Optimization In Valencia
Last week I was in Valencia, to attend the fourth MODE Workshop on Differentiable Programming for Experiment Design. It was a great meeting, with 80 participants eager to discuss their latest results in application of complex deep neural network models... Continue reading
A New Gamma Ray Observatory In Northern Chile
The SWGO Collaboration (SWGO stands for Southern Wide-Field Gamma Observatory) met this week in Heidelberg, hosted by the Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics (MPIK) to discuss progress in the many activities that its members are carrying forward t... Continue reading
La ricerca astrofisica italiana nel mondo
Con il consenso dell'autrice, Patrizia Caraveo, vi riproponiamo questo commento pubblicato sul Sole 24 Ore sullo stato della ricerca astrofisica del nostro paese nel panorama mondiale. Dai grandi progetti che vedono l’Italia protagonista agli eventi internazionali che si appresta a ospitare, è un momento d’oro. Saremo in grado di tenere il passo? Continue reading
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 o... Continue reading
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 optimization of t... Continue reading
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 se... Continue reading
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 ... Continue reading
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 ... Continue reading
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