Have an idea for a workshop?
We’re always looking for exciting ideas from the AIchemy community, whether it’s building new tools, sparking discussion around a research challenge, or bringing people together to brainstorm.
The Alchemy Hub runs a series of one-day workshops (annually) on topics related to AI for chemistry, most of which come from ideas proposed by members of the our community. Our workshops are engaging and interactive with around 20-40 participants (depending on the format) and aimed at a variety of audiences from established researchers to those just stepping into the world of AI.
There is no set format for an AIchemy workshop, but to help you get started and think about how you may structure yours, here are some examples from our first few workshops, but we are also open to alternative formats:
- Mini Symposium: Our GenAI in Chemistry Education workshop included a morning session where the hosts at Imperial showcased how they were using GenAI in teaching practice, with the afternoon open to participants to present their own experiences, through invited presentations and group discussion.
- Mini Hackathon: The Inorganic Informatics workshop focussed on the development of the materials discovery code SMACT, with the morning session giving an overview of the code and details of ongoing development work, and the afternoon session devoted to hands-on coding to update the SMACT code.
- Structured Discussion: Our RAG and AI Agents workshop offers a series of structured discussion sessions aimed at forming a consensus on key objectives related to delivering the promised impact of these novel tools in chemistry discovery and development.
- Hands-on Experience/Training: The OChRA workshop is an interactive workshop providing an overview of current open-source lab automation frameworks, followed by live demos showcasing how to create and run workflows, connect lab instruments and program experiments using AI tools and the OChRA visual interface.
Support for Workshop Hosts
The AIchemy Hub offers the following support as standard to those running a workshop:
- A budget up to £1,000
- Marketing and promotion
- Application form/registration management
- On the day event support
- Post event evaluation
If you have an idea for an event that doesn’t quite fit this format, contact us at info@aichemy.ac.uk with the details and we will be in touch.
Ready to propose a workshop?
Submit your idea via the form below, and our team will get in touch to explore it further and discuss how to make it happen.
Previous Workshops
Mini Symposium:
GenAI in Chemistry Education
Mini Hackathon:
Inorganic Informatics: From Rules to Embeddings
Structured Discussion:
RAG models and AI agents in Chemical Discovery and Development
