12–16 Sept 2022
OAC conference center, Kolymbari, Crete, Greece.
Europe/Athens timezone

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  1. Dr Konstantinos Zormpas (OAC)
    13/09/2022, 09:50
  2. Antonis Kalogerakis (OAC)
    13/09/2022, 10:00
  3. Tommaso Dorigo (Universita e INFN, Padova (IT))
    13/09/2022, 10:10
  4. Dr Adam Paszke (Google Brain)
    13/09/2022, 11:00
  5. Dr Max Sagebaum (TU Kaiserslautern)
    13/09/2022, 12:00

    Applying algorithmic differentiation (AD) to computer code is a challenging task. To this end, several tools have been developed over the last decade, which ease the application of AD. With MeDiPack, it is no longer a problem to handle all kinds of MPI communication. The recently released library OpDiLib provides out of the box AD capabilities for OpenMP parallel codes. Modern AD tools, like...

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  6. Emille Eugenia DE OLIVEIRA ISHIDA (CNRS)
    13/09/2022, 16:00
    Astrophysics and Cosmology
    Talk

    The recent increase in volume and complexity of astronomical data has fomented the use of machine learning techniques. However, the acquisition of labels in astronomy is, by construction, very expensive and time-consuming. In this context, experiment design tasks are aimed at optimizing the allocation of scarce labelling resources. The proper application of such methods will be crucial to...

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  7. Susana Cebrian (Universidad de Zaragoza)
    13/09/2022, 16:25
    Astrophysics and Cosmology
    Talk

    Dark matter particles pervading our galactic halo could be directly detected by measuring their scattering off target nuclei or electrons in a suitable detector. The expected signal from this interaction is rare, demanding ultra-low background conditions, and small energy deposits below tens of keV would be produced, requiring low energy detection thresholds. Many different and complementary...

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  8. Christian Glaser
    13/09/2022, 16:50
    Astrophysics and Cosmology
    Talk

    I will present the status of optimizing the radio detector of the planned IceCube-Gen2 neutrino observatory at the South Pole. IceCube-Gen2 will enable neutrino astronomy at ultra-high energies (UHE) and will provide insights into the inner processes of the most violent phenomena in our universe. Detecting these UHE neutrinos would be one of the most important discoveries in astroparticle...

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  9. Dr Belèn Barreiro (IFCA/CSIC)
    13/09/2022, 17:15
    Astrophysics and Cosmology
    Talk

    The Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) is a radiation that reaches us from all the directions of the sky. It originated shortly after the Big Bang and is the oldest radiation that we can observe in the Universe, providing us with very valuable information about the early universe and how it evolved. CMB radiation is also polarized. In particular, the next big challenge in the CMB field is to...

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  10. Paul Peseux (Université de Rouen)
    13/09/2022, 18:20
    Computer Science
    Talk

    Many acquired data are inherently relational: human or automated annotations create high value relational data. For example, a planet might belong to a stellar system which has a star of a certain type. This stellar system belongs to a galaxy which also has its own type (Fig.1).

    Relational programming languages are the right tools to handle these strong structured data. Our...

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  11. Alexander Schilling (University of Applied Sciences Worms)
    13/09/2022, 18:45
    Computer Science
    Talk

    Radiation therapy using protons or heavier ions is sensitive to range errors caused by misalignment of the patient, changes in patient anatomy, and uncertainties in treatment planning. It is therefore of the utmost importance to ensure treatment quality through range verification. Determining the position of the Bragg peak inside the patient can be done through various means such as prompt...

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  12. Tobias Kortus
    13/09/2022, 19:10
    Computer Science
    Talk

    Proton computed tomography (pCT) is an emerging imaging modality, receiving increasing importance for treatment planning in hadron therapy. One of the core challenges in the reconstruction pipeline for the high-granularity Bergen pCT Digital Tracking Calorimeter (DTC) prototype is the efficient reconstruction of high-multiplicity proton traces throughout the scanner which, in contrast to...

