{"id":300,"date":"2021-08-10T15:34:47","date_gmt":"2021-08-10T15:34:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/users.ijclab.in2p3.fr\/david-rousseau\/?page_id=300"},"modified":"2025-10-31T22:31:04","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T21:31:04","slug":"talks","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/users.ijclab.in2p3.fr\/david-rousseau\/en\/talks\/","title":{"rendered":"Talks\/Teaching"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2>\u00a0<\/h2>\n<h2>Conferences<\/h2>\n<p>Excluding national events, internal ATLAS collaboration events, \u00a0and presentations from co-authors. Most important ones are highlighted.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;<strong>AI for Particle Physics&#8221;<\/strong>, David Rousseau, AI4X Conference, Singapore, <a href=\"https:\/\/ai4x.cc\">July 2025<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;<\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 14pt\">Fair Universe 2024: HiggsML Uncertainty Challenge<\/span>&#8220;<\/strong> David Rousseau et al. EUCaifCon, Amsterdam,<\/span>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/indico.nikhef.nl\/event\/4875\/\">May 2024<\/a><\/li>\n<li>&#8220;<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Fair Universe 2024: HiggsML Uncertainty Challenge&#8221; David Rousseau et al. Interexperiment Machine Learning workshop, CERN,<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/indico.cern.ch\/event\/1297159\/\">Feb 2024<\/a><\/li>\n<li>&#8220;ChatGPT, a brilliant but messy intern or: how can ChatGPT be used seriously in a physicist&#8217;s daily work?&#8221;, 26\u00e8me Congr\u00e8s G\u00e9n\u00e9ral de la Soci\u00e9t\u00e9 Fran\u00e7aise de Physique, Paris, \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/indico.ijclab.in2p3.fr\/event\/8021\/contributions\/30044\/attachments\/21560\/30467\/tr230706_davidRousseau_ChatGPT_SFP.pdf\">July 2023<\/a><\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Physics Based Machine Learning&#8221;, David Rousseau, Invited Talk, virtual, Machine Learning for Scientific Imaging at Electronic Imaging 2022, San Francisco, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imaging.org\/site\/IST\/IST\/Conferences\/EI\/EI_2022\/Conference\/C_MLSI.aspx#MLSI-327\">Jan 2022<\/a><\/li>\n<li>&#8220;<span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">End to end learning with an Optical Processing Unit<\/span>&#8220;, David Rousseau, Advanced Computing and Analysis Techniques in Physics Research 2021, virtual, Daejeon, South Korea,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/indico.cern.ch\/event\/855454\/contributions\/4605055\/\">Nov 2021<\/a><\/li>\n<li>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>&#8220;<span style=\"font-size: 14pt\"><strong>Recent progresses in using Artificial Intelligence for Particle Physics<\/strong><\/span>&#8220;, David Rousseau, Invited talk, American Physical Society April Meeting, Data Science and Machine Learning in Particle and Astrophysics session, virtual, <a href=\"http:\/\/meetings.aps.org\/Meeting\/APR21\/Session\/H01\">April 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>&#8220;Using an Optical Processing Unit for tracking and calorimetry at the Large Hadron Collider&#8221; David Rousseau,<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Fast Machine Learning for Science Workshop, SMU, Dallas (virtual), <a href=\"https:\/\/indico.cern.ch\/event\/924283\/\">Dec 2020<\/a>\u00a0<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>&#8220;<span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Using an Optical Processing Unit for tracking and calorimetry at the Large Hadron Collider<\/span>&#8220;, David Rousseau, \u00a0CERN Interexperiment Machine Learning Workshop, <a href=\"https:\/\/indico.cern.ch\/event\/852553\/timetable\/\">Oct 