Second MODE Workshop on Differentiable Programming for Experiment Design

from Monday, 12 September 2022 (09:00) to Friday, 16 September 2022 (21:00)
OAC conference center, Kolymbari, Crete, Greece.

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
12 Sept 2022
13 Sept 2022
14 Sept 2022
15 Sept 2022
16 Sept 2022
AM
07:45 --- Breakfast at OAC (only for people with OAC accommodation) ---
09:00
Registration (until 09:50) ()
09:50
Opening and Keynote Lectures -Dr Pietro Vischia (Universite Catholique de Louvain (UCL) (BE)) (until 10:30) ()
09:50 Welcome by the General Director of the Orthodox Academy of Crete - Dr Konstantinos Zormpas (OAC)   ()
10:00 Presentation by the Head of the Institute of Theology and Ecology - Department of the Orthodox Academy of Crete - Antonis Kalogerakis (OAC)   ()
10:10 Introduction and goals of the Workshop - Tommaso Dorigo (Universita e INFN, Padova (IT))   ()
10:30 --- Coffee break ---
11:00
Opening and Keynote Lectures - Tommaso Dorigo (Universita e INFN, Padova (IT)) (until 13:00) ()
11:00 Keynote Lecture: JAX/DEX for scientific computing - Dr Adam Paszke (Google Brain)   ()
11:50 --- Discussion ---
12:00 Keynote Lecture: High-performance Algorithmic Differentiation - Dr Max Sagebaum (TU Kaiserslautern)   ()
12:50 --- Discussion ---
07:45
Breakfast at OAC (only for people with OAC accommodation) (until 08:45) ()
09:00
Applications in AstroHEP - Christian Glaser (until 10:40) ()
09:00 Optimization of the Future P-ONE Neutrino Telescope - Dr Christian Haack (Technical University of Munich)   ()
09:20 --- Discussion ---
09:25 The Einstein Telescope project - Giacomo Bruno (Universite Catholique de Louvain (UCL) (BE))   ()
09:45 --- Discussion ---
09:50 Normalizing flows for differentiable expectation values - Thorsten Glüsenkamp (Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg)   ()
10:10 --- Discussion ---
10:15 Muon identification and gamma/hadron discrimination using compact single-layered water Cherenkov detectors powered by Machine Learning techniques - B.S. González (LIP/IST)   ()
10:35 --- Discussion ---
10:40 --- Coffee break ---
11:00
Applications in Muon Tomography - Tommaso Dorigo (Universita e INFN, Padova (IT)) Pablo Martinez Ruiz Del Arbol (Universidad de Cantabria and CSIC (ES)) (until 12:52) ()
11:00 TomOpt: Differentiable Optimisation of Muon-Tomography Detectors - Giles Chatham Strong (Universita e INFN, Padova (IT))   ()
11:20 --- Discussion ---
11:25 Detector optimization in Muon scattering Tomography - Mr Maxime Lagrange (CP3 Universite Catholique de Louvain)   ()
11:45 --- Discussion ---
11:50 Detection of material contrast in muon tomography data with machine learning - Dr Konstantin Borozdin (Sandia Research Center)   ()
12:10 --- Discussion ---
12:15 NEWCUT: a novel tool for reconstruction of low-energy muon spectra - . OLAH LASZLO   ()
12:35 --- Discussion ---
12:40 Scattering Tomography with the EM Algorithm - Anna Bordignon   ()
12:50 --- Discussion ---
07:45
Breakfast at OAC (only for people with OAC accommodation) (until 08:45) ()
09:00
Applications in Particle Physics - Pietro Vischia (Universite Catholique de Louvain (UCL) (BE)) (until 10:40) ()
09:00 Machine learning and optimisation in particle accelerator operation for CERN - Michael Schenk (CERN)   ()
09:20 --- Discussion ---
09:25 Phase Space Reconstruction of Beams Using Machine Learning Based Representations - Ryan Roussel   ()
09:45 --- Discussion ---
09:50 Surrogate Regressors for a Surrogate generators - Dr Fedor Ratnikov (Yandex School of Data Analysis (RU))   ()
