Mar 12, 3pm: AC seminar with Adji Bousso Dieng
Join us online or in-person for the Acceleration Consortium’s (AC) next seminar of 2025. Based at the University of Toronto, the AC is a global community of academia, government, and industry who are accelerating the discovery of new materials and molecules needed for a sustainable future.
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AC seminar with Adji Bousso Dieng
Date: Wednesday, March 12, 2025
Time: 3:00 – 4:00 PM EST
Location: Online or in-person (700 University Avenue, 10th floor, seminar room)
Join Adji Bousso Dieng for a talk on Vendi Scoring, a new research approach to understanding diversity in data-driven discovery. Explore how Vendi Scores serve as powerful diversity metrics for analyzing complex energy landscapes and searching vast materials databases. Learn how these methods lead to 'algorithmic microscopy,' a novel technique to help scientists to zoom in on large datasets with precision.
About the speaker
Adji Bousso Dieng is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Princeton University where she leads the lab Vertaix on research at the intersection of artificial intelligence and the natural sciences. She is affiliated with the Chemical and Biological Engineering Department, the Princeton Materials Institute, the Princeton Quantum Initiative, the Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment, and the High Meadows Environmental Institute (HMEI) at Princeton. She is also a Research Scientist at Google AI and the founder and President of the nonprofit The Africa I Know.
Other important stuff that you should know about
Registration for the 2025 Accelerate conference in Toronto, August 11–14, will launch shortly! To be the first to know about early-bird tickets, add your name to the list.
Our call for abstracts for the conference is already open. Check out the content tracks, important dates, and complete submission guidelines.
We’re happy to once again offer a summer undergraduate research program in accelerated discovery, aimed at those who self-identify as members of equity-deserving groups. This 12-week, hands-on fellowship includes an $8,500 research stipend, up to $1,200 for a travel stipend to Toronto, one-on-one mentorship, and more. Application deadline: March 3, 2025.
And in case you missed it, catch AC director Alán Aspuru-Guzik talk about what we’re up to at the Acceleration Consortium on CNN and BNN Bloomberg.