Seminar presentations on various topics related to numerical methods applied to complex systems ranging from statistical mechanics, biological to soft-matter systems. Participation of M.Sc. students with a background in numerical methods or statistical physics is encouraged. All meetings will take place in the presence. The first meeting will take place on Tuesday, October 18 at 14:15 in the seminar room E1 1.1.26, where the topics will be presented and distributed. After this first meeting the students are invited to send emails with their preferred topics to Ben Dalton dalton@zedat.fu-berlin.de and Roland Netz rnetz@physik.fu-berlin.de. There will be no meetings on October 25 and November 1. The first seminar should be presented on November 8.
Below is the current list of seminars. Please make contact with your tutor early, even if you are scheduled later in the semester so that your tutor can be sure of your participation. Please also let me know if you have any issues with the current format.
Please note that seminars should be approximately 45 minutes long. You are welcome to present for longer since we have to room booked for 90 minutes. However, they should not be much shorter. Take the time to introduce your topic well and to give all necessary background and theoretical contexts. Following that, you should have plenty of time to present the results from your numerical investigation, which your tutor will help you to devise and execute.
Also, we ask that you attend all seminars. In principle, all of the seminars will be interesting, so it is in your best interests to attend. But it is also supportive.
8th November - Asad Raza
Learning Unitary Matrices using Machine Learning Techniques
15nd November - Nikolas Froböse (tutor: Shane Carlson, shane.carlson@fu-berlin.de)
Monte Carlo simulations of Ising models
22th November - Jan Kroißenbrunner (tutor: Maximilian Becker, maximilian.becker@fu-berlin.de)
Global optimization techniques
29th November - Artur Bakaev (tutor: Sina Zendehroud, sina.zendehroud@fu-berlin.de)
Support Vector Machines
6th December - Javad Kasravi (tutor: Henrik Kiefer, henrik.kiefer@fu-berlin.de)
Convolution Neural Network
13th December - no talk scheduled
3rd January - Jacopo Venturin (tutor: TBA)
Spectral learning application to Neural Network: application on a regression problem, pruning algorithms…
10th January - Chandramouli Reddy (tutor: Louis Lehmann, louil95@zedat.fu-berlin.de)
Graph search algorithms and priority queues
17th January - Daniel Hammer (tutor: Maximilian Becker, maximilian.becker@fu-berlin.de)
Chaos Theory
24th January - Pedro Benetton (tutor: Benjamin Dalton, dalton@zedat.fu-berlin.de)
Self-Organized Criticality
24th January - Clea Peter (tutor: Sina Zendehroud, sina.zendehroud@fu-berlin.de)
SIR dynamics in random networks
7th February - Jinyi Zhou (tutor: Florian Brünig, florian.bruenig@fu-berlin.de)
Principle component analysis
7th February - Emil Hoffmann (tutor: Lucas Tepper, l.tepper@fu-berlin.de)
Time independent component analysis - TICA
14th February - Egemen Yüzbasi (tutor: Anton Klimek, kanton@zedat.fu-berlin.de)
K-means cluster analysis
14th February - Beyza Salantur (tutor: Anil Kumar Sahoo, aksahoo@zedat.fu-berlin.de)
Entropy-driven phase transitions