Fourth MODE Workshop on Differentiable Programming for Experiment Design

from Monday, September 23, 2024 (9:00 AM) to Wednesday, September 25, 2024 (6:10 PM)
Valencia (Spain)

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
Sep 23, 2024
Sep 24, 2024
Sep 25, 2024
AM
9:00 AM --- Registration ---
9:30 AM
Introduction -Dr Pietro Vischia (Universidad de Oviedo and Instituto de Ciencias y Tecnologías Espaciales de Asturias (ICTEA)) (until 10:00 AM)
9:30 AM Welcome - Dr Pietro Vischia (Universidad de Oviedo and Instituto de Ciencias y Tecnologías Espaciales de Asturias (ICTEA))  
9:31 AM Welcome from Local Organisers - Roberto Ruiz De Austri Jose Salt (Instituto de Fisica Corpuscular (IFIC) - Universidad de Valencia)  
9:35 AM Introduction and scope of the Workshop - Tommaso Dorigo (INFN Padova and LTU)  
10:00 AM
Keynotes -Dr Pietro Vischia (Universidad de Oviedo and Instituto de Ciencias y Tecnologías Espaciales de Asturias (ICTEA)) (until 11:00 AM)
10:00 AM Learning Without Labels - Dr Danilo Rezende (Google Deep Mind)  
10:50 AM --- Question time ---
11:00 AM --- Coffee Break ---
11:30 AM
Particle Physics - Emma Torro Pastor (Univ. of Valencia and CSIC (ES)) Dr Pietro Vischia (Universidad de Oviedo and Instituto de Ciencias y Tecnologías Espaciales de Asturias (ICTEA)) (until 12:50 PM)
11:30 AM Cheetah: Bridging the Gap Between Machine Learning and Particle Accelerator Physics with High-Speed, Differentiable Simulations - Jan Kaiser  
11:50 AM Identification of Particle Tracks in CMS with Neuromorphic Computing - Dr Emanuele Coradin (University of Padova)  
12:10 PM Machine Learning approach to Beam Induced Background Shield at 3 TeV Muon Collider - Luca Castelli  
12:30 PM Stable neural network models for calorimeter optimization - Alexey Boldyrev (NRU Higher School of Economics (Moscow, Russia))  
9:00 AM
Muography - Pablo Martinez Ruiz Del Arbol (Universidad de Cantabria and CSIC (ES)) (until 10:00 AM)
9:00 AM Optimisation of muon tomography scanners for border controls using TomOpt - Zahraa Zaher  
9:20 AM Generative Adversarial Neural Networks for muography simulation: image prediction - Pablo Martinez Ruiz Del Arbol (Universidad de Cantabria and CSIC (ES))  
9:40 AM Segmentation and anomaly detection on Muon Tomography applied to the inspection of containers - Carlos Diez (Muon Tomography Systems S.L.)  
10:00 AM
Keynotes -Dr Pietro Vischia (Universidad de Oviedo and Instituto de Ciencias y Tecnologías Espaciales de Asturias (ICTEA)) (until 11:00 AM)
10:00 AM Derivative-based optimization for applications in physics - Prof. Andrea Walther (Humboldt Universität Berlin)  
10:50 AM --- Question time ---
11:00 AM --- Coffee Break and Group Photo ---
11:30 AM
Particle Physics -Dr Pietro Vischia (Universidad de Oviedo and Instituto de Ciencias y Tecnologías Espaciales de Asturias (ICTEA)) (until 12:50 PM)
11:30 AM Magnet Design Optimization with Supervised Deep Neural Networks - Florian Wolfgang Stummer (University of London (GB))  
11:50 AM A Surrogate Model to Optimize Injection Efficiency in PSI muEDM Experiment - Ritwika Chakraborty (PSI)  
12:10 PM Towards the optimization of a Muon Collider Calorimeter - Federico Nardi (Universita e INFN, Padova (IT) - LPC Clermont)  
12:30 PM Studies on detector optimisation through end-to-end surrogate models including discrete parameters. - Jan Kieseler (KIT - Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (DE))  
9:00 AM
Muography - Pablo Martinez Ruiz Del Arbol (Universidad de Cantabria and CSIC (ES)) (until 10:00 AM)
9:00 AM Muon momentum estimation in scattering tomography - Mr Florian Bury (University of Bristol)  
