Other workshops happening on Monday October 6th:
Building the Quantum Future: Research, Education, and Collaboration Across Disciplines
10:45 AM – 5:00 pm – Hosted by Dr. Mahmut Kandemir – HUB (room TBA)
The workshop, coordinated in tandem with the ICDS Symposium, seeks to enhance the visibility of, and advance quantum sciences, computing and technologies across Penn State. This full-day workshop is open to all Penn State faculty, researchers and students within any discipline who have an interest in applying quantum sciences methodologies to their research.
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Workshop on Advances in Computational Mathematics with Machine Learning
12:30 – 4:15 pm – Hosted by Dr. John Harlim – HUB (room TBA)
In this workshop, we have four distinguished speakers who will discuss recent developments in Computational Mathematics. Specifically, they will address how Machine Learning has emerged as an important part of scientific computational tools for solving long standing problems in physical and biological models. Topics range from transport information geometry, neural attention operator for foundational modeling of physical systems, Digital twins, generative AI, to time series analysis for denoising psychological signals arising in healthcare application.
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Scalable, Multi-output Gaussian Processes (GPs) & Astronomical Applications
12:30 – 2:00 pm – hosted by Dr. Eric Ford – 538 Davey
We will begin with an overview of potential use cases for multi-output GPs in astronomy & astrophysics. We’ll have short talks by researchers familiar with some existing methods (e.g., Kalman filtering and stochastic differential equations, coregionalization, S+LEAF, scaled Vecchia approximation) and discuss their pros and cons, particularly in regards to problem size and scaling of computational and memory costs. Finally, we’ll open the floor to discussion about plans for the future. We’d be particularly interested in identifying researchers with relevant expertise from beyond the Astronomy & Astrophysics department and potential opportunities for collaborative proposals.
Multi-Omics at Scale: Leveraging Penn State’s Expertise for Future Interdisciplinary Opportunities
1:00 -3:30 pm – hosted by Gustavo Nader (Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences) – HUB (Room TBA)
This two-and-a-half–hour session will bring together Penn State faculty with diverse expertise and shared interests in multi-omics to explore opportunities for collaboration and large-scale research initiatives. The program will feature three 20-minute talks highlighting different perspectives and recent advances in multi-omics, followed by a roundtable discussion aimed at identifying synergies, strategic directions, and organizational structures that can position Penn State at the forefront of this rapidly growing field. By connecting researchers across disciplines, the session seeks to lay the groundwork for coordinated, competitive proposal submissions that leverage the university’s unique strengths in data science, life sciences, and computational infrastructure.