Critical slowing down and topological freezing cause the Monte Carlo cost of lattice QCD simulations to severely diverge as the lattice regulator is removed. I will discuss the application of generative flow-based models to Monte Carlo sampling for lattice field theory as a means of circumventing these issues, in particular covering the construction and evaluation of flow-based samplers in...
Optical metrology is a technology for high-precision and high-accuracy characterization of samples through the measurement of optical images and signals. An important ingredient in this characterization is the optical modeling of the data which often involves the solution of the corresponding Maxwell equations or approximations thereof. Another technique for modeling optical signals is...