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Deep Learning for Multimessenger Astrophysics: Real-time Discovery at Scale

Agenda

All activities will be held at the NCSA Building, 1205 W. Clark St., Urbana, Illinois, unless otherwise noted.

Tuesday, October 16

7:00 pm
Reception
Atrium

Wednesday, October 17

8:00 am
Registration
9:00 am
Welcome
Bill Gropp, Eliu Huerta
9:15 am
Discussion: Signal-processing Algorithms to Enable Real-time Gravitational Wave Discovery / Status Update and Outstanding Challenges
Chair: Bernard Schutz

Participants:
  • Maya Fishback (KICP, UChicago)
  • Leo Singer (NASA Goddard)
  • Zsuzsa Marka (Columbia)
  • Erik Katsavounidis (MIT)
10:45 am
Break
11:00 am
Discussion: Signal-processing Algorithms to Enable Real-time Electromagnetic and Astro-particle Followups of Gravitational Wave Candidates / Status Update and Outstanding Challenges
Chair: Federica Bianco

Participants:
  • Philip Cowperthwaite (Harvard)
  • Rahul Biswas (UW)
  • Yue Shen (University of Illinois)
  • Igor Andreoni (Caltech)
  • Alexander Olivas (UMD)
  • Francisco Forster (CMM)
12:30 pm
Lunch
1:45 pm
Discussion: Modeling and Simulations of MMA Sources / Status Update and Outstanding Challenges
Chair: Gabrielle Allen

Participants:
  • Jim Annis (FNAL)
  • Katrin Heitmann (ANL)
  • Andrea Derdzinski (Columbia)
  • Stu Shapiro (University of Illinois)
3:15 pm
Break
3:30 pm
Symposium: Emergent Trends to Simulate MMA Sources
Chair: Roland Haas

Participants:
  • Daniel Siegel (Columbia)
  • Jonah Miller (LANL)
  • Manuela Campanelli (RIT)
  • Zach Etienne (WVU)
5:00 pm
Parallel Breakouts / Preliminary Report for MMA Sources: Emergent Trends for Detection and Modeling
6:30 pm
Conference dinner sponsored by NVIDIA
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Thursday, October 18

8:00 am
Demos
Participants: NCSA Gravity Group, Blue Waters SEAS Team, NVIDIA
NCSA scientists describe their work at the interface of AI & HPC for gravitational wave astrophysics, and demonstrate its potential to enable real-time gravitational wave discovery.
9:00 am
Break
9:15 am
Symposium and Discussion: Emergent Trends in Machine and Deep Learning for Signal Processing Algorithms that Are Relevant for MMA
Chair: Elise Jennings

Participants:
  • Joshua Bloom (UC Berkeley)
  • Matthew Graham (Caltech/ZTF)
  • Daniel George (NCSA)
  • Alex Schwing (University of Illinois)
10:45 am
Break
11:00 am
Discussion: Reproducibility, Portability and Interpretability of Deep Learning Algorithms / Heuristic vs Rigorous Approaches in Deep Learning
Chair: Jane Zhao

Participants:
  • Elise Jennings (ANL)
  • Jinjun Xiong (IBM)
  • Prasanna Balaprakash (ANL)
  • Ashish Mahabal (Caltech)
12:30 pm
Lunch
1:45 pm
Symposium and Discussion: Status Update of Existing and Future NSF and DoE Facilities Relevant for Deep Learning at Scale
Chair: Minsik Cho

Participants:
  • Bill Kramer (NCSA)
  • Jack Wells (ORNL)
  • Tom Gibbs (NVIDIA)
  • Vlad Kindratenko (NCSA)
  • Tim Williams (ANL)
  • John Towns (NCSA)
3:15 pm
Break
3:30 pm
Discussion: Open Data, Software, and Workflows / Policies and Good Practices Sharing Tools and Data in Real-time to Enable Scientific Discovery in the MMA Era
Chair: Daniel S. Katz

Participants:
  • Bruce Berriman (Caltech)
  • Matt Turk (University of Illinois)
  • Aaron Saxton (NCSA)
  • Erik Katsavounidis (MIT)
5:00 pm
Break
5:15 pm
Preparation for Final Reports: Deep Learning at Scale for MMA / Development of Software for Community Efforts

Friday, October 19

8:00 am
Symposium: Status of Current Efforts to Adopt and Deploy MMA Algorithms and Brokers / Target and Observation Managers
Chair: Eliu Huerta

Participants:
  • Gautham Narayan (STScI)
  • Hongyu Shen (ECE and NCSA, University of Illinois)
  • Francisco Forster (Millennium Institute for Astrophysics)
  • Leo Singer (NASA)
  • Etienne Bachelet (LCO)
8:50 am
Break
9:00 am
Discussion: Roadmap to Adopt and Deploy Machine Learning Algorithms for MMA Discovery Campaigns
Chair: Federica Bianco

Participants:
  • Gautham Narayan (STScI)
  • Hongyu Shen (ECE and NCSA, University of Illinois)
  • Francisco Forster (Millennium Institute for Astrophysics)
  • Leo Singer (NASA)
  • Etienne Bachelet (LCO)
9:50 am
Break
10:00 am
Discussion: Cyberinfrastructure Experts Share Insights about Best Practices to Develop Deep Learning Algorithms and Share Them with the Scientific Community / Importance of Credit and Citation
Chair: Daniel S. Katz

Participants:
  • Barnabas Poczos (CMU)
  • Bruce Berriman (Caltech)
  • Kenton McHenry (NCSA)
  • Jonah Miller (LANL)
  • Kyle Chard (UChicago)
  • Brigitta Sipocz (University of Washington)
Noon
Lunch
1:00 pm
Discussion: Roadmap of Community Efforts to Develop Mature Software Stacks to Simulate MMA Sources
Chair: Charles Gammie

Participants:
  • Jonathan Zrake (Columbia)
  • Zach Etienne (WVU)
  • Roland Haas (NCSA)
  • Jane Zhao (ECE and NCSA, University of Illinois)
  • Anshu Dubey (ANL)
2:20 pm
Break
2:30 pm
Discussion: Design Roadmap for Future Collaborations
Chairs: Gabrielle Allen, Eliu Huerta, Daniel S. Katz

Participants:
  • Alexander Olivas (UMD)
  • Bernard Schutz (AEI/Cardiff)
  • Ed Seidel (University of Illinois)
  • John Towns (NCSA, University of Illinois)
  • Joaquin Vieira (Astronomy, University of Illinois)
  • Jinjun Xiong (IBM)
  • Mark Neubauer (Physics, University of Illinois)
4:00 pm
End of Workshop

Shuttle takes participants to Willard Airport (Expected arrival: 4:30 pm, which is plenty of time to catch a 5:30 flight)

Hackathon

Sponsored by NVIDIA
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Logistics

Prizes will be given October 19 at 3:30 pm.

This workshop is funded by the NSF through award NSF 1848815 and
co-sponsored by NVIDIA and the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility.

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