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)
Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics (Lecture Hall X5 1. 1.18ab)

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