Events

Join the next AI-MI Seminar Series on 04/23 at 3:00 PM ET with Shiwei Zhang, Senior Research Scientist/Group Leader at the Center for Computational Quantum Physics (CCQ), Flatiron Institute, Simons Foundation. This talk takes on the many-electron problem — where the sheer scale of quantum interactions has long outpaced our computational tools. The speaker presents a physics-inspired approach combining neural networks with Monte Carlo simulation to achieve breakthrough accuracy in modeling two-dimensional electron systems, uncovering exotic quantum phases that previous methods couldn’t reach.Watch live on YouTube: www.youtube.com/@AIMaterialsInstitute

This event features Professor Ayham Boucher, head of AI Innovations at Cornell Bowers, Professor Philip Lorenz of Comparative Literature and Literatures in English, Professor Leif Weatherby of NYI, currently at the Society, and two of our fantastic undergrads: Yuhan Huang and Emerson Moore. The colloquium will address the questions: Is it time to reconceive the role of prompting in pedagogy? In the age of AI, how do we preserve the labor of learning?

Join the AI Innovation Hub for our Spring 2026 Demo Day! We will feature the latest AI solutions developed in collaboration with campus partners and students. Built for Cornell’s unique needs, we will present custom cutting-edge tools, from agentic workflow automation to AI assistants that improve human decision making

Join us for an intensive 3-day training workshop exploring cutting-edge topics in precision nutrition and health. Learn how to leverage large biobanks like All of Us and Nutrition for Precision Health to build analysis plans and workflows focused on human microbiome, metabolomics, and digital twins research. Open to faculty, postdocs, trainees, and researchers interested in precision nutrition, computational biology, and data science. Please note that space is limited.

Join the next AI-MI Seminar Series on 05/07 at 3:00 PM ET with Xiaoliang Qi, Professor of Physics at Stanford University. This talk explores how sparse autoencoders can be used to extract interpretable features from large language models. Drawing on ideas from holographic duality, the speaker introduces an entropy-based measure to quantify how nonlocal these features are in relation to input tokens—offering new insight into the information dynamics of LLMs. Watch live on YouTube: www.youtube.com/@AIMaterialsInstitute

By connecting philanthropies and the private sector with Cornell expertise across computer, information, natural and social sciences, the summit aims to spark new research, collaborations, and funding pathways that bring cutting-edge data tools into real-world humanitarian decision-making.

Joshua Blumenstock Chancellor’s Professor University of California, Berkeley

Cornell Atkinson's Topical Lunch series welcomes Dr. Kyriacos M. Koupparis of the UN World Food Programme (WFP) for a discussion on how artificial intelligence is transforming our ability to anticipate, understand, and respond to global food insecurity. Dr. Koupparis will share WFP's perspective on today's most pressing food crises, explore where AI is making a real difference, and take a closer look at how WFP is applying AI in real-world settings, including concrete use cases, lessons learned, and the challenges of deploying these tools in humanitarian contexts. This is part of the Thoughts Summit @ Cornell; there will also be a lecture by Joshua Blumenstock on May 11, 4:30-6 PM at G01 Gates Hall, and by David Newhouse on May 12, 4:30-6 PM at G01 Gates Hall. Please see attached posters for more information.

David Newhouse Senior Economist Development Economics Data Group, World Bank

The IAP Cornell Workshop on the Future of AI in the Cloud is Scheduled on Friday, May 15, 2026 on the Cornell Campus.
Participants will include faculty, postdocs, students, industry scientists and engineers. Participating companies include AMD, ByteDance, Futurewei, IBM, Marvell, and Micron. Cornell Faculty presenting their research include Prof. Robbert van Renesse, Prof. Rachee Singh, Prof. Jiaxin Lin, Prof. Giulia Guidi, and Prof. Hakim Weatherspoon.