Third MODE Workshop on Differentiable Programming for Experiment Design

from Monday 24 July 2023 (08:00) to Wednesday 26 July 2023 (21:00)
Princeton University

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
24 Jul 2023
25 Jul 2023
26 Jul 2023
AM
08:30 --- Breakfast and Registration/Check-In ---
09:00
Introduction and goals of the Workshop (until 09:20)
09:00 Introduction of the workshop and welcome to Princeton - Peter Elmer (Princeton University (US)) Tommaso Dorigo (Universita e INFN, Padova (IT))  
09:20
Applications in Particle Physics -Dr Pietro Vischia (Universidad de Oviedo and Instituto de Ciencias y Tecnologías Espaciales de Asturias (ICTEA)) (until 11:00)
09:20 Summary of the MIAPbP workshop on Differentiable Programming for Fundamental Physics - Lukas Alexander Heinrich (Technische Universitat Munchen (DE))  
09:50 --- Discussion ---
10:00 Machine learning for particle physics simulations - Raghav Kansal (Univ. of California San Diego (US))  
10:20 --- Discussion ---
10:30 Smart pixels with data reduction at source - Jennet Elizabeth Dickinson (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))  
10:50 --- Discussion ---
11:00 --- Coffee Break ---
11:20
Keynote talks - Tommaso Dorigo (Universita e INFN, Padova (IT)) (until 13:00)
11:20 Large Language Models: an Inter-disciplinary Perspective - Andrey Ustyuzhanin (Higher School of Economics)  
12:00 --- Discussion ---
12:10 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 --- Discussion ---
08:30 --- Breakfast ---
09:00
Applications in Particle Physics -Dr Pietro Vischia (Universidad de Oviedo and Instituto de Ciencias y Tecnologías Espaciales de Asturias (ICTEA)) (until 10:30)
09:00 Towards the optimization of a Muon Collider Electrmagnetic Calorimeter - Federico Nardi Federico Nardi (Universita e INFN, Padova (IT))  
09:20 --- Discussion ---
09:30 Cuts and NN - living together in peace - Gordon Watts (University of Washington (US))  
09:50 --- Discussion ---
10:00 Summary of CaloChallenge - Michele Faucci Giannelli (INFN e Universita Roma Tor Vergata (IT))  
10:20 --- Discussion ---
10:30
Topical Discussion - Lukas Alexander Heinrich (Technische Universitat Munchen (DE)) (until 11:00)
11:00 --- Group Photo ---
11:10 --- Coffee Break ---
11:30
Applications in Muon Tomography - Pablo Martinez Ruiz Del Arbol (Universidad de Cantabria and CSIC (ES)) (until 12:30)
11:30 Muography experiment optimization - Maxime Lagrange (CP3 Universite Catholique de Louvain)  
11:50 --- Discussion ---
12:00 Use of machine learning techniques for muography applied to industrial applications - Pablo Martinez Ruiz Del Arbol (Universidad de Cantabria and CSIC (ES))  
12:20 --- Discussion ---
08:30 --- Breakfast ---
09:00
Applications in Muon Tomography - Pablo Martinez Ruiz Del Arbol (Universidad de Cantabria and CSIC (ES)) (until 10:00)
09:00 Ultra fast simulation algorithmics for industrial applications in Muon Tomography using GAN - Ruben Lopez Ruiz (Universidad de Cantabria and CSIC (ES))  
09:20 --- Discussion ---
09:30 Background suppression for volcano muography with machine learning - Gábor Galgóczi  
09:50 --- Discussion ---
10:00
Tutorial - Max Aehle (until 11:00)
10:00 Derivgrind tutorial  
11:00 --- Coffee Break ---
11:30
Applications in Particle Physics -Dr Pietro Vischia (Universidad de Oviedo and Instituto de Ciencias y Tecnologías Espaciales de Asturias (ICTEA)) (until 13:00)
11:30 Gradients of Discrete Stochastic Programs for Detector Design Optimization - Michael Kagan (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US))  
