Events and sessions
Sessions of the AI Mat Reading Group take place every other Wednesday at 2:00 PM at Mila, in person and online.
By attending the sessions of the reading group, participants are requested to follow the Berlin Code of Conduct.
Coming up
Generative Modeling for Catalyst Design: Progress, Challenges, and Future Directions
Minkyu Kim (Research Intern, Mila and PhD student, KAIST)
August 26, 2026, 2:00 PM · 📍 J09, 6650 buildingPast sessions
Accelerating the Discovery of Next-Generation High-Tc and High-Critical-Field Superconductors through Machine Learning
Benjamin Geisler (Research Scientist, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL)
July 29, 2026, 2:00 PM · 📍 F01, 6650 buildingScaling Laws and Symmetry, Evidence from Neural Force Fields
Khang Ngo (PhD student, Mila/McGill University)
June 17, 2026, 2:00 PM · 📍 J09, 6650 buildingCrystal Distance Builder Core: Physics-Guided Crystal Engineering via CSD-Trained Distance Potentials and Alternating Optimization
Muath Hamidi (PhD student, Université de Montréal)
June 3, 2026, 2:00 PM · 📍 J09, 6650 buildingBenchmarking Classical and Machine Learning Potentials on capturing the dynamical properties of battery liquid electrolytes
Rohith Srinivas (PhD student, Persson Group, UC Berkeley)
May 20, 2026, 2:00 PM · 📍 J09, 6650 buildingSynthesizable Molecular Generation via Soft-constrained GFlowNets with Rich Chemical Priors
Hyeonah Kim (Postdoctoral researcher, Mila/Université de Montréal)
May 6, 2026, 2:00 PM · 📍 J09, 6650 buildingGFlowNets for Combinatorial Chemistry
Bruno Joyal (MSc candidate, Université Laval/Mila)
March 25, 2026, 2:00 PM · 📍 A14Benchmarking Neural Network Potentials for Practical Chemical Problems
Dr. Corin Wagen (Rowan)
February 25, 2026, 2:00–3:00 PMGenerative Design of FAU Zeolites for CO₂ Capture Using GFlowNets and Multi-Fidelity Rewards
Vladimir Kazarin (Mitacs intern, Chemia Discovery; supervised by Prof. Alex Hernandez-Garcia)
February 11, 2026, 2:00 PM · 📍 J09, 6650 buildingSelf-Refining Training for Amortized Density Functional Theory
Majdi Hassan (PhD student, Mila)
January 28, 2026, 2:00–3:00 PMThe Alexandria Database of Materials
Pierre-Paul De Breuck (Postdoc, Ruhr University Bochum)
January 14, 2026, 2:00–3:00 PM · 📍 J09, 6650 building