Call for Tutorials

ICAIS 2025 calls for tutorials that could provide background knowledge and/or great insights into both past experiences, shared challenges, and general methodologies that many AI for science fields would benefit from.

Goal and Audience:

The goal of the ICAIS 2025 tutorials is to introduce general methods and share interesting problems in AI for sciences from an educational perspective. The audience of the tutorials should be experts and students from both machine learning and related science fields.

Submission link: Please submit your proposal in PDF or Word format using our Google form: https://forms.gle/EBz1VLXcqhbdmgcg9

Tutorial proposal submission timeline

Tutorial proposal deadline: May 20, 2025 AoE
Proposal decision notifications: May 27, 2025 AoE
Final outline of the contents: Sep 30, 2025 AoE

ICAIS 2025 tutorial committee:

The ICAIS 2025 tutorial committee will commit to providing support for each tutorial and coordinate all tutorial events. Here are our members you can reach out via email. (Please also label “ICAIS 2025 Tutorial” in the title)

Chair: Lixue Cheng (Microsoft Research AI for Science Lab) sherrylixuecheng@gmail.com

Tutorial topics, format, and suggestions:

The tutorials will be general conference sessions and only have a single event happening in one time slot. The length of each tutorial should be 2.5 - 3 hours.

We encourage the tutorials that focus on (1) computational formulations and challenges of a science problem, (2) new computational approaches that can benefit broad science problems, and (3) topics that you find relevant to the general audience of the conference. The following two are examples of (1) and (2), respectively. (List as examples, not the final tutorial topics)

Tutorial on machine learning for molecular dynamics: Formulations, Methodologies, progress, and challenges.
Tutorial on recent development of generative models and diverse applications in Sciences: Introduce approaches such as diffusion model, flow matching, stochastic interpolant, action matching, rectified flow from methodological formulation to diverse science applications.

The following are the general and suggested format for the tutorial, but any new idea is welcome and could be discussed with the ICAIS 2025 tutorial committee.

Proposal format:

2-4 page well-written proposal in [ICAIS] paper style.
Clearly state the goals and necessity of having this tutorial.
Have proposed contents which are suitable for 2.5-3 hours and focus on the approaches and challenges.

Suggested:

Since our audience has diverse backgrounds, for a successful tutorial, we suggest that the organizers

Consider contents that are educative that could provide a great overview of the approach and problem.
Consider topics that have a great potential to be/have been applied to several scientific problems.
Provide additional reading material lists for further exploration.

Tutorial organizer/speaker:

Even though the proposal could be submitted by one organizer, we expect each tutorial to have 3-4 organizers/presenters and at least one can present on-site during ICAIS 2025 (15-17 October 2025, Princeton, NJ).

For the accepted tutorial, the organizers need to provide a final outline of the contents to the ICAIS 2025 symposia committee by Sep 30, 2025.