BIDMaP's Kristin Persson Awarded 2026 Pritzker Prize for AI in Science Research Excellence On October 19, Kristin was named as an individual laureate of the 2026 Pritzker Prize for AI in Science Research Excellence. Read More: bidmap.berkeley.edu/news

📺 Seminar Rewind: John Kitchin Ecosystems of Innovation: Leveraging Machine Learning Tools, Models and AI Agents in Scienfitic Discovery Workflows 🔗Watch here: https://bit.ly/4wHb5Zb #BIDMaP #AIforScience

📺 Seminar Rewind: Boyu Qie, Mihail Krumov & Ping Tuo From Models to Materials – Generative, Theoretical, and Experimental AI in Discovery 🔗Watch here: https://bit.ly/4gFvpVX #BIDMaP #AIforScience

📺 Seminar Rewind: Xin Wang A Graduate-Level Chemistry Benchmark to Train and Assess Multimodal AI This seminar examines how well AI can interpret chemical reaction schemes and reason about missing information. 🔗Watch here: https://bit.ly/3TFNiej #BIDMaP #AIforScience

📺 Seminar Rewind: Francesco Tavani Global and Local Structural Insights into MOF Atmospheric Water Harvesting This seminar explores how MOF structure affects water capture from air. 🔗Watch here: https://bit.ly/4wbjcNw #BIDMaP #MOFs

📺 Seminar Rewind: Tibor Szilvasi Enabling the Next Level of Understanding in Heterogeneous Catalysis Using Machine Learning Interatomic Potentials 🔗Watch here: https://bit.ly/4yDch24 #BIDMaP #AIforScience

📺 Seminar Rewind: Boris Bolliet Agents for Scientific Discovery: A Parallel Universe? This seminar explores how AI agents can help generate ideas, solve open-ended research problems, and accelerate scientific discovery. 🔗Watch here: https://bit.ly/4bONiPd #BIDMaP #AIforScience

📺 Seminar Rewind: Xu Huang Cumulative Agentic Skill Creation through Autonomous Development and Evolution This seminar explores how AI agents can learn scientific tools, build reusable skills, and support more scalable research workflows. 🔗 Watch: https://bit.ly/4bqr5qE #BIDMaP #AIforScience

🤖Happy National AI Appreciation Day. At BIDMaP, AI helps researchers explore materials, guide experiments, and accelerate discovery for clean energy, carbon capture, water harvesting, and sustainability. AI does not replace scientists — it helps science move faster. #AIforScience #BIDMaP

📺 Seminar Rewind: Phiala Shanahan Revisit our past seminar featuring Phiala Shanahan who explores how machine learning can improve sampling in lattice field theory while preserving key physical symmetries. 🔗 Watch here: https://bit.ly/44E2VFh #BIDMaP #AIforScience

Agentic AI Summit 2026 is coming to UC Berkeley Aug. 1–2 Hosted by Berkeley RDI, the summit features 200+ speakers, 4 stages, and 200+ posters. Early-bird pricing ends July 5. Register here: https://bit.ly/4w3W5Va #AgenticAI #AIforScience #BIDMaP

📺 Seminar Rewind: Nakul, Francesco, Zihui Revisit a past BIDMaP seminar featuring Nakul Rampal, Francesco Tavani, and Zihui Zhou on MOF water adsorption, AI-driven materials discovery, and COFs for direct air capture. 🔗Watch here: https://bit.ly/3P5P72r #BIDMaP #AIforScience

🌿Happy World Environment Day At BIDMaP, we work on materials and discovery tools that can support cleaner air, cleaner water, better energy systems, and more sustainable manufacturing. Solutions for the planet start at the material level. #WorldEnvironmentDay #BIDMaP #Sustainability

📺 Seminar Rewind: Ashish Mahabal Revist Ashish Mahabal on how how explainable AI can help classify rare astronomical events, detect anomalies, and make machine learning more trustworthy for large sky surveys. 🔗Watch here: https://bit.ly/3P5P72r #BIDMaP #AIforScience

🏳️‍🌈Happy Pride Month Science is stronger when people feel seen, supported, and free to contribute. BIDMaP celebrates LGBTQ+ students, researchers, postdocs, staff, and allies in STEM — this month and always. #PrideMonth #LGBTQinSTEM #BIDMaP

📺 Seminar Rewind: Moritz Münchmeyer Revist Münchmeyer on how LLMs are being used in theoretical physics, introducing TPBench and MadEvolve to test AI reasoning and improve scientific algorithms. 🔗Watch here: https://bit.ly/4drcQC1 #BIDMaP #AIforScience

