There will be an AI Seminar presented by Prof. Alán Aspuru-Guzik of the University of Toronto. His talk is titled “MADNESS: How to Build a Molecular Materials Acceleration Platform” and the abstract is below. Join us after his presentation for a Q&A session. Abstract: In this talk, I will discuss our group's efforts in building an AI-driven closed-loop discovery laboratory (aka Materials Acceleration Platform) for the accelerated discovery of solid-state organic lasing materials. Under the support of DARPA, Accelerated Molecular Discovery program, we assembled a team including the research groups of Lee Cronin, Bartosz Grzybowski, Martin Burke, Jason Hein and myself to try to tackle this challenge. I will discuss our main objectives, the tools that we have been building along the way, and also try to share the challenges that we are facing to achieve closed-loop discovery. In particular, I will discuss aspects related to building robotic-accessible synthetic libraries, the development of iterative coupling schemes, in-line analytical systems and the associated databases, computational screening tools and Bayesian optimization algorithms. I will end the talk with a perspective of where the field may be going. Wednesday, September 16, 2020 12:30 PM – 1:00 PM: Introduction 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM: Presentation 2:00 PM – 2:30 PM: Q&A BlueJeans Connection Details Phone Dial-in: +1-844-540-8065 Meeting ID 374 294 055 Click here<https://bluejeans.com/374294055> to join meeting on a computer or mobile device *************************************** Samantha L Tezak Executive Assistant, CPS Division Argonne National Laboratory 9700 S. Cass Avenue Lemont, IL 60439 Tel: (630) 252-6250 E-mail: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> **************************************** P Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail