Physics

Email Communication With Academics On PhD Openings

As I am waiting in Prague airport for my flight back home, after a few days spent discussing the options of the SWGO collaboration for the detectors we are going to build, I came across (through compulsive scrolling on twitter) a thread that caught my atte ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Oct 4 2023 - 10:03am

Two Educational Activities

The occasional reader of this blog will excuse me if yet again I do not report here of this or that new result by the LHC collaboration, and instead discuss matters of lesser relevance. But to me, education is important. Even if I am not a University profe ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Oct 26 2023 - 4:16am

The Proton, A Bag Of Garbage

Since most of the building blocks of our own body are protons, the above title might disturb sensitive readers. On the other hand, describing a proton as a bag of garbage has several merits, as it is a fruitful analogy that may be carried forward when we w ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Oct 31 2023 - 11:32am

One Year Internship In Padova For Master Graduates In Sciences

Did you recently finish a Master in a scientific discipline, and wish to do some research before deciding whether to embark in a Ph.D.? Do you fancy coming to Padova and work with me and a team of physicists, computer scientists, and astrophysicists on det ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Nov 13 2023 - 6:59am

Five Exciting Projects- No, Six

A number of Master courses in the STEM area mandate students to find a research project abroad to which they participate for 3-6 months. Many of the students find projects that arise their interest through internet searches- at least this is the way I got ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Dec 7 2023 - 9:54am

A Pattern Recognition Problem

Next month I will be giving three lectures to high-school students on using artificial intelligence for research in fundamental physics, and as usual I am not yet worried by the schedule enough to start thinking at the presentations. Except that in one cas ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Dec 28 2023 - 7:46am

A Year In Review

2023 is over and I am looking back at my achievements and failures, to take stock and try to learn something from the matter. This blog looks like a reasonably good place for such an exercise, so I am writing here an inventory of what happened to me in the ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Dec 31 2023 - 9:10am

Our Questionable Assumptions

Kalen Craig was a physical science technician, employed for 30 years at the Naval Research Laboratory in Washington D.C. He worked mostly on wave propagation, and radio and radar astronomy projects.  * * * These are some of the concepts that astrophysicis ...

Blog Post - Bruce Leeeowe - Jan 11 2024 - 2:10pm

Thermodynamic Parameters Can Influence The Outcome Of An Experiment

When you are making a model it is common to make assumptions about the physical systems often assume that measurable features of the system. Temperature or chemical potential can be specified. The real world is messier than that, and uncertainty is unavoid ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 15 2024 - 5:48pm

Comparing Student Reactions To Lectures In Artificial Intelligence And Physics

In the past two weeks I visited two schools in Veneto to engage students with the topic of Artificial Intelligence, which is something everybody seems to be happy to hear about these days: on the 10th of January I visited a school in Vicenza, and on the 17 ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Jan 21 2024 - 11:19am