Geo.X Grow Your Idea roundtable on "Foundation models for planetary interiors - Part II"

Geo.X Grow Your Idea Roundtable on 
"Foundation models for planetary interiors"

Date: April 23, 2026, 10:00 to 15:00 

Venue: German Aerospace Center (DLR) in Mitte, Berlin

Contact Person: Siddhant Agarwal (siddhant.agarwal@dlr.de)

Foundation models, i.e., AI models trained on vast amounts of heterogeneous data have not only enjoyed success in language and vision domains, but have also gained traction in scientific domains such as weather predictions, marine biogeochemistry, and materials science. This series of roundtable talks aims to bring together research groups in the Geo.X network working to discuss the potential of foundation models. Specifically, we would like to gain a better understanding of what a useful foundation model looks like for geodynamic studies, whether such an endeavour is interesting to the community, and if so, how we could collaborate moving forward on generating and collecting numerical simulations and training such a model through joint HPC and research proposals.

In this second and final workshop of the series, we will start with introductions, especially for the new members who did not make it to the first edition. Some invited and contributed talks will follow covering numerical models, planetary physics applications, inverse problems and differentiable physics. The primary motivation of this workshop is to identify concrete paths for future collaboration. Participants are therefore encouraged to propose discussion topics such as focused studies that could lead to joint publications or explore possible partnerships for future proposals.

If this workshop has piqued your interest, please fill out this short application form before April 4th 2026: 

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With best regards
Siddhant Agarwal