CSD Science Day 2025

Wednesday 20 Aug 2025, 09:00 → 19:00 Europe/Zurich

Trotte Villigen

Agenda CSD Science Day

 

09:00 → 09:40 Arrival of the participants, welcome coffee, installation posters

09:40 → 10:30 SESSION 1 Introduction

Speakers: Thierry Strässle CSD, Laura Grigori LSM, Andreas Elben LTC, Nicola Marzari LMS, Alun Ashton AWI

10:30 → 11:00 SESSION 2 Introduction to AI

"Inside GPT: Architecture, Attention, and the Geometry of Meaning"

Speaker: Luis Barba SDSC/LSM

11:00 → 11:10 Applications:

"Leveraging generative AI to reconstruct unknown positions of hydrogen sites"

Speaker: Timo Reents LMS

11:10 → 11:20 Applications:

“A data-driven approach to Multivariate Curve Resolution”

Speaker: Ilnura Usmanova SDSC/LSM

11:20 → 11:30 Applications:

"AI-Driven Applications of X-ray Tomography: Insights from AWI and TOMCAT"

Speaker: Qianwei Qu AWI

11:30 → 12:15 Panel: "Scientific publishing in the age of AI"

Moderators: Daniel Vera Nieto SDSC/LSM + Natalya Paulish LMS
Panelists: Luis Barba SDSC/LSM, Ilnura Usmanova SDSC/LSM, Klara Pesic LSM, Timo Reents LMS, Austin Zadoks LMS, Qianwei Qu AWI, Elsa Germann AWI

12:15 → 13:30 Lunch breack

13:30 → 13:50 SESSION 3 Interactions LSF at PSI:

"Overview of PSI's Large Scale Research Facilities"

Speaker: Leo Sala AWI

13:50 → 14:10 Applications:

"AiiDAlab for neutron (and muon) science: Materials simulations and data analysis"

Speaker: Giovanni Pizzi LMS

14:10 → 14:30 Applications: Interplay between exp data and theory

"Hierarchical Bayesian Model Calibration with Bayesian Commitee Machine"

Speaker: Sebastian Heinekamp LSM

14:30 → 14:50 Applications:

"From protein structures to physiology and disease: leveraging the large-scale facilities at PSI"

Speaker: Xavier Deupi LTC/BIO

14:50 → 15:10 Applications:

"Theory and experiments on the stability of magnetic nanoparticlesd"

Speaker: Hugo Bocquet LTC

15:10 → 15:30 Panel:

Moderators: Christopher Mudry LTC + Jan Wyzula AWI
Panelists: Leo Sala AWI, Giovanni Pizzi LMS, Miki Bonacci LMS, Xavier Deupi LTC/BIO, Hugo Bocquet LTC, Sebastian Heinekamp LSM

15:30 → 16:00 Coffee break

16:00 → 16:30 Lightning talks

Postdocs and PhD students present a 1 minute lightning talk

16:30 → 17:00 Poster Session I

17:00 → 17:30 Poster Session II

17:30 → 19:00 Apéro riche for everyone