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Seminar: Machine Learning and High-performance Computing for Neutrino Oscillations

Event Details:

  • Date:          Tuesday, 18 October 2022
  • Time:         Starts: 16:00
  • Venue:       This is an online-only, public event. You may connect to our live stream of the discussion, available on Zoom (Password: VsSCz1)
  • Speaker:    Dr. Saúl Alonso Monsalve, Senior software engineer, Dept. Physics, ETH Zürich, Switzerland



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CaSToRC, the HPC National Competence Centre,
 invites you to the EuroCC and SimEA Seminar Series



 

Abstract

Deep learning and high-performance computing methods are becoming key in analysing some elementary particles of the Standard Model: the neutrinos. Current neutrino experiments are leveraging these techniques, which in combination have exhibited to outperform standard tools in several domains, such as identifying neutrino interactions or reconstructing particle energies. In this seminar, he will show various deep-learning algorithms used in the context of the T2K and DUNE experiments, two cutting-edge international neutrino experiments. He will present how transformers, recurrent-neural networks, and sparse convolutional networks are used for tasks including particle tracking, particle identification and electron/gamma separation. All of these methods report promising results and are already integrated (or planned to be) into the reconstruction chain of the experiments.

Lastly, he will present a detailed study on the performance of some of the models above on hardware accelerator boards.

 

About the Speaker

saul alonso monsalveSaúl Alonso-Monsalve is a senior software engineer in the Rubbia Group of the Department of Physics at ETH Zurich (Switzerland), where he leads the efforts in artificial intelligence applied to neutrino physics at the international level. He obtained his PhD in Computer Science from Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (Spain) in 2021 for his research at CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research, in Switzerland).

He was awarded two prestigious Spanish national awards for the quality of his doctoral thesis: the Spanish Computer Science Society (SCIE) - BBVA Foundation Research Award, for the innovative and relevant doctoral research of young computer scientists; and the Enrique Fuentes Quintana - Funcas Award, for the best thesis at the national level in the category of Engineering, Mathematics, Physics.

 


 

Download the Fall 2022 EuroCC & SimEA Seminar Series Programme here.

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The EuroCC project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme grant agreement No. 951732

European Union's Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme

The SimEA project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No. 810660

 


 

The seminar will be in English and the event is open to the public.
This is an online-only, public event. You may connect to our live stream of the discussion, available on Zoom (Password: VsSCz1).
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Additional Info

  • Date: Tuesday, 18 October 2022
  • Time: Starts: 16:00
  • Speaker: Dr. Saúl Alonso Monsalve, Senior software engineer, Dept. Physics, ETH Zürich, Switzerland

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