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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

BIDMaP Seminar | April 2 Join Tibor Szilvasi on using machine learning to model heterogeneous catalysts at the atomic level and reveal how they function in realistic environments. 🗓 Thursday, April 2 ⏰ 12:00 PM 📍 Cory Hall 373 🔗 Learn more: https://bit.ly/4lWuYrh #BIDMaP #Catalysis #AIforScience

BIDMaP Director Christian Borgs has recieved an honorary doctorate from Eindhoven University of Technology The honor recognizes his major contributions to network science and machine learning—foundations for data-driven discovery at BIDMaP. Read More: https://bit.ly/4teNJIT #AIforScience #BIDMaP

BIDMaP Seminar | March 31 Join us for a seminar with Francesco Tavani on how MOF structure controls water capture, using X-ray methods and modeling to guide better materials for atmospheric water harvesting. 🗓 Tuesday, March 31 ⏰ 12:00 PM 📍 Cory Hall 373 🔗 Learn more: https://bit.ly/3NSHoE1

BIDMaP Emerging Scholars Seminar | March 17 Seminar with Xin Wang, presenting a graduate-level benchmark testing whether multimodal AI can interpret chemical reaction schemes and infer missing components. 🗓 Thursday, March 17 ⏰ 12:00 PM 📍 Cory Hall 373 🔗 Learn more: https://bit.ly/4ruaqaI

Today is the day — Big Give is here! ⭐ Support BIDMaP as we accelerate AI-driven materials discovery for climate, energy, and sustainability. 🔗 https://givingday.berkeley.edu/

BIDMaP Seminar | March 19 Rocio Semino (Sorbonne University) will discuss how modeling + machine learning reveal the molecular mechanisms behind MOF self-assembly. 🗓 Thursday, March 19 ⏰ 12:00 PM 📍 Cory Hall 373 🔗 Learn more: https://bit.ly/4cDHuto #BIDMaP #MOFs #AIforScience

BIDMaP faculty member Aditi Krishnapriyan has received a 2025 DOE Early Career Award. Her research develops ML methods grounded in physical laws to accelerate large scientific simulations and help model complex systems faster. Read More: https://bit.ly/4aZxZU5 #AIforScience #MachineLearning #DOE

BIDMaP’s 2025 Impact Report is out! In just three years, BIDMaP researchers have built autonomous labs, contributed to one of the largest open molecular simulation datasets, and advanced materials research for climate, energy, and sustainability. 📘Read the full report: https://bit.ly/4rQdvmz

Join us on March 31 at noon for the CDSS Dean’s Distinguished Lecture on Shared Futures with Mary Robinson! This event is free and open to the UC Berkeley community. 🔗 Register now: https://bit.ly/46HruCD @berkeleychemistry.bsky.social @ucberkeleylaw.bsky.social @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social

Countdown to Big Give ⭐ On March 12 support research shaping our future. At BIDMaP, Big Give sustains open science—public seminars, collaboration, and AI for clean energy and sustainability. It’s about enabling people, ideas, and shared momentum. 🔗 https://givingday.berkeley.edu/

BIDMaP seminar | March 5 Next in the series: A Fellows workshop by three BIDMaP postdocs Boyu Qie, Mihail Krumov, and Ping Tuo— spanning generative models, theory, and AI-guided experiments. 🗓 Thursday, March 5 ⏰ 12:00 PM 📍 Cory Hall 373 🥗 Lunch provided 🔗 https://bidmap.berkeley.edu/events

BIDMaP Seminar | March 12 Join John Kitchin on how machine learning, generative models, and AI agents are changing the way scientific discovery workflows are built—from catalysis to automated research software. 🗓 Thursday, March 12 ⏰ 12:00 PM 📍 Cory Hall 373 🔗 Learn more: https://bit.ly/4skYzN1

We are BIDMaP — the Bakar Institute of Digital Materials for the Planet at UC Berkeley. We use big data, AI, robotics, and generative modeling to accelerate materials discovery for climate, energy, and sustainability. Follow to learn more. 🔗 bidmap.berkeley.edu #AIforScience #Materials #Climate