The Institute of Mathematical Sciences and Physics (IMSP), in partnership with the University of Houston’s (UH) Department of Mathematics, successfully held the Research-Seminar on Analytic and Theoretical Tools for the Data-Enabled Sciences (ATTDES) last 17-18 November 2023.

This two-day event aimed to provide participants with the working knowledge of tools from linear algebra, functional analysis, probability, neural networks, and generative models that are necessary in solving problems in the data-enabled sciences. It also exposed the participants to various applications of said tools in acoustics and electromagnetism, biochemical networks, stochastic parametrization, and liver cancer detection.

Dr. Daniel Onofrei, a professor of mathematics at UH, headlined the event. He shared his team’s work on the active control of acoustic fields and its possible applications. The rest of the talks were delivered by IMSP’s own experts. Dr. Neil Jerome A. Egarguin delivered the seminar’s inaugural talk, focusing on theoretical and numerical tools for solving inverse problems involving wave partial differential equations. Dr. Mark Jayson V. Cortez treated the participants to a quick course on Bayesian inference for stochastic biochemical networks. Dr. Ranzivelle Marianne L. Roxas-Villanueva discussed graph neural networks and their work on liver cancer detection. Lastly, Dr. Jeric S. Alcala gave a quick course on generative models and their applications to stochastic parametrization.

ATTDES was attended by 16 undergraduate and graduate students from different units of UPLB, Citi Global College, and UP Diliman. IMSP will be planning to organize several ATTDES workshops in the future that focus on specific fields.

(NJA Egarguin)