2020<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>\u201c<span style=\"font-size: 14pt\">Novel data analysis technique<\/span>s\u201d,<\/strong> David Rousseau, plenary talk, <a href=\"https:\/\/indico.cern.ch\/event\/577856\/contributions\/3396859\/\">European Physical Society Conference on High Energy Physics 2019<\/a>, Ghent, July 2019<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>\u201c<span style=\"font-size: 14pt\">Advances in Machine Learning for HEP<\/span>\u201d<\/strong>, David Rousseau, plenary talk, Conference on High Energy Physics, Sofia, <a href=\"https:\/\/indico.cern.ch\/event\/587955\">July 2018<\/a>\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>\u201c<span style=\"font-size: 14pt\"><strong>Organising scientific data challenges\u201d<\/strong><\/span>, David Rousseau, Institut Pascal Workshop on Advanced Pattern Recognition, <a href=\"https:\/\/indico.cern.ch\/event\/847626\/timetable\/?view=standard\">14-25 Oct 2019<\/a>\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0\u201cMachine Learning in HEP : GAN, TrackML and more \u201d, David Rousseau, CERN\/SKA workshop, Alan Turing Institute, London <a href=\"https:\/\/indico.cern.ch\/event\/745580\/\">17th Sep 2018<\/a>\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>\u201dAdvances in Machine Learning in High Energy Physics : Deep Learning, GAN and more\u201d David Rousseau, AGATA\/GRETINA tracking arrays meeting, <a href=\"https:\/\/indico.in2p3.fr\/event\/16944\/\">4-6 April 2018<\/a>, Orsay\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0\u201cLHC experiments : Petabytes to papers\u201d, David Rousseau, LSST school and workshop : getting ready to do science with LSST data, Lyon, <a href=\"https:\/\/indico.in2p3.fr\/event\/13811\/\">15 juin 2017<\/a>\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Talks about the TrackML challenge:\n<ul>\n<li><strong>\u201c<span style=\"font-size: 14pt\">TrackML : the roller coaster of organizing a HEP challenge on Kaggle and Codalab<\/span>\u201d,<\/strong> David Rousseau, <a href=\"https:\/\/indico.cern.ch\/event\/577856\/\">European Physical Society Conference on High Energy Physics 2019, Ghent, July 2019<\/a>\u00a0<\/li>\n<li><strong>\u201c<span style=\"font-size: 14pt\">TrackML Conclusion and Outlook on the on-going Throughput phase<\/span>\u201d,<\/strong> David Rousseau, NeurIPS 2018 Competition Workshop, Montr\u00e9al,<a href=\"https:\/\/neurips.cc\/Conferences\/2018\/ Schedule?showEvent=10945\" data-wplink-url-error=\"true\">4-8 Dec 2018<\/a><\/li>\n<li>\u201cTrackML, the Tracking Machine Learning challenge\u201d, David Rousseau, RAPID workshop, Dortmund, <a href=\"https:\/\/rapid2018.org\">19-21 Nov 2018<\/a>\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>\u201cTrackML, the Tracking Machine Learning challenge, and a bit more\u201d, David Rousseau, Advanced Statistics for Physics Discovery, Padova, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stat.unipd.it\/ advanced-statistics-physics-discovery-call-fo-poster\" data-wplink-url-error=\"true\">25-26th Sep 2018<\/a>\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>\u201cTracking machine learning challenge hackathon\u201d, David Rousseau, Connecting The Dots 2018, Seattle, <a href=\"https:\/\/cern.ch\/ctd2018\">20-22 mars 2018<\/a>\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>\u201cTracking machine learning challenge hackathon\u201d, David Rousseau, Connecting The Dots \/ Intelligent Tracker 2017, Orsay, <a href=\"https:\/\/ctdwit2017.lal.in2p3.fr\">6-9 mars 2017<\/a><\/li>\n<li>\u201cStatus of the tracking machine learning challenge\u201d, David Rousseau, Connecting The Dots 2016, Vienna, <a href=\"https:\/\/indico.hephy.oeaw.ac.at\/event\/86\/\">22-24 f\u00e9vrier 2016<\/a>\u00a0<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: inherit\">\u201cA