Tuesday, May 12, 2026
7:30am: Check In / Breakfast
8:30am–5:30pm:
Plenary Session: Keynote Presentations and Panels about Genesis, American Science Cloud, and Innovative Science and Networking
6-8pm Working Dinner & Quantum Keynote
Wednesday, May 13, 2026
8am Check In / Breakfast
8:15am-5pm:
Plenary Session: AmSC Infrastructure Partner Demos and Panels
Breakout Rooms:
Live Demos for AmSC IP
Closed Meetings
Thursday, May 14, 2026
8am Breakfast & On-Site Check In
8:30am-2:30pm
Plenary Session: AmSC Infrastructure Partner Demos and Panels
Breakout Rooms: Live Demos for AmSC IP and Closed Meetings
Breakout Meeting: EJFAT Users
Breakout Meeting (Invitation Only): ESnet Site Coordinators Committee (ESCC)
Plenary Session: Plaza Ball Room
Breakout Rooms 1: Regency and 2: Roosevelt
Breakfast, Lunch, and AM/PM Breaks: Plaza and Patio Foyers
Breakout Room 3: Potomac
7:30-8:30am Check In / Breakfast
8:30-9am Welcome | Confabbing About ESnet
Inder Monga, Executive Director, ESnet, and AmSC Project Deputy
9-9:30am Genesis Vision
Dario Gil, Under Secretary for Science, U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)
9:30-10am American Science Cloud (AmSC): Fireside Chat
Inder Monga, Executive Director, ESnet , and AmSC Project Deputy
Gina Tourassi, Associate Laboratory Director, Computing and Computational Sciences Directorate, ORNL, and AmSC Project Lead
10-10:30am Break
10:30-11:30am Big Science in the Age of the Genesis Mission
Fusion Energy Sciences: Cami Collins, Plasma Physicist and Section Head, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Biological and Environmental Research: Kjiersten Fagnan, Chief Informatics Officer and Data Science and Informatics Leader, Joint Genome Institute, Berkeley Lab
High Energy Physics: Oliver Gutsche, Senior Scientist, Scientific Computing, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
Computer Science: Neeraj Kumar, Chief Data Scientist in the Advanced Computing, Mathematics, and Data Division at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Nuclear Physics: Todd Satogata, Senior Staff Scientist, Jefferson Lab
Basic Energy Sciences: Kevin Yager, Interim Director, AI-Accelerated Nanoscience, Center for Functional Nanomaterials, Brookhaven National Laboratory
Moderator: Andreas Kronfeld, Theoretical Physicist at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory and chair of the American Science Cloud Science Council
11:30am-12pm Architecting the Future of the Intelligent Network
Inder Monga, Executive Director, ESnet
Chin Guok, Chief Technology Officer, ESnet
12-1pm Lunch
1-1:30pm ModCon/AmSC Interconnections: How Do We Merge Science Tools and the Platform?
