Topical Lectures "Machine Learning and AI"

2 Jun 2025, 09:30 → 4 Jun 2025, 18:00 Europe/Amsterdam

Colloquium Room (Nikhef)

Jacco de Vries

Monday, 2 June ¶

09:30 → 11:00 Introduction to ML / DNN: Lecture¶

Basic concepts: network design, loss functions, training / gradient descent, overtraining.
Multilayer Perceptrons, Deep Neural Networks, Classification/Regression, Clustering problems, Convolutional architectures (CNN), Generative concepts (autoencoders, GANs)

Convener: Jacco de Vries

11:15 → 12:45 Introduction to ML / DNN: Hands-on¶

Basic concepts: network design, loss functions, training / gradient descent, overtraining.
Multilayer Perceptrons, Deep Neural Networks, Classification/Regression, Clustering problems, Convolutional architectures (CNN), Generative concepts (autoencoders, GANs)

Convener: Jacco de Vries

12:45 → 13:45 Lunch

13:45 → 15:15 AI in Theory / Simulation based inference: Lecture¶

Convener: Juan Rojo

15:30 → 17:00 AI in Theory / Simulation based inference: Hands-on¶

Convener: Juan Rojo

Tuesday, 3 June ¶

09:30 → 11:00 AI in particle physics experiments / fast inference implementation: Lecture¶

Classification of signal/background, Flavour tagging, Fast simulation, Implementations on GPU hardware, real-time AI in the LHCb trigger

Convener: Maarten van Veghel (Nikhef)

11:15 → 12:45 AI in particle physics experiments / fast inference implementation: Hands-on¶

Classification of signal/background, Flavour tagging, Fast simulation, Implementations on GPU hardware, real-time AI in the LHCb trigger

Convener: Maarten van Veghel (Nikhef)

12:45 → 13:45 Lunch

13:45 → 15:15 Advanced AI topics / Transformers: Lecture¶

Graph networks, recurrent networks / LSTM, (self-)attention mechanisms, embedding

Convener: Sascha Caron

15:30 → 17:00 Advanced AI topics / Transformers: Hands-on¶

Graph networks, recurrent networks / LSTM, (self-)attention mechanisms, embedding

Convener: Sascha Caron

Wednesday, 4 June ¶

09:30 → 11:00 AI in Gravitational Waves / Anomaly Detection: Lecture¶

Convener: Katya Govorkova

11:15 → 12:45 AI in Gravitational Waves / Anomaly Detection: Hands-on¶

Convener: Katya Govorkova

12:45 → 13:45 Lunch

13:45 → 14:15 Invited talks: AI at Booking.com / Large Language Models¶

Convener: Mr Jeroen Hofman (Booking.com)

14:30 → 15:00 Invited talks: AI for the energy grid¶

Convener: Dr Lex Greeven (Vattenfall)