10:10 --- Discussion ---
10:15 LHCb ECAL optimization - Alexey Boldyrev (NRU Higher School of Economics (Moscow, Russia))   ()
10:35 --- Discussion ---
10:40 --- Coffee break ---
11:10
Progress in Computer Science - Nicolas Gauger (Technische Universität Kaiserslautern) (until 12:00) ()
11:10 Quantification of Uncertainties in a Model-Based Iterative Reconstruction Algorithm for Proton Computed Tomography - Lisa Kusch (TU Kaiserslautern)   ()
11:30 --- Discussion ---
11:35 Synthesization of Fast Gradients with Enzyme - William Moses (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)   ()
11:55 --- Discussion ---
07:45
Breakfast at OAC (only for people with OAC accommodation) (until 08:45) ()
PM
20:00
Dinner at OAC (until 21:30) ()
13:00 --- Lunch at OAC ---
14:00
Free time (until 15:30) ()
15:30 --- Coffee break ---
16:00
Applications in AstroHEP - Roberto Ruiz De Austri (Instituto de Fisica Corpuscular (ES)) (until 17:40) ()
16:00 Experiment design for 21st Century astronomy - Emille Eugenia DE OLIVEIRA ISHIDA (CNRS)   ()
16:20 --- Discussion ---
16:25 Dark Matter direct detection experiments - Susana Cebrian (Universidad de Zaragoza)   ()
16:45 --- Discussion ---
16:50 Towards an End-to-End Optimization of IceCube-Gen2 Neutrino Observatory - Christian Glaser   ()
17:10 --- Discussion ---
17:15 Challenges in Cosmic Microwave Background Data Analysis - Dr Belèn Barreiro (IFCA/CSIC)   ()
17:35 --- Discussion ---
17:40 --- Break with no coffee ---
18:20
Progress in Computer Science - Nicolas Gauger (Technische Universität Kaiserslautern) (until 20:00) ()
18:20 Differentiable Programming on relational languages. - Paul Peseux (Université de Rouen)   ()
18:40 --- Discussion ---
18:45 In-Situ Range Verification for Particle Therapy Based on Secondary Charged Particles - Alexander Schilling (University of Applied Sciences Worms)   ()
19:05 --- Discussion ---
19:10 Towards Neural Charged Particle Tracking in Proton Computed Tomography with Reinforcement Learning - Tobias Kortus   ()
19:30 --- Discussion ---
19:35 Towards Algorithmic Differentiation of GATE/Geant4 - Max Aehle   ()
19:55 --- Discussion ---
20:00 --- Dinner at OAC ---
21:30 Music Offer (piano concert) - Tommaso Dorigo (Universita e INFN, Padova (IT))   ()
13:00 --- Lunch at OAC ---
14:00
Free time (until 15:30) ()
15:30 --- Coffee break ---
15:50
Applications in Muon Tomography - Maxime Lagrange (CP3 Universite Catholique de Louvain) (until 16:40) ()
15:50 Deep neural networks applied to muon tomography scattering angular distributions - Carlos Diez (Muon Tomography Systems S.L.)   ()
16:10 --- Discussion ---
16:15 Ultra-fast muon tomography simulations using Adversarial Neural Networks - Pablo Martinez Ruiz Del Arbol (Universidad de Cantabria and CSIC (ES))   ()
16:35 --- Discussion ---
16:40
Progress in Computer Science - Nicolas Gauger (Technische Universität Kaiserslautern) (until 17:55) ()
16:40 Automatic Differentiation in ROOT - Garima Singh (Princeton University (US))   ()
17:00 --- Discussion ---
17:05 Differentiable Programming and the IRIS-HEP Analysis Grand Challenge - Gordon Watts (University of Washington (US))   ()
17:25 --- Discussion ---
17:30 Speeding up differentiable programming with a Computer Algebra System - Mr Remco de Boer (Ruhr University Bochum)   ()
17:50 --- Discussion ---
17:55 --- Break with no coffee ---
18:10
Applications in Nuclear Physics - Shahid Khan (University of Tuebingen) (until 19:00) ()
18:10 Adaptive Experimentation to assist the detector design of the future Electron Ion Collider - Cristiano Fanelli (William & Mary)   ()
