DarkMachines Monthly Meeting

Tuesday 4 Dec 2018, 14:00 → 15:30 Europe/Zurich

5/R-026 (CERN)

5/R-026

CERN

The meeting is Video only, the room is for people at CERN.

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Description

This is the monthly meeting of the darkmachines initative. We discuss applications of Machine Learning to the search of New Physics and Dark Matter.

- 14:00 → 14:30
  
  Looking for New Physics in the Trigger system of an LHC experiment 30m
  
  We will discuss how Variational Autoencoders could be used to look for new physics
  in the trigger system of an LHC experiment, before the majority of the
  events is discarded forever and how Deep Learning could generically
  help to improve the decision of which event to keep for further studies.
  
  Speaker: Maurizio Pierini (CERN)
  
  Pierini.pdf
- 14:30 → 15:00
  
  SkyFACT: How to marry image reconstruction with template regression without causing collateral damage 30m
  
  The modeling and analysis of gamma-ray data is affected by imperfect knowledge about diffuse
  and discrete emission components. I will discuss our tool SkyFACT (Sky Factorization with
  Adaptive Constrained Templates), which allows us to account for millions of nuisance parameters in a
  way akin to image reconstruction, and discuss some physics results and possible applications
  to dark matter searches.
  
  Speaker: Christoph Weniger (University of Amsterdam)
  
  ML4DM.pdf