workflowscommunity · rafaelfsilva · Apr 4, 2026 · Apr 3, 2026 · Apr 3, 2026 · Apr 3, 2026
diff --git a/_data/speakers.yml b/_data/speakers.yml
diff --git a/_includes/talk_card.html b/_includes/talk_card.html
@@ -13,10 +13,12 @@ <h3 class="heading">{{ talk.title }}</h3>
           {% endif %}
         </div>
         <div class="talk-card-avatars">
-          {% assign speakers = site.data.speakers | where: "talk_num", talk.talk_number %}
-          {% for member in speakers %}
+          {% for speaker_id in talk.speakers %}
+          {% assign member = site.data.speakers | where: "id", speaker_id | first %}
+          {% if member %}
           {% assign photo_src = member.photo | default: 'headshot_placeholder.jpg' %}
           <img src="/images/talks/{{ photo_src }}" alt="{{ member.name }}" class="talk-card-avatar" />
+          {% endif %}
           {% endfor %}
         </div>
       </div>

diff --git a/_layouts/talk.html b/_layouts/talk.html
@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ <h3>Talk details</h3>
         </div>
 
         <div class="row talk-main g-4">
-            <div class="col-lg-8">
+            <div class="{% if page.speakers and page.speakers.size > 0 %}col-lg-8{% else %}col-lg-12{% endif %}">
                 <section class="talk-section">
                     <h2>Overview</h2>
                     <div class="talk-content">{{ content }}</div>
@@ -73,12 +73,14 @@ <h3>Watch the recording</h3>
                 {% endif %}
             </div>
 
+            {% if page.speakers and page.speakers.size > 0 %}
             <div class="col-lg-4">
                 <aside class="talk-sidebar">
                     <div class="talk-card">
                         <h3>About the speakers</h3>
-                        {% assign speaker = site.data.speakers | where: "talk_num", page.talk_number %}
-                        {% for member in speaker %}
+                        {% for speaker_id in page.speakers %}
+                        {% assign member = site.data.speakers | where: "id", speaker_id | first %}
+                        {% if member %}
                         <div class="talk-speaker">
                             <a href="{{ member.link }}" target="_blank" class="talk-speaker-photo">
                                 {% assign photo_src = member.photo | default: 'headshot_placeholder.jpg' %}
@@ -97,10 +99,12 @@ <h3>About the speakers</h3>
                                 </div>
                             </div>
                         </div>
+                        {% endif %}
                         {% endfor %}
                     </div>
                 </aside>
             </div>
+            {% endif %}
         </div>
     </div>
 </section>
diff --git a/_talks/2025_04_16.html b/_talks/2025_04_16.html
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@
 event_date: April 16, 2025
 times: 11am-11.30 PST / 2pm-2.30 EST / 20:00-20:30 CEST
 talk_number: 1
+speakers: [logan_ward]
 given: true
 presentation: /files/talks/colmena-wci_v0.pdf
 video: https://www.youtube.com/embed/WePC4aXYmes?si=dcr6PqsM1qmgv6Jh

diff --git a/_talks/2025_05_14.html b/_talks/2025_05_14.html
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@
 event_date: May 14, 2025
 times: 11am-11.30 PST / 2pm-2.30 EST / 20:00-20:30 CEST
 talk_number: 2
+speakers: [eli_dart]
 given: true
 image: /images/talks/dart-banner.jpg
 presentation: /files/talks/20250514-dart-Workflows-Community-Science-Networks.pdf

diff --git a/_talks/2025_06_11.html b/_talks/2025_06_11.html
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@
 event_date: June 11, 2025
 times: 11am-11.30 PST / 2pm-2.30 EST / 20:00-20:30 CEST
 talk_number: 3
+speakers: [hannah_parraga]
 given: true
 image: /images/talks/parraga-banner.jpg
 presentation: /files/talks/Parraga_workflowsTalk.pdf

diff --git a/_talks/2025_07_16.html b/_talks/2025_07_16.html
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@
 event_date: July 16, 2025
 times: 11am-11.30 PST / 2pm-2.30 EST / 20:00-20:30 CEST
 talk_number: 4
+speakers: [carole_goble, johan_gustafsson]
 given: true
 image: /images/talks/workflowhub-banner.jpg
 presentation: /files/talks/20250716-WorkflowHub.pdf

diff --git a/_talks/2025_08_13.html b/_talks/2025_08_13.html
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@
 event_date: August 13, 2025
 times: 11:00-12:00 PST / 14:00-15:00 EST / 20:00-21:00 CEST
 talk_number: 5
+speakers: [debbie_bard]
 given: true
 image: /images/talks/wci-talks-aug-2025.png
 presentation: /files/talks/20250813-bard-NERSC-Doudna.pdf

diff --git a/_talks/2025_09_24.html b/_talks/2025_09_24.html
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@
 event_date: September 24, 2025
 times: 11:00-12:00 PST / 14:00-15:00 EST / 20:00-21:00 CEST
 talk_number: 6
+speakers: [titus_brown]
 given: true
 image: /images/talks/titus-banner.png
 presentation: /files/talks/20250924-Titus.pdf

diff --git a/_talks/2025_10_15.html b/_talks/2025_10_15.html
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@
 event_date: October 15, 2025
 times: 11:00-11:30 PST / 14:00-14:30 EST / 20:00-20:30 CEST
 talk_number: 7
+speakers: [alok_kamatar]
 given: true
 image: /images/talks/kamatar-banner.png
 presentation: /files/talks/20251015-Alok-academy.pdf

