Physics

... if you are a researcher in physics or astrophysics and you are working with machine learning, that is. Between September 23 and 25- just when summer is over- we will meet in Valencia, Spain, to discuss the latest developments in deep learning applicati ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Jun 2 2024 - 10:23am

Acknowledging Giorgio's Mentoring Superpowers

Yesterday I gladly attended a symposium in honor of Giorgio Bellettini, who just turned 90. The italian physicist, who had a very big impact in particle physics in his long and illustrious career, is still very active-e.g. he makes all the hard questions a ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Jun 5 2024 - 4:44am

Opposer At A PhD Defense

Yesterday I was in Oslo, where I was invited tro serve as the leading opposer in the Ph.D. defense of a student of Alex Read, who is a particle physicist and a member of the ATLAS collaboration. Although I have served in similar committees several times in ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Jun 21 2024 - 11:47am

Your Portable Radiation Spectrometer- The Wondrous Radiacode 103

A few days ago I put my hands on a RadiaCode 103, a pocket radiation counter, dosimeter, and spectrometer that has recently appeared on the market. The company that produces it, RadiaCode, is located in Cyprus (see https://radiacode.com). The instrument is ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Jul 4 2024 - 7:29am

Some Additional Tests Of The RadiaCode

In the previous post I have described some of the main functionalities of the RadiaCode 103 radiation spectrometer, which the company graciously made available for my tests. Here I want to discuss some additional tests I have done, using radioactive sample ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Jul 11 2024 - 3:09am

News Of The Demise Of The Standard Model Were Exaggerated

Each man kills the thing he loves, sang Jeanne Moreau in a beautiful song some thirty years ago. But the sentence is actually a quote from Oscar Wilde- aren't all smart quotes from that amazing writer? Anyway, in some way this rather startling concept ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Jul 24 2024 - 11:47am

Conferences And Concerts

I remember having been flamed, a long time ago, when in this column I ventured to claim that there was an inflation of physics conferences and workshops around, which to me looked both counter-productive (if there are too many such events, they become a di ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Jul 28 2024 - 7:41am

Antimatter Over Eurasia

Last week I traveled from Venice to Tokyo through Zurich, and during the flights I could do some more tests of the RadiaCode 103- the nice spectrometer for gamma radiation I have been playing with as of late (for a couple of earlier posts and tests see her ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Aug 8 2024 - 5:53am

Proposal: Call Skoton The Dark Photon

I am presently in Cairns, sitting in a parallel session of the "Quark Confinement and the Hadron Spectrum" conference, where I am convening a session on Statistical Methods for Physics Analysis in the XXI Century, giving a talk on the optimizatio ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Aug 19 2024 - 11:54am

Has Quark-Gluon Plasma Been Observed Yet?

I will start this brief post with a disclaimer- I am not a nuclear physicist (rather, I am a lesser being, a sub-nuclear physicist). Jokes aside, my understanding and knowledge of the dynamics of high-energy nucleus-nucleus collisions and the phases of mat ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Sep 5 2024 - 8:55am