18:30 --- Discussion ---
18:35 FAST EMULATION OF DEPOSITED DOSE DISTRIBUTIONS BY MEANS OF DEEP LEARNING - Lorenzo Arsini (Department of Physics, University of Rome “La Sapienza”, Rome, Italy, NFN, Section of Rome, Rome, Italy)   ()
18:55 --- Discussion ---
19:00
Wine Tasting and Poster Session (until 20:00) ()
19:00 (Poster) Muon identification and gamma/hadron discrimination using compact single-layered water Cherenkov detectors powered by Machine Learning techniques - BS González (LIP/IST)   ()
19:00 Decrypting hadronic showers for studies of particle ID with Deep Learning - Tommaso Dorigo (Universita e INFN, Padova (IT)) Rumman Neshat (Indian Institute Of Science Education and Research(IISER) kolkata)   ()
19:00 Differentiable Preisach Modeling for Characterization and Optimization of Particle Accelerator Systems with Hysteresis - Ryan Roussel   ()
19:00 Muon momentum measurement in Muon Scattering Tomography - Mr Maxime Lagrange (CP3 Universite Catholique de Louvain)   ()
19:05 A flexible and efficient machine learning approach for data quality monitoring - Dr Marco Letizia   ()
19:10 Automatic Optimization of Derivatives with Polyhedral Compiler - Alexander Demin (Max Planck Institute for Informatics)   ()
19:10 Concept of measuring (Multi-)Strange Hadron Yields in the CBM Experiment using Machine Learning Techniques - Axel Puntke (WWU Münster)   ()
19:10 Reconstruction techniques for nuclear reactions measured with ACtive TARget TPC - Lorenzo Domenichetti (INFN LNL, University of Padua)   ()
20:00 --- Dinner at OAC ---
12:00
MODE Data Challenge -Dr Giles Chatham Strong (Universita e INFN, Padova (IT)) (until 13:00) ()
12:00 MODE Data Challenge - Giles Chatham Strong (Universita e INFN, Padova (IT))   ()
12:45 --- Discussion ---
12:55 Prize awards for data challenge competition   ()
13:00 --- Lunch at OAC ---
14:00
Free time (until 15:30) ()
15:30 --- Coffee break ---
16:00
Applications in Particle Physics - Pietro Vischia (Universite Catholique de Louvain (UCL) (BE)) (until 17:15) ()
16:00 Score-function Optimization
 for Branching Processes - Lukas Alexander Heinrich (CERN)   ()
16:20 --- Discussion ---
16:25 Optimization of small scale experiments, MILLIQAN and SUBMET as examples - Haitham Zaraket (Lebanese University (LB))   ()
16:45 --- Discussion ---
16:50 Automatic differentiation for Monte Carlo processes - Alberto Ramos Martinez (Univ. of Valencia and CSIC (ES))   ()
17:10 --- Discussion ---
17:15 --- Break with no coffee ---
17:35
Applications in Particle Physics - Alexey Boldyrev (NRU Higher School of Economics (Moscow, Russia)) (until 18:35) ()
17:35 Challenges in the optimization of the HGCAL Optical Fibre Plant - Pedro Vieira De Castro Ferreira Da Silva (CERN) Laurent Forthomme (CERN)   ()
17:55 --- Discussion ---
18:00 Towards a differentiable sampling ECAL model with optimal absorber material distribution - Mr Shivay Vadhera   ()
18:20 --- Discussion ---
18:35
Organization of Future Activities and Closing of the Workshop - Pietro Vischia (Universite Catholique de Louvain (UCL) (BE)) (until 19:15) ()
18:35 Prize awards for poster competition - Roberto Ruiz De Austri (Instituto de Fisica Corpuscular (ES)) Gordon Watts (University of Washington (US)) Lisa Kusch (TU Kaiserslautern) The Poster Committee   ()
18:45 Summary of the workshop and closing words - Pietro Vischia (Universite Catholique de Louvain (UCL) (BE))   ()
19:15
Free time (until 20:00) ()
20:00 --- Dinner at Restaurant Argentina (a Greek restaurant, despite the name) ---