HEP pattern recognition challenge on Kaggle ? Experience from the ATLAS Higgs Machine Learning challenge\u201d, David Rousseau, Connecting The Dots 2015, Berkeley, <a href=\"https:\/\/indico. physics.lbl.gov\/indico\/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=149\" data-wplink-url-error=\"true\">9-11 f\u00e9vrier 2015<\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0\u201cATLAS Machine Learning and Data Analytics challenges\u201d, CERN OpenLab Machine Learning and Data Analytics workshop, <a href=\"https:\/\/indico.cern.ch\/event\/514434\">29 April 2016<\/a>, CERN\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>\u201cData Science at LHC Workshop Highlights\u201d, Dirk Duellman and David Rousseau, \u201dMachine Learning for the LHC Distributed Data Placement and Track Finding\u201d, Moscou, <a href=\"https:\/\/indico.cern.ch\/event\/452159\">7-9 D\u00e9cembre 2015<\/a>\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>The Higgs Machine Learning Challenge\u201d, D. Rousseau, C. Adam- Bourdarios, G. Cowan, C. Germain, I. Guyon, et al., Higgs Machine Learning Challenge visits CERN, May 2015, Geneve, Suisse.<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: inherit\"><strong>\u201c<span style=\"font-size: 14pt\">Higgs boson physics : experimental results<\/span>\u201d,<\/strong> D. Rousseau, PANIC, Hambourg, Allemagne, 25-29 ao\u00fbt 2014<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: inherit\">\u201cSoftware\u201d in session Trigger\/DAQ\/Offline\/Computing\u201d of the \u201dECFA High Luminosity LHC Experiments Workshop\u201d Aix-les-bains, 1-3 octobre 2013<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: inherit\">\u201cHiggs Searches in ATLAS \u201d, D. Rousseau, High Energy Physics in the LHC era, Valparaiso, Chili, 4-10 janvier 2012. ATL-PHYS-SLIDE-2012-010.<\/span><\/li>\n<li>\u201cATLAS software challenges\u201d, D. Rousseau, Future computing in particle physics, e-Science Institute, Edinburgh, 15-17 juin 2011.<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: inherit\">\u201c<strong><span style=\"font-size: 14pt\">The ATLAS Liquid Argon Calorimeter : test beam, installation and commissioning<\/span><\/strong>\u201d, D. Rousseau, IEEE 2007 Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference, Hawaii, 27 oct-3 nov 2007.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: inherit\"><strong>\u201c<span style=\"font-size: 14pt\">LHC detector studies and early physics<\/span>\u201d,<\/strong> D. Rousseau, 2007 Aspen Winter Conference \u201dNew physics at the electroweak scale and new signals at hadron colliders\u201d, Aspen, 8-13 janvier 2007. ATL-SLIDE-2007-005<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: inherit\"><strong>\u201c<span style=\"font-size: 14pt\">ATLAS reconstruction software<\/span>\u201d<\/strong>, D. Rousseau, EPS-ICHEP 2003, Aachen, Germany 17-23 juillet 2003, Eur. Phys. J. C 33 (2004) S1038. ATL-COM-SOFT-2003-015.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: inherit\">&#8220;ATLAS B physics overview\u201d, D. Rousseau, Beauty 2000, Kibbutz Ma\u2019agan, Israel, 13-18 septembre 2000, Nucl. Instrum. Meth. A 462, 189 (2001).<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: inherit\"><strong>\u201c<span style=\"font-size: 14pt\">Heavy flavours decay at LEP\u201d<\/span><\/strong>, D. Rousseau, Moriond QCD and High Energy Interactions, Les Arcs, France, mars 1999, Editions Fronti\u00e8re<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: inherit\">\u201cCP violation with the ATLAS detector\u201d, D. Rousseau, International Conference on Hyperons, Charm and Beauty Hadrons, Genoa, Italie, Mai 1998,\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-size: inherit\">Nucl. Phys. Proc. Suppl. 75B, 351 (1999). ATL-CONF-99-001.