Flatiron-Wide Machine Learning (FWML) meeting

Jun 5, 2023, 2:00 PM → Jun 7, 2023, 1:00 PM America/New_York

162 Fifth Avenue/2-2nd Floor Promenade (162 5th Avenue)

Location: Auditorium, 162 Av
Time:
June 5 (Monday) 2:00-5:15 pm, followed by the reception 5:15-6:30 pm
June 6 (Tuesday) 10:00-1:00 (coffee breaks included)
June 7 (Wednesday) 10:00-1:00 (coffee breaks included)

FWML organizers:
Kaze Wong (CCA)
Lisa Brown (CCB)
Ruben Ohana (CCM)
Siavash Golkar (CCN)
Anna Dawid (CCQ)

 

Monday, June 5

2:00 PM → 2:30 PM Session: Wavelet scattering statistics for astrophysics

Convener: Bruno rd Régaldo-Saint Blanca (CCM)

2:30 PM → 3:00 PM Session: Hands free single cell RNAseq data with Random Matrix Theory

Convener: Victor Chardès (CCB)

3:00 PM → 3:20 PM Break

3:20 PM → 3:50 PM Session: Weakly-supervised anomaly detection in the Milky Way

Convener: Mariel Pettee (CCA)

3:50 PM → 4:20 PM Session: Self-supervised representation learning for temporal data

Convener: Pierre-Étienne Fiquet (CCN)

4:20 PM → 4:40 PM Break (coffee/snacks)

4:40 PM → 5:15 PM Session: Hot Topic: GPUs

Convener: Geraud Krawezik (SCC)

5:15 PM → 6:30 PM Reception

Tuesday, June 6

10:00 AM → 10:30 AM Session: Neural-network quantum states

Convener: Matija Medvidović (CCQ)

10:30 AM → 11:00 AM Session: An introduction to neural signal representations (NeRFs) with applications to Cryo-EM

Convener: Wenda Zhou (CCM)

11:00 AM → 11:20 AM Break (coffee/snacks)

11:20 AM → 11:50 AM Session: Amortized variational inference: when and why?

Convener: Charles Margossian (CCM)

11:50 AM → 12:25 PM Session: Hot Topic: Diffusion models

Convener: Zahra Kadkhodaie (CCN)

12:25 PM → 12:55 PM Open Problems

Wednesday, June 7

10:00 AM → 10:30 AM Session: Interpreting neural networks for physics

Convener: Anna Dawid (CCQ)

10:30 AM → 11:00 AM Session: Symbolic distillation of neural networks

Convener: Miles Cranmer (CCA)

11:00 AM → 11:20 AM Break (coffee/snacks)

11:20 AM → 11:50 AM Session: Comparing ANNs and humans with metameric stimuli

Convener: Jenelle Feather (CCN)

11:50 AM → 12:25 PM Session: Hot Topic: Transformers

Convener: Kaze Wong (CCA)

12:25 PM → 12:55 PM Open Problems