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C-PRIME Selected as a PSAAP-IV Center

The U.S. Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) has announced the selection of the next round of Predictive Science Academic Alliance Program (PSAAP) centers. We are proud to share that the Center for Prediction, Reasoning & Intelligence for Multiphysics Exploration (C-PRIME) has been selected as one of the PSAAP-IV centers. 

Read the full NNSA announcement

C-PRIME AST Meeting 2026

Agenda

RT: Review Team; AST: Alliance Strategy Team;  TST: Trilab Sponsor Team;  C-PRIME: Center for Prediction, Reasoning and Intelligence for Multiphysics Exploration;  LEC: Lurie Engineering Center;  GC: Green Ct (3520 Green Ct);  AI/ML: Artificial Intelligence / Machine Learning;  UQ: Uncertainty Quantification;  VVUQ: Verification, Validation and Uncertainty Quantification;  LLM: Large Language Model

Location: LEC 3213ABC unless noted otherwise

Day 1: Wednesday, 7 October 2026

08.00-08.50           Breakfast Meeting (Private Caucus; only for RT, AST and TST)

09.00-09.10           Introductions (Tim Germann, David Etim, Venkat Raman)

09.10-10.10           Center Overview (Venkat Raman, Eric Johnsen)

10.10-10.20           Discussions

10.20-10.30           Break

10.30-11.00           Annual Prediction Status (Michael Ullman, Mirko Gamba and Venkat Raman)

11.00-11.45           Integration (Eric Johnsen, Jagmohan Singh, Venkat Raman)

11.45-12.00           Discussions

12.00-12.45           Lunch [LEC 2210 & LEC 3213ABC]

12.50-13.40           Computer and Data Science, including AI/ML

Karthik Duraisamy: Overview + Predictability and Scientific Machine Learning

Vansh Sharma: Chain of Unit Physics and Digital Asset Creation

Xinyu Wang: Neurosymbolic Approach to AI-based Workflows

Wei Lu & Reetu Das: Exploration of Hardware Architectures for Neurosymbolic Computations

13.40-14.00           Discussions

14.00-14.45           Verification, Validation and UQ

Alex Gorodetsky: Overview of VVUQ Strategy and Approaches to Error Modeling

Caleb Dahlke: Optimal Experimental Design and Design under Uncertainty 

Eric Johnsen: Verification Approaches for Multiphysics Problems

Andrew Appel: Formally Verified Scientific Computing

14.45-15.00           Discussion

15.00-15.15           Break, with meeting moving to GG Brown Gallery

15.15-17.15           Poster Session [GG Brown Gallery]

17.15-18.30           RT Caucus [LEC 3213ABC]

19.00-20.30           Dinner at Venue by 4M

Bus available for the AST, TST members and the Review Team.

Day 2: Thursday, 8 October 2026

08.00-08.45           Breakfast

08.45-09.45           Science Highlights

Noah Zambrano: Dynamic Quadtree Tokenization for Autoregressive Prediction of Detonations

Caleb Dahlke: Explicit and Interpretable Model Error

Lorenzo Angelilli:  Modeling Multiphase Flows through Real Equation of State Modeling

Timothy Welch: Exploring Meta-language for LLM based Agentic Architectures

09.45-10.30           Center Response to Questions Raised on Day 1 (C-PRIME team)

10.30-10.45           Discussions

10.45-11.00           Break

11.00-11.30           Plans for the Upcoming Year and Beyond (Venkat Raman and Eric Johnsen)

11.30-11.45           Move to Green Ct.

Bus available for the AST, TST members and the Review Team.

11.45-15.30           Lunch [Green Ct, GC 4425]

13.30-14:30           Discussions between C-PRIME Management and AST [GC 3127]

15.30-16.00           RT Summary of Findings [GC 4425]

16.00-17.00           Lab Tour