From April 30 to May 3 more than 300 researchers in fundamental physics will gather in Amsterdam for the first edition of the EUCAIF conference , an initiative supported by the APPEC, NuPecc and ...
https://www.science20.com/tommaso_dorigo/shaping_the_future_of_ai_for_fundamental_physics-257054
In a world where we live hostages of advertisement, where our email addresses and phone numbers are sold and bought by companies eager to intrude in our lives and command our actions, preferences...
https://www.science20.com/tommaso_dorigo/on_rating_universities-257040
Peter Higgs passed away yesterday, at the age of 94. The scottish physicist, a winner of the 2013 Nobel Prize in Physics together with Francois Englert, hypothesized in 1964 the existence of the ...
https://www.science20.com/tommaso_dorigo/goodbye_peter_higgs_and_thanks_for_the_boson-257024
In the course of Statistics for Data Analysis I give every spring to PhD students in Physics I spend some time discussing the apparently trivial problem of evaluating the significance of an exces...
About a month ago I was contacted by a colleague who invited me to write a piece on the topic of science outreach for an electronic journal (Ithaca ). I was happy to accept, but when I later pond...
At a recent meeting of the board of editors of a journal I am an editor of, it was decided to produce a special issue (to commemorate an important anniversary). As I liked the idea I got carried ...
https://www.science20.com/tommaso_dorigo/on_the_utility_function_of_future_experiments-256991
Muon tomography is one of the most important spinoffs of fundamental research with particle detectors -if not the most important. read more
I recently held an accelerated course in "Statistical data analysis for fundamental science" for the Instats site. Within only 15 hours of online lectures (albeit these are full 1-hour blocks, un...
https://www.science20.com/tommaso_dorigo/on_overfitting_in_statistics_and_in_machine_learning-256964
A calorimeter in physics is something that measures heat. However, there are mainly two categories of such objects: ones that measure macroscopic amounts of heat, and ones that measure the heat r...
https://www.science20.com/tommaso_dorigo/an_idea_for_future_calorimetry-256956
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...
From tomorrow onwards (once or twice a week until February 5), I will be giving an online course on the topic of "STATISTICAL METHODS FOR FUNDAMENTAL SCIENCE" for the INSTATS organization . This ...
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...
https://www.science20.com/tommaso_dorigo/a_year_in_review-256904
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...
https://www.science20.com/tommaso_dorigo/a_pattern_recognition_problem-256892
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 intere...
https://www.science20.com/tommaso_dorigo/five_exciting_projects_no_six-256873
In recent times, artificial intelligence has become ubiquitous. Besides powering our cellphones, directing what advertisements we get when we browse internet or read our emails, and creating cont...
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 o...
The 8th Congress of the USERN Organization took place during the past three days (November 8-10, 2023) at the RAU University in Yerevan, Armenia, and it was a complete success, which has left m...
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 i...
https://www.science20.com/tommaso_dorigo/the_proton_a_bag_of_garbage-256835
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...
https://www.science20.com/tommaso_dorigo/two_educational_activities-256822
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 ...
https://www.science20.com/tommaso_dorigo/email_communication_with_academics_on_phd_openings-256807
Last week I received in my mailbox a copy of the Princeton University Press book "Machine Learning for Physics and Astronomy" by Viviana Acquaviva. They sent me a copy because I had reviewed its ...
Having spent the past 12 months coding up an end-to-end model of an astrophysics experiment, with the sole aim of searching for an optimal solution for its design by use of stochastic gradient de...
https://www.science20.com/tommaso_dorigo/mesmerizing_shapes_symmetries_according_to_an_ai-256793
These days I am in Paris, for a short vacation - for once, I am following my wife in a work trip; she performs at the grand Halle at la Villette (she is a soprano singer), and I exploit the occas...
https://www.science20.com/tommaso_dorigo/the_monte_carlo_method-256785
The Indian Center for Theoretical Sciences is located in a rural area a few kilometers north of Bangalore, in southern India. Bangalore is a mid-sized city that saw a very big expansion in the pa...
https://www.science20.com/tommaso_dorigo/a_visit_to_icts-256764
I recently read a book by Martin Rees, "On the future". I found it an agile small book packed full with wisdom and interesting considerations on what's in the plate for humanity in the coming dec...
https://www.science20.com/tommaso_dorigo/on_the_multiverse-256752
What is multithreading? It is the use of multiple processors to perform tasks in parallel by a single computer program. I have known this simple fact for over thirty years, but funnily enough I n...
https://www.science20.com/tommaso_dorigo/multithreading_for_dummies-256741
Wait a minute - why is an article about automatic differentiation labeled under the "Physics" category? Well, I will explain that in a minute. First of all, let me explain what automatic differen...
https://www.science20.com/tommaso_dorigo/automatic_differentiation_derivgrind-256735
Although researchers in fundamental science have a tendency to "stick to what works" and avoid disruptive innovations until they are shown to be well-tested and robust, the recent advances in com...
https://www.science20.com/tommaso_dorigo/mode_workshop_in_princeton-256715
Summer is supposedly a period where people take it a tad easier, spend some vacation time away from anything that is work-related, and "tune out" of the deadlines and rythms of daily work activit...
One of the things that keeps me busy these days is the organization of a collective publication by a number of experts in artificial intelligence and top researchers in all areas of scientific in...