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  13. Max Aehle
    13/09/2022, 19:35
    Computer Science
    Talk

    Simulations of the detection process are an essential step in the
    assessment of a proposed detector design. Often, complex Monte-Carlo
    simulators with a wide range of applications are employed for this
    task, as they provide the most realistic and adaptable computational
    models for the interactions between particles and the detector. For
    instance, the Bergen pCT collaboration develops a...

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  14. Tommaso Dorigo (Universita e INFN, Padova (IT))
    13/09/2022, 21:30
  15. Dr Christian Haack (Technical University of Munich)
    14/09/2022, 09:00
    Astrophysics and Cosmology
    Talk

    P-ONE is a planned cubic-kilometer-scale neutrino detector in the Pacific ocean. Similar to the successful IceCube Neutrino Observatory, P-ONE will measure high-energy astrophysical neutrinos to help characterize the nature of astrophysical accelerators. Using existing deep-sea infrastructure provided by Ocean Networks Canada (ONC), P-ONE will instrument the ocean with optical modules - which...

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  16. Giacomo Bruno (Universite Catholique de Louvain (UCL) (BE))
    14/09/2022, 09:25
    Astrophysics and Cosmology
    Talk

    The Einstein Telescope (ET) is the future European terrestrial gravitational wave observatory based on laser interferometry. The project is currently in the preparatory phase after its integration in the EU ESFRI roadmap for large research infrastructures in 2021 and the official creation of the scientific Collaboration in 2022. A number of key design innovations are foreseen for ET like...

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  17. Thorsten Glüsenkamp (Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg)
    14/09/2022, 09:50
    Astrophysics and Cosmology
    Talk

    I will give a short introduction to (conditional) normalizing flows and discuss why they are essential to calculate "manageable" differentiable expectation values of continuous random variables. I will discuss some examples where this might be useful and end the talk with a github-package that combines some state of the art conditional normalizing flows to be used with minimal manual labor.

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  18. B.S. González (LIP/IST)
    14/09/2022, 10:15
    Astrophysics and Cosmology
    Talk

    The muon tagging is an essential tool to distinguish between gamma and hadron-induced showers in wide field-of-view gamma-ray observatories. In this work, it is shown that an efficient muon tagging (and counting) can be achieved using a water Cherenkov detector with a reduced water volume and multiple PMTs, provided that the PMT signal spatial and time patterns are interpreted by an analysis...

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  19. Giles Chatham Strong (Universita e INFN, Padova (IT))
    14/09/2022, 11:00

    The recent MODE whitepaper*, proposes an end-to-end differential pipeline for the optimisation of detector designs directly with respect to the end goal of the experiment, rather than intermediate proxy targets. The TomOpt python package is the first concrete endeavour in attempting to realise such a pipeline, and aims to allow the optimisation of detectors for the purpose of muon tomography...

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  20. Mr Maxime Lagrange (CP3 Universite Catholique de Louvain)
    14/09/2022, 11:25

    Muon Scattering Tomography (MST) has been through a fruitful period of development which led to many applications in various fields such as border controls, nuclear waste characterization, nuclear reactor monitoring and preventive maintenance of industrial facilities. Whatever the use case, MST detector conception aims at reaching the best performance that respects specific constraints,...

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  21. Dr Konstantin Borozdin (Sandia Research Center)
    14/09/2022, 11:50

    Muon tomography applications often require detection of material contrast. One example of such application is the detection of contraband at the border. Another example is the detection of steel rebars inside reinforced concrete blocks. Sensitivity of material discrimination depends on the detector configuration, exposure time and clutter. We explore how machine learning techniques can be used...

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  22. . OLAH LASZLO
    14/09/2022, 12:15

    High-precision muographic imaging of targets with thicknesses up to a
    few meters requires the accurate measurement of the angular and energy
    dependent flux of cosmic-ray muons in the low-energy regime (up to a few
    GeV). We designed a muon spectrometer, called NEWCUT [1]. It is a
    six-meter-length tracking system consists of nineteen Multi-wire
    Proportional Chambers (MWPCs) and lead plates....

