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

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Samantha L Tezak

Executive Assistant, CPS Division

Argonne National Laboratory

9700 S. Cass Avenue

Lemont, IL 60439

Tel:  (630) 252-6250

E-mail: stezak@anl.gov

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