Four days, one city.

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Arrival in Mexico City

Wed · Aug 26

Symposium at UNAM (Public Event)

Session chairs

09:15–09:30Opening remarks by Carlos Amador Bedolla
09:30–10:30Physical AI for Materials Discovery: Putting a Brain in the Mobile Robotic Scientist
10:30–11:30Self-Driving Labs for Nanomaterial Synthesis
11:30–14:00Lunch
14:00–15:00Where Are the Self-Driving Labs Taking Us?
15:00–16:00Designing Matter That Can Be Made: From AI Prediction to Autonomous Discovery
16:00–16:15Closing remarks by Alán Aspuru-Guzik
16:15Visit to the Faculty of Chemistry & University Campus

Symposium at San Ildefonso & Fiesta (Private Event)

Session chairs

08:30–09:00Registration
09:00–09:30Opening remarks + AAG's plenary session
09:30–09:50Chemical Dynamics on Quantum Computers
09:50–10:10There and Back Again — A Story of VQE, Chemistry, and Quantum Machine Learning
10:10–10:20Coffee break
10:20–10:40A Chemical Reaction Between Machine Learning and Quantum Computing, Catalyzed by Alan Aspuru-Guzik
10:40–11:00The Impending Threat of Quantum Cryptanalysis and Its Implications
11:00–11:20The Application Bottleneck: Accelerating the Search for Useful Quantum Computing Applications
11:20–11:40Towards an Artificial Muse for New Ideas in Physics
11:40–11:50Coffee break
11:50–12:10Building Representations of Chemical Data: Are We There Yet?
12:10–12:30Open Molecules 2025: A New Era of Molecular Simulation
12:30–12:50Decades of Data, Layers of Noise: Modeling Through the Realities of Life Sciences R&D
12:50–13:103D Printing at the Atomic Scale
13:10–13:30Establishing the Data-Driven Organic Materials Lab
13:30–13:50Steering Generative Models at Inference Time with Applications in Biomolecular Generation
13:50–14:00Closing session + transition to lunch
14:00–15:45Lunch
15:45–16:05Once More on Autonomous Discovery
16:05–16:45Panel Discussion on the Future of Science
16:45–17:30Closing remarks + discussion
17:30–18:30Museum tour
20:00Matter Lab celebration dinner at Zócalo

Xochimilco (Trajineras) Party Tours