Abstract: The Belle experiment in Japan began taking data in the late 1990’s and went on to record the world’s largest sample of B-anti-B meson pairs produced in a quantum correlated state. This initial state allowed Belle, and the BaBar …
ABSTRACT: I will discuss the event generator GENEVA, which for the first time combines fixed order and resummed perturbative calculations with parton showering and hadronization. I will explain the basic physics concepts underlying GENEVA, and show how they can be …
Christian Bauer (LBNL) "GENEVA: Combining perturbative calculations with parton showers" Read More »
Abstract: Recent measurements of the Hubble Constant (H_0) through distance ladder techniques have revealed a noticeable tension with the Planck H_0 value that was obtained under the assumption of the cosmological "standard model", i.e., a flat Lambda cold dark matter …
Chris Fassnacht (UC Davis) "Cosmological parameters from strong gravitational lenses" Read More »
Abstract: Many fundamental properties of neural networks are still not well understood. This talk studies two of these from an adversarial perspective. I begin with my main line of research and examine the apparently-fundamental susceptibility of neural networks to adversarial …
Nicholas Carlini (UCB) "Adversarial Machine Learning" Read More »
ABSTRACT: Weak-scale Supersymmetry can help to resolve several puzzles presented by the Standard Model, including the nature of dark matter and the naturalness of the Higgs mass, and has motivated a robust search program at the Large Hadron Collider. Searches …
Michael Hance (UCSC) "Searching for Compressed SUSY at the Energy Frontier" Read More »