Learn alongside the lab.
Reading clubs, build nights, workshops, and a fellowship. Run by the research team, open to students, engineers, and clinicians, and free.
How registration works
- Pick a programUse the timetable below. Every program is free.
- Register by emailThe register button opens a short, prefilled email. Add a line about yourself.
- Get the detailsWe reply with the venue or online link and any prep reading before the session.
Season 1 calendar
Season 1 runs 31 Oct – 18 Dec 2026. Winter break from 19 Dec. Season 2 starts in January 2027; dates go out in the newsletter first. Every session is free; times are India Standard Time.
October 2026
- 31Sat Oct
Frontier Paper Club · 10:00 IST
DeepSeek-R1: reasoning learned through reinforcement learning
How an open model learned to reason without supervised chains of thought, and what that means for science agents.
arXiv 2501.12948Next upSave a seat
November 2026
- 4Wed Nov
Build Night: Agents for Science · 18:30 IST
Build a literature agent that cites its sources
Set up PaperQA2 on a small corpus of open-access papers and check every answer against its citations.
Future-House/paper-qa - 7Sat Nov
Frontier Paper Club · 10:00 IST
AI Co-Scientist: multi-agent hypothesis generation
Google’s generate–debate–evolve agent system, and how its hypotheses were tested in the wet lab.
arXiv 2502.18864 - 14Sat Nov
Frontier Paper Club · 10:00 IST
Language agents that synthesise scientific knowledge
PaperQA2 and the claim of superhuman literature synthesis: what was measured, and what was not.
arXiv 2409.13740 - 15Sun Nov
GPU 101: From Notebook to Accelerator · 14:00 IST
Profile a PyTorch training loop on a free GPU
Find the bottleneck with the PyTorch profiler, then fix data loading and batching.
- 18Wed Nov
Build Night: Agents for Science · 18:30 IST
Score genetic variants with Evo 2
Run the open Evo 2 model on known variants and compare its scores with published annotations.
ArcInstitute/evo2 - 21Sat Nov
Frontier Paper Club · 10:00 IST
AlphaFold 3: structures of whole molecular complexes
From single proteins to proteins with DNA, RNA, and ligands, and the limits the authors report.
Nature - 27Fri Nov
Clinical Rounds: New Drugs & Advanced Care · 17:00 IST
New medicines, explained
What newer kinds of medicines do and who they are for, and how AI now helps researchers find drug candidates.
- 28Sat Nov
Frontier Paper Club · 10:00 IST
Robin: automating a full discovery loop
A multi-agent system that proposed and tested a therapeutic candidate. Where were humans in the loop?
arXiv 2505.13400
December 2026
- 2Wed Dec
Build Night: Agents for Science · 18:30 IST
Predict a protein–ligand complex with Boltz
Install the open Boltz model, predict a known complex, and compare it with the experimental structure.
jwohlwend/boltz - 5Sat Dec
Frontier Paper Club · 10:00 IST
TxGemma: open models for therapeutics
Small open models fine-tuned for drug-development tasks, and how they act inside an agent.
arXiv 2504.06196 - 12Sat Dec
Frontier Paper Club · 10:00 IST
AlphaEvolve: agents for verifiable discovery
Evolutionary search over code with automatic evaluators, and the Season 1 wrap-up discussion.
arXiv 2506.13131 - 13Sun Dec
GPU 101: From Notebook to Accelerator · 14:00 IST
Mixed precision and memory on one GPU
Train a protein language model layer faster with bf16 and gradient checkpointing, and measure the gain.
facebookresearch/esm - 15Tue Dec
Student Research Fellowship · Applications close
Student Research Fellowship: applications close
Send a short note on the pillar that interests you and one idea you would like to pursue.
- 16Wed Dec
Build Night: Agents for Science · 18:30 IST
Evaluate an agent: does it cite correctly?
Write a small benchmark that checks whether an agent’s citations actually support its claims.
- 18Fri Dec
Clinical Rounds: New Drugs & Advanced Care · 17:00 IST
Advanced care: what patients and families should know
Modern care options, how hospitals are starting to use AI carefully, and open questions from the audience.
January 2027
- 11Mon Jan
Student Research Fellowship · 8-week cohort
Fellowship cohort begins
Mentored part-time projects across the three research pillars, ending in a public write-up.
- 16Sat Jan
Open Data Sprint · Sat–Sun, full weekend
Open Data Sprint #1
Clean, document, and publish one public biomedical dataset with a proper datasheet.
Timetable
6 programs shown
One paper a week from the AI or computational-biology frontier, read slowly and argued over. We pick papers that changed something: a model, a method, or a result in biology.
For: Students, engineers, and clinicians. No prerequisites beyond curiosity.
- Read one paper with a guide sheet
- Hear a 10-minute walk-through
- Leave with one idea you can try
OpenRegisterHands-on evenings building small research agents: literature search, evidence tables, protocol drafts. Everything we build is published openly.
For: Comfortable with basic Python. Laptops welcome; a free cloud notebook is enough.
- Pair with another builder
- Ship one working notebook
- Demo it in the last 15 minutes
OpenRegisterWhat a GPU actually does, why NVIDIA hardware dominates AI, and how to make PyTorch code run fast on one. Uses free cloud GPUs, so no hardware is needed.
For: Engineering students and developers new to deep learning.
- Profile a slow training loop
- Move it to a GPU and measure
- Learn mixed precision and batching
OpenRegisterMonthly awareness sessions in partnership with Sasidhar Hospitals on new medicines and advanced care: what is new, who it helps, and how AI is starting to change drug discovery and care.
For: Patients, families, students, and health workers. No medical background needed.
- Hear what is new in medicines and care
- Learn where AI helps and where it does not
- Ask questions in plain language
OpenRegisterTwo days cleaning, documenting, and publishing a public biomedical dataset so others can reuse it. Quality practice from regulated pharma, applied to open data.
For: Anyone who can use a spreadsheet; Python helps.
- Learn data lineage and validation
- Write a datasheet
- Get named as a contributor
OpenRegisterA mentored, part-time research project inside one of our three pillars, aimed at producing a public write-up or preprint.
For: Final-year undergraduates and master’s students, especially from Andhra Pradesh.
- Scope a question with a mentor
- Run experiments with open tools
- Publish your results openly
Applications openApply
All times are India Standard Time. Venue details for Srikakulam sessions are shared when you register.