📺 Seminar Rewind: François Lanusse This BIDMaP seminar explores how AI agents are changing research — and how tools like Lightcone Research can make AI-assisted science more reproducible, inspectable, and trustworthy. 🔗Watch here: https://bit.ly/49T8lPI #BIDMaP #AIforScience

🎓Congratulations, Class of 2026! BIDMaP celebrates UC Berkeley graduates in data science, engineering, chemistry, materials science, and beyond. Your ideas will help shape the future of AI-driven discovery, clean energy, water, and sustainable materials. #ClassOf2026 #UCBerkeley #BIDMaP

The Barbara and Gerson Bakar Gateway, the new home of CDSS, is nearing completion! This space will foster AI-driven discovery, interdisciplinary collaboration and provide student support as we work to find solutions to the world’s most pressing challenges. 🔗 https://bit.ly/4uJCKbs #UCBerkeley

☁️Happy Air Quality Awareness Week At BIDMaP, cleaner air starts with better materials. We're using AI to design porous materials that capture CO₂ from open air and convert it into useful fuels and products. That's #AIforScience in action. #AirQualityAwarenessWeek #CleanAir #BIDMaP #AIforScience

BIDMaP Seminar | May 14 François Lanusse explores how to make AI-driven research reproducible and trustworthy through new infrastructure like Lightcone Research. 🗓 Thursday, May 14 ⏰ 12:00 PM 📍 Cory Hall 373 🔗 Learn more: https://bit.ly/4thrYYK #BIDMaP #AIforScience

BIDMaP Seminar | May 7 Moritz Münchmeyer explores how LLMs tackle theoretical physics—introducing TPBench and MadEvolve to improve scientific algorithms. 🗓 Thursday, May 7 ⏰ 12:00 PM 📍 Cory Hall 373 🔗 Learn more: https://bit.ly/48BtKfS #BIDMaP #AIforScience

Congratulations to Daniel Li, UC Berkeley freshman and 2026 Blumenkranz Summer Research Stipend recipient! His research uses multimodal AI to turn chemical literature into structured electrochemical data—advancing sustainable discovery and automated chemistry. #BIDMaP #AIforScience

BIDMaP Seminar | April 30 Join our BIDMaP seminar with Phiala Shanahan on using generative ML models to sample complex quantum systems while preserving physical symmetries. 🗓 Thursday, April 30 ⏰ 12:00 PM 📍 Cory Hall 373 🔗 Learn more: https://bit.ly/3QFOVHg #BIDMaP #AIforScience #Physics

🌍 Earth Day 2026 — “Our Power. Our Planet” At BIDMaP, we accelerate materials discovery for clean energy, water, and sustainability using AI + science. Solutions start at the material level. 🔗Support our work: https://bit.ly/4eDx0Ln #EarthDay #ClimateAction #AIforScience #BIDMaP

BIDMaP Seminar | April 28 Seminar with Collin Bundschu on predicting disorder in materials using physics-based simulations—advancing understanding of energy and catalytic systems. 🗓 Tuesday, April 28 ⏰ 12:00 PM 📍 Cory Hall 373 🔗 Learn more: https://bit.ly/4tQlgd0 #BIDMaP #MaterialsScience

BIDMaP Seminar | April 16 BIDMaP seminar with Nakul Rampal, Francesco Tavani, and Zihui Zhou—spanning MOF water adsorption, AI-driven materials discovery, and COFs for direct air capture. 🗓 Thursday, April 16 ⏰ 12:00 PM 📍 Cory Hall 373 🔗 Learn more: https://bit.ly/3O3xCzh #BIDMaP #AIforScience

BIDMaP ES Seminar | April 14 A seminar with Xu Huang on CASCADE—self-evolving AI agents that learn tools, build reusable skills, and accelerate scientific discovery. 🗓 Tuesday, April 14 ⏰ 12:00 PM 📍 Cory Hall 373 🔗 Learn more: https://bit.ly/4c0Guib #BIDMaP #AIforScience

🤖 Happy National Robotics Week At BIDMaP, robotics powers labs like the Berkeley A-Lab, where AI-guided systems design and run experiments in a continuous loop—accelerating materials discovery for energy and sustainability. #Robotics #AIforScience #BIDMaP

BIDMaP Seminar | April 9 BIDMaP seminar with Boris Bolliet on multi-agent systems that generate ideas and accelerate research—augmenting human scientists, not replacing them. 🗓 Thursday, April 9 ⏰ 12:00 PM 📍 Cory Hall 373 🔗 Learn more: https://bit.ly/4tk6CdI #BIDMaP #AIforScience