First MODE Workshop on Differentiable Programming

from Monday, 6 September 2021 (12:00) to Wednesday, 8 September 2021 (17:35)
CP3, Louvain-la-Neuve (Auditorium CYCL-01)

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
6 Sept 2021
7 Sept 2021
8 Sept 2021
AM
09:00
Applications in Particle Physics -Dr Pietro Vischia (Universite Catholique de Louvain (UCL) (BE)) (until 11:10) (Auditorium CYCL-01)
09:00 Optimization of LHCb calorimeter - Alexey Boldyrev (NRU Higher School of Economics (Moscow, Russia))   (Auditorium CYCL-01)
09:20 --- Discussion ---
09:25 CMS Open data application of INFERNO - Lukas Layer (Universita e INFN, Padova (IT))   (Auditorium CYCL-01)
09:45 --- Discussion ---
09:50 Automatic Differentiation for error analysis in lattice QCD - Alberto Ramos Martinez (Univ. of Valencia and CSIC (ES))   (Auditorium CYCL-01)
10:10 --- Discussion ---
10:15 Optimization of HEP accelerators - Auralee Linscott Edelen   (Auditorium CYCL-01)
10:35 --- Discussion ---
10:40 Generation of Calorimeter Showers with Normalizing Flows: CaloFlow - Claudius Krause (Rutgers University)   (Auditorium CYCL-01)
11:00 --- Discussion ---
11:15 --- Coffee Break ---
11:35
Applications in Nuclear Physics - Gian Michele Innocenti (CERN) (until 13:40) (Auditorium CYCL-01)
11:35 DNN for distortion fluctuation calibration of ALICE TPC - Maja Kabus (Warsaw University of Technology (PL))   (Auditorium CYCL-01)
11:55 --- Discussion ---
12:00 Neural networks for jet-energy subtraction in heavy-ion collisions - Laura Brittany Havener (Yale University (US))   (Auditorium CYCL-01)
12:20 --- Discussion ---
12:25 Deep learning stochastic processes with QCD phase transition - Lingxiao Wang (Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies)   (Auditorium CYCL-01)
12:45 --- Discussion ---
12:50 Machine Learning Applications for CBM at FAIR - Shahid Khan (University of Tuebingen)   (Auditorium CYCL-01)
13:10 --- Discussion ---
13:15 In-medium heavy-quark interaction via deep learning - Shuzhe SHI (McGill University)   (Auditorium CYCL-01)
13:35 --- Discussion ---
10:00
Brainstorming, expressions of interest, definition of tasks and goals, whitepaper - Andrea Giammanco (Universite Catholique de Louvain (UCL) (BE)) Dr Pietro Vischia (Universite Catholique de Louvain (UCL) (BE)) Tommaso Dorigo (Universita e INFN, Padova (IT)) (until 11:00) (Auditorium CYCL-01)
11:00 --- Coffee Break ---
11:30
Brainstorming, expressions of interest, definition of tasks and goals, whitepaper -Dr Pietro Vischia (Universite Catholique de Louvain (UCL) (BE)) Tommaso Dorigo (Universita e INFN, Padova (IT)) Andrea Giammanco (Universite Catholique de Louvain (UCL) (BE)) (until 13:30) (Auditorium CYCL-01)
PM
12:00
Registration and COVID-safe QR code check (until 12:30) (Auditorium CYCL-01)
12:30 --- Welcome Lunch ---
13:30
Introduction and goals of the Workshop - Tommaso Dorigo (Universita e INFN, Padova (IT)) (until 13:55) (Auditorium CYCL-01)
13:55
Opening and Keynote Lectures -Dr Pietro Vischia (Universite Catholique de Louvain (UCL) (BE)) (until 16:55) (Auditorium CYCL-01)
13:55 Opening Lecture: Differentiable programming and design optimization - Atılım Güneş Baydin (University of Oxford)   (Auditorium CYCL-01)
14:40 --- Discussion ---
14:50 --- Small break ---
14:55 Keynote Lecture: JAX for scientific computing - Dr Adam Paszke (Google Brain)   (Auditorium CYCL-01)
15:45 --- Discussion ---
15:55 Keynote Lecture: Generalization Properties of Deep Neural Networks Through The Prism of Interpolation - Prof. Mikhail Belkin (Halicioğlu Data Science Institute, UCSD)   (Auditorium CYCL-01)
16:45 --- Discussion ---
16:55 --- Coffee Break ---
17:25
Applications in Muon Tomography - Andrea Giammanco (Universite Catholique de Louvain (UCL) (BE)) (until 19:20) (Auditorium CYCL-01)
