Grand challenges in AI and data science

28 March 2022

Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) are pushing scientific research into new domains, providing new opportunities to answer the complex societal and economic challenges facing our societies. From understanding the universe to tracking how viruses infect humans, producing large-scale scientific research requires increasingly innovative AI and ML, both for the running of cutting-edge scientific instruments and for the complex analysis of large amounts of data.

On 28 April 2022, the EIROforum alliance of European scientific infrastructures, CERN, ESO, ESA, EMBL, ESRF, ILL, European XFEL and EUROFusion will hold a conference focusing on the grand challenges in AI and data science. Hosted at the EMBL Heidelberg, with a free live streaming option for virtual participants, the conference will include workshops and talks presenting leading data science and AI from the EIROforum members, and explore how they can contribute to scientific progress with societal and economic impact.

 “AI and ML are everywhere nowadays, in our connected objects, telephones and even at the hospital." says Dr Paolo Mutti, head of Instrument Control at the ILL. "The benefit of these techniques have started to enter the scientific world as well, but their potential has still to be fully exploited. Great advantages can be achieved in the way scientists perform experiments and in the quantity and quality of information that can be extracted from the measured data. This EIROforum event is a great way to exchange practices between the different partners to move forward in exploring the new opportunities offered by AI.”

To see the programme and register for this event, please visit:

https://www.embl.org/about/info/course-and-conference-office/events/eir22-01/

More information: https://www.eiroforum.org/news/eiroforum-hosts-conference-on-grand-challenges-in-ai-and-data-science/