Name: Cosmic Connections: A ML X Astrophysics Symposium at Simons Foundation
Start: 2023-05-22T08:50:00-04:00
End: 2023-05-24T17:00:00-04:00
Location: 162 5th Avenue

Cosmic Connections: A ML X Astrophysics Symposium at Simons Foundation

from Monday, May 22, 2023 (8:50 AM) to Wednesday, May 24, 2023 (5:00 PM)

Monday, May 22, 2023

8:50 AM David Spergel and the Organizing Committee
David Spergel and the Organizing Committee
8:50 AM - 9:00 AM
Room: Ingrid Daubechies Auditorium/2-IDA

9:00 AM Ashley Villar: The Big Data Revolution in Time-Domain Astrophysics
Ashley Villar: The Big Data Revolution in Time-Domain Astrophysics
9:00 AM - 9:30 AM
Room: Ingrid Daubechies Auditorium/2-IDA

9:30 AM Kyunghyun Cho: Health system scale language models for clinical and operational decision making
Kyunghyun Cho: Health system scale language models for clinical and operational decision making
9:30 AM - 9:50 AM
Room: Ingrid Daubechies Auditorium/2-IDA

9:50 AM Greg Yang: The unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics in large scale deep learning
Greg Yang: The unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics in large scale deep learning
9:50 AM - 10:10 AM
Room: Ingrid Daubechies Auditorium/2-IDA

10:10 AM

10:10 AM - 10:40 AM
Room: Ingrid Daubechies Auditorium/2-IDA

10:40 AM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:40 AM - 11:00 AM
Room: Ingrid Daubechies Auditorium/2-IDA

11:00 AM Peter Battaglia: Learning simulation: graphs, physics, and weather
Peter Battaglia: Learning simulation: graphs, physics, and weather
11:00 AM - 11:30 AM
Room: Ingrid Daubechies Auditorium/2-IDA

11:30 AM Dmitrii Kochkov: Differentiable numerics + ML for simulation of atmospheric physics
Dmitrii Kochkov: Differentiable numerics + ML for simulation of atmospheric physics
11:30 AM - 11:50 AM
Room: Ingrid Daubechies Auditorium/2-IDA

11:50 AM Kate Storey-Fisher: Symmetry-preserving machine learning for cosmology
Kate Storey-Fisher: Symmetry-preserving machine learning for cosmology
11:50 AM - 12:10 PM
Room: Ingrid Daubechies Auditorium/2-IDA

12:10 PM

12:10 PM - 12:40 PM
Room: Ingrid Daubechies Auditorium/2-IDA

12:40 PM Lunch
Lunch
12:40 PM - 2:00 PM
Room: Ingrid Daubechies Auditorium/2-IDA

2:00 PM Yann LeCun: Towards Machines that can Learn, Reason, and Plan
Yann LeCun: Towards Machines that can Learn, Reason, and Plan
2:00 PM - 2:50 PM
Room: Ingrid Daubechies Auditorium/2-IDA

2:50 PM Bert Chan: Self-Organizing Patterns in Lenia, an Abstract Complex System
Bert Chan: Self-Organizing Patterns in Lenia, an Abstract Complex System
2:50 PM - 3:10 PM
Room: Ingrid Daubechies Auditorium/2-IDA

3:10 PM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
3:10 PM - 3:30 PM
Room: Ingrid Daubechies Auditorium/2-IDA

3:30 PM Laurence Perreault Levasseur: Strong Lensing Data Analysis in the Era of Large Sky Surveys
Laurence Perreault Levasseur: Strong Lensing Data Analysis in the Era of Large Sky Surveys
3:30 PM - 3:50 PM
Room: Ingrid Daubechies Auditorium/2-IDA

3:50 PM Stephan Mandt: From Compression to Convection: a Latent Variable Perspective
Stephan Mandt: From Compression to Convection: a Latent Variable Perspective
3:50 PM - 4:10 PM
Room: Ingrid Daubechies Auditorium/2-IDA

4:10 PM

4:10 PM - 4:30 PM
Room: Ingrid Daubechies Auditorium/2-IDA

4:30 PM Yann LeCun, David Spergel, Bhuv Jain, and Irina Rish
Yann LeCun, David Spergel, Bhuv Jain, and Irina Rish
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM
Room: Ingrid Daubechies Auditorium/2-IDA

6:00 PM Dinner
Dinner
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Room: Ingrid Daubechies Auditorium/2-IDA
Tuesday, May 23, 2023

9:00 AM Josh Bloom: AI Assisted Discovery: from UX to Eureka
Josh Bloom: AI Assisted Discovery: from UX to Eureka
9:00 AM - 9:30 AM
Room: Ingrid Daubechies Auditorium/2-IDA

9:30 AM Kimberly Stachenfeld: Learned simulation of fluid dynamics for prediction and design
Kimberly Stachenfeld: Learned simulation of fluid dynamics for prediction and design
9:30 AM - 9:50 AM
Room: Ingrid Daubechies Auditorium/2-IDA

9:50 AM Pablo Lemos: Machine Learning Powered Inference in Cosmology
Pablo Lemos: Machine Learning Powered Inference in Cosmology
9:50 AM - 10:10 AM
Room: Ingrid Daubechies Auditorium/2-IDA

10:10 AM

10:10 AM - 10:40 AM
Room: Ingrid Daubechies Auditorium/2-IDA

10:40 AM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:40 AM - 11:00 AM
Room: Ingrid Daubechies Auditorium/2-IDA

11:00 AM Irina Rish: Recent Advances in Foundation Models: Scaling Laws, Emergent Behaviors, and AI Democratization
Irina Rish: Recent Advances in Foundation Models: Scaling Laws, Emergent Behaviors, and AI Democratization
11:00 AM - 11:30 AM
Room: Ingrid Daubechies Auditorium/2-IDA

