Name: The Road to Differentiable and Probabilistic Programming in Fundamental Physics
Start: 2023-06-26T08:00:00+02:00
End: 2023-06-28T22:15:00+02:00
Location: Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics

The Road to Differentiable and Probabilistic Programming in Fundamental Physics

from Monday, June 26, 2023 (8:00 AM) to Wednesday, June 28, 2023 (10:15 PM)

Monday, June 26, 2023
9:00 AM Introduction - Topical Worksop Welcome - Lukas Heinrich
Introduction - Topical Worksop Welcome
- Lukas Heinrich
9:00 AM - 9:15 AM
Room: Lecture Hall X5 1. 1.18ab
9:15 AM Introduction to Algorithmic Differentiation - Andrea Walther
Introduction to Algorithmic Differentiation
- Andrea Walther
9:15 AM - 10:00 AM
Room: Lecture Hall X5 1. 1.18ab
10:00 AM Probabilistic Programming - The Computational Tool For Science? - Frank Wood
Probabilistic Programming - The Computational Tool For Science?
- Frank Wood
10:00 AM - 10:45 AM
Room: Lecture Hall X5 1. 1.18ab
10:45 AM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:45 AM - 11:15 AM
Room: Lecture Hall X5 1. 1.18ab
11:15 AM Introduction to Probabilistic Programming in Physical Sciences - Torsten ensslin (MPA)
Introduction to Probabilistic Programming in Physical Sciences
- Torsten ensslin (MPA)
11:15 AM - 12:00 PM
Room: Lecture Hall X5 1. 1.18ab
12:00 PM Introduction to Differentiable Programming in Physical Sciences - Kazuhiro Terao
Introduction to Differentiable Programming in Physical Sciences
- Kazuhiro Terao
12:00 PM - 12:45 PM
Room: Lecture Hall X5 1. 1.18ab
12:45 PM Lunch Break
Lunch Break
12:45 PM - 2:00 PM
Room: Lecture Hall X5 1. 1.18ab
2:00 PM Tool landscape and best practices in automatic differentiation - Jan Hueckelheim
Tool landscape and best practices in automatic differentiation
- Jan Hueckelheim
2:00 PM - 2:45 PM
Room: Lecture Hall X5 1. 1.18ab
2:45 PM Challenges and Opportunities in Astrophysics Software: Leveraging Differentiable Modeling for Cosmological Surveys - Jens Jasche
Challenges and Opportunities in Astrophysics Software: Leveraging Differentiable Modeling for Cosmological Surveys
- Jens Jasche
2:45 PM - 3:30 PM
Room: Lecture Hall X5 1. 1.18ab
3:30 PM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
3:30 PM - 4:00 PM
Room: Lecture Hall X5 1. 1.18ab
4:00 PM Adoption and Scaling strategies for Big Science: Recent Application and Success Stories in HEP - Elizabeth Sexton-Kennedy
Adoption and Scaling strategies for Big Science: Recent Application and Success Stories in HEP
- Elizabeth Sexton-Kennedy
4:00 PM - 4:45 PM
Room: Lecture Hall X5 1. 1.18ab
Tuesday, June 27, 2023
9:00 AM Challenges and Opportunities in Differentiable Rendering at Scale - Tzu-Mao Li
Challenges and Opportunities in Differentiable Rendering at Scale
- Tzu-Mao Li
9:00 AM - 9:45 AM
Room: Lecture Hall X5 1. 1.18ab
9:45 AM Diffusion Models and Differentiable Simulations (mostly for Fluids) - Nils Thuerey
Diffusion Models and Differentiable Simulations (mostly for Fluids)
- Nils Thuerey
9:45 AM - 10:30 AM
Room: Lecture Hall X5 1. 1.18ab
10:30 AM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
Room: Lecture Hall X5 1. 1.18ab
11:00 AM Differentiable Multiscale Strong Lens Modeling - Aymeric Galan
Differentiable Multiscale Strong Lens Modeling
- Aymeric Galan
11:00 AM - 11:35 AM
Room: Lecture Hall X5 1. 1.18ab
11:35 AM Graphically Structure Diffusion Models for Science - Frank Wood
Graphically Structure Diffusion Models for Science
- Frank Wood
11:35 AM - 12:15 PM
Room: Lecture Hall X5 1. 1.18ab
12:15 PM Lunch Break
Lunch Break
12:15 PM - 1:30 PM
Room: Lecture Hall X5 1. 1.18ab
1:30 PM Using Interactive Theorem Prover for Scientific Computing - Tomas Skrivan
Using Interactive Theorem Prover for Scientific Computing
- Tomas Skrivan
1:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Room: Lecture Hall X5 1. 1.18ab
2:00 PM Targeted simulation-based inference of dark matter substructures in strong gravitational lenses - Noemi Anau Montel
Targeted simulation-based inference of dark matter substructures in strong gravitational lenses
- Noemi Anau Montel
2:00 PM - 2:30 PM
Room: Lecture Hall X5 1. 1.18ab
2:30 PM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
2:30 PM - 3:00 PM
Room: Lecture Hall X5 1. 1.18ab
3:00 PM State of the art tools in PP and open research problems - Maria Gorinova
State of the art tools in PP and open research problems
- Maria Gorinova
3:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Room: Lecture Hall X5 1. 1.18ab
3:30 PM The effort to support automatic differentiation (AD) in RooFit - Garima Singh
The effort to support automatic differentiation (AD) in RooFit
- Garima Singh
3:30 PM - 4:00 PM
Room: Lecture Hall X5 1. 1.18ab
Wednesday, June 28, 2023
9:00 AM Automatic Differentiation of Programs with Discrete Randomness - Gaurav Arya
Automatic Differentiation of Programs with Discrete Randomness
- Gaurav Arya
9:00 AM - 9:45 AM
Room: Lecture Hall X5 1. 1.18ab
9:45 AM NIFTy - Numerical information field theory - Philipp Frank
NIFTy - Numerical information field theory
- Philipp Frank
9:45 AM - 10:15 AM
Room: Lecture Hall X5 1. 1.18ab
10:15 AM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:15 AM - 10:45 AM
Room: Lecture Hall X5 1. 1.18ab
10:45 AM Automatic Differentiation and Probabilistic Programming in Astrodynamics - Giacomo Acciarini
Automatic Differentiation and Probabilistic Programming in Astrodynamics
- Giacomo Acciarini
10:45 AM - 11:15 AM
Room: Lecture Hall X5 1. 1.18ab
11:15 AM Modeling the Cosmic Large Scale Structure with LEFTfield - Julia Stadler
Modeling the Cosmic Large Scale Structure with LEFTfield
- Julia Stadler
11:15 AM - 11:45 AM
Room: Lecture Hall X5 1. 1.18ab
11:45 AM Thank You & Closeout
Thank You & Closeout
11:45 AM - 12:00 PM
Room: Lecture Hall X5 1. 1.18ab

12:00 PM Lunch Break
Lunch Break
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
Room: Lecture Hall X5 1. 1.18ab