Name: KISS Annual Meeting
Start: 2025-03-12T09:00:00+01:00
End: 2025-03-13T13:00:00+01:00
Location: Schellingstraße 4, 80799 München

Wednesday 12 March
- Wed 12 Mar
- Thu 13 Mar
- 09:00 → 12:30
  A: Fast surrogates
  
  Conveners: Frank Gaede (FTX (FTX Fachgruppe SFT)), Frank Siegert, Marcus Marcus Brüggen (UHH)
  - 09:00
    
    Matrix element surrogates for realistic LHC event generation setups 30m
    
    Speaker: Tim Herrmann (TU Dresden)
    
    2025-03-12-KISS-München.pdf
  - 09:30
    
    Accuracy and uncertainty control for ML-Amplitudes 30m
    
    Speaker: Nina Elmer
    
    KISS_meeting_Elmer.pdf
  - 10:00
    
    CaloClouds 3 model for fast EM shower simulation and flow optimisation 30m
    
    Speaker: Henry Day-Hall (FTX (FTX Fachgruppe SFT))
    
    Presentation.pdf
  - 10:30
    
    Coffee break 30m
  - 11:00
    
    Fast hadronic shower generation with diffusion and flow models 30m
    
    Speaker: Thorsten Lars Henrik Buss (UNI/EXP (Uni Hamburg, Institut fur Experimentalphysik))
    
    main.pdf
  - 11:30
    
    PXD background generation using generative models 30m
    
    Speaker: Fabio Novissimo (BELLE (BELLE II Experiment))
    
    PXD_background_generation__KISS_2025_-1.pdf
  - 12:00
    
    HEIDi: Heavy-ion Events through Intelligent Diffusion 30m
    
    Speaker: Manjunath Omana Kuttan (FIAS)
    
    HEIDi.pdf
- 12:30 → 14:00
  
  Lunch break 1h 30m
- 14:00 → 15:30
  A: Fast surrogates
  - 14:00
    
    Learning Optimal and Interpretable Summary Statistics of Galaxy Catalogs with SBI 30m
    
    Speaker: Kai Lehmann (LMU)
    
    kiss_meeting_25.pdf
  - 14:30
    
    Transfer Learning for Smart Background Simulation at Belle II 30m
    
    Speaker: David Giesegh (BELLE (BELLE II Experiment))
    
    Transfer Learning for Smart Background Simulation at Belle II.pdf
  - 15:00
    
    A benchmark suite for samples 30m
    
    Speaker: Salvatore La Cagnina (TU Dortmund)
    
    KISS Annual Meeting 2025.pdf
- 15:30 → 16:00
  
  Coffee break 30m
- 16:00 → 17:30
  B: Intelligent Sampling
  
  Conveners: Steffen Schumann (Uni Goettingen), Thomas Kuhr (BELLE (BELLE II Experiment))
  - 16:00
    
    MadNIS 30m
    
    Speaker: Theo Heimel (Heidelberg University)
    
    madnis.pdf
  - 16:30
    
    Sampling NNLO QCD with Normalizing Flows 30m
    
    Speaker: Timo Janßen (University of Göttingen)
    
    2025_03_KISS_Meeting_Timo_Janssen.pdf
  - 17:00
    
    Efficient profile likelihoods using neural importance sampling 30m
    
    Speaker: Nikita Schmal
    
    SFitter_KISS_2025.pdf
- 17:30 → 18:00
  
  PI Meeting 30m
- 19:00 → 21:00
  
  Self-paid dinner at Georgenhof 2h
  
  Directions
  
  Georgenhof
Thursday 13 March
- Wed 12 Mar
- Thu 13 Mar
- 09:00 → 10:30
  B: Intelligent Sampling
  - 09:30
    
    Discussion 1h
- 10:30 → 11:00
  
  Coffee break 30m
- 11:00 → 12:00
  
  C: Basics
  
  Conveners: Gregor Kasieczka (Universität Hamburg), Kevin Kröninger (TU Dortmund), Tilman Plehn (Heidelberg University)

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