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 Department of Physics Colloquium:

 

Modern Machine Learning and the Large Hadron Collider

 

Matthew Schwartz

Harvard University

 

Host: Amin Abou Ibrahim

 

 

Thursday, February 1, 2018

114 Dana Research Center

4:00 p.m.

 

Particle physics involves an intense data science challenge: signals of interest, like for the Higgs boson are often buried in backgrounds trillions of times as large. Over the last decade or so, there has been a revolution in machine learning, and over  the last year or two, the revolution has started to influence collider physics. For example, image recognition technology based on convolutional neural networks can be used to find patterns in the distribution of energy around a detector. Or recurrent neural networks designed for natural language processing can be applied to parse the substructure of jets. This talk will review some of these developments and discuss some exciting possibilities for the future.

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