Nobel Turing Challenge Initiative (NTCI): The 2nd Workshop on Nobel Turing Challenge
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Title
The 2nd Workshop on Nobel Turing Challenge
Abstract
The Nobel Turing Challenge is a grand challenge aiming at developing a highly autonomous AI and robotics system that can make major scientific discoveries, some which may be worthy of the Nobel Prize and even beyond. Accomplishing this challenge requires a development of a series of technologies and in-depth understanding on the process of scientific discoveries. From the system development perspective the challenge is to make a closed-loop system from knowledge acquisition and hypothesis generation and verification to full automation of experiments and data analytics.
This series of workshops aims to discuss a process of scientific discovery and how AI can make it happen highly autonomously to yield high impact discoveries.
The second workshop on the Nobel Turing Challenge will be held at RIKEN Kobe campus in the hybrid onsite/online format. We will further develop the discussions that took place in the first full online workshop where we shared information on the current status of the field and what can be our possible high impact targets. A guided tour of RIKEN’s robotic biology laboratory is also planned for the onsite participants.
Discussed topics will include, but not limited to:
Extraction of knowledge from a body of publications
Representation of scientific knowledge
Automation of hypothesis generation
Automation of discovery of laws from experimental data
Model-based active learning to identify latent structures
Generation of reasoning to support and refute generated hypothesis
Automation of experiments and workflow systems
We are expecting that this workshop will be the stepping stone for creation of the larger and more comprehensive forum of the field.
Speakers
| Dr. Koichi Takahashi | RIKEN | |
| Prof. Robert Murphy | Carnegie Mellon University | |
| Dr. Yolanda Gil | USC Information Sciences Institute | |
| Prof. Hod Lipson | Columbia University | |
| Prof. Shinichiro Fuse | Nagoya University | |
| Dr. Shane Gu | Google Brain | |
| Prof. Kanako Harada | University of Tokyo | |
| Dr. Satoshi Tamaki | MOLCURE Inc. | |
| Prof. Ross King | Chalmers University of Technology | |
| Dr. Cristina Cornelio | Samsung AI Center - Cambridge | |
| Prof. Andrew Cooper | The University of Liverpool | |
| Prof. Ichiro Takeuchi | Nagoya University / RIKEN | |
| Dr. Genshiro Sunagawa | RIKEN | |
| Prof. Hiroaki Kitano | The Systems Biology Institute / OIST |
Program
Scheduled time in JST
| 09:00 - 09:10 | Opening | ||
| 09:10 - 09:35 (09:40) | Title (TBD) Dr. Koichi Takahashi, RIKEN |
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| 09:40 - 10:05 (10:10) | Automated Science: Science without humans Prof. Robert Murphy, Carnegie Mellon University |
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| 10:10 - 10:35 (10:40) | Title (TBD) Dr. Yolanda Gil, USC Information Sciences Institute |
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| 10:40 - 10:50 | Break | ||
| 10:50 - 11:15 (11:20) | Title (TBD) Prof. Hod Lipson, Columbia University |
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| 11:20 - 11:45 (11:50) | The Past, Present, and Future of Automation in Synthetic Organic Chemistry Prof. Shinichiro Fuse, Nagoya University |
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| 11:50 - 12:15 (12:20) | Knowledge Discovery Inside-Outside Large Language Models Dr. Shane Gu, Google Brain |
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| 12:20 - 13:10 | Lunch | ||
| 13:10 - 14:10 | Lab Tour | ||
| 14:10 - 14:35 (14:40) | Co-evolution of Human and AI-Robots to Expand Science Frontiers - Advances Required for Autonomous Robots - Prof. Kanako Harada, University of Tokyo |
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| 14:40 - 15:05 (15:10) | Title (TBD) Dr. Satoshi Tamaki, MOLCURE Inc. |
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| 15:10 - 15:35 (15:40) | Title (TBD) Prof. Ross King, The Alan Turing Institute |
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| 15:40 - 15:50 | Break | ||
| 15:50 - 16:15 (16:20) | Derivable Scientific Discovery Dr. Cristina Cornelio, Samsung AI |
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| 16:20 - 16:45 (16:50) | Title (TBD) Prof. Andrew Cooper, University of Liverpool |
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| 16:50 - 17:15 (17:20) | Quantifying Statistical Significance for Data-Driven Scientific Hypotheses Prof. Ichiro Takeuchi, Nagoya University / RIKEN |
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| 17:20 - 17:45 (17:50) | Can we hibernate? – R&D toward synthetic hibernation for humans Dr. Genshiro Sunagawa, RIKEN |
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| 17:50 - 18:10 | Discussion | ||
| 18:10 - 18:30 | Wrap up Prof. Hiroaki Kitano, The Systems Biology Institute / OIST |
Date
Tuesday, November 1, 2022 - 9:00 to 18:30 (JST)
Venue
Kobe Campus East Area, RIKEN / Zoom (online)
Auditorium C801, Integrated Innovation Building, RIKEN
6-7-1 Minatojima-minamimachi, Chuo-ku, Kobe, Hyogo 650-0047, Japan
Registration
Registration is required to participate in the workshop. Please complete the registration by either Zoom (online) remote participation or In-person (onsite) participation from the link below.
In-person (onsite) registration deadline is October 25, 2022 and also participation is limited to 50 people. Registration will be closed when the number of participants reaches 50.
In-Person Registration (onsite) Registration Closed
COVID-19 Prevention Measures
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Thank you for your understanding and cooperation.
Contact
Workshop Operation Committee
iosu-workshop@oist.jp
The 2nd Workshop on Nobel Turing Challenge is organaized by Nobel Turing Challenge Initiative with support of The Systems Biology Institute (SBI), RIKEN Laboratory for Biologically Inspired Computing, and Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University (OIST) - Integrated Open Systems Unit.
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