11:30 AM Tomasz Kacprzak: Large Scale Structure Cosmology with Deep Learning
Tomasz Kacprzak: Large Scale Structure Cosmology with Deep Learning
11:30 AM - 11:50 AM
Room: Ingrid Daubechies Auditorium/2-IDA

11:50 AM Jeff Schneider: Reinforcement Learning for Nuclear Fusion
Jeff Schneider: Reinforcement Learning for Nuclear Fusion
11:50 AM - 12:10 PM
Room: Ingrid Daubechies Auditorium/2-IDA

12:10 PM

12:10 PM - 12:40 PM
Room: Ingrid Daubechies Auditorium/2-IDA

12:40 PM Lunch
Lunch
12:40 PM - 2:00 PM
Room: Ingrid Daubechies Auditorium/2-IDA

2:00 PM Anna Scaife: Towards the SKA: Foundation Models for Radio Astronomy
Anna Scaife: Towards the SKA: Foundation Models for Radio Astronomy
2:00 PM - 2:30 PM
Room: Ingrid Daubechies Auditorium/2-IDA

2:30 PM Siamak Ravanbakhsh: Diffusion Modeling for Anomaly Detection
Siamak Ravanbakhsh: Diffusion Modeling for Anomaly Detection
2:30 PM - 2:50 PM
Room: Ingrid Daubechies Auditorium/2-IDA

2:50 PM

2:50 PM - 3:10 PM
Room: Ingrid Daubechies Auditorium/2-IDA

3:10 PM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
3:10 PM - 3:30 PM
Room: Ingrid Daubechies Auditorium/2-IDA

3:30 PM Yang Song: Breaking the Curse of Dimensionality in Generative Modeling: A Homotopic Approach
Yang Song: Breaking the Curse of Dimensionality in Generative Modeling: A Homotopic Approach
3:30 PM - 3:50 PM
Room: Ingrid Daubechies Auditorium/2-IDA

3:50 PM Miles Cranmer: Symbolic Distillation of Neural Networks
Miles Cranmer: Symbolic Distillation of Neural Networks
3:50 PM - 4:10 PM
Room: Ingrid Daubechies Auditorium/2-IDA

4:10 PM

4:10 PM - 4:30 PM
Room: Ingrid Daubechies Auditorium/2-IDA

4:30 PM

4:30 PM - 6:00 PM
Room: Ingrid Daubechies Auditorium/2-IDA

6:00 PM Poster Session and Refreshments
Poster Session and Refreshments
6:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Room: Ingrid Daubechies Auditorium/2-IDA
Wednesday, May 24, 2023

9:00 AM Ingo Waldmann: Machine Learning in Exoplanet Characterisation
Ingo Waldmann: Machine Learning in Exoplanet Characterisation
9:00 AM - 9:30 AM
Room: Ingrid Daubechies Auditorium/2-IDA

9:30 AM Joan Bruna: Mysteries in High-dimensional Generative Modeling
Joan Bruna: Mysteries in High-dimensional Generative Modeling
9:30 AM - 9:50 AM
Room: Ingrid Daubechies Auditorium/2-IDA

9:50 AM Marylou Gabrié: Approximate transport with flows for sampling: training without data and MC(MC) correction
Marylou Gabrié: Approximate transport with flows for sampling: training without data and MC(MC) correction
9:50 AM - 10:10 AM
Room: Ingrid Daubechies Auditorium/2-IDA

10:10 AM

10:10 AM - 10:40 AM
Room: Ingrid Daubechies Auditorium/2-IDA

10:40 AM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:40 AM - 11:00 AM
Room: Ingrid Daubechies Auditorium/2-IDA

11:00 AM Stéphane Mallat: Multiscale Random Projections of Physical Energies and Deep Networks
Stéphane Mallat: Multiscale Random Projections of Physical Energies and Deep Networks
11:00 AM - 11:30 AM
Room: Ingrid Daubechies Auditorium/2-IDA

11:30 AM Julia Kempe: Some ML concepts for cosmology
Julia Kempe: Some ML concepts for cosmology
11:30 AM - 11:50 AM
Room: Ingrid Daubechies Auditorium/2-IDA

11:50 AM Francois Lanusse: Implicit and Explicit Simulation-Based Bayesian Inference for Cosmology
Francois Lanusse: Implicit and Explicit Simulation-Based Bayesian Inference for Cosmology
11:50 AM - 12:10 PM
Room: Ingrid Daubechies Auditorium/2-IDA

12:10 PM

12:10 PM - 12:40 PM
Room: Ingrid Daubechies Auditorium/2-IDA

12:40 PM Lunch
Lunch
12:40 PM - 2:00 PM
Room: Ingrid Daubechies Auditorium/2-IDA

2:00 PM Uros Seljak: Physics for ML: new physics inspired Monte Carlo samplers
Uros Seljak: Physics for ML: new physics inspired Monte Carlo samplers
2:00 PM - 2:30 PM
Room: Ingrid Daubechies Auditorium/2-IDA

2:30 PM

2:30 PM - 3:10 PM
Room: Ingrid Daubechies Auditorium/2-IDA

3:10 PM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
3:10 PM - 3:30 PM
Room: Ingrid Daubechies Auditorium/2-IDA

3:30 PM Siddharth Mishra Sharma: Generative modeling for inference and emulation in cosmology
Siddharth Mishra Sharma: Generative modeling for inference and emulation in cosmology
3:30 PM - 3:50 PM
Room: Ingrid Daubechies Auditorium/2-IDA

3:50 PM

3:50 PM - 4:40 PM
Room: Ingrid Daubechies Auditorium/2-IDA