What Is the Purpose of Artificial Intelligence in Chemistry?

Artificial Intelligence and Chemistry: An Innovative Synergy. Far from replacing experimentation, AI accelerates chemical research. Thanks to machine learning algorithms and advanced simulations, researchers can explore vast chemical spaces, predict the properties of compounds, and automate complex tasks that were once time-consuming and costly.
The 2nd seminar of the Chemistry Research Cluster dedicated to artificial intelligence in chemistry aims to explore recent advances and future prospects for AI in chemistry, highlighting its impact on research and industry. The plenary lecture titled “Addressing sustainability challenges in chemistry using AI tools” will be delivered by Professor Alexei Lapkin (University of Cambridge, UK).

What's on the program

• 2:15 p.m. – Welcome – coffee
• 2:30 p.m. – Prof. Anne Lurent (Director of ISDM and Executive Vice President for Open Science and Research Data at theUM); “UM ’s AI Strategy”
• 3:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. – Prof. Alexei Lapkin (Professor of Sustainable Reaction Engineering, University of Cambridge, UK); “Addressing sustainability challenges in chemistry using AI tools”

Speakers

Prof. Anne Lurent (Director of ISDM and Vice President for Open Science and Research Data at theUM)

Anne Laurent is a professor of computer science at the University of Montpellier and Vice President for Open Science and Research Data.
As a member of LIRMM (the FADO team focused on the Semantic Web and open science), she conducts research in the fields of databases and artificial intelligence (data warehouses, big data mining, uncertainty management, etc.).
Deeply committed to interdisciplinarity and building bridges between various communities, she participates in various foundational and interdisciplinary research projects. Anne teaches at Polytech Montpellier in the Department of Computer Science and Management.

Prof. Alexei Lapkin (Professor of Sustainable Reaction Engineering, University of Cambridge, UK).

Prof. Alexei Lapkin earned an MChem from Novosibirsk State University, specializing in membrane gas separation.

He then worked at the Boreskov Institute of Catalysis before moving to the University of Bath, where he was employed as a research officer, a position that allowed him to complete his Ph.D. in the field of multiphase membrane catalysis.
In September 2009, he was appointed Professor of Engineering at the School of Engineering, University of Warwick, a position he held until April 2013.

He then moved to the University of Cambridge, where he currently serves as Professor of Sustainable Reaction Engineering in the Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology.

For the launch of this second seminar on AI in Chemistry, a short and informal format awaits you.

Opportunity for doctoral students to earn academic credit!

See you on April 11 at 2:15 p.m. in the lecture hall of the Balard Research Building.

Campus access with a QR code (request to generate a code to be sent by email).