This workshop is the first network meeting of the SMASH project. SMASH is a multidisciplinary program centered on developing cutting-edge Machine Learning (ML) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) applications for science and humanities. These include climate science, precision medicine, fundamental physics and linguistics. It is co-funded by the European Union via the Marie Skłodowska-Curie COFUND action and connects scholars from five top-level institutions in Slovenia with 25 associated partners, Slovenian businesses and academic institutions globally.
The First SMASHing workshop will gather scientists working in the SMASH research areas with the aim to create a multi-disciplinary environment that will foster knowledge exchange between different fields and between academia and industry, thereby building the SMASH community. The workshop will be structured around discussions of different classes of ML/AI techniques, followed up with examples on the successful application in SMASH research areas. More specifically the workshop will focus on:
- Large language models/Graphs and time series
- Computer vision/generative models
- Statistical approaches (simulation based inference, etc)
- Reinforcement/unsupervised learning
In addition to invited talks the workshop will have discussion sessions and there will be plenty of time to exchange ideas and build the community.
Speakers include:
- Tilman Plehn (Heidelberg University) - ML in particle physics
- Matthew Purver (Queen Mary Un. of London, SMASH supervisor) - LLMs
- Jana Javornik (Un. of Leeds, SMASH Ethics advisor), TBC - Ethics in AI
- Tanja Samardžić (Un. of Zurich, Language and Space Lab, SMASH GB member) - ML in Linguistics
- Uros Seljak (UC Berkeley, SMASH supervisor) - Scientific discovery and ML in cosmology
- Christoph Weniger (Un. of Amsterdam, GRAPPA Institute, SMASH supervisor), TBC - SBI, application to astrophysics
