The Scientific Program of ACP2021

Session

Physics Plenary (5)

10 Mar 2022, 10:00

Virtual Event

Conveners

Physics Plenary (5): Nuclear Physics, Particle Physics, Machine Learning & Artificial Intelligence

• Clara Nellist (Radboud University Nijmegen and NIKHEF (NL))

60. Nuclear Physics in Africa – Education, Research and Challenges

Iyabo Usam (University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa)

10/03/2022, 10:00

Invited Talk

African development depends on its array of technological advancement and human-capital resources. Nuclear physics has proven to be part of the essential area that has contributed to the ongoing industrialization from the inception of Manhattan project. Meanwhile, African countries are still in the crawling stage despite the abundance of intellectual capacities and abundance resources. The...

61. On Particle Physics, ASFAP and Education in Africa: Status and Challenges

Mohamed Chabab (Cadi Ayyad University (MA))

10/03/2022, 10:30

Invited Talk

In this this talk, I will give an overview of the particle physics community in Africa with a focus on some research groups actively involved in the LHC experiments.

It will also highlight the recent activities of the working group dedicated to this particle physics through ASFAP strategy whose aim is to provide a shared roadmap for the field. Finally, I will briefly discuss the impact of...

186. Introduction to Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence

Mitchell Phiri (University of Johannesburg, South Africa)

10/03/2022, 11:00

Invited Talk

As the amount of data collected from systems in operation increases, the need to effectively analyse this data to gain knowledge about the state of the system increases alike. Leveraging data-driven methods for this analysis allows us to process massive amounts of data more efficiently, as well as gain insights about our systems which we may otherwise have overlooked or not known of their...