17:25 Machine Learning application to volcano eruption forecasting using muography - Laszlo Olah (Hungarian Academy of Sciences (HU))   (Auditorium CYCL-01)
17:45 --- Discussion ---
17:50 Role of AI in the industrial applications of muon tomography - Pablo Martinez Ruiz Del Arbol (Universidad de Cantabria and CSIC (ES))   (Auditorium CYCL-01)
18:10 --- Discussion ---
18:15 Material identification in nuclear waste drums using muon scattering tomography and multivariate analysis - Patrick Stowell (University of Sheffield)   (Auditorium CYCL-01)
18:35 --- Discussion ---
18:40 TomOpt: PyTorch-based Differential Muon Tomography Optimisation - Giles Chatham Strong (Universita e INFN, Padova (IT))   (Auditorium CYCL-01)
19:10 --- Discussion ---
13:40 --- Lunch ---
14:30
Applications in AstroHEP - Roberto Ruiz De Austri (Instituto de Fisica Corpuscular (ES)) (until 16:35) (Auditorium CYCL-01)
14:30 Cosmology in the machine learning era - Francisco Villaescusa-Navarro (OATS-INAF)   (Auditorium CYCL-01)
14:50 --- Discussion ---
14:55 Gravitational Waves Detectors - Dr Mateusz Bawaj (Università degli Studi di Perugia)   (Auditorium CYCL-01)
15:15 --- Discussion ---
15:20 Optimization of Optical and Radio Detectors for high-energy Neutrinos - Christian Glaser (RWTH Aachen)   (Auditorium CYCL-01)
15:40 --- Discussion ---
15:45 Targeted dark matter substructure inference with differentiable strong lensing - Adam Coogan (University of Amsterdam)   (Auditorium CYCL-01)
16:05 --- Discussion ---
16:10 Cherenkov Telescopes - Gernot Maier   (Auditorium CYCL-01)
16:30 --- Discussion ---
16:35 --- Coffee Break and group photo ---
17:00
Applications in Neutrino Detection - Kazuhiro Terao (Columbia University) (until 19:25) (Auditorium CYCL-01)
17:00 AI In Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay Searches - Corey Adams (Argonne National Laboratory)   (Auditorium CYCL-01)
17:20 --- Discussion ---
17:25 Machine Learning Techniques for Water Cherenkov Event Reconstruction - Nick Prouse (Queen Mary University of London)   (Auditorium CYCL-01)
17:45 --- Discussion ---
17:50 Scalable, End-to-End, Deep-Learning-Based Data Reconstruction Chain for 3D Particle Imaging Detectors - François Drielsma (Universite de Geneve (CH))   (Auditorium CYCL-01)
18:10 --- Discussion ---
18:15 Dark matter and its ML-enhanced direct detection - Christopher Tunnell (Rice University)   (Auditorium CYCL-01)
18:35 --- Discussion ---
18:40 P-ONE: Test Case for ML Based Detector Design - Christian Haack (III. Physikalisches Institut B, RWTH Aachen University)   (Auditorium CYCL-01)
19:00 --- Discussion ---
19:05 GENETIS: Evolving Antennas for Ultra-High Energy Neutrino Detection - Alexander Machtay (Ohio State University)   (Auditorium CYCL-01)
19:20 --- Discussion ---
20:00 --- Social Dinner ---
13:30 --- Lunch ---
14:30
Progress in Computer Science - Atılım Güneş Baydin (University of Oxford) (until 15:20) (Auditorium CYCL-01)
14:30 Gradient-based probabilistic inference in Pyro.ai - Dr Fritz Obermeyer (Broad Institute)   (Auditorium CYCL-01)
14:50 --- Discussion ---
14:55 Efficient and modular implicit differentiation - Dr Mathieu Blondel (Google Brain)   (Auditorium CYCL-01)
15:15 --- Discussion ---
15:20 --- Coffee Break ---
15:50
Progress in Computer Science - Atılım Güneş Baydin (University of Oxford) (until 17:05) (Auditorium CYCL-01)
15:50 Neos: upstream optimization for downstream inference - Nathan Daniel Simpson (Lund University (SE))   (Auditorium CYCL-01)
16:10 --- Discussion ---
16:15 CERN GRID on Kubernetes - Lukas Alexander Heinrich (CERN)   (Auditorium CYCL-01)
16:35 --- Discussion ---
16:40 Quantum Machine Learning - Su Yeon Chang (EPFL - Ecole Polytechnique Federale Lausanne (CH))   (Auditorium CYCL-01)
17:00 --- Discussion ---
17:05
Organization of Future Activities and Closing of the Workshop -Dr Pietro Vischia (Universite Catholique de Louvain (UCL) (BE)) (until 17:35) (Auditorium CYCL-01)