Artificial Intelligence and the Uncertainty challenge in Fundamental Physics

Europe/Paris
Description

The workshop is organised by CNRS AISSAI and CNRS IN2P3.

The integration of Artificial Intelligence (AI) into the realm of fundamental science is witnessing an unprecedented surge. However, there are specific challenges to be overcome: 

  • any measurement or prediction has to be provided with a precise confidence interval
  • measurements rely on numerous inputs, each with inherent uncertainties and potential inter-correlations 
  • the trust in the measurement has to be communicated to peers
  • an experiment complexity is between the breakout game and autonomous car: detailed, expensive, imperfect simulators exist
  • each experimental device is a complex unique device, producing semi-structured data
  • expensive data in the petabytes range

 

These challenges have been overcome in the past for extraordinarily complex measurements where the role of AI was not major (e.g. Higgs boson or gravitational wave discoveries). Also, Fundamental Science has decades-old big data culture.

 

This workshop aims to bring together experts from Fundamental Science, Computer Science and Statistics to exchange around the theme of Uncertainties, which has been broken down into the following themes: 

  • Monday PM : Opening session, Uncertainty Quantification, uncertainty prediction
  • Tuesday AM : Explainable AI, trustworthy AI
  • end of Tues AM, Tuesday PM : Simulation-Based Inference
  • Wednesday AM : Data frugal approaches, Data-centric AI ; Benchmarks dataset and challenges
  • Wednesday PM : Fair Universe hackathon 
  • Thu AM Unfolding (or de-biasing, de-blurring) 
  • End of Thu AM, Thu PM Controlling uncertainties in generative models
  • Fri AM Architectures (Adversarial, Bayesian, ... )
  • Fri PM Closing session

 

 

Each theme will see introductory talks by leading experts, followed by contributed talks. 

 

Confirmed speakers list includes : Luca Biferale (U Roma 2), Mathias Backes (Kirchhof Institute), Sebastian Bieringer (U Hambourg), Jérôme Bobin (CEA-Saclay), Vincent Chabridon (EDF), Yuan Tuan Chou (U Washington), Vince Croft (NIKHEF-Amsterdam), Tommaso Dorigo (U Padova), Eva Govorkova (MIT), Marylou Gabrié (Ecole Polytechnique), Julien Girard-Satabin (CEA), Nathan Huetsch (U Heidelberg), Eiji Kawasaki (CEA), Gregor Kasiezcka (U Hamburg), Sabine Kraml (LPSC-Grenoble), Mikael  Kuusela (Carnegie Mellon), Alessandro Leite (LISN), Gilles Louppe (U Liège), Mark Neubauer (U Illinois), Harrison Prosper (Florida State U), Radi Radev (CERN), Pedro Rodrigues (INRIA-Grenoble), Ozgur Sahin (CEA-Saclay), Simone Scardapane (U Roma), Sofia Schweitzer (U Heidelberg), Laurens Sluyterman (U Radboud), Gaël Varoquaux (INRIA-Saclay), Emmanuel Vazquez (L2S-Saclay), Wouter Verkerke (U Amsterdam), Gordon Watts (U Washington), Christoph Weniger (U Amsterdam), Philip Windischhofer (U Chicago), Burak Yelmen (U Tartu) 

and most of the Fair Universe team : Yuan-Tang Chou (University of Washington), Wahid Bhimji (NERSC-Berkeley), Ragansu Chakkappai (IJCLab-Orsay), Yuan-Tang Chou (University of Washington), Sascha Diefenbacher (LBNL-Berkeley), Steven Farrell (NERSC-Berkeley), Elham Khoda (U Washington), David Rousseau (IJClab-Orsay), Ihsan Ullah (ChaLearn)

 

 

Also a special half-day hackathon on the Fair-Universe prototype challenge on Wednesday afternoon. The goal? Craft ML algorithms that can derive measurements with uncertainties from simulated LHC proton collisions, ensuring robustness against input uncertainties.

 

 

Registration and call for contribution

 

Registration is free (but mandatory). Registration for on-site participation (including  monday cocktail and thursday workshop dinner) remains open until the last few available slots are distributed.

 

Remote full-time or part-time participation will be possible, although the focus will be on-site. The registration form allows to specify on-site participation with some granularity. The zoom link will be distributed to participants only.

 

 

The call for contributions is closed. Talks are expected to be given in person, with few exceptions.

