Workshop on Foundation Models for Cosmology and Particle Physics
Description
This workshop will focus on foundation models for science, with an emphasis on cosmology and particle physics. Topics of interest might include:
- scaling laws and data-taking strategies
- hard and soft physics priors
- pros and cons of LLMs/agent harnesses as a component of such models
- uncertainty quantification and interpretability.
Schedule
| 13:00 to 13:15 |
Introductions
Yonatan Kahn, University of Toronto, David Shih, Rutgers University - New Brunswick, Marcela Carena, Perimeter Institute |
| 13:15 to 13:45 |
Agentic workflows in HEP and how to trust them
Sofia Palacios Schweitzer, Rutgers University |
| 13:45 to 14:15 |
Fundamental limits of jet tagging
Agni Purani, Rutgers University - New Brunswick |
| 14:15 to 14:45 |
Exact energy-momentum conservation with q-space generative models
Yonatan Kahn, University of Toronto |
| 14:45 to 15:15 |
Foundation models for hadronization
Benoit Assi, Perimeter Institute and University of Toronto |
| 15:15 to 16:15 |
Open Discussions and Coffee
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| 10:00 to 10:30 |
Open Discussions and Coffee
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| 10:30 to 11:00 |
Diffusion models as general-purpose priors in astronomical Bayesian analysis
Connor Stone, University of Toronto |
| 11:00 to 11:30 |
Interpretable field level inference
Matthew Johnson, Perimeter Institute and York University |
| 11:30 to 12:00 |
ASTROLABE: 3D cosmology simulation emulation particle-by-particle with physical flow matching
Ibrahim Elsharkawy, University of Toronto |
| 12:00 to 13:00 |
Lunch Break
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| 13:00 to 13:30 |
Where do most of the detected binary black hole mergers come from
Soumendra Roy, Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics (CITA) |
| 13:30 to 14:00 |
Time-series foundation model for low-mass stars
Phil Van-Lane, Astronomy & Astrophysics, University of Toronto Location:Online |
| 14:00 to 14:30 |
AlphaUniverse: Omni-modal search over astronomical data
Josh Speagle, University of Toronto |
| 14:30 to 15:00 |
Musings on foundation models for cosmology and beyond
Adrian Bayer, Perimeter Institute |
| 15:00 to 16:00 |
Open Discussions and Coffee
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| 10:00 to 12:00 |
Open Discussions and Coffee
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