Schedule

This one-day workshop runs from 8:00 am to 5:00 pm and features six invited talks, two blocks of contributed talks, two dataset/AI scientist highlight sessions, and two poster sessions. Events marked 🤝 emphasize community building. Times are approximate and listed in the local ICML 2026 timezone.

Time	Event	Speaker(s)
08:00–08:15	Opening Remarks	Organizing Team
08:15–08:45	Invited Talk · AI x General Science	Peter Clark (AI2)
08:45–09:15	Invited Talk · AI x Physics	Ziming Liu (Tsinghua University)
09:15–09:45	Invited Talk · AI x Drug/Chemistry	Wengong Jin (Northwestern University)
09:45–10:00	🤝 Community Coffee Break	All attendees
10:00–10:30	Contributed Talks Block 1 (Original Research · 3 × 10 min)	Selected authors
10:30–10:50	Dataset & AI Scientist Highlights Block 1 (2 × 10 min)	Highest-ranked proposals
10:50–11:50	🤝 Poster Session 1	All accepted papers & proposals
11:50–12:20	Invited Talk · AI x Biology/Quantum/Fusion	Alek Kemeny (Anthropic)
12:20–13:20	🤝 Poster Session 2	All accepted papers & proposals
13:20–13:50	Invited Talk · AI x Mathematics	Ray Jiang (Google DeepMind)
13:50–14:20	Invited Talk · AI x Drug/Chemistry	Andrew White (FutureHouse)
14:20–14:50	Contributed Talks Block 2 (Position Track · 3 × 10 min)	Selected authors
14:50–15:05	Dataset & AI Scientist Highlights Block 2 (2 × 7.5 min)	Highest-ranked proposals
15:05–15:25	🤝 Coffee Break	All attendees
15:25–16:25	Panel – Benchmarking “Breakthroughs” in AI Scientist: Definitions and Trustworthiness	Moderator: Mengdi Wang (Princeton); Panelists: Markus Buehler (MIT), Ben Miller (Meta FAIR), Chaok Seok (SNU), Moontae Lee (LG AI)
16:25–16:45	Closing Remarks & Awards 🤝	Organizing Team

The AI4Science × Xaira networking night remains scheduled as an optional off-site event after 6:00 pm (details and invitations forthcoming).