Thank you for attending the
2026 IAIFI Summer Workshop!
Mike Williams, IAIFI Director
Thank you to the NSF as IAIFI’s primary funder, and to the �MIT Schwarzman College of Computing for hosting us. ��Additional thanks to Hudson River Trading, PDT Partners, Physical Superintelligence, Google DeepMind, Glasswing Ventures, FirstPrinciples, and MERL �for their financial support of the IAIFI Summer School (last week).
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We had a stimulating week of �scientific talks, posters, and networking!
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IAIFI Colloquia
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IAIFI Fellowship Program
Applications now open for 2027–2030 Fellows!
Learn more and apply at https://iaifi.org/fellows
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Coming up September 25, 2026 (2:00 pm ET)
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Incoming IAIFI/Perimeter Institute Fellow
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Upcoming Related Workshops
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Allston, MA
Registration open
Learning on Graphs Conference 2026�November 20-22, 2026
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Calls open for papers, tutorials, sponsors, and reviewers.
Fast Machine Learning for Science Conference�August 31 - September 4, 2026
UC San Diego, CA
Registration open
Stay tuned for links to slides and recordings
And keep an eye out for an announcement re:�IAIFI Summer Workshop 2027!
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Reminder: Industry Day Tomorrow at Samberg
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Join us on Friday, August 14 for our first Industry Day!
All Workshop participants are invited to attend.
Location: Samberg Conference Center, 6th Floor
There are no events in Building 45 tomorrow.
Reminder
All events on Friday, August 14 are at the
MIT Samberg Conference Center, 6th floor.
There are no events or catering in
MIT Building 45 on August 14.
The full August 14 agenda is on the website.
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And thank you to the IAIFI Summer Workshop Organizers!
Will Detmold�MIT
Bill Freeman�MIT
Akshunna Dogra�IAIFI
Berthy Feng�IAIFI
Mathis Gerdes�IAIFI
Juvenal Bassa
UPRM
Yize Dong
Harvard
Franc O
Northeastern
Sneh Pandya
Northeastern
Shelley Tong
MIT
Lana Xu
MIT
Xiaoyuan Zhang
MIT
Marisa LaFleur
IAIFI
Managing Director
Thomas Bradford
IAIFI
Project Coordinator
Leyla Yildiz
IAIFI
Project Administrator