Concepts and practical implementation using Agentic AI tools

by Michail Smyrnakis (STFC), Ruby George (STFC)

Thursday 29 Jan 2026, 13:00 → 14:00 Europe/London

Thomson (Daresbury Labs)

This is the first of a series of four, AI themed, talks aimed at researchers who are interested in learning more about AI and its applications.  The talks are offered both online and in person.

1. Concepts and practical implementation using Agentic AI tools, 29 January
2. Ensuring data privacy and security with Federated Learning, 9 February
3. Concepts and application of surrogate models for accelerating simulations and solving complex problems, 17 March
4. Fundamentals of multimodal models, 19 March

The talk "Concepts and practical implementation using Agentic AI tools" gives an overview of Agentic AI and shows how to build AI agents step by step, starting from the ReAct pattern implemented from scratch in a Jupyter notebook and progressing to agent development using LangGraph.

Participants will be guided through live demonstrations to understand how agents reason, choose tools, and act autonomously. 

Materials will be made available after the event via the Hartree Centre Training Portal