Physics

Artificial Intelligence or Artificial Expectations?

News concerning Artificial Intelligence (AI)  abounds again. The progress with Deep Learning techniques are quite remarkable with such demonstrations of self-driving cars, Watson on Jeopardy, and beating human Go players. This rate of progress has led s o ...

Blog Post - David LePoire - Feb 24 2017 - 4:46pm

Decision Trees, Explained To Kids

Decision trees are one of the many players in the booming field of supervised machine learning. They can be used to classify elements into two or more classes, depending on their characteristics. Their interest in particle physics applications is large, as ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Mar 4 2017 - 10:11am

Censorship at the arXiv: endorsements, and even publication won’t matter.

T he arXiv.org (said as archive) is one of the oldest websites on the internet and serves as a curated collection of scholarly preprints submitted by recognized scientist.  I even have a paper there on massive star formation (arXiv:1311.3983).  I tried to ...

Blog Post - Hontas Farmer - Mar 6 2017 - 5:33am

The Formidable Neutrino

Elementary particles are mysterious and unfathomable, and it takes giant accelerators and incredibly complex devices to study them. In the last 100 years we have made great strides in the investigations of the properties of quarks, leptons, and vector boso ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Mar 13 2017 - 6:36am

Posts On Neutrino Experiments, Day 1

The first day of the Neutrino Telescopes XVII conference in Venice is over, and I would like to point you to some short summaries that I published for the conference blog, at http://neutel11.wordpress.com.  Specifically:- a summary of the talk on Super-Kam ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Mar 13 2017 - 12:29pm

Neutrino Telescopes, Day 2

This is to mention several interesting articles summarizing the presentations given today at the Neutrino Telescopes conference in Venice:-  Gravitational Waves: a New Era in Astrophysics Has Begun- A Neutrino Platform- Overview of the DUNE Experiment- Pos ...

Blog Post - Tommaso Dorigo - Mar 14 2017 - 1:10pm

Five New Charmed Baryons Discovered By LHCb!

While I was busy reporting the talks at the "Neutrino Telescope"  conference in Venice, LHCb released a startling new result, which I have not much time to describe in much detail this evening (it's Friday evening here in Italy and I'm ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Mar 17 2017 - 3:09pm

Neutrinos: The Status, Circa 2017

The XVII edition of the “Neutrino Telescopes” conference closed its works yesterday after a lively debate on the future of the neutrino physics program in Europe. ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Mar 18 2017 - 6:21am

Winter 2017 LHC Results: The Higgs Is Still There, But...

Snow is melting in the Alps, and particle physicists, who have flocked to La Thuile for exciting ski conferences in the past weeks, are now back to their usual occupations. The pressure of the deadline is over: results have been finalized and approved, pre ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Apr 4 2017 - 12:33pm

On Neutrino CP-Violation Idea

On Neutrino CP-Violation Idea Primarysuggestive qualitative ideas are especially important in basic frontierphysics. As examples, Einstein’s thought experiment on space-time connection inspecial relativity, equivalence principle in General relativity and ...

Blog Post - Emmanuel Lipmanov - Apr 8 2017 - 1:25pm