UIUC Getting Started Hackathon for the NSF HDR ML Challenge

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Interaction Room (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

Interaction Room

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

1110 West Green Street Loomis Laboratory of Physics Urbana, IL 61801
Dewen Zhong (Univ. Illinois at Urbana Champaign (US)), Joel Isaiah Kelsey (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), Mark Neubauer (Univ. Illinois at Urbana Champaign (US))
Description

Zoom link:

https://illinois.zoom.us/j/82721153331?pwd=vXiVwsbkYQOckh7kfVbm7gjM6H4zcr.1

NSF HDR ML challenge website:

https://www.nsfhdr.org/mlchallenge

Winner Award:

:moneybag: Total cash prizes $2500
:female-technologist::skin-tone-4: $3000 in AWS cloud computing credits
:sports_medal: Extra award sponsored by AMD (Details pending)
:medal: Special jury prizes include funded invitations to AAAI 2025

Event Description:

The primary goal of the event is to introduce the NSF HDR ML Challenge which includes three anomaly detection ML challenge.

This introduction aims to encourage participants to work on the ML challenges and submit their final solutions on the respective

Codabench pages:
(1) Butterfly Hybrid Detection
(2) Detecting Anomalous Gravitational Wave Signals
(3) iHARP HDR Anomaly Challenge: Detecting East Coast Sea-level Anomalies

Event details:

1. Each of the three ML challenges will be introduced. You are free to work on the one you like most (or all of them!).

2. Bring your own laptop.

3. Note: We will be able to provide additional (GPU) computing resources. See details in introduction slides.

4. Prior ML experience is recommended to complete model submissions and participate in the competition. Starter kits are provided for each challenge. Familiarity with Python is required.

    • 16:00 17:00
      Setup, Introductions, team building 1h
    • 17:00 17:50
      Introduction to HDR ML Challenge 50m
      Speakers: Dewen Zhong (Univ. Illinois at Urbana Champaign (US)), Joel Isaiah Kelsey (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
    • 18:00 21:00
      Hands-on Hackathon 3h