Third MODE Workshop on Differentiable Programming for Experiment Design

from Monday, July 24, 2023 (8:00 AM) to Wednesday, July 26, 2023 (9:00 PM)
Princeton University

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
Jul 24, 2023
Jul 25, 2023
Jul 26, 2023
AM
8:30 AM --- Breakfast and Registration/Check-In ---
9:00 AM
Introduction and goals of the Workshop (until 9:20 AM)
9:00 AM Introduction of the workshop and welcome to Princeton - Peter Elmer (Princeton University (US)) Tommaso Dorigo (Universita e INFN, Padova (IT))  
9:20 AM
Applications in Particle Physics -Dr Pietro Vischia (Universidad de Oviedo and Instituto de Ciencias y Tecnologías Espaciales de Asturias (ICTEA)) (until 11:00 AM)
9:20 AM Summary of the MIAPbP workshop on Differentiable Programming for Fundamental Physics - Lukas Alexander Heinrich (Technische Universitat Munchen (DE))  
9:50 AM --- Discussion ---
10:00 AM Machine learning for particle physics simulations - Raghav Kansal (Univ. of California San Diego (US))  
10:20 AM --- Discussion ---
10:30 AM Smart pixels with data reduction at source - Jennet Elizabeth Dickinson (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))  
10:50 AM --- Discussion ---
11:00 AM --- Coffee Break ---
11:20 AM
Keynote talks - Tommaso Dorigo (Universita e INFN, Padova (IT)) (until 1:00 PM)
11:20 AM Large Language Models: an Inter-disciplinary Perspective - Andrey Ustyuzhanin (Higher School of Economics)  
12:00 PM --- Discussion ---
12:10 PM Temporal Dynamics in Neuromorphic Computing: A New Frontier for Co-Design and Optimization in Physics and Machine Learning - Prof. Fredrik Sandin (Lulea University of Technology)  
12:50 PM --- Discussion ---
8:30 AM --- Breakfast ---
9:00 AM
Applications in Particle Physics -Dr Pietro Vischia (Universidad de Oviedo and Instituto de Ciencias y Tecnologías Espaciales de Asturias (ICTEA)) (until 10:30 AM)
9:00 AM Towards the optimization of a Muon Collider Electrmagnetic Calorimeter - Federico Nardi Federico Nardi (Universita e INFN, Padova (IT))  
9:20 AM --- Discussion ---
9:30 AM Cuts and NN - living together in peace - Gordon Watts (University of Washington (US))  
9:50 AM --- Discussion ---
10:00 AM Summary of CaloChallenge - Michele Faucci Giannelli (INFN e Universita Roma Tor Vergata (IT))  
10:20 AM --- Discussion ---
10:30 AM
Topical Discussion - Lukas Alexander Heinrich (Technische Universitat Munchen (DE)) (until 11:00 AM)
11:00 AM --- Group Photo ---
11:10 AM --- Coffee Break ---
11:30 AM
Applications in Muon Tomography - Pablo Martinez Ruiz Del Arbol (Universidad de Cantabria and CSIC (ES)) (until 12:30 PM)
11:30 AM Muography experiment optimization - Maxime Lagrange (CP3 Universite Catholique de Louvain)  
11:50 AM --- Discussion ---
12:00 PM Use of machine learning techniques for muography applied to industrial applications - Pablo Martinez Ruiz Del Arbol (Universidad de Cantabria and CSIC (ES))  
12:20 PM --- Discussion ---
8:30 AM --- Breakfast ---
9:00 AM
Applications in Muon Tomography - Pablo Martinez Ruiz Del Arbol (Universidad de Cantabria and CSIC (ES)) (until 10:00 AM)
9:00 AM Ultra fast simulation algorithmics for industrial applications in Muon Tomography using GAN - Ruben Lopez Ruiz (Universidad de Cantabria and CSIC (ES))  
9:20 AM --- Discussion ---
9:30 AM Background suppression for volcano muography with machine learning - Gábor Galgóczi  
9:50 AM --- Discussion ---
10:00 AM
Tutorial - Max Aehle (until 11:00 AM)
10:00 AM Derivgrind tutorial  
11:00 AM --- Coffee Break ---
11:30 AM
Applications in Particle Physics -Dr Pietro Vischia (Universidad de Oviedo and Instituto de Ciencias y Tecnologías Espaciales de Asturias (ICTEA)) (until 1:00 PM)
11:30 AM Gradients of Discrete Stochastic Programs for Detector Design Optimization - Michael Kagan (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US))  
11:50 AM --- Discussion ---
