Conference Agenda
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Daily Overview |
| 8:00am to 8:45am |
Registration Location: CON Foyer |
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| 8:15am to 4:30pm |
Child Care Location: AWO Children’s House “ganz schön frech” (Campus Kindergarten) |
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| 8:45am to 9:00am |
Welcome Location: CON Foyer Chair: Zeynep Akata, Helmholtz Munich |
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| 9:00am to 11:00am |
WS 1 (1/4) - Data Parallelism: How to Train Deep Learning Models on Multiple GPUs Location: HDC 041 Chair: Severine Habert, NVIDIA Chair: Pallavi Mohan, NVIDIA Chair: Nael Fasfous, NVIDIA |
WS 2a (1/2) - Building Agentic ML Tools for Science: What Works and What Doesn’t Location: 31 003 Chair: Till Korten, Helmholtz Zentrum Dresden Rossendorf (HZDR) Chair: Haider Khan, Helmholtz Zentrum Munich |
WS 3a - Reproducible Benchmarking and Multi-Omics Integration Using the Multiverse Framework Location: CON 1+2 Chair: Anis Ismail, KU Leuven Chair: Saptarshi Chakrabarti, KU Leuven |
TT 4a (1/2) - From Prompts to AI Applications: A Hands-On Introduction to RAG and LLM Systems Location: HPC 302 Chair: Osama Hamed, Forschungszentrum Jülich |
WS 5a - Translating Research Concepts into GDPR-Compliant Projects: A Six-Step Process and Three Cases for Hands-on Practice Location: CON 4 Chair: Julian Beimes, idalab GmbH |
WS 6a - Powering Helmholtz AI: HAICORE Infrastructure & AI Platform at HZDR Location: CON 3 Chair: Kushal Ramakrishna, Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf Chair: Varun Sudharshnam, Helmholtz Zentrum Dresden Rossendorf |
Start at 10:00 WS 7a (1/2) - AI in environmental research Location: HPC 384 Chair: Martin Schultz, FZJ Chair: Kirsten M Florentine Weber, Jülich Supercomputing Centre (JSC) |
WS 8a (1/2) - Causal Inference and Causal AI for Complex Dynamic Systems in Medicine and Biology Location: 33 004 Chair: Juan G. Diaz Ochoa, Klinikum Stuttgart / Permediq Chair: Johann Krocza, HSE365.at GmbH Chair: Alexander Krohn, Hochschule München Chair: Christian Menzel, Klinikum Stuttgart |
TT 9a - Deep Learning with Bayesian Principles Location: HPC 002 Chair: Thomas Moellenhoff, RIKEN AIP |
| 11:00am to 11:15am |
Coffee break Location: at the Conference Center and the Helmholtz Pioneer Campus (HPC) simultaneously |
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| 11:15am to 1:15pm |
WS 1 (2/4) - Data Parallelism: How to Train Deep Learning Models on Multiple GPUs Location: HDC 041 Chair: Severine Habert, NVIDIA Chair: Pallavi Mohan, NVIDIA Chair: Nael Fasfous, NVIDIA |
WS 2a (2/2) - Building Agentic ML Tools for Science: What Works and What Doesn’t Location: 31 003 Chair: Till Korten, Helmholtz Zentrum Dresden Rossendorf (HZDR) Chair: Haider Khan, Helmholtz Zentrum Munich |
WS 3b - Responsible AI in Industrial Production: Practices and Methods for Predictive Models Location: CON 3 Chair: Christopher Koska, University Augsburg Chair: Markus Schatzl, senswork GmbH |
TT 4a (2/2) - From Prompts to AI Applications: A Hands-On Introduction to RAG and LLM Systems Location: HPC 302 Chair: Osama Hamed, Forschungszentrum Jülich |
WS 5b - AI, Brussels and how to participate in decision-making and science policy Location: CON 4 Chair: Ioannis Legouras, Helmholtz Association |
WS 6b - Novel Helmholtz Imaging Tools for AI image processing along the pipeline Location: CON 1+2 Chair: Ella Bahry, Max Delbrueck Center Chair: Deborah Schmidt, Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine Chair: Hans Werners, Deutsches Elektronen-Synchroton DESY Chair: Philipp Heuser, DESY |
WS 7a (2/2) - AI in environmental research Location: HPC 384 Chair: Martin Schultz, FZJ Chair: Kirsten M Florentine Weber, Jülich Supercomputing Centre (JSC) |
WS 8a (2/2) - Causal Inference and Causal AI for Complex Dynamic Systems in Medicine and Biology Location: 33 004 Chair: Juan G. Diaz Ochoa, Klinikum Stuttgart / Permediq Chair: Johann Krocza, HSE365.at GmbH Chair: Alexander Krohn, Hochschule München Chair: Christian Menzel, Klinikum Stuttgart |
WS 9b - Curiosity, Exploration, and Meta-Reinforcement Learning: Learning What to Learn Location: HPC 002 Chair: Jonathan Shock, University of Cape Town |
| 1:15pm to 2:15pm |
Lunch Location: Mensa |