9:20 AM Improving Material Identification in Muon Scattering Tomography with Machine Learning. - Angel Bueno Rodriguez (German Aerospace Center (DLR))  
9:40 AM Muographic Image Up-Sampling with Machine Learning for Built Infrastructure Applications - Mr William O'Donnell (University of Glasgow)  
10:00 AM
Computer Science - Lisa Kusch (TU Eindhoven) (until 10:40 AM)
10:00 AM Charge Diffusion Modeling and Pixel-level Differentiability in Monolithic Active Pixel Sensors - Alexander Schilling (University of Kaiserslautern-Landau (RPTU))  
10:20 AM Development of a Universal Simulation and Modelling Language at NASA - Stephen Casey (NASA Kennedy Space Center)  
10:40 AM
Astroparticle - Roberto Ruiz De Austri (until 11:00 AM)
10:40 AM ML4GW: An AI-based Ecosystem for Real-time Gravitational Wave Analysis - Eric Anton Moreno (Massachusetts Institute of Technology (US))  
11:00 AM --- Coffee Break ---
11:30 AM
Computer Science - Lisa Kusch (TU Eindhoven) (until 12:30 PM)
11:30 AM Automatic Differentiation in RooFit - Vassil Vasilev (Princeton University (US))  
11:50 AM Advanced optimizations for source transformation based automatic differentiation - Maksym Andriichuk  
12:10 PM Automatic Differentiation of the Kokkos framework with Clad - Atell-Yehor Krasnopolski  
PM
1:00 PM --- Lunch break ---
2:30 PM
Keynotes -Dr Pietro Vischia (Universidad de Oviedo and Instituto de Ciencias y Tecnologías Espaciales de Asturias (ICTEA)) (until 3:30 PM)
2:30 PM Collision Resistance in random Neural Network-Based Hash Functions - Prof. Riccardo Zecchina (Università Bocconi)  
3:20 PM --- Question time ---
3:30 PM
Computer Science - Lisa Kusch (TU Eindhoven) (until 4:10 PM)
3:30 PM Algorithmic Derivatives of Electromagnetic Shower Simulations - Max Aehle (Fachhochschule Worms (DE)) Max Aehle  
3:50 PM Exploring End-to-end Differentiable Charged Particle Tracking - Tobias Kortus (University of Kaiserslautern-Landau (RPTU))  
4:10 PM --- Coffee Break ---
4:35 PM
Astroparticle - Roberto Ruiz De Austri Christian Glaser (Uppsala University) (until 6:15 PM)
4:35 PM NuRadioOpt: Optimization of Radio Detectors of Ultra-High Energy Neutrinos through Deep Learning and Differential Programming - Christian Glaser (Uppsala University)  
4:55 PM Machine learning based design optimization for the search of neutrinoless double-beta decay with LEGEND - Dr Ann-Kathrin Schuetz (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)  
5:15 PM Status of GENETIS - Amy Connolly (The Ohio State University)  
5:35 PM Simultaneous high-dimensional calibration with differentiable simulations for a liquid argon time projection chamber - Yifan Chen (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US))  
5:55 PM TAMBO: Searching for Tau Neutrinos in the Peruvian Andes - Dr Alfonso Andres Garcia Soto (IFIC)  
6:15 PM --- Free time ---
7:30 PM
Social events (until 8:30 PM)
1:00 PM --- Lunch break ---
2:30 PM
Astroparticle - Christian Glaser (Uppsala University) Roberto Ruiz De Austri (until 3:50 PM)
2:30 PM Application of machine learning techniques to search dark matter with ANAIS-112 - Iván Coarasa Casas (CAPA, University of Zaragoza, Spain)  
2:50 PM Optimization of the DSA 2000 radio interferometer - Joshua Albert (Caltech)  
3:10 PM Applications of Information Field Theory in Astroparticle Physics - Frederik Krieger (RWTH Aachen University)  
3:30 PM A surrogate model for the generation of radio pulses from neutrinos for IceCube-Gen2 - Philipp Pilar (Uppsala University)  
4:00 PM --- Coffee Break ---
4:30 PM
Nuclear Physics - Cesar Domingo Pardo (Instituto de Fisica Corpuscular (ES)) (until 6:10 PM)
