Events at Physics |
Events on Friday, February 28th, 2025
- Black and Brown in Physics
- BBiP Black History Heritage Month Event
- Time: 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm
- Place: Sterling B343
- Abstract: The Black and Brown in Physics (BBiP) student organization would like to invite you to our upcoming Black History Month Heritage Event next Friday (2/28) at 1PM in Sterling B343. We will have 2 featured student speakers who will share their experiences navigating physics and the world around them. We will also be catering soul food for lunch from Marie's Soul Food while supplies last! We hope that you will join us in celebrating the voices and experiences of the black community in our department!
- Host: Black and Brown in Physics
- Physics Department Colloquium
- Centaur Science: Particle Physics meets Machine Learning
- Time: 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm
- Place: Chamberlin 2241
- Speaker: Jesse Thaler, MIT
- Abstract: 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 knowledge that we already have about many problems in the field, as well as the daunting deluge of data coming from flagship experiments like the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). In this colloquium, I will explain how one can teach a machine to "think like a physicist" by embedding theoretical principles into advanced machine learning architectures. At the same time, I will advocate that physicists must learn how to "think like a machine" to maximize the physics reach of the LHC. These joint developments are leading to a new kind of "centaur science" that, analogously to the mythical centaur, draws half from particle physics and half from machine learning.
- Host: Gary Shiu
