Sharad Kakran, TU Kaiserslautern Title: Generalization of Neural Predictors in Neural Architecture Search, Applied to Computer Vision Abstract: In recent years, the research topic “Neural Architecture Search” has gained a lot of popularity across the research community and industry, which … Continue reading →

Prof. Mathieu Morlighem, Department of Earth Sciences, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, USA Title: The challenges of modeling the ice sheets in a changing climate Abstract: Ice sheets are dynamic systems that are among the largest contributors to sea level … Continue reading →

Prof. Claudia Schillings, Institute of Mathematics, University of Mannheim Title: A General Framework for Machine Learning based Optimization Under Uncertainty Abstract: Approaches to decision making and learning mainly rely on optimization techniques to achieve “best” values for parameters and decision … Continue reading →

Dr. Domenico Quagliarella, Italian Aerospace Research Centre (CIRA), Capua, Italy Title: Intrusive and non-intrusive approximation techniques for efficient robust aerodynamic shape design using risk functions Abstract: We introduce the use of advanced risk functions, initially conceived in financial engineering, in … Continue reading →

Henry Jäger, TU Kaiserslautern Title: Extending Eigen-AD for CoDiPack Abstract: Eigen-AD is a software which provides add-on modules for the linear algebra library Eigen. Thereby it enables different optimization options for an operator overloading AD tool, for example a better … Continue reading →

Dr. Giles Strong (CERN, University of Padova) Title: TomOpt: PyTorch-based Differential Muon Tomography Optimisation Abstract: The MODE introductory article*, published earlier this year proposed an end-to-end differential pipeline for the optimisation of detector designs directly with respect to the end … Continue reading →

Prof. Ralf Zimmermann, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science (IMADA), University of Southern Denmark (SDU), Denmark Title: How to interpolate low-rank matrix decompositions? Computing the Riemannian normal coordinates in the space of orthogonal frames Abstract: We address the problem of … Continue reading →

Dr. Emre Özkaya, Chair for Scientific Computing (SciComp), TU Kaiserslautern Title: Robust Design Optimization Package: RoDeO Abstract: RoDeO (Robust Design Optimization Package) is a package for simulation based global design optimization. It is specifically designed for scientific/engineering applications, in which … Continue reading →

Jan Rottmayer, TU Kaiserslautern Title: Flow Control via Reduced Order Models Abstract: The optimization of systems governed by nonlinear partial differential equations requires solving large-scale systems of equations at each iteration throughout the design process. The reduction of model dimension … Continue reading →

Dr. Max Sagebaum, Chair for Scientific Computing (SciComp), TU Kaiserslautern Title: Aggregated type handling in CoDiPack Abstract: The development of AD tools focuses mostly on handling floating point types in the target language. Taping optimizations in these tools mostly focus … Continue reading →