Physics Colloquium

Feb.8 2018 4:10

1415 BPS

 

Harrison Prosper

Florida State

 

 

Title: The Automated Physicist
subtitle: Experimental Particle Physics in the Age of AI

 

Abstract: After a broad brush review of the history of machine learning (ML), 

followed by a brief introduction to the state-of-the-art, I discuss the 

goals of researchers at the Large Hadron Collider 

and how machine learning is being used to help reach those goals. 

Inspired by recent breakthroughs in artificial intelligence (AI), such as 

Google's AlphaGoZero, I end with speculative ideas about how the 

exponentially improving ML/AI technology may, or may not, be helpful in 

particle physics research over the next few decades.

 

 

Lerena R. Heintzelman

Department of Physics & Astronomy

Michigan State University

567 Wilson Rd. Room 3261

East Lansing, MI 48824

517-884-5513