Name: ALPACA: modern algorithms in machine learning and data analysis: from medical physics to research with accelerators and in underground laboratories
Start: 2023-11-20T09:00:00+01:00
End: 2023-11-24T18:00:00+01:00
Location: ECT*

ALPACA: modern algorithms in machine learning and data analysis: from medical physics to research with accelerators and in underground laboratories

from Monday, November 20, 2023 (9:00 AM) to Friday, November 24, 2023 (6:00 PM)

Monday, November 20, 2023

9:00 AM Registration
Registration
9:00 AM - 9:45 AM
Room: Aula Renzo Leonardi

9:45 AM Welcome Organizers
Welcome Organizers
9:45 AM - 10:00 AM
Room: Aula Renzo Leonardi
10:00 AM Challenges in modern preclinical and clinical imaging - Bartosz Leszczynski (M. Smoluchowski Institute of Physics, Jagiellonian University)
Challenges in modern preclinical and clinical imaging
- Bartosz Leszczynski (M. Smoluchowski Institute of Physics, Jagiellonian University)
10:00 AM - 10:45 AM
Room: Aula Renzo Leonardi
10:45 AM Analysis of positronium decays by the J-PET detector for the medical and fundamental physics studies - Kamil Dulski (LNF)
Analysis of positronium decays by the J-PET detector for the medical and fundamental physics studies
- Kamil Dulski (LNF)
10:45 AM - 11:15 AM
Room: Aula Renzo Leonardi
11:15 AM Investigation of o-Ps Decays for Improving CP Symmetry Test Precision with the J-PET Detector - Kavya Valsan Eliyan
Investigation of o-Ps Decays for Improving CP Symmetry Test Precision with the J-PET Detector
- Kavya Valsan Eliyan
11:15 AM - 11:30 AM
Room: Aula Renzo Leonardi
11:30 AM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
11:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Room: Aula Renzo Leonardi
12:00 PM Machine learning methodologies for single-cell ‘omic data - Guido Sanguinetti
Machine learning methodologies for single-cell ‘omic data
- Guido Sanguinetti
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Room: Aula Renzo Leonardi
1:00 PM Lunch
Lunch
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Room: Aula Renzo Leonardi
2:00 PM Quantum Computing for Machine Learning - Sofia Vallecorsa
Quantum Computing for Machine Learning
- Sofia Vallecorsa
2:00 PM - 2:45 PM
Room: Aula Renzo Leonardi
2:45 PM Neural networks techniques for parton distribution functions evaluation - Andrea Barontini (University of Milan)
Neural networks techniques for parton distribution functions evaluation
- Andrea Barontini (University of Milan)
2:45 PM - 3:30 PM
Room: Aula Renzo Leonardi
3:30 PM Coffee break
Coffee break
3:30 PM - 4:00 PM
Room: Aula Renzo Leonardi
4:00 PM Deep Learning for Flavor Tagging at ATLAS experiment - Andrea Di Luca (FBK)
Deep Learning for Flavor Tagging at ATLAS experiment
- Andrea Di Luca (FBK)
4:00 PM - 4:45 PM
Room: Aula Renzo Leonardi
Tuesday, November 21, 2023
9:45 AM ML activities in the ALICE experiment - Fabio Catalano (CERN)
ML activities in the ALICE experiment
- Fabio Catalano (CERN)
9:45 AM - 10:30 AM
Room: Aula Renzo Leonardi
10:30 AM The SIDDHARTA-2 Experiment at DAFNE - Florin Sirghi (INFN-LNF)
The SIDDHARTA-2 Experiment at DAFNE
- Florin Sirghi (INFN-LNF)
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
Room: Aula Renzo Leonardi
11:00 AM ML in SIDDHARTA-2: the monitoring challange - Simone Manti
ML in SIDDHARTA-2: the monitoring challange
- Simone Manti
11:00 AM - 11:30 AM
Room: Aula Renzo Leonardi
11:30 AM Coffee break
Coffee break
11:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Room: Aula Renzo Leonardi
12:00 PM Toward the end-to-end optimization of detectors for fundamental physics - Tommaso Dorigo (INFN Sezione di Padova)
Toward the end-to-end optimization of detectors for fundamental physics
- Tommaso Dorigo (INFN Sezione di Padova)
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Room: Aula Renzo Leonardi
1:00 PM Lunch
Lunch
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Room: Aula Renzo Leonardi

