AI Agents exploring Physics Models

by Prof. Florian Marquardt (MPL Erlangen)

Thursday 29 Jan 2026, 16:15 → 17:30 Europe/Berlin

ENC-D114 (ENC)

The recent rapid progress in AI, specifically in the domain of large-language models, opens the door to previously inaccessible capabilities. Computers can now apply heuristics and utilize general knowledge. When they are, in addition, given access to tools in the form of functions that they can call upon whenever needed, they are able to act as autonomous agents. I will discuss the promises of this approach for artificial scientific discovery and present 'SciExplorer', an agent that explores unknown physical systems through a series of (numerical) experiments and analysis. We have investigated how SciExplorer performs across a wide range of systems in classical dynamics, wave physics, and quantum many-body physics.

Nägele and Marquardt: "Agentic Exploration of Physics Models"
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.24978