Seminars on Machine Learning in Quantum Chemistry and Quantum Computing for Quantum Chemistry (SMLQC) are flexible online lectures and tutorials for highlighting recent developments and providing hands-on experience on the title topics as well as networking opportunities. SMLQC sessions are organized to bridge Symposia on Machine Learning and Quantum Chemistry, the first one held in 2021 in Xiamen, China (online) and the second one to be held in 2023 in Uppsala, Sweden (hybrid). The real-time interaction is enabled via a dedicated Slack workspace which already has many researchers active in the title fields.
Format
Format is flexible with roughly biweekly sessions online usually divided into two sections:
– Scientific section
focused on recent developments which can be, e.g., highlighting recently published papers.
Talks are limited to 20 min so that people can attend them during their “coffee break”. The question part will be up to 5 min if scientific section is followed by a tutorial session where the speaker can elaborate more on the questions. Otherwise, if no tutorial session is given, then question part will be open until the speaker or participants give up.
– Tutorial/hands-on section
Dedicated to providing instructions on program use and practical understanding of the underlying ML theory. The materials used in the talks (e.g., Jupyter notebooks, Python scripts, etc.) could be made available for the participants via GitHub, Google Colab, etc. or the SMLQC website under the allowance of the speaker. No strict time limitations but we recommend up to 1 hour.
We particularly encourage and give platform to young researchers (e.g., postdocs, PhDs, etc.) to give seminars.
All our sessions will also have break out rooms in Zoom where participants can have further exchange or fix some specific problems during hands-on session.
If speakers agree, the seminars will be recorded and uploaded on SMLQC YouTube channel.
Speakers
Speakers are invited by the organizing committee and can be selected according to the suggestions of SMLQC participants, e.g., via voting in our Slack workspace. Self-nominations are also encouraged!
Organizers
Current organizers in alphabetic order:
Soon, organizers will be joined by more specialists with diverse expertise.
Speakers
Upcoming seminars
- Renana Poranne, Technion—Israel Institute of Technology, New Representations Enable Interpretable and Generative Deep-Learning for Polycyclic Aromatic Systems, June 8, 2023, (15:00 Paris | 21:00 Beijing | 9:00 New York)
How to join
Join Zoom Meeting
https://zoom.us/j/86004422973?pwd=WjNKQlEydmdFL3hJbUx4NjByYjVJZz09
Meeting ID: 860 0442 2973
Passcode: 703098
Past seminars
- Arif Ullah, Xiamen University, Quantum Dissipative Dynamics with Machine Learning
Feb. 2, 2023
Youtube
- Max Pinheiro Jr, Aix-Marseille University, Discovering patterns in nonadiabatic molecular dynamics with machine learning: the ULaMDyn package. Feb. 16, 2023
Youtube
- Pascal Friederich
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Machine Learning for Simulation, Understanding, and Design of Molecules and Materials. March 2, 2023
Youtube
- Daniel Schwalbe-Koda, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Adversarial Sampling and Extrapolation Trends in Neural Network Potentials, March 16, 2023.
- WeiTang Li, Tencent Quantum Lab, TenCirChem: An Efficient Quantum Computational Chemistry Package for the NISQ Era, April 27, 2023, (19:00 Beijing |13:00 Paris | 07:00 New York)
Youtube[Coming Soon] - Johannes Margraf, Fritz-Haber Institute, Physical Description of Long-Range Interactions in Atomistic Machine Learning Models, May 4, 2023 (16:00 Paris | 22:00 Beijing | 10:00 New York)
Youtube[Coming Soon]