KISS Annual Meeting

Mar 12, 2025, 9:00 AM → Mar 13, 2025, 1:00 PM Europe/Berlin

537 (Schellingstraße 4, 80799 München)

Wed, March 12

9:00 AM → 12:30 PM A: Fast surrogates

Conveners: Frank Gaede (FTX (FTX Fachgruppe SFT)), Frank Siegert, Marcus Marcus Brüggen (UHH)

9:00 AM Matrix element surrogates for realistic LHC event generation setups

Speaker: Tim Herrmann (TU Dresden)

2025-03-12-KISS-München.pdf

9:30 AM Accuracy and uncertainty control for ML-Amplitudes

Speaker: Nina Elmer

KISS_meeting_Elmer.pdf

10:00 AM CaloClouds 3 model for fast EM shower simulation and flow optimisation

Speaker: Henry Day-Hall (FTX (FTX Fachgruppe SFT))

Presentation.pdf

10:30 AM Coffee break

11:00 AM Fast hadronic shower generation with diffusion and flow models

Speaker: Thorsten Lars Henrik Buss (UNI/EXP (Uni Hamburg, Institut fur Experimentalphysik))

main.pdf

11:30 AM PXD background generation using generative models

Speaker: Fabio Novissimo (BELLE (BELLE II Experiment))

PXD_background_generation__KISS_2025_-1.pdf

12:00 PM HEIDi: Heavy-ion Events through Intelligent Diffusion

Speaker: Manjunath Omana Kuttan (FIAS)

HEIDi.pdf

12:30 PM → 2:00 PM Lunch break

2:00 PM → 3:30 PM A: Fast surrogates

2:00 PM Learning Optimal and Interpretable Summary Statistics of Galaxy Catalogs with SBI

Speaker: Kai Lehmann (LMU)

kiss_meeting_25.pdf

2:30 PM Transfer Learning for Smart Background Simulation at Belle II

Speaker: David Giesegh (BELLE (BELLE II Experiment))

Transfer Learning for Smart Background Simulation at Belle II.pdf

3:00 PM A benchmark suite for samples

Speaker: Salvatore La Cagnina (TU Dortmund)

KISS Annual Meeting 2025.pdf

3:30 PM → 4:00 PM Coffee break

4:00 PM → 5:30 PM B: Intelligent Sampling

Conveners: Steffen Schumann (Uni Goettingen), Thomas Kuhr (BELLE (BELLE II Experiment))

4:00 PM MadNIS

Speaker: Theo Heimel (Heidelberg University)

madnis.pdf

4:30 PM Sampling NNLO QCD with Normalizing Flows

Speaker: Timo Janßen (University of Göttingen)

2025_03_KISS_Meeting_Timo_Janssen.pdf

5:00 PM Efficient profile likelihoods using neural importance sampling

Speaker: Nikita Schmal

SFitter_KISS_2025.pdf

5:30 PM → 6:00 PM PI Meeting

7:00 PM → 9:00 PM Self-paid dinner at Georgenhof

Directions

Georgenhof

Thu, March 13

9:00 AM → 10:30 AM B: Intelligent Sampling

9:30 AM Discussion

10:30 AM → 11:00 AM Coffee break

11:00 AM → 12:00 PM C: Basics

Conveners: Gregor Kasieczka (Universität Hamburg), Kevin Kröninger (TU Dortmund), Tilman Plehn (Heidelberg University)