Sessions:


AI for Scientific Discovery

Organizers: Jina Suh, Microsoft Research and Wan Liang, Tianjin University
INTRODUCTORY SPEAKER: AI-Enabled Scientific Discovery, Sara Beery, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
SPEAKER: Improving SARS-CoV-2 Drug Development: Using AI and Molecular Dynamics to Understand Mutations and Resistance, Yang Li, Global Health Discovery Institute (GHDDI)
SPEAKER: Image-based Deepp Learning and Large Language Models for the Management of Diabetes and Diabetic Retinopathy, Sheng Bin, Shanghai Jiao Tong University


Connectomes in Psychiatric Diseases

Organizers: Ki Goosens, Mount Sinai School of Medicine and Xu Xiaohong, Institute of Neuroscience, CAS
INTRODUCTORY SPEAKER: The Connectome in Mental Health, Dustin Scheinost, Yale University
SPEAKER: The Weight of Histone Modifications on the Susceptibility to Stress, Angélica Torres-Berrío, Lurie Center for Autism/Harvard Medical School
SPEAKER: Hippocampal connectomes in wild-type and AD-like mouse models, Xu Chun, Center of Excellence in Brain Science and Intelligent Technology, CAS


Exoplanets

Organizers: Sabrina Stierwalt, Occidental College and Jin Chichuan, National Astronomical Observatories, CAS
INTRODUCTORY SPEAKER: Discovering Extrasolar Planets, Dong Subo, Peking University
SPEAKER: Finding and Characterizing exo-Earths and exo-Jupiters, Sharon Xuesong Wang, Tsinghua University
SPEAKER: New Frontiers in the Characterization of Young Exoplanets, Sarah Blunt, University of California, Santa Cruz


In Situ Structural Biology

Organizers: Gao Pu, Institute of Biophysics, CAS
INTRODUCTORY SPEAKER: Discovering unexpected new structures by cryo-ET, Li Sai, Tsinghua University
SPEAKER: Bridging Structural and Cell Biology with Cryo-electron Tomography, Yun Zhu, Institute of Biophysics, CAS
SPEAKER: In Situ Structure and Assembly of Methane Oxidation Enzymes by Cryo-electron Tomography, Yanan Zhu, Institute for Advanced Study in Physics, Zhejiang University


Nanopore-based Bioanalysis

Organizers: Nathaniel Szymczak, University of Michigan and Peng Zou, Peking University
INTRODUCTORY SPEAKER: Nanopore-based protein sequencing, Wu Haichen, Institute of Chemistry, CAS
SPEAKER: Multi-scale Nanopore Analysis, Huang Shuo, Nanjing University
SPEAKER: Nanopores for nucleic acid sequencing and single-molecule enzymology, Andrew Laszlo, University of Washington


Ocean Carbon Dioxide Removal

Organizers: Nicholas Hawco, University of Hawaii at Manoa and Cheng Lijing, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, CAS
INTRODUCTORY SPEAKER: Marine Carbon Dioxide Removal: Opportunities, Hurdles, and the Global Climate Imperative, Hongjie Wang, University of Rhode Island
SPEAKER: A Global Biological Carbon Pump Estimate Constrained from Hydrographic Tracer Observations, Wang Weilei, Xiamen University
SPEAKER: Marine Carbon Dioxide Removal Powered by Light to Avoid the Worst Effects of Climate Change, Alex Gagnon, University of Washington


Quantum Materials for Future Technology

Organizers: Satya Gontcho A Gontcho, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and Cheng Jinguang, Institute of Physics, CAS
INTRODUCTORY SPEAKER: Quantum materials for future technology, Guo Jiandong, Institute of Physics, CAS
SPEAKER: Probing Quantum Materials with Quantum Sensors, Liu Gangqin, Institute of Physics, CAS
SPEAKER: Kagome Metals and Their Unusual Electronic Properties, Stephen Wilson, University of California, Santa Barbara


Understanding AI with new Mathematical Instruments

Organizers: Morgane Austerne, Harvard University and Li Shizhang, Academy of Mathematics and Systems Science
INTRODUCTORY SPEAKER: Developing, Understanding and Employing AI with the Aid of New Mathematical Instruments, Aaditya Ramdas, Carnegie Mellon University
SPEAKER: Deep Residual Networks Learn the Geodesic Curve in the Wasserstein Space, Zhang Shihua, Institute of Mathematics and Systems Science, CAS
SPEAKER: High-dimensional Dynamics of Learning Algorithms, Zhou Fan, Yale University

The Chinese-American Kavli Frontiers of Science symposia are sponsored by the U.S. National Academy of Sciences and the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Major support is provided by the Kavli Foundation, with additional funding from the National Academy of Sciences.

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