2:00 PM HANDS-ON - Optimization of the SWGO detector: two challenges
HANDS-ON - Optimization of the SWGO detector: two challenges
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Room: Aula Renzo Leonardi

3:00 PM Coffee break
Coffee break
3:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Room: Aula Renzo Leonardi

3:30 PM HANDS-ON - Optimization of the SWGO detector: two challenges
HANDS-ON - Optimization of the SWGO detector: two challenges
3:30 PM - 4:30 PM
Room: Aula Renzo Leonardi

8:00 PM Welcome Dinner
Welcome Dinner
8:00 PM - 9:20 PM
Room: Aula Renzo Leonardi
Wednesday, November 22, 2023
9:45 AM AI-assisted design of experiments at the frontiers of computation: methods and new perspectives - Pietro Vischia (Universidad de Oviedo and Instituto de Ciencias y Tecnologías Espaciales de Asturias (ICTEA))
AI-assisted design of experiments at the frontiers of computation: methods and new perspectives
- Pietro Vischia (Universidad de Oviedo and Instituto de Ciencias y Tecnologías Espaciales de Asturias (ICTEA))
9:45 AM - 10:30 AM
Room: Aula Renzo Leonardi
10:30 AM Prominence of data preparation in geomagnetic storm prediction using deep learning - Marco Cristoforetti (FBK)
Prominence of data preparation in geomagnetic storm prediction using deep learning
- Marco Cristoforetti (FBK)
10:30 AM - 11:15 AM
Room: Aula Renzo Leonardi
11:15 AM Generative Models for Particle Physics Data - William Korcari (University of Hamburg)
Generative Models for Particle Physics Data
- William Korcari (University of Hamburg)
11:15 AM - 11:45 AM
Room: Aula Renzo Leonardi
11:45 AM Coffee break
Coffee break
11:45 AM - 12:15 PM
Room: Aula Renzo Leonardi
12:15 PM Informed Representation Learning with Deep Generative Models - Laura Manduchi
Informed Representation Learning with Deep Generative Models
- Laura Manduchi
12:15 PM - 12:45 PM
Room: Aula Renzo Leonardi
12:45 PM Loss is more: exploring the network weight space to harvest information on its training dataset - Margherita Mele (University of Trento)
Loss is more: exploring the network weight space to harvest information on its training dataset
- Margherita Mele (University of Trento)
12:45 PM - 1:15 PM
Room: Aula Renzo Leonardi
1:15 PM Lunch
Lunch
1:15 PM - 2:15 PM
Room: Aula Renzo Leonardi
2:15 PM Simplify to understand: extracting insight from high-dimensional simulation datasets of biological systems via information-theoretic approaches - Roberto Menichetti (Physics Department, University of Trento)
Simplify to understand: extracting insight from high-dimensional simulation datasets of biological systems via information-theoretic approaches
- Roberto Menichetti (Physics Department, University of Trento)
2:15 PM - 3:00 PM
Room: Aula Renzo Leonardi
3:00 PM Coffee break
Coffee break
3:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Room: Aula Renzo Leonardi
3:30 PM The ML validation challenge - Thomas Spieker (Robert Bosch GmbH)
The ML validation challenge
- Thomas Spieker (Robert Bosch GmbH)
3:30 PM - 4:15 PM
Room: Aula Renzo Leonardi
4:15 PM Machine learning and mathematical models: the vaccines of the future - Andrea Palladino (GSK)
Machine learning and mathematical models: the vaccines of the future
- Andrea Palladino (GSK)
4:15 PM - 5:00 PM
Room: Aula Renzo Leonardi
Thursday, November 23, 2023
9:45 AM Generative models at the LHC - Lucio Anderlini (INFN Firenze)
