Hi Everyone, Thanks for attending the All-Hands meeting today and providing your input on multiple topics. I'll also take this opportunity to urge you to attend the interesting seminars below. All the Best Salman -------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: Seminar Announcement: Self-Driving Labs Seminar Date: Mon, 8 Feb 2021 21:17:14 +0000 From: Mulligan, Silvia P. <[email protected]><mailto:[email protected]> To: CELS Seminars <[email protected]><mailto:[email protected]>, CPA Seminars <[email protected]><mailto:[email protected]> Self-Driving Labs Seminar Date: Monday, February 15, 2021 Time: 3:00-4:00 p.m. Seminar Agenda/Speakers: 3:00pm – Rick Stevens – SDL Overview 3:10pm – Tom Brettin – Bio 3:20pm – Ilke Arslan – PSE 3:30pm – Mike Ford – EGS 3:40pm – Ian Foster – Software, Data, and the APS 3:50pm – Rick Stevens – Wrap-up Self-Driving Labs Description There is an opportunity to bring together the power of large-scale robotic laboratories with high-performance computing and artificial intelligence. To lead in this novel area, Argonne is developing an emerging thrust in AI-driven Large-scale Automated Scientific Experimental Laboratories (Self-driving Labs) aimed at accelerating discovery in materials, chemistry, biochemistry, biology and energy. We are moving forward on pilot projects in Self-driving Labs to demonstrate the end-to-end concept with the goal of creating momentum on the concept of AL-based experimental loops that use robotic platforms to carry out high-throughput experiments under the control of a machine learning-based optimization and lead generation system. Organizing our efforts at Argonne will rapidly demonstrate capabilities and build crosscutting teams that have experience to drive a broader research agenda in this space. This year, we envision working on a specific set of driver problems, roughly two or three per domain, where a domain is biology, chemistry, materials, polymers, etc. The idea of having two or more per domain is to, from the very beginning, build generalization into the capabilities. The core demonstrations should not be overly optimized for a specific problem, but instead be designed as a general capability that can be easily retargeted to new problems, with addition of new instruments or reagents or with reprogramming, but without the need to build a whole new infrastructure and a whole new software stack for each problem. As such, Rick Stevens, Tom Brettin, Ilke Arslan, Mike Ford, and Ian Foster will be delivering a lab-wide Self-driving Labs Seminar on Monday, February 15, 2021 for all interested in participating in this work. The Seminar will give an overview of the Self-driving Lab concept, as well as lay out specific next steps. An upcoming Self-driving Labs Hackathon is scheduled for February 23-25, 2021. All interested are welcome to attend. ATTENDEE LOGIN Join via your CHROME web browser: https://primetime.bluejeans.com/a2m/live-event/ypqrrzgw Join via a mobile device: a) Open this link: https://primetime.bluejeans.com/a2m/live-event/ypqrrzgw b) Download the app if you don’t have it already. c) Enter event ID: ypqrrzgw Join by phone: +1 (415) 466-7000 (US) Enter the participant PIN 8408850 followed by # to confirm: