Artificial Intelligence (AI) for Science at the Rutherford Appleton Lab: Past, Present and Future
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Artificial Intelligence (AI) for Science at the Rutherford Appleton Lab: Past, Present and Future
Tue, 14/03/2023 - 11:00
Location:
Speaker:
Tony Hey
Affiliation:
STFC’s Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
Synopsis:
This talk will take place in the Cairn Auditorium in the Postgraduate Centre.
This talk will outline the AI for Science initiatives at the Rutherford Appleton
Laboratory, Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC), UK. The talk will
include various science cases we have addressed in the past, and a broad set of
science challenges we are working on, especially that are directly relevant to largescale experimental facilities, like Light, Neutron, and Laser sources, and various
international and US-UK programmes. The talk will also discuss our plans for the
future.
Biography:
Tony Hey received a D.Phil. in theoretical particle physics from the University of Oxford. After postdoctoral research positions at Caltech and CERN, he accepted a tenured position in the Physics
Department at the University of Southampton. He then moved to the Electronics and Computer
Science Department where he started a parallel computing research group. The group designed and
built one of the first distributed memory message-passing computing systems and participated in the
development of the MPI message-passing standard.
In 2001 Tony Hey left Southampton to lead the UK’s ground-breaking ‘eScience’ initiative
and received a CBE for ‘services to science’ in 2005. He joined Microsoft Research as a
Vice President in 2005 and returned to the UK 2015. He is now Chief Data Scientist at
the STFC’s Rutherford Appleton Laboratory and is a fellow of the AAAS and ACM in the
US, and of the UK's Royal Academy of Engineering.