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: inherit\">\u201cMeasurement of Vcb and form factors and branching fractions in the decays B0 \u2192 D\u2217+l\u2212\u03bdl and B0 \u2192 D+l\u2212\u03bdl\u201d, D. Rousseau,\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-size: inherit\">Frontiers in Contemporary Physics, Nashville, USA, 1997.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: inherit\">\u201cMeasurement of Vcb \u201d, D. Rousseau, Lake Louise Winter Institute on Quarks and Colliders, Lake Louise, Canada, F \u0301evrier 1995, actes: Edited by A. Astbury, B.A. Campbell, F.C. Khanna, J.L. Pinfold. Singapore, World Scientific, 1996, 542p.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<h2>Seminars<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>D.Rousseau &#8220;IA et Sciences Fondamentales&#8221;, Magist\u00e8re de Physique Universit\u00e9 Paris Saclay, Oct 2024<\/li>\n<li>D. Rousseau &#8220;Fair Universe 2024: HiggsML Uncertainty Challenge&#8221;, Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire des Sciences du Num\u00e9rique, Universit\u00e9 Paris-Saclay, Sep 2024<\/li>\n<li>D. Rousseau &#8220;IA et Sciences Fondamentales&#8221;, Cycle Sup\u00e9rieur du Num\u00e9rique organis\u00e9 par l\u2019Institut de la gestion publique et du d\u00e9veloppement \u00e9conomique, Minist\u00e8re de l&#8217;\u00e9conomie, \u00a0April 2023<\/li>\n<li>D. Rousseau &#8220;AI4HEP&#8221; journ\u00e9es DEDIP, CEA-Saclay, April 2022 ; Laboratoire de Physique du Solide, Orsay, Dec 2022<\/li>\n<li>D. Rousseau \u201dMachine Learning in HEP : GAN, TrackML and more\u201d, Oxford Physics Department 24th Oct 2019<\/li>\n<li>D. Rousseau \u201dThe TrackML HEP Tracking Machine Learning challenge\u201d, LRI-Orsay Feb 2018; CERN Mar 2018; \u00a0Heidelberg May 2018<\/li>\n<li>D. Rousseau, \u201dProgress in Machine Learning Tools for High Energy Physics\u201d, LAL-Orsay May 2016; CEA\/IRFU\/SPP-Saclay May 2016; \u00a0LPNHE-Paris Jun 2016; LPSC-Grenoble Oct 2016; LPC-Clermont Oct 2016; LAPP-Annecy Feb 2017; IHP-Strasbourg Oct 2017; \u00a0Uppsala (Sweden) Oct 2017; LLR-Palaiseau Nov 2017; JINR day Centre de Russie pour la Science et la Culture Paris Feb 2018; CEA\/DRF May 2018; LPNHE Paris, Nov 2020<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Summer schools<\/h2>\n<p>I&#8217;ve given many courses on the theme &#8220;Machine Learning and Particle Physics&#8221; in various &#8220;summer&#8221; \/ undergrad \/ grad schools, adapted to the audience, settings (on-site\/video\/hybrid) and duration (1 to 6 hours):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>CHACAL Computing in Hep and Applications CNRS-Africa Lectures, University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa, <a href=\"https:\/\/indico.cern.ch\/event\/1306120\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">15-27 Jan 2024<\/a><\/li>\n<li>AISSAI Onboarding school, 1 October 2023<\/li>\n<li>ICFA School of Instrumentation, TIFR Mumbai, India, <a href=\"https:\/\/indico.tifr.res.in\/indico\/conferenceTimeTable.py?confId=8491#all\">12-25 Feb 2023<\/a><\/li>\n<li>CNRS\/IN2P3 School of Statistics, \u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/indico.in2p3.fr\/event\/20220\/\">(online) 18-29 Jan 2021 , <\/a>Carry-le-Rouet <a href=\"https:\/\/indico.in2p3.fr\/event\/26179\/\">16-20 May 2022, <\/a>Carry-le-Rouet <a href=\"https:\/\/indico.in2p3.fr\/event\/31917\">13-17 May 2024<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Post Graduate workshop, University Johannesburg (online) \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.uj.ac.za\/newandevents\/Pages\/pg-workshop.aspx\">Dec 2020<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Rencontres d\u2019\u00e9t\u00e9 de physique de l\u2019infiniment petit \u00e0 l\u2019infiniment grand \u00e0 Orsay-Palaiseau-Paris-Saclay <a href=\"https:\/\/indico.in2p3. fr\/event\/8995\/\" data-wplink-url-error=\"true\">16-27 