Court Corley, Chief Scientist for Artificial Intelligence, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
1:30-2:30pm ESnet7 Innovation Lightning Talks
Eli Dart, Science Engagement Engineer
Bruce Mah, High Touch team lead
Dale Carder, Services Lead, Network Engineering
Edward Balas, Measurement & Analysis Group Lead
Xi Yang, Pilots & Prototypes Group Lead
Andrew Wiedlea, Science Engagement Group Lead (Acting) and Advanced Wireless team lead
Inder Monga, Lead P.I. QUANT-NET
2:30-3pm Afternoon Break
3-3:30pm Vera C. Rubin Observatory: Opening the Data Challenge of the Universe to the World
Adam Bolton, Astrophysicist and Data Scientist, Senior Staff Scientist, SLAC, and US Data Facility Lead, Vera C. Rubin Observatory
3:30-4pm AI at the Edge for Fusion and Scientific Automation
Shantenu Jha, Computational Sciences Department Head, PPPL
4-4:30pm NNSA and Genesis AI Collaboration: New ways to Think Across boundaries
Earl Lawrence, Chief Scientist for the National Security AI Office, Los Alamos National Laboratory
4:30-5pm The Revolutionary Transition of Supercomputing: The Japanese AI4S Efforts in Collaboration with the US Genesis Mission
Satoshi Matsuoka, Director, RIKEN Center for Computational Science
5-5:30pm AmSC Accomplishments and Plan for Day 2
Gina Tourassi, Associate Laboratory Director, Computing and Computational Sciences Directorate, ORNL and AmSC Project Lead
Inder Monga, Executive Director, ESnet , and AmSC Project Deputy
Arjun Shankar, Division Director for the National Center for Computational Science, ORNL, AmSC Project Deputy
5:30-6pm Break
6-8pm Working Dinner
Quantum Computing across Genesis: Government, Academia and Industry Christopher Monroe, Co-Founder and Chief Scientist, IonQ Inc., and Gilhuly Family Presidential Distinguished Professor of ECE and Physics, Duke University
8am Check In / AM Refreshments
8:15am Welcome: Gina Tourassi, Associate Laboratory Director of the Computing and Computational Sciences Directorate, ORNL
8:30am Genesis and AmSC: From Infrastructure to Discovery (Brief updates and audience Q&A)
Hal Finkel, Associate Director for ASCR
9am Break
9:15am Plenary Demo | Demo I: Stellar-AI, Fusion Digital Twin
Shantenu Jha, Computational Sciences Department Head, PPPL
9:30am Plenary Demo | Demo J: Multi-Agent Workflow for Both Nuclear Plant-level and Reactor Component Design
Brandon Biggs, High Performance Computing Systems Administrator, INL
9:45am Plenary Demo | Demo M: Fermi Data Platform: Uploading, Curating, and Accessing Datasets
Oliver Gutsche, Senior Scientist, Scientific Computing, FNAL
10am Morning Break
10:30am Panel: AI-driven Science Workflows
Thomas Uram, Team Lead, Data Services and Workflows, Argonne Leadership Computing Facility
Kjiersten Fagnan, Chief Informatics Officer and Data Science and Informatics Leader, Joint Genome Institute, Berkeley Lab
Mark Kostuk, Group Lead, Advanced Computing, DIII-D, General Atomics
Alex Hexemer, Group Lead, Photon Science Computing, Advanced Light Source, Berkeley Lab
Salman Habib, Director of Computational Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory
11am Plenary Demos | Demos A-D — Introduction
Adolfy Hoisie, Department Chair, CDS, Project PI, Brookhaven National Laboratory
Demo A+D: AI-driven Real-Time Structure Identification from X-ray Spectroscopy
Deyu Lu, Scientist, Center for Functional Nanomaterials, Brookhaven National Laboratory
Demo B: AI-Driven Real-Time Nuclear & Particle Physics
Yihui (Ray) Ren, Group Lead, CDS, Brookhaven National Laboratory
Demo C: Federated Orchestration of Heterogeneous Workflows
Alexei Klimentov, Scientific Computing and Data Facilities Director, CDS, Brookhaven National Laboratory
12pm Lunch
1pm Break | Demo Observation Time / Meetings
1:45pm Plenary Demo | Demo E1: AI-Assisted Algorithm Development and Tuning
Plenary Demo | Demo E2: Agentic Workflows for QCD
Plenary Demo | Demo E3: AI-Powered QCD Global Analysis
Robert Edwards/JLAB, Michael Wagman/FNAL
2:30pm Afternoon Break
3pm Panel: Data Streaming to HPC
Yatish Kumar, EJFAT project lead, ESnet
Eli Dart, Science Engagement engineer, ESnet
Rachana Ananthakrishnan, Executive Director & Head of Products, Globus, University of Chicago
