Events at Physics |
Events During the Week of May 3rd through May 10th, 2020
Monday, May 4th, 2020
- No events scheduled
Tuesday, May 5th, 2020
- Council Meeting
- Time: 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
- Place: Online
- Host: Sridhara Dasu
Wednesday, May 6th, 2020
- Physics ∩ ML Seminar
- Natural Graph Networks
- Time: 11:00 am - 12:00 pm
- Place: Please register for this online event:
- Speaker: Taco Cohen, Qualcomm AI Research
- Abstract: Message passing algorithms are the core of most neural networks that process information on graphs. Conventionally, such methods are invariant under permutation of the messages and hence forget how the information flows through the network. Analyzing the local symmetries of the graph, we show that a more general message passing network can in fact be sensitive the flow of information by using different kernels on different edges. This leads to an equivariant message passing algorithm that is more expressive than conventional invariant message passing, overcoming fundamental limitations of the latter. We derive the weight sharing and kernel constraints by modelling the symmetries using elementary category theory and show that equivariant kernels are “just” natural transformations between two functors. This general formulation, which we call Natural Networks, gives a unified theory to model many distinct forms of equivariant neural networks.
- Host: Gary Shiu
- Department Meeting
- Time: 12:15 pm - 1:15 pm
- Place: Online
- Speaker: Sridhara Dasu, Department Chair
- Host: Sridhara Dasu
Thursday, May 7th, 2020
- Department Coffee Hour
- Time: 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
- Place: Virtual
- Abstract: Join us weekly for an informal virtual coffee hour! Catch up with others in the department, tell us how things are going, and impress everyone with your Zoom background skills.
Link: - Awards
- 2020 Scholarships & Awards
- Time: 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm
- Place: Blackboard Collaborate; see link and dial-in access below
- Abstract: Congratulations to all the 2019-20 scholarship and award winners! Please join us in a virtual event to celebrate their achievements.
For video and audio access, please visit
For audio access only, please dial +1-571-392-7650 and enter PIN 505 094 1468 - Host: Sridhara Dasu
Friday, May 8th, 2020
- Atomic Physics Seminar
- Virtual AMO Seminar Series
- Time: 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
- Place: register for the Zoom link at:
- Speaker: Holger Muller, University of California, Berkeley
- Commencement
- 2020 Virtual Commencement Ceremony
- Time: 3:00 pm - 4:30 pm
- Place:
- Abstract: Please join us for a live virtual Commencement ceremony for undergraduate Physics and AMEP majors and Physics PhDs. For more info and a list of graduates, please visit
Video + audio access:
Phone (audio only) access:
Dial +1-571-392-7650 | PIN: 749 839 6443
