Digital Twins for Nuclear and Particle physics - NPTwins 2024

16 Dec 2024, 09:00 → 18 Dec 2024, 19:00 Europe/Rome

Sala Didattica (Museo Diocesano di Genova)

Alessandro Pilloni (UniME & CT), Carlo Schiavi (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare), Francesco Armando Di Bello (University of Geneva), Marco Battaglieri (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare), Riccardo Torre (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

Nuclear and high energy physics facilities, such as CERN, Jefferson Lab, RHIC, and the forthcoming EIC, have been built around the world to study the visible universe at the fermi scale. They are already producing exabytes of data. This unprecedented amount of data holds the promise of solving many of the mysteries in elementary particle interactions such as QCD in the nonperturbative regime. However, extracting the required information is an extremely challenging task, as there is no available analytic solution to interpret data. Solving this challenge requires nuclear and particle physics to develop and adopt methods from data science, AI/ML, applied mathematics, and large-scale computing and adapt them to this goal. Digital twins, in particular, can simulate and model complex nuclear and elementary particle processes, providing a virtual replica that enhances understanding and predictive capabilities. This multidisciplinary approach, fostering cross-field collaboration and the exchange of ideas, is still in its infancy. The integration of digital twins into nuclear and particle physics could revolutionize how we approach and solve these complex challenges.

 

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Monday, 16 December

10:00 → 11:00 Registration & Coffee break

11:00 → 12:45 Talks

11:00 Intro

Speakers: Marco Battaglieri (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare), Francesco Armando Di Bello (University of Geneva), Dr Alessandro Pilloni (UniME & CT), Carlo Schiavi (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare), Dr Riccardo Torre (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

11:15 Hadron spectroscopy theory and AI

Speaker: Geoffrey Fox (University of Virginia)

Google Slides

Physics AI.pdf

11:45 Physics constrained GAN for amplitude extraction

Speaker: Gloria Montana (Jefferson Lab)

2024_NPTwins_GloriaMontana.pdf

12:15 Point cloud-based diffusion models for the Electron-Ion Collider

Speaker: Nobuo Sato (Jefferson Lab)

Genova.pdf

12:45 → 14:30 Lunch

14:30 → 16:10 Talks

14:30 Greetings from the Director

Speaker: Mauro Gino Taiuti (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

14:40 Machine Learning for Hadron Spectroscopy

Speaker: Cesar Fernandez-Ramirez (UNED)

2024-Genova.pdf

15:10 Simulating the LHCb experiment with Machine Learning

Speaker: Lucio Anderlini (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

NPTwins24 - Simulating the LHCb experiment with Machine Learning.pdf

15:40 Training with Real Rata: Signal Extraction via Density Ratios

Speaker: Derek Ian Glazier

drWeights.pdf

16:10 → 16:40 Coffee break

16:40 → 18:10 Talks

16:40 Anomaly detection for BSM using AI/ML

Speaker: Patrick Moran (The College of William & Mary)

moran_digital_twins_anomaly_detection.pdf

17:10 AI in ICSC/terabit

Speaker: Lucio Anderlini (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

NPTwins24 - AI in ICSC_Terabit.pdf

17:40 Quantum computing applications for HEP

Speaker: Davide Zuliani (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

NPtwins_zuliani.pdf

Tuesday, 17 December

09:00 → 10:30 Talks

09:00 Fast simulation with ATLAS

Speaker: Federico Andrea Guillaume Corchia (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

Digital Twins 24.pdf

09:30 Global particle flow reconstruction

Speaker: Etienne Dreyer (Weizmann Institute of Science)

dreyer_particle_reco_ML_b120f1bb-3c3c-4fb6-ab70-f19fffcf4761.pdf

10:00 Identification of HF jets/tau

Speaker: Gabriele D'Anniballe (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

Machine-learning techniques for jet flavour-tagging and τ-identification in the LHC Run3 era (2).pdf

10:30 → 11:00 Coffee break

11:00 → 12:30 Talks

11:00 Charmed-hadron rec in ALICE using AI/ML

Speaker: Maria Teresa Camerlingo (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

NP-Twins_Camerlingo_v4.pdf

11:30 Unfolding Particle Detector Effects in HEP with Generative AI

Speaker: Yaohang Li (Old Dominion University)

NPTwins2024 YL.pptx

12:00 Data smearing and acceptance correction using AI

Speaker: Tommaso Vittorini (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

AIDAPT_NPTwins.pdf

12:30 → 13:30 Guided tour of the museum

13:30 → 14:30 Lunch

14:30 → 16:00 Talks

14:30 Simulation based inference at the LHC

Speaker: Jay Sandesara (University of Wisconsin Madison)

NPTwins_SBI_JaySandesara_v3.pdf

15:00 Plug the physics into the AI: inductive bias, and the case of enforcing symmetries in neural networks

Speaker: Pietro Vischia (Universidad de Oviedo and Instituto de Ciencias y Tecnologías Espaciales de Asturias (ICTEA))

2024-12-17_InductiveBiasAndEquivariantNetworksAtNPTwinsGenova_vischia.pdf

HTML slides (preferred, animations work here)

15:30 AI for Experiment Optimization

Speaker: Tommaso Dorigo (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

AI for experiment optimization.pptx

16:00 → 16:30 Coffee break

16:30 → 17:30 Talks

16:30 AI for real time data-reduction

Speaker: Fabio Rossi (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

Presentazione.pdf

17:00 AI for low-level data reconstruction

Speakers: Raffaella De Vita, Raffaella De Vita (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

devita_nptwins-2024.pdf

Wednesday, 18 December

09:00 → 10:30 Talks

09:00 The Italian center for HPC (ICSC)

Speaker: Davide Salomoni (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

09:30 Determining parton distribution functions accurately and precisely with Machine Learning

Speaker: Emanuele Roberto Nocera (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

NOCERA_Genova.pdf

10:00 Kernel Methods

Speaker: Lorenzo Rosasco (Università di Genova)

NPTwinsRosasco.pdf

10:30 → 11:00 Coffee break

11:00 → 12:30 Talks

11:00 Reinforcement learning

Speaker: Agnese Seminara

11:30 Recent developments in zero-th order optimization algorithms

Speaker: Marco Rando (Università di Genova)

MarcoRando_NPTwins.pdf

12:00 The NPLM method: ML for signal-agnostic searches and beyond

Speaker: Marco Letizia (Università di Genova)

NP-Twins-MarcoLetizia.pdf

12:30 → 14:30 Lunch

14:30 → 15:30 Final discussion and wrap up