The ICTP-IBM Brahmagupta AI Prize for Young Scientists Ceremony (10 July 2025)

Administration

Description

ICTP and IBM have established an annual prize for outstanding young researchers working in AI for Science/Science for AI. The prize, worth €10,000, is supported by a five-year sponsorship by IBM and has been established to promote research focusing on approaches to AI and science that can benefit the society at large. This effort contributes to the ultimate goal of the AI Alliance, a global organization launched in December 2023 by IBM and Meta, which ICTP has also joined, to accelerate responsible open innovation in AI while ensuring safety, security, and trust.

The prize ceremony will take place every year at ICTP, during a two-week conference and summer school on AI.

The Selection Panel, composed of Professors Anima Anandkumar, Eiman Kanjo, Patrick McSharry, Marc Mézard (Chair), and Andrea Montanari.

The 2025 ICTP-IBM Brahmagupta Artificial Intelligence Prize for Early Career Scientists is awarded to Professor Simon Olsson of Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, “for his pioneering work on the use of Artificial Intelligence methods in molecular simulations, overcoming long-standing computational problems in statistical mechanics, with translational impact on drug discovery and vaccine design.”

The award honours Indian mathematician and astronomer Brahmagupta, known for his important contributions to mathematics. In particular, he was the first to consider zero as a number and for introducing negative numbers.

All are welcome to attend. Light refreshments will be served after the event.

The Ceremony will also be livestreamed, CLICK HERE to see the live streaming.

Material

Poster Programme

The ICTP-IBM Brahmagupta AI Prize for Young Scientists Ceremony

Go to day

Thursday, 10 July 2025

10:30 - 14:00 The ICTP-IBM Brahmagupta AI Prize for Young Scientists Ceremony

The Ceremony will be live-streamed, CLICK HERE to see the livestreaming.

Click here to see the ICTP-IBM Brahmagupta AI Prize for Young Scientists web page

Chair of the Ceremony: Sandro Scandolo (Senior Coordinator of the ICTP Research Division, member of the CMSP Section)

10:30 Opening remarks 5'

Speaker: Atish Dabholkar (Director of ICTP)
10:35 Brahmagupta's legacy 15'
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Opening Talk
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Speaker: Claudio Arezzo (Head of Mathematics Section, ICTP)

10:50 Awarding of the ICTP-IBM Brahmagupta AI Prize for Young Scientists 10'

Speaker:

Atish Dabholkar (Director ICTP), Alessandro Curioni (IBM Research Zurich), Simon Olsson (Chalmers University of Technology)

11:00 Generative Models of Molecular Dynamics 45'

Talk by the Winner

Speaker:	Simon Olsson (Chalmers University of Technology)
Material:	Abstract

11:45 The Future of Scientific Discovery 45'
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Keynote Talk
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Speaker: Alessandro Curioni (IBM Research Zurich)
12:30 Group photo & Welcome Reception Lunch 1h30'