4:30 PM Automated Design of Quantum Experiments - Mario Krenn (MPI)  
4:50 PM Automatic optimization of a Parallel-Plate Avalanche Counter with Optical Readout - María Pereira  
5:10 PM Utilizing Neuronal Networks to Enhance the Application of Metallic-Magnetic Calorimeters for X-ray Spectroscopy - Mr Marc Oliver Herdrich (Helmholtz-Institute Jena, Germany)  
5:30 PM Differentiable Deep Learning Surrogate Models applied to the optimization of the IFMIF-DONES facility - Galo Gallardo Romero (Artificial Intelligence Engineer at HI Iberia)  
5:50 PM Optimal design for experimental production of exotic hypernuclei - Samuel Escrig López (Instituto de Estructura de la Materia (IEM - CSIC))  
6:20 PM
Poster session (until 8:00 PM)
6:25 PM Algorithmic differentiation in a granular calorimeter - Xuan Tung Nguyen (INFN and RPTU)  
6:25 PM Computational Evaluation of Na3SbX3 (X =S, Se) for resistive switching memory devices for Neuromorphic Computing applications - Muhammad Awais  
6:25 PM Development and explainability of models for machine-learning-based signal reconstruction - Kalina Dimitrova (University of Sofia - St. Kliment Ohridski (BG))  
6:25 PM Evo-SAN: Evolutionary Optimization and Co-design of Energy-efficient Neuromorphic Hardware Trigger for UHE Neutrino Detection - Mr Alexander Kyuroson (Lulea Technical University)  
6:25 PM Improving BioDynamo's Performance using ROOT C++ Modules - Mr Isaac Morales Santana (Universidad de Granada)  
6:25 PM Machine Learning for Particle Identification in Real Time at the ATLAS Experiment - Marta Lanzac Berrocal (Univ. of Valencia and CSIC (ES))  
6:25 PM Machine learning in muography: Optimisation of muon detection systems for border control using TomOpt - Mr Samuel Álvarez Lueje (Universidad de Oviedo)  
6:25 PM Multivariate two-sample tests from univariate integral probability measures - Samuele Grossi (Università degli studi di Genova & INFN sezione di Genova)  
6:25 PM Neuromorphic Readout For Homogeneous Hadron Calorimeters - Enrico Lupi (INFN Padova and University of Padova)  
6:25 PM Porting MADGRAPH to FPGA using High-Level Synthesis (HLS) - Hector Gutierrez Arance (Univ. of Valencia and CSIC (ES))  
6:25 PM Smart Web Services in the Web of things - Nawel SEKKAL (University Abou Bekr Belkaid Tlemcen)  
6:25 PM Toward Particle ID in Granular Hadron Calorimeters - Andrea De Vita (Universita e INFN, Padova (IT))  
6:25 PM Versal ACAP processing for ATLAS-TileCal signal reconstruction - Francisco Hervas Alvarez (Univ. of Valencia and CSIC (ES))  
8:00 PM --- Free time ---
9:00 PM
Social events (until 11:55 PM)
12:30 PM Poster Awards - Emma Torro Pastor (Univ. of Valencia and CSIC (ES)) Christian Glaser (Uppsala University) Lisa Kusch (TU Eindhoven)  
12:40 PM --- Lunch break ---
2:20 PM
Medical Physics - Gabriela Llosá (Instituto de Física Corpuscular (IFIC) (CSCI-UV)) (until 3:40 PM)
2:20 PM PETAL-3D: A Novel 3D U-Net Approach for Ultra-Low-Dose PET Image Denoising - Mr Ezzat Elmoujarkach (Universität zu Lübeck - Institute of Medical Engineering)  
2:40 PM Neural Networks for inter-crystal scatter recovery in semi-monolithic PET detectors - Karol Brzezinski (IFIC (CSIC-UV))  
3:00 PM Machine Learning Framework for Time Pick-Up of Nuclear Detector Signals - José Andrés Avellaneda González Not Supplied  
3:20 PM Enhancing Compton Camera Imaging with Neural Networks - Javier Pérez Curbelo (Instituto de Física Corpuscular (IFIC) (CSCI-UV))  
3:40 PM --- Coffee Break ---
4:10 PM
Introduction -Dr Pietro Vischia (Universidad de Oviedo and Instituto de Ciencias y Tecnologías Espaciales de Asturias (ICTEA)) (until 4:40 PM)