diff --git a/_talks/2025_11_12.html b/_talks/2025_11_12.html
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@
 event_date: November 12, 2025
 times: 11:00-12:00 PST / 14:00-15:00 EST / 20:00-21:00 CEST
 talk_number: 8
+speakers: [raffaele_montella]
 given: true
 image: /images/talks/montella-banner.png
 presentation: /files/talks/20251112-Montella-DAGonStar.pdf

diff --git a/_talks/2025_12_10.html b/_talks/2025_12_10.html
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@
 event_date: December 10, 2025
 times: 11:00am PST / 2:00pm EST / 20:00 CEST
 talk_number: 9
+speakers: [renan_souza]
 given: true
 image: /images/talks/souza-banner.png
 presentation: /files/talks/20251210-ProvenanceAgents-WCI.pdf

diff --git a/_talks/2026_01_14.html b/_talks/2026_01_14.html
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@
 event_date: January 14, 2026
 times: 11:00am PST / 2:00pm EST / 20:00 CEST
 talk_number: 10
+speakers: [jan_janssen]
 given: true
 image: /images/talks/janssen-banner.jpg
 presentation: /files/talks/0260114-Janssen-executorlib.pdf

diff --git a/_talks/2026_02_18.html b/_talks/2026_02_18.html
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@
 event_date: February 18, 2026
 times: 11:00am PST / 2:00pm EST / 20:00 CEST
 talk_number: 11
+speakers: [patrick_wells]
 given: true
 image: /images/talks/wells-banner.jpg
 presentation: /files/talks/20260218-Wells-OpenCosmo.pdf

diff --git a/_talks/2026_03_25.html b/_talks/2026_03_25.html
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@
 event_date: March 25, 2026
 times: 11:00am PST / 2:00pm EST / 20:00 CEST
 talk_number: 12
+speakers: [laurent_thomas]
 given: true
 image: /images/talks/thomas-banner.jpg
 presentation: /files/talks/20260325-Thomas-LabID.pdf

diff --git a/_talks/2026_04_15.html b/_talks/2026_04_15.html
@@ -0,0 +1,59 @@
+---
+layout: talk
+title: "The Agentic Revolution: Lightning Sessions on Agentic Workflows"
+authors: Woong Shin, Jan Janssen, Du Ming, Xiangyu Yin
+event_date: April 15, 2026
+times: 11:00am PST / 2:00pm EST / 20:00 CEST
+talk_number: 13
+speakers: [woong_shin, jan_janssen,ming_du, xiangyu_yin]
+given: false
+image: /images/talks/agentic_banner.jpg
+<!-- presentation: /files/talks/20260415-AgenticRevolution.pdf -->
+<!-- video: https://www.youtube.com/embed/TPAz4bbmW_0?si=JO3ARdoIYRji-TKl -->
+---
+
+<strong>The (R)evolution of Scientific Workflows in the Agentic AI era: Towards Autonomous Science</strong><br />
+<em>Woong Shin (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)</em>
+
+<br /><br />
+
+Modern scientific discovery increasingly requires coordinating distributed
+facilities and heterogeneous resources, forcing researchers to act as manual
+workflow coordinators rather than scientists. Advances in AI leading to AI agents
+show exciting new opportunities that can accelerate scientific discovery by
+providing intelligence as a component in the ecosystem. However, it is unclear
+how this new capability would materialize and integrate in the real world. To
+address this, we propose a conceptual framework where workflows evolve along two
+dimensions, intelligence (from static to intelligent) and composition (from
+single to swarm), to chart an evolutionary path from current workflow management
+systems to fully autonomous, distributed scientific laboratories. By embedding
+reasoning and adaptation into workflows, these labs have the potential to
+accelerate discovery by factors of 10 to 100, transforming exploratory science
+into a continuous, machine-augmented process.
+
+<br /><br />
+
+<strong>Title: TBD</strong><br />
+<em>Jan Janssen (Max Planck Institute for Sustainable Materials)</em>
+
+
+<br /><br />
+
+<strong>Agentic AI for experiments and data analyses at the APS</strong><br />
+<em>Du Ming, Xiangyu Yin (Argone National Laboratory)</em>
+
+<br /><br />
+
+We will introduce the current efforts of using vision language model (VLM) agents
+for automated and low-barrier beamline operations and data processing algorithm
+research. We first present Experiment Automation Agents (EAA), an agent capable
+of controlling beamline instruments and making decisions based on image semantics,
+with a few cases demonstrating how it automates and democratizes experimental
+operations at APS beamlines. We will then introduce works on agentic data
+processing, which includes PEAR, a domain-expert system that tunes
+ptychographic reconstruction hyperparameters using reconstructed image as
+feedback, and Pty-Chi-Evolve, an auto-research agent that autonomously searches
+for regularization operators during iterative reconstructions to enhance result
+quality. 
+
+<br /><br />
diff --git a/images/talks/agentic_banner.jpg b/images/talks/agentic_banner.jpg
diff --git a/images/talks/ming_du.jpeg b/images/talks/ming_du.jpeg
diff --git a/images/talks/woong.jpg b/images/talks/woong.jpg
diff --git a/images/talks/xiangyu_yin.jpg b/images/talks/xiangyu_yin.jpg