Doing Science with Agentic AI

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Date and Time

April 16, 2026
04:30PM - 05:45PM EDT

Location

Science Center Hall C

Free and open to all – no registration required

AI agents can now do real science — suggest and correct research directions, do challenging multistep technical computations, write and run code in any programming language, perform deep literature reviews, and teach us. We’ll show some examples of agentic AI tackling genuine state-of-the-art scientific problems, and how Harvard researchers are speeding up their workflows by a factor of 10 or more.

Join the FAS and SEAS for a panel discussion with audience Q&A featuring:

Matthew Schwartz
Professor of Physics

Doug Finkbeiner
Professor of Astronomy and Physics
Anthropic

Michael Brenner
Catalyst Professor of Applied Mathematics and Applied Physics and of Physics
Area Chair, Applied Mathematics
Kavli Scholar, Kavli Institute for Bionano Science & Technology
Faculty Associate, Harvard University Center for the Environment
Participant, Materials Research Science and Engineering Center
Google

Rodrigo Córdova Rosado
AGEL Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Astrophysics