12:00 PM ELSA and MadNIS - Ramon Winterhalder (UC Louvain)  
12:20 PM --- Discussion ---
12:30 PM The Geant4 particle transport simulation toolkit: differentiable? - Mihaly Novak (CERN)  
12:50 PM --- Discussion ---
PM
1:00 PM --- Lunch ---
2:00 PM
Applications in AstroHEP - Garima Singh (Princeton University (US)) (until 3:30 PM)
2:00 PM Direct Dark Matter Experiments and Machine Learning - Aaron Higuera Pichardo  
2:20 PM --- Discussion ---
2:30 PM Optimization of Radio Detectors of Ultra-High Energy Neutrinos through Deep Learning and Differential Programming - Nils Heyer (Uppsala University)  
2:50 PM --- Discussion ---
3:00 PM Challenges of the LISA mission to detect gravitational waves from Space - Carlos F. Sopuerta (Institute of Space Sciences of the Spanish National Research Council (ICE, CSIC))  
3:20 PM --- Discussion ---
3:30 PM --- Coffee Break ---
4:00 PM
Progress in Computer Science - Garima Singh (Princeton University (US)) (until 5:00 PM)
4:00 PM Differentiating GATE/Geant4 with Derivgrind - Max Aehle  
4:20 PM --- Discussion ---
4:30 PM Reverse-Mode Automatic Differentiation in Futhark Language - Prof. Cosmin E. Oancea (DIKU, University of Copenhagen)  
4:50 PM --- Discussion ---
5:00 PM
Free-form discussion / working groups (until 6:00 PM)
6:00 PM --- Workshop Reception - Palmer House ---
12:30 PM
Free-form discussion / working groups (until 1:00 PM)
1:00 PM --- Lunch ---
2:00 PM
Applications in AstroHEP - Maxime Lagrange (CP3 Universite Catholique de Louvain) (until 3:10 PM)
2:00 PM The GENETIS Project: optimizing detector designs for science outcomes - Amy Connolly (The Ohio State University)  
2:20 PM --- Discussion ---
2:30 PM Geometry Optimization of the SWGO Cherenkov Array - Tommaso Dorigo (Universita e INFN, Padova (IT))  
3:00 PM --- Discussion ---
3:10 PM --- Coffee Break ---
3:40 PM
Progress in Computer Science - Max Aehle (until 4:40 PM)
3:40 PM Making Likelihood Calculations Fast Using Automatic Differentiation in RooFit - Garima Singh (Princeton University (US))  
4:00 PM --- Discussion ---
4:10 PM Efficient C++ Derivatives Through Source Transformation AD With Clad - Vassil Vasilev (Princeton University (US))  
4:30 PM --- Discussion ---
4:40 PM
Applications in Particle Physics - Ruben Lopez Ruiz (Universidad de Cantabria and CSIC (ES)) (until 5:40 PM)
4:40 PM Toward particle identification in granular calorimeters - Tommaso Dorigo (Universita e INFN, Padova (IT)) Aashish aggarwal  
5:00 PM --- Discussion ---
5:10 PM Energy Regression conditioned on Longitudinal Calorimeter Segmentation - Fernando Torales Acosta  
5:30 PM --- Discussion ---
6:00 PM --- Reception (Joint with PyHEP.dev workshop) - Louis A. Simpson International Building - Atrium ---
1:00 PM --- Lunch ---
2:00 PM
Applications in Particle Physics - Federico Nardi (Universita e INFN, Padova (IT)) (until 2:30 PM)
2:00 PM Ultra-High-Resolution Detector Simulation with Intra-Event Aware GAN and Self-Supervised Relational Reasoning - Hosein Hashemi (LMU Munich)  
2:20 PM --- Discussion ---
2:30 PM
Applications in AstroHEP - Federico Nardi (Universita e INFN, Padova (IT)) (until 3:30 PM)
2:30 PM LBNF/DUNE Optimization - Laura Johanna Fields (University of Notre Dame (US))  
2:50 PM --- Discussion ---
3:00 PM Differentiable Simulation of a Liquid Argon TPC for High-Dimensional Calibration - Pierre Granger (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR))  
3:20 PM --- Discussion ---
3:30 PM --- Coffee Break ---
4:00 PM
Organization of Future Activities and Closing of the Workshop -Dr Pietro Vischia (Universidad de Oviedo and Instituto de Ciencias y Tecnologías Espaciales de Asturias (ICTEA)) (until 6:00 PM)
4:00 PM Roundtable: organization of future activities  
5:30 PM Highlights and workshop closing - Dr Pietro Vischia (Universidad de Oviedo and Instituto de Ciencias y Tecnologías Espaciales de Asturias (ICTEA))  
5:50 PM --- Discussion ---