Data Science Applications in Physics, Winter School in Tirana 2025

27 Jan 2025, 09:00 → 30 Jan 2025, 13:20 Europe/Tirane

Hall 413 B (Faculty of Natural Sciences)

Rudina Osmanaj (Faculty of Natural Sciences, University of Tirana), Olta Çakaj (Faculty of Natural Sciences, University of Tirana), Nicola De Filippis (Politecnico di Bari / INFN Bari (IT)), Gerti Xhixha (Faculty of Natural Sciences, Tirana, Albania), Klaudio Peqini (Physics Department, Faculty of Natural Sciences, University of Tirana), Ervin Kafexhiu, Kristina Jaku, Laura Hamzallari, Sali Dapi

"Data Science Applications in Physics"

  Winter School in Tirana 2025

 

"Data Science Applications in Physics" Winter School in Tirana 2025

The latest edition of the "Data Science Applications in Physics" School aims to bring together researchers from Albania and abroad who are currently working in various disciplines of Physics, Mathematics, Computer Science, and related fields, focusing on Big Data challenges and employing Machine Learning methods. This year, the school will cover a broader range of topics, including the latest results from the CMS collaboration, computer vision applications, pattern recognition, and numerical modeling of real-life phenomena. Students from Physics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Engineering, and related disciplines are strongly encouraged to apply.

The school features lectures and hands-on tutorials tailored to a broader audience, with a central focus on Data Science and Data Analysis. It is supported by the Albanian-American Development Foundation , through The Research Expertise from the Academic Diaspora (READ) Fellowship Program. 

It will take place from January 27-30, 2025, at the Faculty of Natural Sciences in Tirana.

Applications are now closed.

 

Requirements for the hands-on sessions:

1. Students must have a Gmail account

2. Students must have a Kaffel account

If they don't have it, they need to:

a. go to the Kaggle website: https://www.kaggle.com/
b. click on Register, at the top right
c. register with an email (e.g., Google)
d. enter the email and password, then log in

 

Monday 27 January

1 Students' registration

2 Opening / welcoming speech

Speaker: Prof. Eglantina Kalluci (Dean of the Faculty of Natural Sciences)

3 Opening / welcoming speech

Speaker: Prof. Gerti Xhixha (Head of the Department of Physics)

4 Opening / welcoming speech

Speaker: Dr Alessandro Ruggera (Director of the Italian Cultural Institute in Tirana)

5 Opening / welcoming speech

Speaker: Dr Alias (Delegate of the Italian Ambassador in Tirana)

6 Optical and Interferometric Methods for Material Characterization and Dimensional Analysis

Speaker: Prof. Giovanni Pappalettera (Politecnico di Bari & INFN Bari, Italy)

Giovanni Pappalettera.pdf

Giovanni Pappalettera.pptx

14:00 Lunch Break

7 Hands on: Introduction to Machine Learning

Speaker: Prof. Nicola Fulvio Calabria (Dipartimento Interateneo di Fisica "M. Merlin", Politecnico di Bari)

Tuesday 28 January

8 Optical Wavefront Shaping and its applications in photonics, imaging and biomedical technologies

Speaker: Dr Bergin Gjonaj (Politecnico di Bari & INFN Bari, Italy)

Bergin Gjonaj.pdf

Bergin Gjonaj.pptx

12:00 Lunch Break

9 Machine learning approaches for neutrino physics

Speaker: Prof. Nicola Fulvio Calabria (Dipartimento Interateneo di Fisica "M. Merlin", Politecnico di Bari)

Wednesday 29 January

10 Machine learning applications for the future circular collider project at CERN

Speaker: Prof. Nicola De Filippis (Politecnico di Bari & INFN Bari, Italy)

DeFilippis_MachineLearning_2025.pdf

12:00 Lunch Break

11 Hands on: Introduction to Deep Learning for HEP

Speaker: Nicola De Filippis (Politecnico/INFN Bari (IT))

Lecture_DeFilippis_MachineLearning_tutorial_2025.pdf

Thursday 30 January

12 Dosimetry of Medical Linear Acceleration

Speaker: Dr Ervis Telhaj (Hygeia Hospital Tirana · Department of Medical Physics)

10:45 Certificates distribution and closing speech