Schedule for the AAAI Spring Symposium on Computational Approaches to Scientific Discovery

Thursday, November 7, 2024

Time Presenters Title Slides
Overview Talks
  9:00 AM Pat Langley Opening Remarks
  9:22 AM Pat Langley Integrated Systems for Computational Scientific Discovery
  9:45 AM Lindley Darden and John Moult Discovering Genetic Disease Mechanisms
10:07 AM Peter Clark Towards Integrated Scientific Discovery Systems
10:30 AM Break
Literature Analysis and Hypothesis Generation
11:00 AM Marissa Radensky Scideator: LLM-Supported Scientific Idea Generation and Novelty Evaluation
11:22 AM Jaimie Murdock and Ed Carroll Using Reasoning to Evaluate Scientific Discoveries
11:45 AM Bohan Lyu, Yadi Cao, Duncan Watson-Parris, Leon Bergen, Taylor Berg-Kirkpatrick, and Rose Yu Towards Grounding Large Language Models with the Physical World
12:07 PM Parshin Shojaee, Kazem Meidani, Shashank Gupta, Amir Farimani, and Chandan Reddy Equation Discovery via Evolutionary Search with Large Language Models
12:30 PM Lunch
Equation Discovery and Sampling Search
  2:00 PM Jonah Miller and Soumya Banerjee Transforming Classical AI with Modern Machine Learning: BACON and Equation Discovery
  2:22 PM Jannis Brugger, Mattia Cerrato, David Richter, Daniel Maninger, Mira Mezini, and Stefan Kramer Neural-Guided Equation Discovery: Episode 2
  2:45 PM Jure Brence, Ljupčo Todorovski, and Sašo Džeroski Bayesian Probabilistic Grammar-Based Equation Discovery
  3:07 PM Jianke Yang, Nima Dehmamy, Robin Walters, and Rose Yu Automatic Symmetry Detection: A Pivot for AI-Guided Scientific Discovery
  3:30 PM Break
  4:00 PM Poster Session
  6:00 PM Joint Symposia Reception
  7:00 PM Day Ends

Friday, November 8, 2024

Time Presenters Title Slides
Experimentation and Discovery I
  9:00 AM Benji Maruyama Autonomous Experimentation for Materials Science
  9:22 AM Stefan Kramer, Tristan Schausten-Diehl, Jannis Brugger, Xiaomei Li, Sajjad Shumaly, Ru ̈diger Berger, Hans Ju ̈rgen Butt, Ross King, and Mira Mezini Robot Scientist for Droplet Friction Experiments
  9:45 AM Yexiang Xue Scientific Process Discovery Using Scientific Approaches
10:07 AM Lun Ai, Shi-Shun Liang, Stephen Muggleton, and Geoff Baldwin Active Abductive Learning of Multigenic Interactions from High-Throughput Repression Screening Data
10:30 AM Break
Experimentation and Discovery II
11:00 AM Sebastian Musslick, Daniel Weinhardt, John Gerrard Holland, Younes Strittmatter Closed-Loop Scientific Discovery in the Behavioral Sciences
11:22 AM Michael Shalyt, Uri Seligmann, Rotem Elimelech, Shachar Weinbaum, Rotem Kalisch, Tomer Raz, Hila Barkan, Itay Beit Halachmi, Sheve Leibtag, Ido Kaminer Ramanujan Machine: Unsupervised Formula Conjecture Generation
11:45 AM Tsuyoshi Murata Automated Scientific Discovery in Plane Geometry
12:07 PM Yu-Cong He and Wang-Zhou Dai Application of Abduction in Energy Functional Discovery for Density Functional Theory
12:30 PM Lunch
Challenges / Discussion
  2:00 PM Benjamin Jantzen Six Challenges for Fully Autonomous Scientific Discovery
  2:22 PM Discussion: Challenges for the Discovery Community
  3:30 PM Break
Variable Invention and Discovery I
  4:00 PM Youngsoo Choi, Xiaolong He, Seung Whan Chung, Keo Springer, April Tran, David Bortz, and Siu Wun Cheung Latent Space Dynamics Identification
  4:22 PM Xuping Xie Physics integrated Latent Space Dynamics Learning for Stiff Collisional-Radiative Models
  4:45 PM Samuel Moore, Brian Mann, and Boyuan Chen Learning Low-Dimensional Latent Linear Dynamics
  5:07 PM Boris Krämer, Albani Olivieri, and Gleb Pogudin Discovering Quadratic Representations of PDEs
  6:00 PM Plenary Session
  7:00 PM Day Ends

Saturday, November 9, 2024

Time Presenters Title Slides
Variations on Equation Discovery
  9:00 AM Jannis Brugger, Viktor Pfanschilling, Mira Mezini, and Stefan Kramer Residuals for Equation Discovery
  9:22 AM Sebastian Mežnar, Sašo Džeroski, and Ljupčo Todorovski Quantifying Expression Dissimilarity
  9:45 AM Nora Heitzman-Breen and David Bortz Structural Identifiability of Weak-Form ODE Systems
10:07 AM Sebastijan Dumancic and Reuben Gardos Reid Computational Discovery with Formal Languages and Synthesis
10:30 AM Break
11:00 AM Variable Invention and Discovery II / Closing Discussion
11:00 AM Kuang Huang, Dong Heon Cho, and Boyuan Chen Automatic Discovery of Continuous Dynamics from Videos
11:22 AM Paolo Conti, Jonas Kneifl, Andrea Manzoni, Attilio Frangi, Jörg Fehr, Steven Brunton, and Nathan Kutz VENI, VINDy, VICI: A Generative Framework for Discovering Dynamics
11:45 AM Closing Discussion
12:30 PM Symposium Ends

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