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EuCAPT Rapid Response Workshop on AI Agents in Theoretical Physics Research

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https://stockholmuniversity.zoom.us/j/63122588121

https://stockholmuniversity.zoom.us/j/63122588121
David Marsh (Stockholm University), Jens Jasche (Stockholm University)
Description

Link to webinar: https://stockholmuniversity.zoom.us/j/63122588121

Recent advances in large language models and agentic AI systems have enabled them to perform increasingly sophisticated components of theoretical physics research, including symbolic and numerical calculations, literature synthesis, code generation, formal reasoning, and partially autonomous research workflows.

 

This EuCAPT Rapid-Response Workshop brings together researchers from particle physics, astrophysics, astronomy, and cosmology who are actively developing and evaluating such systems. The aim is to assess what current AI tools can and cannot accomplish on real research problems, identify key opportunities and limitations, and discuss how these technologies may influence the future practice of theoretical physics. The workshop is free, will be held online via Zoom, and is open to both EuCAPT members and non-members.

The programme consists of three invited presentations (20+5 minutes each) followed by a moderated panel discussion.


Agenda (all times CEST; 15:30 CEST = 9:30 AM EDT)

15:30 Welcome

Presentations
15:35 Moritz Münchmeyer (UW-Madison)
- Cosmologist developing AI methods for physics research. His work includes TPBench, one of the first research-level benchmarks for evaluating large language models on theoretical physics tasks, as well as systems for reasoning and symbolic verification.

16:00 Darius Faroughy (Rutgers)
- Particle physicist working on foundation models and generative AI for collider physics. He is the lead author of Collider-Bench, which evaluates whether AI agents can reproduce Large Hadron Collider analyses using public papers and software.

16:25 Alex Lupsasca (OpenAI & Vanderbilt U.)
- Black-hole and quantum-gravity theorist, recipient of the 2024 New Horizons in Physics Prize, and research scientist at OpenAI. His recent work explores the application of advanced AI systems to theoretical physics research, including much-publicised results on single-minus gluon & graviton amplitudes.

Panel discussion
16:50 Moderated by Antony Lewis (U. Sussex)

Panelists:
Boris Bolliet (U. Cambridge)
- Cosmologist leading research on agentic-AI systems for science. Creator of CMBAgent, a multi-agent system applied to cosmological data analysis and co-creator of Denario, a framework for automated scientific research. 

Joseph Tooby-Smith (U. Bath)
- Researcher working at the interface of theoretical high-energy physics and computer science. He develops interactive theorem-proving tools for the physical sciences and maintains PhysLean, a project for formalising physics in Lean.

Ann Zabludoff (U. Arizona)
- Extragalactic astronomer and cosmologist whose research includes machine learning and AI applications in astronomy. She co-leads data-science activities associated with the Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST).

17:45 End of workshop

Link to webinar: https://stockholmuniversity.zoom.us/j/63122588121

Accessing the Zoom Q&A feature requires client version 5.17.0 or later. Parts of this event will be recorded and uploaded to this page and the EuCAPT YouTube Channel.

This event is organised by Jens Jasche and M.C. David Marsh of Stockholm University on behalf of EuCAPT, the Oskar Klein Centre, and the EDUCATE centre of excellence. EuCAPT is supported by APPEC and CERN, its central hub. For more information on the European Consortium for AstroParticle Theory, please see eucapt.org. The EuCAPT Code of Conduct applies to this meeting and can be found here.

David Marsh