Generative models at the LHC
- Lucio Anderlini (INFN Firenze)
9:45 AM - 10:30 AM
Room: Aula Renzo Leonardi
10:30 AM Anomaly aware machine learning for dark matter direct detection at DARWIN - Andre Scaffidi (SISSA)
Anomaly aware machine learning for dark matter direct detection at DARWIN
- Andre Scaffidi (SISSA)
10:30 AM - 11:15 AM
Room: Aula Renzo Leonardi
11:15 AM ML applications: from Particle Physics to Medical Imaging - Wojciech Krzemien (National Centre for Nuclear Research)
ML applications: from Particle Physics to Medical Imaging
- Wojciech Krzemien (National Centre for Nuclear Research)
11:15 AM - 11:45 AM
Room: Aula Renzo Leonardi
11:45 AM Coffee break
Coffee break
11:45 AM - 12:15 PM
Room: Aula Renzo Leonardi
12:15 PM Computational Imaging and AI in Medicine - Daniel Lang
Computational Imaging and AI in Medicine
- Daniel Lang
12:15 PM - 1:00 PM
Room: Aula Renzo Leonardi
1:00 PM Lunch
Lunch
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Room: Aula Renzo Leonardi
2:00 PM Bayesian statistics in Julia - Oliver Schulz (MPI for Physics, Munich)
Bayesian statistics in Julia
- Oliver Schulz (MPI for Physics, Munich)
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Room: Aula Renzo Leonardi
3:00 PM Coffee break
Coffee break
3:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Room: Aula Renzo Leonardi
3:30 PM Hands-on - Oliver Schulz (MPI for Physics, Munich)
Hands-on
- Oliver Schulz (MPI for Physics, Munich)
3:30 PM - 5:30 PM
Room: Aula Renzo Leonardi
8:00 PM Social Dinner
Social Dinner
8:00 PM - 9:20 PM
Room: Aula Renzo Leonardi
Friday, November 24, 2023
9:15 AM ML and Differentiable Programming optimisations for X-ray spectroscopy - Fabrizio Napolitano (INFN - Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati, Italy)
ML and Differentiable Programming optimisations for X-ray spectroscopy
- Fabrizio Napolitano (INFN - Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati, Italy)
9:15 AM - 9:45 AM
Room: Aula Renzo Leonardi
9:45 AM Hypernuclear physics with machine learning - Takehiko Saito (RIKEN and GSI)
Hypernuclear physics with machine learning
- Takehiko Saito (RIKEN and GSI)
9:45 AM - 10:30 AM
Room: Aula Renzo Leonardi
10:30 AM Photonic spiking neural networks using silicon microring resonators. - Alessio Lugnan (University of Trento)
Photonic spiking neural networks using silicon microring resonators.
- Alessio Lugnan (University of Trento)
10:30 AM - 11:15 AM
Room: Aula Renzo Leonardi
11:15 AM Coffee break
Coffee break
11:15 AM - 11:45 AM
Room: Aula Renzo Leonardi
11:45 AM Reservoir Computing Model For Multi-Electrode Electrophysiological Data Analysis - Ilya Auslender (University of Trento)
Reservoir Computing Model For Multi-Electrode Electrophysiological Data Analysis
- Ilya Auslender (University of Trento)
11:45 AM - 12:30 PM
Room: Aula Renzo Leonardi
12:30 PM Neural networks for experimental nuclear astrophysics - Jakub Skowronski (Universita degli Studi di Padova)
Neural networks for experimental nuclear astrophysics
- Jakub Skowronski (Universita degli Studi di Padova)
12:30 PM - 12:50 PM
Room: Aula Renzo Leonardi
12:50 PM Wrap-up and goodbye
Wrap-up and goodbye
12:50 PM - 12:55 PM
Room: Aula Renzo Leonardi

12:55 PM Lunch
Lunch
12:55 PM - 1:45 PM
Room: Aula Renzo Leonardi

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