 

Location

The workshop will take place from Monday 2PM till Tuesday evening in Paris at SCAI, Paris (on Jussieu campus) and Wednesday, Thursday, Friday 5PM at Institut Pascal Université Paris-Saclay. 

And finally

A companion anomaly detection workshop will take place in Clermont-Ferrand 4-7th March 2024

 

All slides and recordings are available in the detailed agenda (Timetable). For recordings, we advise to right click and save,  rather than play directly. 

Participants
  • Adil Jueid
  • agrebi said
  • Alberto Carnelli
  • Alberto Prades
  • Alessandro Leite
  • Alexandre Boucaud
  • Aman Desai
  • Anja Butter
  • ANNA CORSI
  • Antonio D'Avanzo
  • Arsene Ferriere
  • Artemios Geromitsos
  • Aurelien Benoit-Levy
  • Aurore Savoy-Navarro
  • Aveksha Kapoor
  • Badr ABOU EL MAJD
  • Baptiste Abeloos
  • Baptiste Ravina
  • Binis Batool
  • Biswajit Biswas
  • Brigitte PERTILLE RITTER
  • Burak Yelmen
  • Cecile Germain
  • Cedric Auliac
  • Christoph Weniger
  • Christophe Kervazo
  • Christos Vergis
  • Corentin Santos
  • Cupic Vesna
  • Damien THISSE
  • Daniel Felea
  • Davide Valsecchi
  • DIMITRIOS TZIVRAILIS
  • Eiji Kawasaki
  • Elham E Khoda
  • Enzo Canonero
  • Eric Chassande-Mottin
  • Erik Bachmann
  • Esteban Andres Villalobos Gomez
  • Farida Fassi
  • Fedor Ratnikov
  • Gael Varoquaux
  • Gamze Sokmen
  • Gilles Grasseau
  • Gilles Louppe
  • Graham Clyne
  • Graziella Russo
  • Gregor Kasieczka
  • Harrison Prosper
  • Hubert Leterme
  • Ian Pang
  • Ignacio Segarra
  • Igor Slazyk
  • Ihsan Ullah
  • Isabelle Guyon
  • Israel Matute
  • Jack Harrison
  • Jacob Linacre
  • Jay Sandesara
  • Jean-Pierre DIDELEZ
  • Jerome Bobin
  • Joseph Carmignani
  • Juan Sebastian Alvarado
  • Judita Mamuzic
  • Judith Katzy
  • Julia Lascar
  • Julien Donini
  • Julien Girard-Satabin
  • Julien Zoubian
  • Justine Zeghal
  • Lee Barnby
  • Louis Lyons
  • Maciej Glowacki
  • Manuel Gonzalez Berges
  • Marco Letizia
  • Marion Ullmo
  • Mark Neubauer
  • Marta Felcini
  • Martin de los Rios
  • Marylou Gabrié
  • Masahiko Saito
  • Mathias Josef Backes
  • Mikael Kuusela
  • Milind Purohit
  • Mykyta Shchedrolosiev
  • nacim belkhir
  • Nadav Michael Tamir
  • Natalia Korsakova
  • Nathan Huetsch
  • Nicolas BRUNEL
  • Olaf Behnke
  • Paolo Calafiura
  • Patricia Rebello Teles
  • Philipp Windischhofer
  • Pranjupriya Goswami
  • Radi Radev
  • Rafal Maselek
  • Redouane Lguensat
  • Ricardo Barrué
  • Roberto Ruiz de Austri
  • Rodrigo Carvajal
  • Roel Meiburg
  • Rui Zhang
  • Rukshak Kapoor
  • Santiago Peña Martinez
  • Sascha Diefenbacher
  • Sebastian Bieringer
  • Sebastian Schmitt
  • Simone Scardapane
  • Stefano Giagu
  • Steven Calvez
  • Theodore Avgitas
  • Thomas Bultingaire
  • Thomas Vuillaume
  • Tiago Batalha de Castro
  • Tommaso Dorigo
  • Trygve Buanes
  • Valérie Gautard
  • Viaud Benoit
  • Vidya Manian
  • Vincent Alexander Croft
  • Vincent CHABRIDON
  • Vincent Garot
  • Wahid Bhimji
  • Wassim KABALAN
  • Won Sang Cho
  • Xi Wang
  • Xuanlong Yu
  • Yaron Ilan
  • Yiming Abulaiti
  • Yong Sheng Koay
  • Yuan-Tang Chou
  • zahra mohebtash
  • Zakia BENJELLOUN-TOUIMI
  • Zhihua Liang
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