juillet 2018<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/indico.in2p3.fr\/event\/17837\/\">15-26 juillet 2019<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/indico.in2p3.fr\/event\/19608\/\">11-22 juillet 2022<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.in2p3.cnrs.fr\/fr\/evenement\/onzieme-rencontres-dete-de-physique-de-linfiniment-petit\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">10-20 juillet 2023<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Ecole de Gif <a href=\"https:\/\/indico.in2p3.fr\/event\/18822\/\">2-6 septembre 2019<\/a>\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>3rd Winter School in HEP (WISHEPP), AN-Najah University, Naplouse, Palestine, <a href=\"http:\/\/wishepp2018.lal.in2p3.fr\">10-16th November 2018<\/a>, 4th Winter School in HEP (WISHEPP), An-Najah University, Naplouse, Palestine, <a href=\"http:\/\/wishepp2019.lal.in2p3.fr\/\">9-15th November 2019<\/a><\/li>\n<li>LIP PhD Students Workshop, Coimbra, Portugal, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lip.pt\/events\/2017\/students_workshop_coimbra\/\">25 mars 2017<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>If possible given the format of the school, \u00a0I also run a tutorial on the basics of training and evaluating a Boosted Decision Tree or Neural Network classifier on a typical HEP dataset (4-vectors from Higgs to WW events from ATLAS Open Data). The tutorial is on <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/dhrou\/HEPMLtutorials\">github<\/a> (developed with Aishik Ghosh and J\u00e9r\u00e9my Couthures) and can readily be run on Google Colab, and also with minor mods run on one&#8217;s laptop with anaconda installation; I however do not recommend its use standalone as it requires background information (on ML, HEP and Higgs physics).<\/p>\n<p>A bit off-topic : at the beginning of ATLAS, many students and experienced physicists as well need to be trained to use the ATLAS framework Athena, Event Data Model and algorithms. I&#8217;ve given many tutorials to that respect.<\/p>\n<p>I also gave a course on &#8220;Physics at the LHC&#8221; at the VIII Mexican School for Particle Physics and Fields, Oaxaca, Mexico, Nov 1998 (AIP Conference Proceedings 490)<\/p>\n<h2>Teaching<\/h2>\n<p>With Jean-Christophe Hamilton (CNRS APC) and \u00a0Guillaume Mention (CEA) I give a course since 2019 on &#8220;Statistics and Machine Learning for Cosmology and Particle Physics&#8221; to first year (pre-master)\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.centralesupelec.fr\">CentraleSupelec<\/a> (Universit\u00e9 Paris-Saclay) students. About 120 students who have chosen the Physics and NanoTechnology (PNT) theme. I teach the Machine Learning part (16 hours). In addition to courses and tutorials, we have \u00a0one week full-time &#8220;Enseignement d&#8217;Int\u00e9gration&#8221; where students in &#8220;Collaboration&#8221; of 25 (5 teams of 5) have to build a complete ML analysis pipeline of an LHC dataset.<\/p>\n<h2>In addition<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;stages d&#8217;observation de 3\u00e8me&#8221; at IJCLab, one week<\/li>\n<li>projet recherche \u00a0double licence Math Physique Orsay (1\/2 day per week for 2 months) in 2020, 2021, 2023<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Conferences Excluding national events, internal ATLAS collaboration events, \u00a0and presentations from co-authors. Most important ones are highlighted. &#8220;AI for Particle Physics&#8221;, David Rousseau, AI4X Conference, Singapore, July 2025 &#8220;Fair Universe 2024: HiggsML Uncertainty Challenge&#8220; David Rousseau et al. EUCaifCon, Amsterdam,\u00a0May 2024 &#8220;Fair Universe 2024: HiggsML Uncertainty Challenge&#8221; David Rousseau et al. 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