Kolloquium WiSe 2020/21

Speaker

Jun.-Prof. Dr. Gregor Kasieczka

University of Hamburg
Institute of Experimental Physics / Institut für Experimentalphysik

When: Mo, 11.01.2021, at 17:15

Online-Zoom-Meeting

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Topic

Deep Learning the hidden life of elementary particles

Language: english

Abstract

Studying the elementary constituents of matter in modern particle physics experiments such as the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN produces unprecedented amounts of scientific data. At the same time, powerful simulations of fundamental processes and their interactions with detectors are needed to allow the design of sophisticated analyses. Deep learning consequently plays an increasingly important role in all stages of particle physics research: from real-time decision making on FPGAs, over reconstruction, object classification, and simulation. After introducing the scientific environment, I will highlight some recent developments of potentially wider interest, focusing on challenges in detecting anomalies and outliers, uses of generative models and their statistics, and applications for automatic decorrelation of features.

Bio

Diploma in Physics at TU Wien (2009), PhD from Universität Heidelberg (2013) and Postdoc at ETH Zurich (2013-2017). Since 2018 Emmy-Noether group leader ("Searching for displaced signals of naturalness") at Universität Hamburg and currently junior professor for machine learning in particle physics. Research is focused on searching for new particles with the CMS experiment at the CERN LHC and finding creative applications of machine learning to particle physics problems.

Contact

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Timo Gerkmann, Prof. Dr. Frank Steinicke