Madrid, Spain
May 19-21, 2026

- PROGRAM -

Tentative AI4AM2026 program available for download
Wed 20 Thu 21
08:00-08:45 Registration
08:45-09:00 Opening Ceremony
Plenary Session - Auditorium
Chairperson: Stephan Roche (ICREA/ICN2, Spain)
09:00-09:45 PLENARY The Material Science of Catalysis Michele Parrinello,
IIT, Italy
09:45-10:15 KEYNOTE Inverse Materials Design Aron Walsh,
Imperial College London, UK
10:15-11:00 Coffee Break / Poster Session /Exhibition
Chairperson: Peter Klein (Fraunhofer ITWM, Germany)
11:00-11:20 INVITED Quantum-Inspired Tensor Networks for Materials Simulation and AI Applications Saeed Jahromi,
Multiverse Computing & DIPC, Spain
11:20-11:40 INVITED Accelerating the Discovery Loop: Production-Ready Tools for GPU-Powered Materials Science Piero Altoe,
NVIDIA, Italy
11:40-12:00 INVITED Learning the language of crystal chemistry: How methods from natural language can help discover new materials Keith Butler,
University College London, UK
12:00-12:15 Multi-objective Materials Discovery using Weighted Preference Optimization Andrew Salij,
Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA
12:15-12:30 Data-driven discovery of novel materials for smart electronic devices Valentyn Volkov,
XPANCEO, United Arab Emirates
12:30-12:45 Uncertainty-Aware Machine Learning Discovery of Solid–Solid Phase Transitions in Inorganic Materials Claudio Cazorla ,
ICREA (Institut Català de Recerca i Estudis Avançats), Spain
12:45-13:00 LLM-Enabled MOFs Discovery: Bridging Rational Design and Laboratory Realization Ge Wang,
University of Science and Technology Beijing, China
13:00-14:00 Cocktail lunch (offered by AI4AM2026 organisers)
14:00-14:30 Poster Session 1 / Exhibition
Chairperson: Luiz Felipe C. Pereira (Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Brasil) - TBC
14:30-14:50 INVITED Advances in active learning for materials optimisation Milica Todorovic,
University of Turku, Finland
14:50-15:10 INVITED Machine Learning Surrogate Models of Electronic Structure Reinhard Maurer,
University of Warwick, UK
15:10-15:25 Multi-fidelity machine learning interatomic potentials for charged point defects Xinwei Wang,
Imperial College London, UK
15:25-15:40 Machine Learning Potentials with Experimental Data in the Loop Julija Zavadlav,
Technical University of Munich, Germany
15:40-15:55 Transferable Machine-Learned Potentials for Vibrational Dynamics from Acene Crystals to Single-Molecule Host–Guest Systems Burak Gurlek,
Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter, Germany
15:55-16:15 INVITED Machine learned force fields: status and challenges in 2026 Gabor Csanyi,
University of Cambridge, UK
16:15-16:45 Coffee Break / Poster Session
Chairperson: Piero Altoe (NVIDIA, Italy)
16:45-17:15 KEYNOTE Knowledge Centric AI for Scientific Discovery Carla P. Gomes,
Cornell University, USA
17:15-17:35 INVITED Machine Learning for Optimized E2E Advanced Materials Lifecycle - Materials Design, Development, Analytics & Testing Elmar Bonaccurso,
Airbus, France
17:35-17:50 High-throughput laser synthesis and active learning for optimization of luminescent materials Simon Delacroix,
Ecole Polytechnique , France
17:50-18:10 INVITED Accelerating the discovery of van der Waals quantum materials using AI Trevor David Rhone,
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA
18:10-18:30 INVITED MaterialsCommons and FAIR workflows for federated discovery of advanced materials Tejs Vegge,
Technical University of Denmark, Denmark
20:30 Conference Dinner
Restaurant Panamera Madrid
Calle de Fernández de la Hoz, 57
28003 - Madrid
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