# ETH IPAi ## Important dates: - EuCAIFCon (Cagliari): Abstract submission deadline Sunday, 16 Feb 2025. Submitted: Kyle (CL4AD), Giada (NF for MC), Marius (MI) - Accepted: Giada (*End-to-End Optimization of Generative AI for Robust Background Estimation*) - Accepted: Patrick/Marius (*Signals in the Noise: Learning Invariant Representations for Ultra-Fast Edge Applications in High-Energy Physics*) - ACAT (Hamburg): **April 19th** submission deadline. Kyle? Gaia? Asra? - ML4Jets: **TBA**, Gaia submit for CL - FastML: **July 14th** abstract submission deadline https://indico.cern.ch/event/1496673/ - neurIPS (San Diego): **TBA** - EPS (Marseille) AI for HEP track: TBA - IAIFI workshop: - Lana/Kyle poster - Foundation model workshop in Munich - Phase2Annual review: 3rd train, PR deadline: **May 26**, Menu report: June 10 (FINAL, CMS week) with Trigger review: June 18 ## Students ### Incoming Spring 2025 - Asra (master): 2-prong tagging - Giada (master, MIT): NormFlows for background generation with NPNPLM - Lea Schüpke (semester): aCentauri solar car - Lorenzo Asfour (semester): FPGA inference for PSI electron microscopy - Sanziana Stelea (semester): equiv. NNs - Philip Ploner (plonerp@student.ethz.ch): foundation model dataset production ### Incoming Fall 2025 - Tamara Leuthold ### [Project Sanziana](https://codimd.web.cern.ch/T0BvMQ_KQrOouKA-8n-_Mw) ### [Project Lorenzo](https://codimd.web.cern.ch/YzFX75gUQLeHetTolFNKbg) ### [Project Asra](https://codimd.web.cern.ch/dCne72myTpqdsIj71ZhQag) ### [Project Philip](https://codimd.web.cern.ch/cPz6BkmMQeCOuReiB8Gfhw) ## Papers - Kyle: Contrastive learning and NPLM -> submitted - Patrick/Thea: AXO AN - Patrick/Thea/Lorenzo: equivariant NNs - Giada: NPLM for Generative Flow optimisation