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Exploratory Studies in Neural Network-based Modeling and Control of Particle Accelerators
Date: Aug. 1, 3pm 3:30pm (Note time!)
Location: B52-103 Mad River (Note place!)
Speaker: Auralee Edelen (CSU)
Particle accelerators are host to myriad control challenges: they involve a multitude of interacting systems, are often subject to tight performance demands, in many cases exhibit nonlinear behavior, sometimes are not well-characterized due to practical and/or fundamental limitations, and should be able to run for extended periods of time with minimal interruption. One avenue toward improving the way these systems are controlled is to incorporate techniques from machine learning. Within machine learning, neural networks in particular are appealing because they are highly flexible, they are well-suited to problems with nonlinear behavior and large parameter spaces, and their recent success in other fields (driven largely by algorithmic advances, greater availability of large data sets, and improvements in high performance computing resources) is an encouraging indicator that they are now technologically mature enough to be fruitfully applied to particle accelerators. This talk will highlight a few recent efforts in this area that were focused on exploring neural network-based approaches for modeling and control of several particle accelerator subsystems, both through simulation and experimental studies.
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Date: Aug. 8, 2pm
Speaker: Leo Guibas
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Date: Aug. 15, 2pm
Speaker: Jeffrey Donatelli (CAMERA, Berkeley)
MacroBase: A Search Engine for Fast Data Streams
Date: Sept. 5, 2pm
Speaker: Sahaana Suri (Stanford)
While data volumes generated by sensors, automated process, and application telemetry continue to rise, the capacity of human attention remains limited. To harness the potential of these large scale data streams, machines must step in by processing, aggregating, and contextualizing significant behaviors within these data streams. This talk will describe progress towards achieving this goal via MacroBase, a new analytics engine for prioritizing attention in this large-scale "fast data" that has begun to deliver results in several production environments. Key to this progress are new methods for constructing cascades of analytic operators for classification, aggregation, and high-dimensional feature selection; when combined, these cascades yield new opportunities for dramatic scalability improvements via end-to-end optimization for streams spanning time-series, video, and structured data. MacroBase is a core component of the Stanford DAWN project (http://dawn.cs.stanford.edu/), a new research initiative designed to enable more usable and efficient machine learning infrastructure.
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