Tuesday, February 10, 2026
Morning Session
08:00-09:00
Check-In/Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)
09:00-09:15
Welcome and Opening Remarks
09:15-09:45
Terence Tao (University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA))
Machine assistance and the future of research mathematics09:45-10:00
Break
10:00-10:30
Barry Barish (California Institute of Technology)
LIGO: 10 Years of New Science10:30-10:45
Break
10:45-12:00
Panel: AI & Mathematics. Andrea Bertozzi (UCLA), Damek Davis (UPenn), Deanna Needell (UCLA), Hayden Schaeffer (UCLA). Moderator: Terence Tao.
Afternoon Session
12:00-13:30
Lunch (at IPAM) sponsored by Bow Capital
13:30-14:00
Richard Sutton (University of Alberta)
The future of AI14:00-14:15
Break
14:15-15:30
Panel: AI & Science -- Industry Leadership. Sebastien Bubeck (OpenAI), Jiantao Jiao (NVIDIA), Erran Li (Amazon AWS), Hoifung Poon (Microsoft Research). Moderator: Chuck Ng.
15:30-16:00
Break
16:00-17:15
Panel: AI & Science -- Higher Education Transformation. Bhuvnesh Jain (UPenn), Peter Loewen (Cornell), Brenda Rubenstein (Brown), Yannis Yortsos (USC). Moderator: Miguel Garcia-Garibay.
17:15-18:30
Reception (Location: IPAM Lobby)