Topical Lectures "Machine Learning and AI"

Jun 2, 2025, 9:30 AM → Jun 4, 2025, 6:00 PM Europe/Amsterdam

Colloquium Room (Nikhef)

Jacco de Vries

Survey

[update: Use Callysto with GPU backends]

Monday, June 2

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

AItopicalIntro_June02_jacco.pdf

ML_cifar_CNN_exercise.ipynb

ML_FLW_GAN.ipynb

ML_MNIST_NN.ipynb

11:00 AM Coffee break with cookies

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)

Conveners: Jacco de Vries, Zef Wolffs

AItopicalIntro_June02_jacco.pdf

ML_cifar_CNN_exercise.ipynb

ML_FLW_GAN.ipynb

ML_MNIST_NN.ipynb

1 PhD Lunch

Speaker: Lisa Lehmann

PhD lunch June 2025.pdf

AI in Theory / Simulation based inference: Lecture

Convener: Juan Rojo

Neural_SBI_Topical_Lectures.pdf

NSBI notebook

SBI_tutorial.ipynb

3:15 PM Coffee break with cookies

AI in Theory / Simulation based inference: Hands-on

Conveners: Juan Rojo, Karel de Vries, Marta Fernandes da Silva (Nikhef)

Neural_SBI_Topical_Lectures.pdf

NSBI notebook

SBI_tutorial.ipynb

Tuesday, June 3

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)

nikhef_topicallectures_2025_ai_mvanveghel_v1.pdf

topicallectures_ml_lhcb_examples_tutorial_root.ipynb

topicallectures_ml_lhcb_examples_tutorial_uproot_version.ipynb

11:00 AM Coffee break with cookies

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

Conveners: Maarten van Veghel (Nikhef), Zef Wolffs

nikhef_topicallectures_2025_ai_mvanveghel_v1.pdf

topicallectures_ml_lhcb_examples_tutorial_root.ipynb

topicallectures_ml_lhcb_examples_tutorial_uproot_version.ipynb

12:45 PM Lunch

AI in Gravitional waves / Anomaly Detection: Lecture

Convener: Dr Katya Govorkova

katya_ad_gw-2.pdf

Topical_lectures_Challenge_LIGO.ipynb

3:15 PM Coffee break with cookies

AI in Gravitional waves / Anomaly Detection: Hands-on

Conveners: Karel de Vries, Dr Katya Govorkova

katya_ad_gw-2.pdf

Topical_lectures_Challenge_LIGO.ipynb

Wednesday, June 4

Advanced AI topics / transformers: Lecture

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

Convener: Sascha Caron

Nikhef_ML_topicallecture2025.pdf

NIKHEFtopicallecture_transformerexampleFINAL2.ipynb

11:00 AM Coffee break with cookies

Advanced AI topics / transformers: Hands-on

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

Conveners: Karel de Vries, Sascha Caron, Zef Wolffs

Nikhef_ML_topicallecture2025.pdf

NIKHEFtopicallecture_transformerexampleFINAL2.ipynb

12:45 PM Lunch

Invited talks: AI at Booking.com / Large Language Models

Convener: Mr Jeroen Hofman (Booking.com)

Vattenfall_AI_in_the_energy_sector.pdf

Invited talks: AI in the energy sector

Convener: Dr Lex Greeven (Vattenfall)

Vattenfall_AI_in_the_energy_sector.pdf

3:00 PM Drinks!