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  23. Anna Bordignon
    14/09/2022, 12:40

    We investigate the problem of distinguishing materials by scattering tomography with an R implementation of the EM (Expectation Maximization) algorithm and we compare the results with those from the PoCA (Point of Closest Approach) method.

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  24. Carlos Diez (Muon Tomography Systems S.L.)
    14/09/2022, 15:50

    Several applications of scattering muon tomography require the estimation of a limited number of key parameters associated to a given sample. In this presentation we explore the use of the quantiles of the angular and spatial deviation distributions as the input to Deep Neural Networks regressing on the parameters of interest. We provide examples related to the measurement of the position of...

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  25. Pablo Martinez Ruiz Del Arbol (Universidad de Cantabria and CSIC (ES))
    14/09/2022, 16:15

    This presentation explores the possibility of using Generative Adversarial Neural Networks (GANN) in order to simulate the propagation of muons through material without using a complete simulation of the physical processes. In order to achieve this goal, Generative Adversarial Neural Networks have been used to simulate muon tomography data applied to the measurement of the thicknes of isolated...

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  26. Garima Singh (Princeton University (US))
    14/09/2022, 16:40
    Computer Science
    Talk

    Automatic Differentiation is a powerful technique to evaluate the derivative of a function specified by a computer program. Thanks to the ROOT interpreter, Cling, this technique is available in ROOT for computing gradients and Hessian matrices of multi-dimensional functions.
    We will present the current integration of this tool in the ROOT Mathematical libraries for computing gradients of...

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  27. Gordon Watts (University of Washington (US))
    14/09/2022, 17:05

    The IRIS-HEP Analysis Grand Challenge (AGC) seeks to build and test a fully representative HL-LHC analysis based around new analysis tools being developed within IRIS-HEP and by others. The size of the HL-LHC datasets is expected to require fully distributed analyses sometimes sourcing 100’s of TB of data or event, later in the HL-LHC, PB-sized datasets. This talk will give a brief overview of...

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  28. Mr Remco de Boer (Ruhr University Bochum)
    14/09/2022, 17:30
    Computer Science
    Talk

    In the ideal world, we describe our models with recognizable mathematical expressions and directly fit those models to large data sample with high performance. It turns out that this can be done with a CAS, using its symbolic expression trees as template to computational back-ends like JAX. The CAS can in fact further simplify the expression tree, which results in speed-ups in the numerical...

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  29. Cristiano Fanelli (William & Mary)
    14/09/2022, 18:10
    Nuclear Physics
    Talk

    The Electron Ion Collider (EIC), the future ultimate machine to study the strong force, is a large-scale experiment with an integrated detector that covers the central, far-forward, and far-backward regions. EIC is utilizing AI starting from the design phase in order to deal with compute intensive simulations and a design made by multiple sub-detectors --- each characterized by multiple design...

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  30. Lorenzo Arsini (Department of Physics, University of Rome “La Sapienza”, Rome, Italy, NFN, Section of Rome, Rome, Italy)
    14/09/2022, 18:35
    Nuclear Physics
    Talk

    Background: The aim of our work is to build a Deep Learning algorithm capable of generating the distribution of absorbed dose by a medium interacting with a given particle beam.
    Such an algorithm can provide a precise and faster alternative to a Monte Carlo (MC) simulation, which are currently employed in the optimisation process of radio therapy treatment (RT) planning.
    A faster dose data...

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  31. BS González (LIP/IST)
    14/09/2022, 19:00
    Astrophysics and Cosmology
    Poster

    The muon tagging is an essential tool to distinguish between gamma and hadron-induced showers in wide field-of-view gamma-ray observatories. In this work, it is shown that an efficient muon tagging (and counting) can be achieved using a water Cherenkov detector with a reduced water volume and multiple PMTs, provided that the PMT signal spatial and time patterns are interpreted by an analysis...

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  32. Rumman Neshat (Indian Institute Of Science Education and Research(IISER) kolkata), Tommaso Dorigo (Universita e INFN, Padova (IT))
    14/09/2022, 19:00
    Particle Physics
    Poster

    As the first step in a wide-ranging study to determine the capabilities of
    fine-grained calorimeters to identify different hadrons within dense showers, we show how to extract all the information about all intermediate processes taking place within the development of complex hadron showers produced by simulation in GEANT4.

