Physics

Toward A Solution Of The DAMA-Libra Dark Matter Puzzle

What is dark matter (DM)? This is one of the most pressing questions in fundamental science nowadays. We have observed that only one fifth of the matter that exists in the Universe clusters into stars and emits light- the rest appears to only interact grav ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Mar 13 2019 - 2:52am

Quantum Chess!

Update: a reader points out that a similar idea was already proposed and implemented in a commercial program. I'm glad to know this! (I would certainly not try to push my own implementation against a commercial product). I was however disappointed to ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Mar 22 2019 - 3:55am

Machine Learning In Braga

Last Monday and Tuesday I gave a few lectures on Machine Learning at a Data Science school (IDPASC) in Braga, Portugal. I think that this topic has received so much attention in the last few years, with heaps of excellent resources now freely available onl ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Mar 28 2019 - 9:58am

The Plot Of The Week- ATLAS Dilepton Resonance Search

For the tenth anniversary of this blog being hosted by Science 2.0, which is coming in a few days, I decided to reinstall the habit I once had of weekly picking and commenting on a result from high-energy physics research, a series I called "The Plot ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Apr 5 2019 - 8:51am

Accelerating The Search For Dark Matter With Machine Learning

Yes, this is supposedly a particle physics blog, not a machine learning one- and yet, I have been finding myself blogging a lot more about machine learning than particle physics as of late. Why is that?  Well, of course the topic of algorithms that may dra ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Apr 7 2019 - 8:14am

The Plot Of The Week- Multiple Pentaquark Candidates

It is a bit embarrassing to post here a graph of boring elementary particle signals, when the rest of the blogosphere is buzzing after the release of the first real black hole image from the Event Horizon collaboration. So okay, before going into pentaquar ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Apr 12 2019 - 8:43am

Six Questions On AMVA4NewPhysics

The European Commission pays close attention to document the work of the projects that benefited of its funding. With that intent, the AMVA4NewPhysics network has been described, along with its goals, in a 2016 article on the Horizon magazine. ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Apr 15 2019 - 6:18am

Presenting A Hypothesis Of Everything, And Finding Out A Giant Had A Similar Idea At The Same Time Is Great.

A hypothesis of everything, that is not what I first thought it would be, is what I will present tomorrow at the April 2019 APS conference. Q uantum Gravity, finding a way to make general relativity into a quantum theory of some kind, has been the driving ...

Blog Post - Hontas Farmer - Apr 15 2019 - 10:46pm

Replacing Theoretical Physicists With Computer Code? A Slice Of APS April 2019.

T heoretical physicist have no more than five good unique insights in a lifetime. Then spend years chasing down the implications of those insights. May computers at least help with if not supplant us in this effort? Maybe, maybe not. I Went to talk, did a ...

Blog Post - Hontas Farmer - Apr 17 2019 - 11:28am

Another Slice of APS April 2019, Knowing Theories Of Others.

A simple slice of life as an academic.  No chair was assigned for the session Z13 in which my theoretical research was presented along with great work in varying fields but with related themes.  Waves, and/or fluids connected all that was discussed.  The ...

Blog Post - Hontas Farmer - Apr 19 2019 - 10:18pm