2020 Flatiron Wide Algorithms and Mathematics

Date


FWAM (“Flatiron-wide Autumn Meeting”, previously “Flatiron-wide Algorithms and Mathematics”) is a two-day internal conference with the goal of introducing and reviewing scientific and computational tools of broad and significant usefulness to Flatiron researchers across all centers of the institute.

Agenda

October 19, 2020

TimeTopicSpeaker
10:00AM-11:00AMIntroduction to Probabilistic Programming for Bayesian Inference with StanBob Carpenter
11:00AM-11:20AMBreak
11:20AM-11:50AMAdvanced MCMC methodsErik Thiede
11:50AM-12:20PMHierarchical low rank compression and an application in many-body quantum physicsHierarchical low rank compression and an application in many-body quantum physics
12:20PM-1:00PMLunch
1:00PM-2:00PMEquivariant neural nets for physical systemsRisi Kondor
2:00PM-2:20PMBreak
2:20PM-2:50PMRecurrent VAE for anomaly detection in supernova time seriesAshley Villar
2:50PM-3:20PMDifferentiable programming for protein structure alignmentJamie Morton
3:20PM-3:40PMBreak
3:40PM-4:40PMA Mathematical Introduction to Variational Quantum Monte Carlo with Deep NeuralJames Stokes
4:40PM-5:00PMBreak
TimeTopicSpeaker
10:00AM-11:00AMInverse problems, sparsity and neural network priorsMarylou Gabrie
11:00AM-11:20AMBreak
11:20AM-11:50AMDescartes versus bayes: Views of deep net theoriesStephane Mallat
11:50AM-12:20PMSARS-CoV-2 transmission in Marine recruits during quarantine and trainingRachel Sealfon
12:20PM-1:00PMLunch
1:00PM-2:00PMInterpretable machine learning with symbolic regression and graph networksMiles Cranmer
2:20PM-2:50PMDiscovering symbolic models in physical systems using deep learningShirley Ho
2:50PM-3:20PMAn automated framework for efficiently designing deep convolutional neuralZijun Zhang
3:20PM-3:40PMBreak
3:40PM-4:40PMTensor networks and ItensorMiles Stoudenmire
4:40PM-5:00PMBreak

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