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  33. Ryan Roussel
    14/09/2022, 19:00
    Particle Physics
    Poster

    Future improvements in particle accelerator performance are predicated on increasingly accurate online modeling of accelerators. Hysteresis effects in magnetic, mechanical, and material components of accelerators are often neglected in online accelerator models used to inform control algorithms, even though reproducibility errors from systems exhibiting hysteresis are not negligible in high...

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  34. Mr Maxime Lagrange (CP3 Universite Catholique de Louvain)
    14/09/2022, 19:00

    The recent MODE whitepaper*, proposes an end-to-end differential pipeline for the optimization of detector designs directly with respect to the end goal of the experiment, rather than intermediate proxy targets. The TomOpt python package is the first concrete step in attempting to realize such a pipeline, and aims to allow the optimisation of detectors for the purpose of muon tomography with...

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  35. Dr Marco Letizia
    14/09/2022, 19:05
    Particle Physics
    Poster

    We present a machine learning approach for real-time detector monitoring. The corresponding core algorithm is powered by recent large-scale implementations of kernel methods, nonparametric learning algorithms that can approximate any continuous function given enough data. The model evaluates the compatibility between incoming batches of experimental data and a reference data sample, by...

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  36. Alexander Demin (Max Planck Institute for Informatics)
    14/09/2022, 19:10
    Computer Science
    Poster

    Derivatives, mainly in the form of gradients and Hessians, are ubiquitous in machine learning and Bayesian inference. Automatic differentiation (AD) techniques transform a program into a derivative (adjoint) program, which is run to compute the gradient.

    Traditionally, most AD systems have been high level, and unable to extract good performance on scalar code or loops modifying memory....

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  37. Axel Puntke (WWU Münster)
    14/09/2022, 19:10
    Astrophysics and Cosmology
    Poster

    The Compressed Baryonic Matter (CBM) experiment at FAIR will investigate the
    QCD phase diagram at high net-baryon density (μB > 500 MeV) with heavy-ion
    collisions in the energy range of √sNN = 2.7−4.9 GeV. Precise determination of dense
    baryonic matter properties requires multi-differential measurements of strange
    hadron yields, both for the most copiously produced K0s and Λ as well as for...

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  38. Lorenzo Domenichetti (INFN LNL, University of Padua)
    14/09/2022, 19:10
    Nuclear Physics
    Poster

    ACTAR is an active-target TPC optimized for the study of nuclear reactions produced by low-intensity beams, such as radioactive beams. In this detector, the gas used to track charged particles within the chamber is at the same time used as a target for the incoming beam. Reconstructing the tracks left by ions is a challenging task, and two different reconstruction algorithms are compared in...

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  39. Michael Schenk (CERN)
    15/09/2022, 09:00
    Particle Physics
    Talk

    CERN maintains a dense and diverse physics programme with numerous experiments requiring a broad spectrum of beam types to be produced and provided by the accelerator chain. This combined with the requests for higher beam intensities and smaller emittances at an overall better beam quality makes accelerator operation more and more challenging. The way forward is to exploit automation...

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  40. Ryan Roussel
    15/09/2022, 09:25
    Particle Physics
    Talk

    Characterizing the phase space distribution of particle beams in accelerators is often a central part of accelerator operation and optimization. However, with the introduction of more exotic target distributions that are ideal for current accelerator applications conventional diagnostic techniques, which assume simplified beam distributions, start to become inaccurate. By contrast, methods...

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  41. Dr Fedor Ratnikov (Yandex School of Data Analysis (RU))
    15/09/2022, 09:50
    Particle Physics
    Talk

    High energy physics experiments essentially rely on the simulation data used for physics analyses. However, running detailed simulation models requires a tremendous amount of computation resources. New approaches to speed up detector simulation are therefore needed.
    t has been shown that deep learning techniques especially Generative Adversarial Networks may be used to reproduce detector...

