GSI'25

Keynote speakers

Prof. Nina MIOLANE

Assistant Professor, AI, UC Santa Barbara. Co-Director, AI Center, Bowers Women's Brain Health Initiative. Affiliate, Stanford SLAC

Topological Deep Learning: Unlocking the Structure of Relational Systems

The natural world is full of complex systems characterized by intricate relations between their components: from social interactions between individuals in a social network to electrostatic interactions between atoms in a protein. Topological Deep Learning (TDL) provides a framework to process and extract knowledge from data associated with these systems, such as predicting the social community to which an individual belongs or predicting whether a protein can be a reasonable target for drug development. By extending beyond traditional graph-based methods, TDL incorporates higher-order relational structures, providing a new lens to tackle challenges in applied sciences and beyond. This talk will introduce the core principles of TDL and provide a comprehensive review of its rapidly growing literature, with a particular focus on neural network architectures and their performance across various domains. I will present open-source implementations that make TDL methods more accessible and practical for real-world applications. All in all, this talk will showcase how TDL models can effectively capture and reason about the complexity of real-world systems, while highlighting the remaining challenges and exciting opportunities for future advancements in the field.

Bibliography

  1. Hajij, M., Papillon, M., Frantzen, F., Agerberg, J., AlJabea, I., Ballester, R., … & Miolane, N. (2024). TopoX: a suite of Python packages for machine learning on topological domains. Journal of Machine Learning Research, 25(374), 1-8.
  2. Papamarkou, T., Birdal, T., Bronstein, M. M., Carlsson, G. E., Curry, J., Gao, Y., … & Zamzmi, G. (2024). Position: Topological Deep Learning is the New Frontier for Relational Learning. In Forty-first International Conference on Machine Learning.
  3. Papillon, M., Bernárdez, G., Battiloro, C., & Miolane, N. (2024). TopoTune: A Framework for Generalized Combinatorial Complex Neural Networks. arXiv preprint arXiv:2410.06530.
  4. Papillon, M., Sanborn, S., Hajij, M., & Miolane, N. (2023). Architectures of Topological Deep Learning: A Survey of Message-Passing Topological Neural Networks. arXiv preprint arXiv:2304.10031.
  5. Hajij, M., Zamzmi, G., Papamarkou, T., Miolane, N., Guzmán-Sáenz, A., Ramamurthy, K. N., … & Schaub, M. T. (2022). Topological deep learning: Going beyond graph data. arXiv preprint arXiv:2206.00606.

Prof. José Figueroa-O'Farrill

School of Mathematics, University of Edinburgh

Cohomological approach to symplectic reduction and applications in string theory: some old and new results

Coisotropic reduction in symplectic geometry can be phrased cohomologically and goes under the name of BRST cohomology in Physics.  It provides a quantisation procedure for gauge theories which is equivariant under global symmetries.  It was first discovered in the context of gauge theories in the mid 1970s, but it plays a very important role in the quantisation of string theories, where it usually appears in th guise of semi-infinite cohomology, a cohomology theory for certain infinite-dimensional Lie algebras which sits in between homology and cohomology.  I will summarise some of the history of the subject and mention a recent application in the context of so-called non-relativistic strings.

Bibliography:

  1. Kostant and S. Sternberg, Symplectic reduction, BRS cohomology and infinite-dimensional Clifford algebras, Ann. of Physics 176 (1987) 49
  2. B. Frenkel, H. Garland and G.J. Zuckerman, Semi-infinite cohomology and string theory, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 83 (1986) 8442
  3. M.Figueroa-O’Farrill and G. S. Vishwa, The BRST quantisation of chiral BMS-like field theories, arXiv:2407.12778 [hep-th]
  4. M.Figueroa-O’Farrill, E. Have and N. Obers, Quantum carrollian strings, work in progress

 

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