Alhussein Fawzi (DeepMind)
Omar Fawzi (INRIA)
Michael Figurnov (DeepMind)
Ahmed Kachkach (Google)
Michael Kagan (SLAC Stanford / CERN)
Redouane Lguensat (IPSL climate modeling center)
Felipe Llinares-López (Google Brain)
Alexander Novikov (DeepMind)
Sébastien Racanière (DeepMind)
Maziar Raissi (University of Colorado Boulder)
Suman Ravuri (DeepMind)
Islem Rekik (Imperial College)
Tian Xie (Microsoft Research)
Jonathan Ziegler (Novartis)
Organizing team
Scientific committee
Saad Benjelloun (UM6P)
Alhussein Fawzi (DeepMind)
Hamza Fawzi (University of Cambridge)
Annette Obika (DeepMind)
Mehdi Ghissassi (DeepMind)
Nawal Chraibi (Mascir - Morrocan Foundation for Advanced Science, Innovation and Research)
François Bourzeix (Mascir - Morrocan Foundation for Advanced Science, Innovation and Research)
Ahmed Kachkach (Google)
Local organizing committee
Omar Bourja (Mascir - Morrocan Foundation for Advanced Science, Innovation and Research)
Yousra Meskine (MSDA-UM6P)
Marwane El Karii (MSDA-UM6P)
The organization of this event is supported by: