Agentic AI for Research¶
Applied AI Seminar · 2nd Edition · Niels Bohr Institute June 16, 2026 · 09:15–12:00 · Margrethe Bohr Salen 🎥 Join online: cern.zoom.us/j/67768992649 · Meeting ID 677 6899 2649
This is the hands-on companion to the seminar. Everything we do live is documented here, so you can follow along during the session — or reproduce the whole thing at your own pace afterwards.
The idea¶
In the first edition we surveyed the landscape: chat, IDE copilots, terminal agents, project-level automation. This time we go deep on one surface — the terminal agent — and treat it the way you'd treat a new research instrument: understand how it works, calibrate it, then point it at real physics.
The morning builds in three steps:
- A live example first — an agent tackles a real research computation end to end, so you see what these tools can do before we open the hood. Then the mechanics: what you're actually paying for (prefill vs. generation, caching, context, reasoning) and why that shapes how you should work.
- Patterns — the recurring moves of agentic research, the whole toolbox in half an hour on one simple example: plan mode, subagents, compaction, skills, and above all feedback loops.
- Real work — the patterns put to use: a live multi-Claude session driving three independent agents on three different research demos, in parallel.
Schedule¶
| Time | Session |
|---|---|
| 09:15–09:30 | Live demo — a real agentic research computation, end to end (Inar) |
| 09:30–10:00 | Intro — LLM mechanics & economics: caching, prefill/generation pricing, context size, reasoning (Inar) |
| 10:00–10:15 | Setup — installing Claude Code and running your first "thing" |
| 10:15–10:40 | Break — coffee + hands-on setup help |
| 10:40–11:10 | Agentic Research Patterns — the whole toolbox in half an hour, on one simple example (Daniel) |
| 11:10–11:55 | Multi-Claude — three walkthrough demos driven in parallel, live (Daniel) |
| 11:55–12:00 | Outro — where this is going, and how to keep going |
How to use this site¶
- Before the seminar: do the setup (10 minutes). You'll need a laptop with a terminal and a Claude account (or a credit card to make one on the spot — students will help during the break).
- During: each live segment has a page here with the exact prompts we use. Lost? Jump to the page and catch up.
- After: every walkthrough is reproducible end-to-end. The cheatsheet is the one-page take-home.
You don't need to set anything up to attend
Just watching is a perfectly good way to spend the morning. The setup is only for people who want their hands on the keyboard.