11:50 --- Discussion ---
12:00 ELSA and MadNIS - Ramon Winterhalder (UC Louvain)  
12:20 --- Discussion ---
12:30 The Geant4 particle transport simulation toolkit: differentiable? - Mihaly Novak (CERN)  
12:50 --- Discussion ---
PM
13:00 --- Lunch ---
14:00
Applications in AstroHEP - Garima Singh (Princeton University (US)) (until 15:30)
14:00 Direct Dark Matter Experiments and Machine Learning - Aaron Higuera Pichardo  
14:20 --- Discussion ---
14:30 Optimization of Radio Detectors of Ultra-High Energy Neutrinos through Deep Learning and Differential Programming - Nils Heyer (Uppsala University)  
14:50 --- Discussion ---
15:00 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))  
15:20 --- Discussion ---
15:30 --- Coffee Break ---
16:00
Progress in Computer Science - Garima Singh (Princeton University (US)) (until 17:00)
16:00 Differentiating GATE/Geant4 with Derivgrind - Max Aehle  
16:20 --- Discussion ---
16:30 Reverse-Mode Automatic Differentiation in Futhark Language - Prof. Cosmin E. Oancea (DIKU, University of Copenhagen)  
16:50 --- Discussion ---
17:00
Free-form discussion / working groups (until 18:00)
18:00 --- Workshop Reception - Palmer House ---
12:30
Free-form discussion / working groups (until 13:00)
13:00 --- Lunch ---
14:00
Applications in AstroHEP - Maxime Lagrange (CP3 Universite Catholique de Louvain) (until 15:10)
14:00 The GENETIS Project: optimizing detector designs for science outcomes - Amy Connolly (The Ohio State University)  
14:20 --- Discussion ---
14:30 Geometry Optimization of the SWGO Cherenkov Array - Tommaso Dorigo (Universita e INFN, Padova (IT))  
15:00 --- Discussion ---
15:10 --- Coffee Break ---
15:40
Progress in Computer Science - Max Aehle (until 16:40)
15:40 Making Likelihood Calculations Fast Using Automatic Differentiation in RooFit - Garima Singh (Princeton University (US))  
16:00 --- Discussion ---
16:10 Efficient C++ Derivatives Through Source Transformation AD With Clad - Vassil Vasilev (Princeton University (US))  
16:30 --- Discussion ---
16:40
Applications in Particle Physics - Ruben Lopez Ruiz (Universidad de Cantabria and CSIC (ES)) (until 17:40)
16:40 Toward particle identification in granular calorimeters - Tommaso Dorigo (Universita e INFN, Padova (IT)) Aashish aggarwal  
17:00 --- Discussion ---
17:10 Energy Regression conditioned on Longitudinal Calorimeter Segmentation - Fernando Torales Acosta  
17:30 --- Discussion ---
18:00 --- Reception (Joint with PyHEP.dev workshop) - Louis A. Simpson International Building - Atrium ---
13:00 --- Lunch ---
14:00
Applications in Particle Physics - Federico Nardi (Universita e INFN, Padova (IT)) (until 14:30)
14:00 Ultra-High-Resolution Detector Simulation with Intra-Event Aware GAN and Self-Supervised Relational Reasoning - Hosein Hashemi (LMU Munich)  
14:20 --- Discussion ---
14:30
Applications in AstroHEP - Federico Nardi (Universita e INFN, Padova (IT)) (until 15:30)
14:30 LBNF/DUNE Optimization - Laura Johanna Fields (University of Notre Dame (US))  
14:50 --- Discussion ---
15:00 Differentiable Simulation of a Liquid Argon TPC for High-Dimensional Calibration - Pierre Granger (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR))  
15:20 --- Discussion ---
15:30 --- Coffee Break ---
16:00
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 18:00)
16:00 Roundtable: organization of future activities  
17:30 Highlights and workshop closing - Dr Pietro Vischia (Universidad de Oviedo and Instituto de Ciencias y Tecnologías Espaciales de Asturias (ICTEA))  
17:50 --- Discussion ---