Events During the Week of March 21st through March 28th, 2021
Monday, March 22nd, 2021
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar
- Fusion plasma physics issues for tokamak DEMOnstration reactors
- Time: 12:00 pm
- Place: Zoom Meeting
- Speaker: Prof. Hartmut Zohm, Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics
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Tuesday, March 23rd, 2021
- Council Meeting
- Physics Council
- Time: 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
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- Host: Sridhara Dasu
Wednesday, March 24th, 2021
- Physics ∩ ML Seminar
- Algebraic Neural Networks
- 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: Alejandro Ribeiro, University of Pennsylvania
- Abstract: We study algebraic neural networks (AlgNNs) with commutative algebras which unify diverse architectures such as Euclidean convolutional neural networks, graph neural networks, and group neural networks under the umbrella of algebraic signal processing. An AlgNN is a stacked layered structure where each layer is conformed by an algebra, a vector space and a homomorphism between the algebra and the space of endomorphisms of the vector space. Signals are modeled as elements of the vector space and are processed by convolutional filters that are defined as the images of the elements of the algebra under the action of the homomorphism. We analyze stability of algebraic filters and AlgNNs to deformations of the homomorphism and derive conditions on filters that lead to Lipschitz stable operators. We conclude that stable algebraic filters have frequency responses – defined as eigenvalue domain representations – whose derivative is inversely proportional to the frequency – defined as eigenvalue magnitudes. It follows that for a given level of discriminability, AlgNNs are more stable than algebraic filters, thereby explaining their better empirical performance. This same phenomenon has been proven for Euclidean convolutional neural networks and graph neural networks. Our analysis shows that this is a deep algebraic property shared by a number of architectures. Further details in arxiv.org/abs/2009.01433 and gnn.seas.upenn.edu/lecture-12.
- Host: Gary Shiu
- Department Meeting
- Time: 12:15 pm - 1:15 pm
- Place: Virtual see "abstract" for connection info
- Speaker: Sridhara Dasu, Department Chair
- AIMEE N LEFKOW is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.
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- Host: Sridhara Dasu
Thursday, March 25th, 2021
- Cosmology Journal Club
- Time: 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
- Abstract: Each week, we start with a couple scheduled 15-20 minute talks about one's research, or an arXiv paper. The last part will typically be open to the group for anyone to discuss an arXiv paper.
All are welcome and all fields of cosmology are appropriate.
Contact Ross Cawthon, cawthon@wisc, for more information.
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- Astronomy Colloquium
- Galaxy Evolution from Large Surveys of Nearby Resolved Galaxies
- Time: 3:30 pm - 5:00 am
- Place: Zoom meeting(see Abstract ) Coffee and tea 3:30 pm, Talk 3:45 pm
- Speaker: Karen Masters, Haverford College
- Abstract: The morphology of a galaxy provides information on the orbits of stars within it. As such, important clues to the formation history of galaxies are revealed by their morphologies, and this information is complimentary, but not identical to, their star formation history and chemical composition as revealed by photometry and spectra.The Galaxy Zoo project (www.galaxyzoo.org) has provided quantitative visual morphologies for over a million galaxies (including the entire Sloan Digital Sky Surveys, or SDSS Main Galaxy Sample), and has been part of a reinvigoration of interest in the morphologies of galaxies and what they reveal about the evolution of galaxies. Mapping Nearby Galaxies at Apache Point Observatory (MaNGA, part of SDSS-IV), has now completed its goal to obtain spatially resolved spectral maps for 10,010 nearby galaxies (all of which have Galaxy Zoo morphologies). This is by far the largest sample of resolved spectroscopy in the world. In this talk I will review these projects, and show results from them which demonstrate why a resolved view of the internal morphology in large samples of galaxies is interesting and how it provides a unique constraint of our understanding of galaxy evolution.
- Host: Professor Eric Wilcots
Friday, March 26th, 2021
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology)
- Gamma-ray flashes from dark photons in neutron star mergers
- Time: 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
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- Speaker: Gustavo Marques Tavares, University of Maryland
- Abstract: In this talk, I will show how dark photons can lead to a very bright flash of gamma-rays immediately after a binary neutron star merger. This presents a new promising avenue to explore dark sectors through multi-messenger astronomy in the gravitational wave era.
- Host: Lars Aalsma
- Graduate Program Event
- Faculty/Grad Student Summer RA Meet & Greet (Virtual)
- Time: 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm
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- Speaker: Faculty/Grad Students, Looking for Summer 2021 RA's
- Abstract: Join us on Friday, March 26th at 3:30pm (in place of the usual weekly coffee hour) if you are interested in taking a new student as an RA or if you are a graduate student looking for an RA this summer. We know that since we have been virtual for an entire year now, and also the fact that we have a few new faculty on board, many of you may not have met each other in the same way you would have in the good old days when we were all together in Chamberlin Hall. The virtual meet and greet event will aim to help first or second/third year students who have not yet secured an RA for Summer 2021 with the process of meeting faculty who are looking for RA’s this summer.
For the virtual event, we will start out in the zoom room together by going over a few logistical details about the summer RA process followed by breakout rooms for each faculty member or research area. Faculty members who wish to be in one breakout room together, please email me individually and we can be sure those logistics are sorted out in advance. Everyone who plans to attend should register in advance to get access to the zoom link and meeting information.
- Host: Michelle Holland, Graduate Program Coordinator