Speaker: Prof. Ken Bloom, University of Nebraska - Lincoln
Abstract: Particle colliders allow us to explore the smallest possible distance scales and learn essential truths about the origin and fate of the universe. The Large Hadron Collider, the premier collider of our time, has changed our understanding of particle physics, and set up an exciting future program at the High-Luminosity LHC and at more advanced colliders in the decades ahead. However, experiments at such colliders present many challenges, both in their operations and in the subsequent analysis of the large volumes of complex data that they produce. I’ll discuss the physics program that we will carry out, and how machine learning and artificial intelligence will help us address some of the challenges.