MMLI Symposium 2022
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We invite you to join the inaugural Molecule Maker Lab Institute Symposium, which will feature three days of engaging sessions to share your research, expand your network, and build collaborations at the interface of chemistry and artificial intelligence.
Dates: March 23-25, 2022
Time: 12PM – 5PM Central Time
In-person Location: Beckman Institute at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (405 North Mathews Ave, Urbana, IL)
Virtual: Zoom
Symposium highlights include a keynote talk by Dr. David Baker, three plenary sessions with cutting-edge research from world-leading experts and highly skilled trainees, and two poster sessions.
Wednesday, March 23, 2022
Lunch will be served in the Beckman Institute Atrium, starting at 12:00PM.
| 12:45PM | Opening Remarks
Huimin Zhao and Gene Robinson |
| 1:00PM | Keynote: David Baker
Henrietta and Aubrey Davis Endowed Professor, Biochemistry, University of Washington |
| 2:00PM | Teodoro Laino
Distinguished RSM, Manager, IBM Research |
| 2:40PM | Riley Hickman
Graduate Student, Chemical Physics, University of Toronto |
| 2:55PM | Break |
| 3:10PM | Tonio Buonassisi
Professor, Mechanical Engineering, MIT |
| 3:50PM | Jonathan Bogart
Postdoc, Chemical and Biological Engineering, Northwestern |
| 4:05PM | Benji Maruyama
Autonomous Materials Lead, Air Force Research Lab |
Thursday, March 24, 2022
Lunch will be served in the Beckman Institute Atrium, starting at 11:30AM.
| 12:00PM | Kyunghyun Cho
Associate Professor, Computer Science and Data Science, NYU |
| 12:40PM | Hongwei Wang
Postdoc, Computer Science, UIUC |
| 1:20PM | Tom Hope
Assistant Professor, Computer Science, Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Research Scientist, Allen Institute for AI (A2I) |
| 2:00PM | Jiaqi Guan
Graduate Student, Computer Science, UIUC |
| 2:15PM | Break |
| 2:30PM | Nick Jackson
Assistant Professor, Chemistry, UIUC |
| 3:10PM | Seungjoo Yi
Graduate Student, Materials Science and Engineering, UIUC |
| 3:30PM | In-Person Poster Session
Beckman Institute Atrium |
Friday, March 25, 2022
A tour of the Molecule Maker Lab will begin at 10:45AM from the Beckman Institute Atrium. Lunch will be served in the Atrium, starting at 11:30AM.
| 12:00PM | Abigail Doyle
Saul Winstein Chair in Organic Chemistry, UCLA |
| 12:40PM | Sarah Reisman
Bren Professor of Chemistry, CalTech |
| 1:20PM | Casey Olen
Graduate Student, Chemistry, UIUC |
| 1:35PM | Break |
| 1:50PM | Kevin Yang
Senior Researcher, Microsoft Research |
| 2:30PM | Ocean Cui
Postdoc, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, UIUC |
| 2:45PM | Virtual Poster Session
Gather.town |
Please contact moleculemaker@illinois.edu if you have any questions.