Connectionists: "Learning physics with ML" Virtual workshop, Thursday, May 28, 10am-1pm EDT

[Nemenman, Ilya]

Dear Colleagues:

The Emory Theory and Modeling of Living Systems (TMLS) Initiative is elated to bring to you our next virtual workshop "Learning New Physics with Machine Learning". Please join  us on May 28th, 2020 at 10am - 1pm EDT (United States, East Coast Time) via YouTube live-streaming virtual experience.

Topic:
"Can machine learning learn new physics, or do we need to put it in by hand?”

There has been a surge of publications on using machine learning (ML) on experimental data from physical systems: social, biological, statistical, and quantum. However, can these methods discover fundamentally new physics? It can be that their  biggest impact is in better data preprocessing, while inferring new physics is unrealistic without specifically adapting the learning machine to find what we are looking for — that is, without the “intuition” — and hence without having a good a priori guess about what we will find.

Is machine learning a useful tool for physics discovery? Which minimal knowledge should we endow the machines with to make them useful in such tasks? How do we do this? Eight speakers below will anchor the workshop, exploring these questions in contexts of diverse systems (from quantum to biological), and from general theoretical advances to specific applications. Each speaker will deliver a 10 min talk with another 10 minutes set aside for moderated questions/discussion. We expect the talks to be broad, bold, and provocative, discussing where the field is heading, and what is needed to get us there.

Speakers:
Lucy Colwell (Cambridge University)
Bryan Daniels (Arizona State University)
Sam Greydanus (Google Brain)
Andrea Liu (University of Pennsylvania)
Roger Melko (University of Waterloo)
David Schwab (CUNY)
Max Tegmark (MIT)
Aleksandra Walczak (CNRS/ENS Paris)

To attend, register with this link:
https://bit.ly/3fC9uxr


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