We are excited to welcome the new semester and our in-person program!
2025 CSNY Spring Symposium
Wednesday, March 12, 2025
Ben Franklin TechVentures Building @ Lehigh
University (Mountaintop Campus) – Room 4430 (4th floor)
More information can be found on the "Symposium" page.
Access the full technical program here or at the QR code below.
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Large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT are powerful text-generation tools. They are increasingly relevant in chemical science and engineering, but are unreliable in solving complex, practical problems faced by scientists and engineers. This is fundamentally about gaps in their reasoning capabilities. In this talk, I will illustrate how engineers solve problems using reasoning skills that go beyond pattern-matching, in which current memorization-based machine learning algorithms excel. I will highlight old and new approaches in AI for reasoning, and highlight opportunities for scientists and engineers to leverage these approaches. Examples from the AI & Theory-Oriented Molecular Science (ATOMS) Lab at UMBC will be highlighted, including prompting LLMs for chain-of-thought reasoning for solving NMR spectra, writing bug-free software for adsorption calculations using formal theorem provers, and incorporating reasoning tools into methods for discovering equations describing force fields for acid-base interactions.
Please RSVP for the upcoming meeting here.
In memoriam
John Byrne
John Byrne, a long serving director and treasurer for the NYCS, sadly passed away on August 10, 2022. John’s wife, Susan, suggested that because of John’s dedication and love for NYCS, that it would be fitting that if friends and colleagues wanted to make a donation in John’s name, one favorite cause of John’s would be to support the NYCS work.
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Who we are
The Catalysis Society of Metropolitan New York (CSNY) is a non-profit organization founded in 1958 to promote and encourage the growth and development of the science of catalysis in the New Jersey and Metro New York areas. CSNY is a local chapter of the North American Catalysis Society (NACS).
We organize 7 monthly professional dinner seminar meetings of scientists - to report, discuss, and exchange information and viewpoints in the field of catalysis. We also organize an all-day Annual Symposium in the spring which features lectures from distinguished researchers and a poster session presented by university students working in the catalysis area.
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