Wyoming Computing Symposium 2025

 

DESCRIPTION:

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is rapidly transforming industries across the globe, and Wyoming stands to benefit significantly from its strategic implementation. By showcasing case studies, research, and public-private partnerships, this Symposium explores the diverse and growing applications of AI in advancing Wyoming’s economy.
 

• Boosting agricultural productivity
• Optimizing autonomous systems and controls
• Enhancing management of wildlife and environment
• Maximizing resource recovery and energy production
• Fostering economic innovation 
• Improving rural healthcare

 

The event will connect students and faculty with employers from industry, agencies and national labs to help catalyze statewide adoption of AI technologies aligned with Wyoming’s unique economic landscape and rural strengths.

 

REGISTRATION AND AGENDA:

The Symposum will take place upstairs in the UW Union from 8am-6pm on September 25-26 (Thursday-Friday).
Click here for registration. Agenda below

 

Thursday Sept. 25

• 8:00–8:30am Coffee and Pastries
  
  
• 8:30–8:40am Opening remarks – Dane Taylor, UW School of Computing
  
  
• 8:40–10:40am AI Applications: Keynotes
  • Sean Young, Nvidia
  • Chris Ritter, Idaho National Laboratory 
    
    
• 10:50–12:30pm AI for WY: Breakout Discussions and Panel
  • Discussions led by SI Center Leaders:
    Ben Koger (SoC), Liping Wang (Civil), Jeff Hamerlinck (WyGISC) and Laura de Sousa Oliveira (Chemistry)
    
    
• 12:30–1:50pm Lunch (provided)
  
  
• 1:50–3:20pm AI for Agriculture: Keynote and Invited Talk
  • Baskar Ganapathysubramanian, Anderlik Professor of Engineering at Iowa State University
  • Yaqoob Majeed, Assistant Professor, UW Dept. of EECS
    
    
• 3:30–4:30pm Lightning Talks
  
  • Open call for 3-5 minute presentations! Details below. Apply here.
    
    
• 4:30–6:00pm Poster Session and Networking Event
  • Open call for posters! Details below. Apply here.
  • Food and drinks will be generously provided.

 

Friday Sept. 26

• 8:00–8:30am Coffee and Pastries
  
  
• 8:30–8:40am Opening Remarks – Zejian Zhou, UW Dept. of EECS
  
  
• 8:40-10:40pm AI for Autonomous Systems: Keynote and Invited Talks
  • Terry Fong, NASA
  • Chase Dickinson, Disa Technologies
  • Braden Fitz-Gerald, FlowState Solutions
    
    
• 10:50–12:20pm AI for Wildlife and Environment: Invited Talks
  • Lauren Harrell, Google
  • Andrew Telander, WEST
  • Qiuhua Huang, Colorado School of Mines
• 12:20–1:45pm Lunch (provided)
  
  
• 1:45–2:40pm Human-Centered AI: Discussion Panel
  • Discussions led by William Cain (UW, Education) and industry expert from Language IO
    
    
• 2:50–4:20pm AI Infrastructure: Invited Talks
  • Mary Throne, General Counsel of Prometheus Hyperscale
  • Amy Mclaughlin, UW VP for Information Technology w/
  • Michael Killean, Deputy Director of ARCC Infrastructure
  • Kristy Streu, Argonne National Lab (ANL)
    
    
• 4:30–5:00pm Closing Remarks – Ed Seidel, UW President
  
  
• 5:00–6:00pm Happy Hour at Pokes Pub

 

CALL FOR CONTRIBUTED TALKS AND POSTERS:

There is an open call for contributed presentations on any AI-related topic in one of two formats:

• Lightning Talks: A very short presentation — often 3–5 minutes — with tight timing and minimal slides. Designed to give quick overviews or “teasers” of projects.
  
  
• Poster Presentations: Presenters share work visually on a poster, allowing one-on-one or small group discussion with attendees during an open session. Presenter must print & bring their poster to the symposium. Max poster dimension is 3ft x 4ft (in either orientation).

 

Click here to submit a title and abstract. The lightning talks and poster session will take place from 3-6pm on Thursday September 25 upstairs in the Wyoming Union. Food and refreshments will be generously provided. 

****We can accommodate a limited number of lightning talks, and submissions are due September 12.

****Poster submissions are due September 19.

 

AI BOOTCAMP:

Prior to the Symposium, on Wednesday September 2024, there will be an associated AI Bootcamp -- i.e., hands on computing tutorials. To register, check the box 'AI Bootcamp' when you register for the Symposium. It will take place in EN 5022 (Engineering Building) with the following schedule:

 

• 1:00-2:15pm: Building Machine Learning without Code 
  • Lecturers: Tessa Livingston and Suresh Muknahallipatna (EECS)
    
    
• 2:30-3:30pm: HPC Computing over the UW ARCC
  • Lecturer: Simon Alexander (ARCC)
    
    
• 3:45-5:15pm: Introduction to Large Language Models 
  • Lecturer: Shivanand Sheshappanavar (EECS)

 

****The bootcamp is limited to 24 participants.

****Participants are expected to have prior coding experience in Python. 

 

SYMPOSIUM CO-CHAIRS:

Dane Taylor