Mike Brim, Senior R&D Staff Member, Technology Integration Group, National Center for Computational Sciences (NCCS), ORNL
3:45pm Plenary Demos H1-H3, Intro: The SLAC/S3DF Infrastructure Partner
Jay Srinivasan, Division Director, Scientific Computing Systems, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
Plenary Demo | Demo H1: Automated LCLS Run Processing Across S3DF and NERSC via the IRI Interface
Amith Murthy, Senior Software Developer, and Sam Welborn, Big Data Architect, SLAC
Plenary Demo | Demo H2: Scalable, Automated AmSC Catalog Registration through Tiled
Sam Welborn, Big Data Architect, SLAC
Plenary Demo | Demo H3: SLAC S3AI — A Sandbox for Streaming Inference and Control
Ryan Coffee, Senior Scientist, SLAC
Plenary Conclusion: Jay Srinivasan
4:30pm Questions for Day 1 IP Teams
Moderator: David Martin, Science Engagement, ESnet
5pm Day Two Closeout
Gina Tourassi, Associate Laboratory Director, Computing and Computational Sciences Directorate, ORNL and AmSC Project Lead
8am Check In / AM Refreshments
8:30am Day 3 Welcome: Gina Tourassi, Associate Laboratory Director of the Computing and Computational Sciences Directorate, ORNL, and AmSC Project Lead
8:45am Plenary Demos F1-F5 Introduction: AmSC Scientific User Facilities Infrastructure Partnership (SUF IP) Project
Paolo Calafiura, Data & Computational Scientist, Scientific Data, LBNL
Plenary Demo | Demo F1 Agentic Accelerator Controls
Remi Lehe, Research Scientist and Physicist, Advanced Modeling Program, Accelerator Technology & Applied Physics Division, LBNL
Plenary Demo | Demo F2: Cross-Facility Data Ingestion and AI Workflows for Nuclear Physics
David Lawrence, Scientific Software Scientist, JLAB
Plenary Demo | Demo F3: Inference as a Service for HEP and NP Data Analysis
Xiangyang Ju, Computing Systems Engineer, SciFata, LBNL
Meghna Bhattacharya, Applications Physicist, FNAL
Plenary Demo | Demo F4: AI-Enabled Science at the Light and Neutron Sources with the American Science Cloud
Nicholas Schwarz, Principal Computer Scientist, ANL
Plenary Demo | Demo F5: OpenCosmo on AmSC
Patrick Wells, Computational Cosmologist and Software Engineer, ANL
SUF IP Conclusion
Nicholas Schwarz, Principal Computer Scientist, ANL
10am AM Break
10:30 Panel: The High Performance Data Facility (HPDF): Powering Data Services for the American Science Cloud
Graham Heyes, Acting HPDF Project Director, Jefferson Lab
Ilya Baldin, Acting HPDF Technical Director, Jefferson Lab
Ana Kupresanin, Scientific Data Division Director, Berkeley Lab, and HPDF Deputy Project Director
Shane Canon, HPDF Deputy Technical Director
Moderator: Chin Guok, ESnet Chief Technology Officer
11am Plenary Demo | Demo K: HERO capabilities
Monte Lunacek, Data Scientist, NRL
11:15am Plenary Demo | Demo G: HAIDIS: Hardware-Enabled AI Distributed Inverse Problem Solver
Ilya Baldin, Acting HPDF Technical Director, JLAB
11:30am Plenary Demo | Demo L: EDX Platform & AmSC OpenMetadata Integration Demo
Chad Rowan, Research Scientist, Computational Science & Engineering, NETL
Jack Sarle, Lead Engineer for AI & Software Systems, NETL
11:45am Plenary Demo | Demo N: Interactive DIII-D Digital Twin for Experimental Science
Sterling Smith, Software Development Group Manager, Fusion Division, General Atomics
David Schissel, Director, Computer Systems and Science at General Atomics
12pm Lunch
1pm Panel: Cyber Security in an AI Science Era
Carol Hawk, ESnet Program Manager, ASCR
Michael Skwarek, Deputy Chief Information Officer and Chief Information Security Officer, ANL
Ryan Adamson, Group Lead, HPC Security and Information Engineering Group, OLCF
Adam Stone, CIO and IT Division Director, LBNL at Berkeley Lab
Brian Spears, Technical Director, Genesis Mission, U.S. Department of Energy and NNSA, and Distinguished Member of the Technical Staff, LLNL
Moderator: Adam Slagell, CSO, ESnet
1:45pm Questions for Day 3 IP Teams
Moderator: David Martin, Science Engagement, ESnet
2pm Confab Closeout
Inder Monga, Executive Director, ESnet and AmSC Project Deputy
2:15pm Afternoon Break - END
8-9:30am
Breakout Room 2: Roosevelt
Genesis / AmSC Architecture Discussion (closed meeting)
8:30am-10am
Breakout Room 1: Regency
AmSC UX Working Group Meeting: Portal Integration & User Testing (Katrina Turner, ESnet) — all are welcome!
