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Event Program

Day 1 - Monday 14th September 2026

12:00 CT - 🍴 Lunch (provided for in-person attendees)

13:00 - Session 1 | Chair: Yadu Babuji

• Kyle Chard - Welcome To APeX • Slides
• Chris Harrop - Academy Agents for Numerical Weather Prediction • Slides • Video
• Alex Brace - DeepDriveWE: An agentic approach to enhanced sampling molecular dynamics • Slides • Video
• Max Burnette - Diamond: Democratizing Large Neural Network Model Training for Science • Slides • Video
• Haotian Xie - Diamond Agent: Agentic Control of Federated HPC Resources as a Service • Video
• Parmanand Sinha - No SSH Required: Building a Web-Based HPC Dispatch Service on Globus Compute • Video
• Tanjin He - User Experience Sharing: Accessing Multiple HPC systems with Globus Compute and Parsl • Video

14:10 - ☕️ Break

14:30 - Session 2: Inside Parsl, Globus Compute and Academy | Chair: Daniel S. Katz

• Alok Kamatar - Persistent Agents and Other New Features in Academy 1.0 • Slides • Video
• Kevin Hunter Kesling - State of Globus Compute (2026 edition) • Slides • Video
• Harikrishna Tummalapalli - Ensemble Executor for Insane-Scale Compute • Video
• Ben Clifford - Parsl Sustainability - interactions between the codebase and humans • Slides • Video
• Chris Janidlo - HTEX Protocol compatibility • Video
• Tim Dunn - Academy at SLAC: Stateful Agents for Autonomous Science • Slides • Video
• Geoffrey Lentner - The Anvil MEP and building on top of Globus Compute • Slides • Video
• Fakhrul Bhuiyan - ParslBox: A Computational Materials Workflow Executor for AI-Agents on High-Performance Computing Systems • Video

15:40 - ☕️ Break

16:00 - Session 3: Tools and Techniques | Chair: Chris Janidlo

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

17:15 - Closing

17:30 - 🍴 Dinner - Nella Pizza e Pasta
Address: 1125 E 55th St, Chicago, IL 60615

Day 2 - Tuesday 15th September 2026

08:30 CT - 🍴 Breakfast (provided for in-person attendees)

09:00 - Session 4: Observability | Chair: Augustus Ellerm

• Jack Bryant - Building the Guardrails - How we use Globus Flows and Globus Compute to enforce access control and data hygiene • Slides
• Amal Gueroudji - Provenance Collection for Agentic frameworks • Video
• Chandrachur Bhattacharya - AISAC • Video
• Valesca Moura - Instrumentation vs. Observability: Provenance Capture Trade-offs in Agentic Workflows • Slides • Video
• Akshat Singhania - Cognitive Routing of LLM Requests via Contextual Knowledge Building • Video
• Andre Bauer - A Glimpse of the ACLF Inference Dataset
• Gulesh Shukla - Academy Agent Observability over Diaspora • Slides • Video

10:10 - ☕️ Break

10:25 - Session 5: Tools and Techniques | Chair: Suman Raj

• Valerie Hayot-Sasson - Continuous reproducibility with Correct • Video
• Mike Tynes - Distributed on-the-fly Training of Neural Network Potentials with Parsl, Globus Compute, and Academy • Video
• Ryan Chard - Reputation as Community Memory for the Agentic Web • Slides • Video
• Augustus Ellerm - HPCBridge • Slides • Video
• Himanshi Yadav - Atomizing the Chicago Assyrian Dictionary: Agentic Workflow for Structuring Multi-Language Text Documents • Slides • Video
• Hai Nguyen - A reference architecture for AI orchestration • Video
• Yadu Babuji - Academy Dashboard • Slides

11:35 - ☕️ Break

11:50 - Session 6: Science | Chair: Alok Kamatar

• Daniel Rosendo - An Agentic AI Framework to Accelerate Scientific Discovery in Plant Phenotyping • Video
• Matt Sinclair - Federated deployment of an agentic biology framework at scale • Video
• Matt Baughman - Tritium Splash: Using Agents to Drive Large-Scale Exploration of Multiphysics Simulations for Fusion Fuels • Video
• Ben Clifford - Temporal Logic of Actions vs Lost Tasks vs Block Scaling • Slides • Video
• Owen Price-Skelly - Self-steering MLIP Committee with Rootstock and Academy Agents • Video
• Logan Ward - Agentic AI-Driven Molecule Design on HPC • Video

12:50 - 🍴 Lunch

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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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