PROGRAM

CNPEM-IBM School Sustainable Materials & AI  

From 07 to 09 April, 2025 

LNNano/CNPEM Auditorium and online

Day 1 – 07/04/2025

08:30 – 09:00   Registration  Organizing Comittee
09:00 –10:00 Opening CNPEM-IBM School on Sustainable Materials & Artificial Intelligence  

 

The Brazilian Nanotechnology National Laboratory: Open facilities, Research, Innovation and Training  

 

Overview of Research and Future of AI at IBM Research

Diego Martinez
(CNPEM)
Rodrigo B. Capaz
(Director LNNano/CNPEM)
Bruno Flach
(Director IBM Research Brazil)
10:00 –11:30 Advanced Materials and Sustainability: Challenges, Opportunities, and Perspectives towards Green and Digital transition (Invited Lecture)  Iseult Lynch
(University of Birmingham, UK)
Break 
12:00 – 13:30 Introduction to Renewable Materials: From basic science to applications  Juliana da Silva Bernardes and Rubia Gouveia
(CNPEM) 
Lunch 
14:30 –16:00 Fundamentals of Artificial Intelligence: Materials Science perspective  Gabriel R. Schleder
(CNPEM) 
Break 
16:30 – 17:30 Introduction to Data   Leonardo Azevedo e Guilherme Lima
(IBM)
17:30 –18:00 Debriefing Raquel Chebabi
(IBM) 
18:00 –19:00 Official picture with all participants / Visiting LNNano facilities (Virtual Tour)  LNNano Specialists 
19:00 – 21:30 Social activity Quiosque CNPEM 

Day 2 – 08/04/2025

09:00 – 11:00  Machine Learning, Deep Learning, and Foundation Models  Emilio Vital Brazil e Eduardo Soares
(IBM) 
Break 
11:30 – 13:30  Machine Learning, Deep Learning, and Foundation Models  Emilio Vital Brazil e Eduardo Soares
(IBM) 
Lunch 
14:30 – 16:00  Knowledge Base  Leonardo Azevedo e Guilherme Lima
(IBM) 
Break 
16:30 – 18:00  Knowledge Base  Leonardo Azevedo e Guilherme Lima
(IBM)
18:00 – 18:30  Debriefing Raquel Chebabi
(IBM)

Day 3 – 09/04/2025

09:00 – 11:00  Generative AI for Sustainable Materials  Flaviu Cipcigan
(IBM)
Break 
11:30 – 13:30  Safe and Sustainable by Design (SSbD)  

Risk Assessment (KaRA Platform) 

Diego Martinez (CNPEM) and
Raoni Mendes (IBM) 
Lunch 
14:30 – 16:00   

Exploring Artificial intelligence in Experimental Lab  

 

Matheus Esteves (IBM) and
Bruno Focassio (CNPEM) 
 
Break 
16:30 – 17:30  Entrepreneurship and Innovation  Cláudia Caparelli (AIN/CNPEM)
17:30 – 18:00  Debriefing   Raquel Chebabi
(IBM Research Brazil)
18:00 – 18:30   


Closing 

Diego Martinez (CNPEM)
Rodrigo B. Capaz (Director LNNano/CNPEM)
Bruno Flach (Director IBM Research) 
18:30 – 19:30 

 

Visiting LNLS/Sirius / Tour Virtual (Síncrotron) Specialists and Researchers
(LNLS-Sirius) 

Speakers

Rodrigo Barbosa Capaz (LNNano/CNPEM)

Bruno Flach (IBM Research Brazil)

Iseult Lynch (University of Birmingham, UK)

Juliana da Silva Bernardes (LNNano/CNPEM)

Rubia Gouveia (LNNano/CNPEM)

Gabriel Ravanhani Schleder (LNNano/CNPEM)

Leonardo Azevedo (IBM Research Brazil)

Guilherme Lima (IBM Research Brazil)

Emílio Vital Brazil (IBM Research Brazil)

Eduardo Soares (IBM Research Brazil)

Flaviu Cipcigan (IBM Research Europe, UK)

Carlos Raoni Mendes (IBM Research Brazil)

Diego Stéfani Teodoro Martinez (LNNano/CNPEM)

Matheus Esteves (IBM Research Brazil)

Raquel Chebabi (IBM Research Brazil)

Cláudia Caparelli (AIN/CNPEM)

Bruno Focassio (LNNano/CNPEM)