BIDMaP Seminar | April 16
BIDMaP seminar with Nakul Rampal, Francesco Tavani, and Zihui Zhou—spanning MOF water adsorption, AI-driven materials discovery, and COFs for direct air capture.
🗓 Thursday, April 16
⏰ 12:00 PM
📍 Cory Hall 373
🔗 Learn more: https://bit.ly/3O3xCzh
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BIDMaP ES Seminar | April 14
A seminar with Xu Huang on CASCADE—self-evolving AI agents that learn tools, build reusable skills, and accelerate scientific discovery.
🗓 Tuesday, April 14
⏰ 12:00 PM
📍 Cory Hall 373
🔗 Learn more: https://bit.ly/4c0Guib
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🤖 Happy National Robotics Week
At BIDMaP, robotics powers labs like the Berkeley A-Lab, where AI-guided systems design and run experiments in a continuous loop—accelerating materials discovery for energy and sustainability.
#Robotics #AIforScience #BIDMaP
BIDMaP Seminar | April 9
BIDMaP seminar with Boris Bolliet on multi-agent systems that generate ideas and accelerate research—augmenting human scientists, not replacing them.
🗓 Thursday, April 9
⏰ 12:00 PM
📍 Cory Hall 373
🔗 Learn more: https://bit.ly/4tk6CdI
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BIDMaP Seminar | April 2
Join Tibor Szilvasi on using machine learning to model heterogeneous catalysts at the atomic level and reveal how they function in realistic environments.
🗓 Thursday, April 2
⏰ 12:00 PM
📍 Cory Hall 373
🔗 Learn more: https://bit.ly/4lWuYrh
#BIDMaP #Catalysis #AIforScience
BIDMaP Director Christian Borgs has recieved an honorary doctorate from Eindhoven University of Technology
The honor recognizes his major contributions to network science and machine learning—foundations for data-driven discovery at BIDMaP.
Read More: https://bit.ly/4teNJIT
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BIDMaP Seminar | March 31
Join us for a seminar with Francesco Tavani on how MOF structure controls water capture, using X-ray methods and modeling to guide better materials for atmospheric water harvesting.
🗓 Tuesday, March 31
⏰ 12:00 PM
📍 Cory Hall 373
🔗 Learn more: https://bit.ly/3NSHoE1
BIDMaP Emerging Scholars Seminar | March 17
Seminar with Xin Wang, presenting a graduate-level benchmark testing whether multimodal AI can interpret chemical reaction schemes and infer missing components.
🗓 Thursday, March 17
⏰ 12:00 PM
📍 Cory Hall 373
🔗 Learn more: https://bit.ly/4ruaqaI
Today is the day — Big Give is here! ⭐
Support BIDMaP as we accelerate AI-driven materials discovery for climate, energy, and sustainability.
🔗 https://givingday.berkeley.edu/
BIDMaP Seminar | March 19
Rocio Semino (Sorbonne University) will discuss how modeling + machine learning reveal the molecular mechanisms behind MOF self-assembly.
🗓 Thursday, March 19
⏰ 12:00 PM
📍 Cory Hall 373
🔗 Learn more: https://bit.ly/4cDHuto
#BIDMaP #MOFs #AIforScience
BIDMaP faculty member Aditi Krishnapriyan has received a 2025 DOE Early Career Award.
Her research develops ML methods grounded in physical laws to accelerate large scientific simulations and help model complex systems faster.
Read More: https://bit.ly/4aZxZU5
#AIforScience #MachineLearning #DOE
BIDMaP’s 2025 Impact Report is out!
In just three years, BIDMaP researchers have built autonomous labs, contributed to one of the largest open molecular simulation datasets, and advanced materials research for climate, energy, and sustainability.
📘Read the full report: https://bit.ly/4rQdvmz
Mary Robinson and the UC Berkeley College of Computing, Data Science, and Society logo. Text reads: “Dean’s Distinguished Lecture on Shared Futures. March 31. Mary Robinson. From Justice to Climate Justice to Planetary Guardianship.”
Join us on March 31 at noon for the CDSS Dean’s Distinguished Lecture on Shared Futures with Mary Robinson! This event is free and open to the UC Berkeley community.
🔗 Register now: https://bit.ly/46HruCD
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Countdown to Big Give ⭐
On March 12 support research shaping our future.
At BIDMaP, Big Give sustains open science—public seminars, collaboration, and AI for clean energy and sustainability. It’s about enabling people, ideas, and shared momentum.
🔗 https://givingday.berkeley.edu/
BIDMaP seminar | March 5
Next in the series: A Fellows workshop by three BIDMaP postdocs Boyu Qie, Mihail Krumov, and Ping Tuo— spanning generative models, theory, and AI-guided experiments.
🗓 Thursday, March 5
⏰ 12:00 PM
📍 Cory Hall 373
🥗 Lunch provided
🔗 https://bidmap.berkeley.edu/events
BIDMaP Seminar | March 12
Join John Kitchin on how machine learning, generative models, and AI agents are changing the way scientific discovery workflows are built—from catalysis to automated research software.
🗓 Thursday, March 12
⏰ 12:00 PM
📍 Cory Hall 373
🔗 Learn more: https://bit.ly/4skYzN1
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We use big data, AI, robotics, and generative modeling to accelerate materials discovery for climate, energy, and sustainability.
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