10:30am-12pm
Breakout Room 1: Regency
Demo J: Multi-agent workflow for both nuclear plant-level and reactor component design (Brandon Biggs/INL)
Breakout Room 2: Roosevelt
Demo G: HAIDIS: Hardware-enabled AI Distributed Inverse problem Solver (Ilya Baldin/JLAB)
Breakout Room 3: Potomac (Atrium Level)
IRI Subcommittee Meeting (John MacAuley, ESnet) — closed session
12:30-1:45pm
Breakout Room 3: Potomac (Atrium Level)
ASCR/Science Council/AmSC Management Team Meeting (closed session)
1-2:30pm
Breakout Room 1: Regency
F1 Agentic Accelerator Controls (Remi Lehe/LBNL)
F2 Cross-Facility Data Ingestion and AI Workflows for Nuclear Physics (David Lawrence/JLAB), Meifeng Lin/BNL), Armen Kasparian/JLAB), and Mohammad Atif/BNL)
F3 Inference as a Service for HEP and NP Data Analysis (Xiangyang Ju/LBNL, Meghna Bhattacharya/FNAL)
Breakout Room 2: Roosevelt
Demo N: Interactive DIII-D Digital Twin for Experimental Science (David Schissel/DIII-D)
2:30-3pm Afternoon Break
3-5pm
Breakout Room 1: Regency
F4 AI-Enabled Science at the Light and Neutron Sources with the American Science Cloud (5 subdemos & speakers):
Tomography (Tim Dunn, SLAC)
Ptychography (Steven Henke, ANL)
Bragg Peak Detection (Valerio Mariani, SLAC)
Neutron Scattering (Sergey Yakubov, ORNL)
Latent Space Exploration (Daniel Allan, BNL)
F5 OpenCosmo on AmSC (Patrick Wells/ANL)
4-5pm
Breakout Room 2: Roosevelt
AI Services Overview and Agentic Workflows
Speakers: Tom Uram (ALCF), Huihuo Zheng (ALCF), John Gounley (ORNL)
5-6pm
Breakout Room 3: Potomac (Atrium Level)
ASCR/AmSC Management Team Meeting (closed session)
8-9am
Breakout Room 1: Regency Room
AmSC Architecture Office Hours
9am-4pm
Breakout 3: Potomac Room
ESnet Site Coordinators Council (ESCC) Meeting — closed session Learn more.
10:30am-12pm
Breakout 1: Regency Room
Demo A+D: AI-driven Real-Time Structure Identification from X-ray Spectroscopy (Deyu Lu, Sara Mason, Sairam Vatsavai, Dan Allen/BNL)
Demo B: AI-Driven Real-Time Nuclear & Particle Physics (Ray Ren, Ai Kagawa/BNL)
Demo C: Federated Orchestration of Heterogeneous Workflows (Alexei Klimentov, Ofer Rind, Oszkar Tarjan, Horonori Ito, Matt Cowan/BNL)
Breakout 2: Roosevelt Room
Demo E2: Agentic workflows for Lattice QCD (Chris Kelly/BNL)
Demo E3: AI powered QCD Global Analysis (Nobuo Sato/JLab)
12-1pm Lunch
1-3:45pm
Breakout 1: Regency Room
CANCELED: Demo K: HERO capabilities (Monte Lunacek/NLR)
ROOM CHANGE: EJFAT Planning collaborations & Demos (all are welcome)
Breakout 2: Roosevelt Room
1-2pm
ADDED: AmSC Web Portal Demos
2:15-2:45pm NEW TIME: Closing / Afternoon Break