This will be short presentation and then informal discussion about the use of LLMs and AI agents in scientific discovery. Yangshuai Wang was a postdoc at UBC from 2021 to 2024, and since then has become a fast adopter of LLM technology in research. He will tell us about his work with chemistry groups on […]

Numerical computing is a vital part of the modern scientific infrastructure. Almost all numerical computing uses floating point arithmetic, and almost every modern computer implements the IEEE binary floating point standard, published in 1985. This standard is arguably the most important in the computer industry, the result of an unprecedented cooperation between academic computer scientists […]

Finding steady-state solutions to the Schrödinger equation involves solving an exponentially large eigenvalue problem. In this talk, I show how neural networks can be used to parameterize functions representing the eigenvector associated with the lowest eigenvalue. For interacting quantum systems, this solution is the ground state wavefunction and describes the behavior at zero temperature. I […]