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| 2:15pm to 4:15pm |
WS 1 (3/4) - Data Parallelism: How to Train Deep Learning Models on Multiple GPUs Location: HDC 041 Chair: Severine Habert, NVIDIA Chair: Pallavi Mohan, NVIDIA Chair: Nael Fasfous, NVIDIA |
WS 2b (1/2) - Open Challenges in Simulation-Based Inference Location: 31 003 Chair: Alina Bazarova, Forschungszentrum Jülich Chair: Peter Steinbach, Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf Chair: Giuseppe Viterbo, Heidelberg University |
WS 3c (1/2) - Medical Foundation Models: From Pretraining to Clinical Impact (MedFM @ HAICON26) Location: HPC 384 Chair: Cristina González, Helmholtz Munich Chair: Laura Alexandra Daza Barragan, Helmholtz Center Munich Chair: Marta Hasny, Helmholtz Munich, TUM |
TT 4b - A Practical Tour of PEFT & Co. Location: HPC 302 Chair: Dasha Trofimova, DFKZ Chair: Jeremias Traub, DKFZ |
WS 5c - The Science of Successful AI Communication Location: CON 3 Chair: Verena Albrecht, Munich Center for Machine Learning |
TT 6c - Qubits all the way down: A Gentle Dive into Quantum Machine Learning Theory Location: CON 1+2 Chair: Eileen Kühn, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) Chair: Gabriel Mejia Ruiz, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology |
WS 7b (1/2) - Current status of the benchmarking field: lessons learned from the first half of the UNLOCK initiative Location: CON 5+6 Chair: Malte Luecken, Helmholtz Munich Chair: Marie Piraud, Helmholtz Munich Chair: Steffen Schneider, Helmholtz Munich Chair: Daria Romanovskaia, Helmholtz Munich Chair: Francesco Campi, Helmholtz Munich |
TT 8b (1/2) - TwinWeaver: Generative Artificial Intelligence and Digital Twins for Longitudinal Modelling Location: CON 4 Chair: Daksh Pratap Singh Pamar, University of Melbourne Chair: Alina Arneth, University of Melbourne Chair: Nikita Makarov, Valinor Discovery |
TT 9c - Uncertainty Quantification for Neural Networks: Make your model predictions trustworthy Location: HPC 002 Chair: Steve Schmerler, HZDR Chair: Jakob Gawlikowski, German Aerospace Center Chair: Christoph Schweden, German Aerospace Center |
| 4:15pm to 4:30pm |
Coffee break Location: at the Conference Center and the Helmholtz Pioneer Campus (HPC) simultaneously |
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| 4:30pm to 6:30pm |
WS 1 (4/4) - Data Parallelism: How to Train Deep Learning Models on Multiple GPUs Location: HDC 041 Chair: Severine Habert, NVIDIA Chair: Pallavi Mohan, NVIDIA Chair: Nael Fasfous, NVIDIA |
WS 2b (2/2) - Open Challenges in Simulation-Based Inference Location: 31 003 Chair: Alina Bazarova, Forschungszentrum Jülich Chair: Peter Steinbach, Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf Chair: Giuseppe Viterbo, Heidelberg University |
WS 3c (2/2) - Medical Foundation Models: From Pretraining to Clinical Impact (MedFM @ HAICON26) Location: HPC 384 Chair: Cristina González, Helmholtz Munich Chair: Laura Alexandra Daza Barragan, Helmholtz Center Munich Chair: Marta Hasny, Helmholtz Munich, TUM |
TT 4c - Small and Locally Deployed VLMs under Evaluation: A Case Study of Image Captioning Location: HPC 302 Chair: Osama Hamed, Forschungszentrum Jülich |
WS 5d - Introduction to Prototyping Location: CON 3 Chair: Mirjam Rohrmann, Helmholtz Munich |
TT 6d - Coding the Quantum Machine Learning Future: A hands-on Tutorial Location: CON 1+2 Chair: Eileen Kühn, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) Chair: Gabriel Mejia Ruiz, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology |
WS 7b (2/2) - Current status of the benchmarking field: lessons learned from the first half of the UNLOCK initiative Location: CON 5+6 Chair: Malte Luecken, Helmholtz Munich Chair: Marie Piraud, Helmholtz Munich Chair: Steffen Schneider, Helmholtz Munich Chair: Daria Romanovskaia, Helmholtz Munich Chair: Francesco Campi, Helmholtz Munich |
TT 8b (2/2) - TwinWeaver: Generative Artificial Intelligence and Digital Twins for Longitudinal Modelling (End at 17:30) Location: CON 4 Chair: Daksh Pratap Singh Pamar, University of Melbourne Chair: Alina Arneth, University of Melbourne Chair: Nikita Makarov, Valinor Discovery |
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| 7:30pm to 10:00pm |
Self-paid dinner in downtown Munich Location: Augustiner-Keller | Beer-garden |
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