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Mar
31
2023

Colloquium: Jesse Thaler: "Particle Physics through the Lens of Machine Learning"

When: Friday, March 31, 2023
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM CT

Where: Technological Institute, L211, 2145 Sheridan Road, Evanston, IL 60208 map it

Audience: Faculty/Staff - Student - Post Docs/Docs - Graduate Students

Contact: Joan West  

Group: Physics and Astronomy Colloquia

Category: Academic

Description:

Modern machine learning has had an outsized impact on many scientific fields, and particle physics is no exception.  What is special about particle physics, though, is the vast amount of theoretical and experimental knowledge that we already have about many problems in the field.  In this talk, I argue that we should fuse the revolutionary advances of "deep learning" with the time-tested strategies of "deep thinking" in physics.  To highlight this point, I show how machine learning applied to public data from the Large Hadron Collider has enabled new probes of quantum chromodynamics.

Host: Ian Low

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