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  42. Alexey Boldyrev (NRU Higher School of Economics (Moscow, Russia))
    15/09/2022, 10:15
    Particle Physics
    Talk

    LHCb ECAL optimization is a good use case for the generic problem of comprehensive optimization of the complex physics detector. Pipeline-based approach for LHCb ECAL optimization is established and used to scan parameter space for desired subspace which met needs of the LHCb experiment. Parameters for the calorimeter optimization include technology, granularity, Moliere Radius, timing...

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  43. Lisa Kusch (TU Kaiserslautern)
    15/09/2022, 11:10
    Computer Science
    Talk

    Proton computed tomography (pCT) is a medical imaging modality with the potential to improve the accuracy of treatment planning for proton-beam radiotherapy. It produces a three-dimensional image of the relative stopping power (RSP) distribution inside an object, given a list of positions and directions of protons before and after passing through the object, along with the corresponding energy...

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  44. William Moses (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
    15/09/2022, 11:35
    Computer Science
    Talk

    The synthesization of fast reverse- and forward-mode gradients is the key to many algorithms in scientific computing such as meta-learning, optimization, uncertainty quantification, stability analysis, machine learning-accelerated simulations, and end-to-end learning. Enzyme is an automatic differentiation tool which in difference to other tools is built into the LLVM compiler toolchain to be...

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  45. Giles Chatham Strong (Universita e INFN, Padova (IT))
    15/09/2022, 12:00
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  47. Lukas Alexander Heinrich (CERN)
    15/09/2022, 16:00
    Particle Physics
    Talk

    One of the key difficulties in making HEP differentiable is the highly stochastic and discrete nature of both simulation and reconstruction. While not directly differentiable, gradients of expectation values of stochastic simulator output can be estimated using probabilistic programming and score functions. In this talk I will demonstrate score function based optimization of material maps on...

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  48. Haitham Zaraket (Lebanese University (LB))
    15/09/2022, 16:25
    Particle Physics
    Talk

    Several new experiments that looks for millicharged particle has been proposed recently, Milliqan is an international collaboration that is now installed and under upgrade at point 5 @ CMS at CERN for a second run. SUBMET is a new proposal that is expected to be installed at JPARC. The common denominator of the two proposals is the simplicity of the construction. Muons are the main background...

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  49. Alberto Ramos Martinez (Univ. of Valencia and CSIC (ES))
    15/09/2022, 16:50
    Particle Physics
    Talk

    Automatic Differentiation (AD) techniques allows to determine the
    Taylor expansion of any deterministic function. The generalization of
    these techniques to stochastic problems is not trivial. In this work we explore two approaches to extend the ideas of AD to Monte Carlo processes, one based on reweighting (importance sampling) and another one based on the ideas from the lattice field theory...

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  50. Laurent Forthomme (CERN), Pedro Vieira De Castro Ferreira Da Silva (CERN)
    15/09/2022, 17:35
    Particle Physics
    Talk

    The Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) detector at the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is undergoing an extensive Phase II upgrade program to prepare for the challenging conditions of the High-Luminosity LHC (HL-LHC). As part of this program, a novel endcap calorimeter that uses almost 6M Silicon and Scintillator sensors is foreseen. These sensors will sample the electromagnetic and hadronic...

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  51. Mr Shivay Vadhera
    15/09/2022, 18:00
    Particle Physics
    Talk

    The distribution of material in sampling electromagnetic calorimeters has a direct impact on the energy resolution that they can achieve. R&D calorimetry efforts that are inspired for future collider detector concepts aim for the best energy performance given constraints, e.g. mechanical and cost. We address the energy resolution optimization in the case of a Silicon-Tungsten Electromagnetic...

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  52. Gordon Watts (University of Washington (US)), Lisa Kusch (TU Kaiserslautern), Roberto Ruiz De Austri (Instituto de Fisica Corpuscular (ES)), The Poster Committee
    15/09/2022, 18:35
  53. Pietro Vischia (Universite Catholique de Louvain (UCL) (BE))
    15/09/2022, 18:45
  54. Dr Pietro Vischia (Universite Catholique de Louvain (UCL) (BE))