Schedule

 

Monday, June 18th

Day’s goal: Survey of techniques, applications to 1d and 3d models

Time
9:30 – 11:00 1. Introduction
2. Morphology of CBC waveforms (Sergei Ossokine)
3. Science Goals (Sergei Ossokine & Michael Pürrer)
4. Techniques, advances, challenges (Michael Pürrer)
11:00 – 11:30 Coffee
11:30 – 13:00 Workshop: Building a 1D model (Scott Field)
13:00 – 14:00 Lunch
14:00 – 15:30 Waveform compression and temporal prediction techniques
1. SVD (Michael Pürrer)
2. Greedy algorithm (Chad Galley)
3. Empirical interpolation (Chad Galley)
4. Basis expansions, splines (Chad Galley)
15:30 – 16:00 Coffee
16:00 – 17:30 1. Parametric Fitting I: 1d, 2d, 3d splines, Chebyshev (Michael Pürrer)
2. Workshop: Building a 3D, aligned spin model (Michael Pürrer)

Tuesday, June 19th

Day’s goal: GPR, parametric fits that learn, project kick-starter

Time
9:30 – 11:00 GPR I (Christopher Moore)
1. Introduction to GPR
2. Numerical workshop
11:00 – 11:30 Coffee
11:30 – 13:00 GPR II (Zoheyr Doctor)
1. Workshop building 1d and 3d models
2. What to simulate next?
13:00 – 14:00 Lunch
14:00 – 15:30 Parametric Fitting II
1. Cross validation / automation / forward stepwise greedy  (Scott Field)
2. Greedy basis-discovery (Lionel London)
15:30 – 15:50 Coffee
15:50 – 16:15 Paolo Addesso, Compressed Sensing for Time-Frequency Gravitational Wave Data Analysis
16:15 – 17:30 Project small groups

Wednesday, June 20th

Day’s goal: Algorithms targeted for parameter estimation + detection, talks, projects

Time
9:30 – 11:00 Reduced-order Quadrature (Rory Smith, Carl-Johan Haster, Scott Field)
1. Overview & challenges
2. Building
3. Usage
11:00 – 11:30 Coffee
11:30 – 13:00 Machine Learning
1. Overview of ML methods (Ben Lackey)
2. Autoencoders and associated techniques (Stephen Green)
13:00 – 14:00 Lunch
14:00 – 15:30 Talks
1. Vijay Varma, Surrogate models of hybridized numerical relativity waveforms
2. Zoheyr Doctor, a reduced order model with Gaussian Process Regression
3. Sylvain Marsat, Frequency-domain waveforms and instrument response for LISA
15:30 – 16:00 Coffee
16:00 – 17:30 Projects
19:00 – 20:00 Dinner
20:00 – 20:30 Talk: Scott Field & Michael Pürrer, “The Promise of Reduced-order Modeling for GW Data Analysis.”

Thursday, June 21st

Day’s goal: Dealing with the curse of dimensionality, talks, projects

Time
9:30 – 11:00 Make the problem simpler
1. Adapted frames (Sergei Ossokine)
2. Waveform decompositions (Scott Field)
11:00 – 11:30 Coffee
11:30 – 13:00 Training set creation
1. Chad Galley, “Reduced-order Modeling with Artificial Neurons”
2. Projects
13:00 – 14:00 Lunch
14:00 – 15:30 Talks
1. Edward Fauchon-Jones, Using web technologies to improve time to insight for gravitational wave modeling
2. Sebastian Khan, latest developments in waveform modelling
3. Michael Pürrer, Status of ROMs for precessing SEOBNR
15:30 – 16:00 Coffee
16:00 – 17:30 Projects

Friday, June 22nd

Day’s goal: Projects; progress and whats next…

Time
9:30 – 11:00 Projects
11:00 – 11:30 Coffee
11:30 – 13:00 Project Updates & Closing remarks
13:00 – 14:00 Lunch
14:00 – 17:30 Open time