The ICTP-IBM Brahmagupta AI Prize for Young Scientists Ceremony - Thursday, 10 July, at 10:30 (CET)

[ICTP Math Section]

*_The ICTP-IBM Brahmagupta AI Prize for Young Scientists Ceremony_*


Thursday, 10 Jul 2025, at 10:30 (Central European Time)
VENUE: ICTP Leonardo Building - Budinich Lecture Hall


ICTP and IBM have established an annual prize for outstanding young 
researchers working in AI for Science/Science for AI. The prize, worth 
€10,000, is supported by a five-year sponsorship by IBM and has been 
established to promote research focusing on approaches to AI and science 
that can benefit the society at large. This effort contributes to the 
ultimate goal of the AI Alliance, a global organization launched in 
December 2023 by IBM and Meta, which ICTP has also joined, to accelerate 
responsible open innovation in AI while ensuring safety, security, and 
trust.

The prize ceremony will take place every year at ICTP, during a two-week 
conference and summer school on AI.
The Selection Panel, composed of Professors Anima Anandkumar, Eiman 
Kanjo, Patrick McSharry, Marc Mézard (Chair), and Andrea Montanari.

The 2025 ICTP-IBM Brahmagupta Artificial Intelligence Prize for Early 
Career Scientists is awarded to Professor Simon Olsson of Chalmers 
University of Technology, Sweden, “for his pioneering work on the use of 
Artificial Intelligence methods in molecular simulations, overcoming 
long-standing computational problems in statistical mechanics, with 
translational impact on drug discovery and vaccine design.”

The award honours Indian mathematician and astronomer Brahmagupta, known 
for his important contributions to mathematics. In particular, he was 
the first to consider zero as a number and for introducing negative numbers.


The Ceremony will also be livestreamed, CLICK HERE to see the live 
streaming <https://www.youtube.com/live/oeCckXDnsU0>.


The ceremony will be held on 10 July 2025 at ICTP, during the "6th Youth 
in High-Dimensions: Recent Progress in Machine Learning, 
High-Dimensional Statistics and Inference & How creative is Generative 
AI? Perspectives from Science and Philosophy" and the "Advanced School 
on Foundation Models for Scientific Discovery".

*_First winner of the ICTP-IBM Brahmagupta AI Prize for Early Career 
Scientists:_*

https://www.ictp.it/news/2025/6/first-ictp-ibm-brahmagupta-ai-prize-announced

https://indico.ictp.it/event/11057/

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