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Event Program

Draft Programme - times and assignments are approximate

Day 1 - Monday 14th September 2026

Lunch - 12:00 Chicago time

Session 1 - 13:00

• Kyle Chard - Welcome To APeX (in person)
• Chris Harrop - Academy Agents for Numerical Weather Prediction (remote)
• Max Burnette - Diamond Platform (remote)
• Haotian Xie - Diamond Agents (in person)
• Alex Brace - DeepDriveWE: An agentic approach to enhanced sampling molecular dynamics (in person)
• Tim Dunn - TBD (remote)

Session 2 - 14:30

• Alok Kamatar - Persistent Agents and Other New Features in Academy 1.0 (in person)
• Kevin Hunter Kesling - State of Globus Compute (2026 edition) (remote)
• Geoffrey Lentner - The Anvil MEP and building on top of Globus Compute (in person)
• Harikrishna Tummalapalli - Ensemble Executor for Insane-Scale Compute (in person)
• Chris Janidlo - HTEX Protocol compatibility (in person)
• Ben Clifford - Parsl Community Grants Closing Roundup (remote)

Session 3 - 16:00

• Stephen Hudson - AgentLab: Collaborative Agentic Campaigns across HPC Facilities (in person)
• David Abramov - Agentic Workflows for Tomography and Knowledge Curation (remote)
• Suman Raj - Fairness-Aware Scheduling for Bursty HPC Workloads (in person)
• Seena VazifeDunn - Globus Tunnels + Compute (in person)
• Mihael Hategan - Reactive programming with Academy (remote)
• Saiful Islam - Floability Backpacks: Packaging Workflows for Portable HPC Deployment (in person)

Workshop Dinner - 18:00

Day 2 - Tuesday 15th September 2026

Breakfast - 08:30

Session 4 - 09:30

• Amal Gueroudji - Provenance Collection for Agentic frameworks (in person)
• Chandrachur Bhattacharya - AISAC (remote)
• Valesca Moura - Instrumentation vs. Observability: Provenance Capture Trade-offs in Agentic Workflows (remote)
• Yadu Babuji - Academy Dashboard (in person)
• Akshat Singhania - Cognitive Routing of LLM Requests via Contextual Knowledge Building (in person)
• Gulesh Shukla - Observability and Academy Agents (remote)

Session 5 - 11:00

• Valerie Hayot-Sasson - Continuous reproducibility with Correct (remote)
• Mike Tynes - Distributed on-the-fly Training of Neural Network Potentials with Parsl, Globus Compute, and Academy (in person)
• SPARE or Alex Zhang - Per-action Authorization for Shared Agents (remote)
• Ryan Chard - Reputation as Community Memory for the Agentic Web (remote)
• Augustus Ellerm - HPCBridge (remote)
• Himanshi Yadav - Atomizing the Chicago Assyrian Dictionary: Agentic Workflow for Structuring Multi-Language Text Documents (in person)
• Hai Nguyen - A reference architecture for AI orchestration (in person)

Session 6 - 12:30

• Ben Clifford - Formal methods for Parsl block shutdown (remote)
• Daniel Rosendo - An Agentic AI Framework to Accelerate Scientific Discovery in Plant Phenotyping (in person)
• Matt Baughman - Tritium Splash: Using Agents to Drive Large-Scale Exploration of Multiphysics Simulations for Fusion Fuels (in person)
• Owen Price-Skelly - Self-steering MLIP Committee with Rootstock and Academy Agents (in person)
• Logan Ward - Agentic AI-Driven Molecule Design on HPC (remote)
• Matt Sinclair - Federated deployment of an agentic biology framework at scale (remote)
• Parmanand Sinha - No SSH Required: Building a Web-Based HPC Dispatch Service on Globus Compute (in person)

13:30 - lunch

Panel

Coming soon. Details about the panel discussion will be posted here closer to the event.

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Location (for in-person component)

The APeX Summit will be held at the University of Chicago's Data Science Institute.
📍 Address: 5460 S. University Ave, Chicago, IL 60615

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General Inquiries or Questions?

Contact us at parsl@googlegroups.com.

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