AI Mat

AI for Materials Reading Group at Mila

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

Synthesizable 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 building

Past sessions

GFlowNets for Combinatorial Chemistry

Bruno Joyal (MSc candidate, Université Laval/Mila)

March 25, 2026, 2:00 PM · 📍 A14

Benchmarking Neural Network Potentials for Practical Chemical Problems

Dr. Corin Wagen (Rowan)

February 25, 2026, 2:00–3:00 PM

Generative 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 building

Self-Refining Training for Amortized Density Functional Theory

Majdi Hassan (PhD student, Mila)

January 28, 2026, 2:00–3:00 PM

The Alexandria Database of Materials

Pierre-Paul De Breuck (Postdoc, Ruhr University Bochum)

January 14, 2026, 2:00–3:00 PM · 📍 J09, 6650 building