Don’t miss TPC25 – July 28-31

Dozens of TPC leaders are working together to finalize a comprehensive program of hackathons, tutorials, plenary sessions, and breakouts for TPC25, which is being held in San Jose, California, USA from July 28-31. Have you registered?

Early bird rates expire after June 15, so please register now!

TPC25 starts with 1.5 days of hands-on activities. A 1.5-day hackathon, Building Agentic Systems for Science is a hands-on event for academic scientists with any level of experience (including none!) in agentic AI systems.

Multiple tutorials will also be offered, including a 1-day tutorial on Evaluating Scientific Knowledge and Reasoning Skills of AI Models and a 1.5-day tutorial on multiple facets of AI for Science, including case studies and sessions on architectures, training, fine-tuning, and AI frameworks.

Following the hands-on hackathon and tutorials, the main 2.5-day conference will include keynote, plenaries, and panel discussions as well as a total of 30 parallel breakouts. Breakouts will include working group sessions, Birds-of-a-Feather sessions, and new topics likely to lead to additional working groups. Each breakout will feature multiple lightning talks along with group discussion about potential collaborations.

A growing list of invited speakers includes Rick Stevens (Argonne/UChicago), Thierry Pellegrino (AWS), Satoshi Matsuoka (RIKEN), Ian Foster (Argonne/UChicago), Flora Salim (UNSW), Prasanna Balaprakash (ORNL), Jiacheng Liu (Allen Institute for AI), Ricardo Baeza-Yates (Barcelona Supercomputing Center), Rio Yokota (Institute for Science Tokyo), Charlie Catlett (Argonne/UChicago), Franck Cappello (Argonne ), Karthik Duraisamy (University of Michigan), Nash Palaniswamy (Quantinuum), and many others.

Download a briefing slide deck with details about TPC25.

Heads Up: Call for Papers for TPC Workshop at SC25

Nearly 200 people attended the half-day TPC workshop at SC24, and this year our team was approved for a full-day tutorial. Please see the call for papers. The deadline for submission for this workshop is August 1. Papers will follow SC guidelines with respect to length and format. Accepted papers will be published in the SC25 proceedings.

A word of thanks to the many TPC leaders.

I have been reflecting on the momentum of the TPC over the past year, driven by dozens of leaders from around the globe. This grass roots community has created a rich set of events that are deepening multi-institutional and international collaborations, accelerating our work to create AI capabilities for scientific discovery.

• June 2024 – Barcelona All-Hands Meeting (190 people; Barcelona, Spain)
• Oct 2024 – TPC Fall Hackathon (40 people; Chicago, USA) 
• Nov 2024 – SC24 Workshop (200 people) 
• Jan 2025 – Published TPC Introduction and Structure White Paper
• Mar 2025 – TPC Winter Hackathon (70 people; Kobe, Japan)  
• Mar 2025 – SCA25 Workshop (50 people; Singapore) 
• May 2025 – TPC Spring Hackathon (50 people; Helsinki, Finland) 

The team is now in the midst of organizing and planning additional events, including:

• June 2025 – ISC-HPC Workshop (June 13; Hamburg, Germany)
• July 2025 – TPC25 All-Hands (July 28-31; San Jose, USA)
• Oct 2025 – Fall Hackathons (Chicago and Bologna, dates tbd)
• Nov 2025 – SC25 Workshop (November 16-21; St. Louis, USA)
• January 2026 – TPC Track at SC Asia / HPC Asia (January 26-29, 2026; Osaka, Japan)

Learn More About TPC

Download a briefing slide deck on the Trillion Parameter Consortium