BIDMaP is happy to be jointly hosting this year's seminar series with colleagues in computational physical sciences, including collaborators from the departments of Physics and Astronomy, and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.
The launch of ChatGPT in November 2022 ignited an ongoing worldwide conversation about the possible impacts of Large Language Models (LLMs) on the way we work. There is little doubt that LLMs will significantly influence many people's jobs: one prominent study estimated that about 20%...
The annual BASC Symposium will take place on March 7 and 8, 2024. This year, the theme is “Going with the flow: AI/ML in Atmospheric Science.” The speakers and schedule appear below. The “early-ish bird” registration deadline is this Friday, March 1 st , but...
As scientific data sets become progressively larger algorithms to process this data quickly become more complex. In response Artificial Intelligence (AI) has emerged as a solution to efficiently analyze these massive data sets. Emerging processor technologies such as graphics processing units (GPUs) and field-programmable gate...
Machine learning methods for improving molecular simulations Molecular simulations aim to model the spatiotemporal behavior of atomistic systems throughout biology, chemistry, and materials science. Given the computational burden of running such simulations for long timescales, machine learning force fields, and particularly neural network interatomic potentials...
Current and future weak lensing surveys contain significant information about our universe, but their optimal cosmological analysis is challenging, with traditional analyses often resulting in information loss due to reliance on summary statistics like two-point correlation functions. While deep learning methods offer promise in capturing...
The analysis of particle collisions at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN helps us to understand the fundamental building blocks of our universe. After years of data taking, the extraction of fundamental insights often requires intricate data analyses. Due to the large volume and complex...
Some of the most powerful techniques developed in ML are rooted in physics, such as MCMC, Belief Propagation, and Diffusion based Generative AI. We have recently witnessed that the flow of information has also reversed, with new tools developed in the ML community impacting physics...
Atomic systems (molecules, crystals, proteins, etc.) are naturally represented by a set of coordinates in 3D space labeled by atom type. This poses a challenge for machine learning due to the sensitivity of coordinates to 3D rotations, translations, and inversions (the symmetries of 3D Euclidean...
Density functional theory (DFT) lies at the heart of all practical applications of theoretical chemistry. However, it is well-known that DFT often provides unsatisfactory descriptions of many important systems: non-equilibrium geometries, such as transition states, and strongly correlated systems, such as transition metals and excited...
Please join us for an interdisciplinary discussion of scientific themes addressed in this series. We'll have lightning talks by Saumil and Théo (BIDMaP Fellows) to start, and then an informal meeting in the seminar space with tables for small or large group discussions.
Propylene is an important building block for the manufacturing of various chemicals and plastic products. The ever-increasing propylene demand is hardly met by traditional oil-based cracking processes, known for their high energy consumption and substantial CO 2 emissions. Leveraging the abundance of light alkanes from...
The pursuit of carbon neutrality has become a global imperative in the face of climate change, driving the transition to renewable energy sources and the widespread adoption of electric vehicles. Designing new cathode materials for energy storage is one promising avenue. Modern battery materials such...
Perovskite is one of the most promising photovoltaic materials for the future. While low stability has long been the bottleneck issue limiting their commercialization. In the past, by using enhanced sampling coupled with machine learning (ML) potential model, I have unraveled the degradation mechanism of...
The advent of advanced large language models like ChatGPT marks a transformative era in scientific research, particularly in the field of reticular chemistry. This seminar focuses on how ChatGPT's natural language processing capabilities enable scientists to accelerate and innovate in their research endeavors. We will...
Seismic networks have consistently improved across extensive temporal and spatial scales, enhancing our capability to record subtle shaking signals of the Earth. The vast seismic archive poses a challenge for efficient data analysis, but also presents an opportunity to uncover many hidden signals from small...
