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Events During the Week of July 11th through July 18th, 2021

Monday, July 12th, 2021

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Tuesday, July 13th, 2021

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Wednesday, July 14th, 2021

Learning Differential Equations
Time: 11:00 am - 12:15 pm
Place: Online Seminar: Please sign up for our mailing list at www.physicsmeetsml.org for zoom link
Speaker: Jesse Bettencourt, University of Toronto
Abstract: Differential equations provide a natural and productive language to describe and manipulate physical systems. As well, the interdisciplinary literature developed toward the study of differential equations is rich with conceptual and technical results. I will discuss the integration of these methods with Machine Learning. I will introduce Neural Ordinary Differential Equations, a class of initial value problems whose dynamics are specified by a neural network. I will describe some methods for learning the differential equation via gradient optimization. I will highlight some areas where this treatment is both conceptually elegant and practically effective. In particular, I will discuss Continuous Normalizing Flows for density estimation and an extension (FFJORD) that demonstrates performance improvement through numerical approximation. I will also discuss recent work to regularize learned differential equations such that their solution can be efficiently approximated by a numerical solver. I will describe recent advances in (Higher-Order) Automatic Differentiation that facilitate these methods and may be a useful tool for future techniques to study the interface of physics and Machine Learning.
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Thursday, July 15th, 2021

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Friday, July 16th, 2021

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