Presentation
In the last decade it has become clear that the single most important obstacle to investigating the smallest constituents of the Universe -- the elementary particles and their interactions -- lies in combining the extreme wealth of experimental results that we have with increasingly complex theoretical models, meaning models with many parameters. For example, our current best description of the microcosm, the Standard Model of particle physics, has 19 free parameters to be fitted to half a century or so of precision measurements from experiments involving thousands of researchers.
In 2012, together with collaborators from all over the world, we started a project called GAMBIT (a Global And Modular Bsm Inference Tool) to make an efficient and statistically consistent computational tool for evaluating any new (particle physics) model. In this talk, we will describe some of the computational challenges we face when searching for new physics and how we have tackled them. Along the way we have encountered surprising new uses for our tool, ranging from nuclear physics to public health.
Program
11:45 – Doors open and lunch is served
12:00 – "Mapping the microcosm - Searching for new laws of physics with fast computational methods" by Are Raklev (Professor, Department of Physics, and member of GAMBIT) and Anders Kvellestad (Postdoctoral Fellow, Theoretical Physics, and leader of GAMBIT)
13:00 – Mingling (and goodbye)
To participate, please fill out the registration form. This way, we will not be short on food and drinks! (Registration is not binding and you are welcome to join us anyway!)
About the seminar series
Once a month, dScience will invite you to join us for lunch, soft drinks and professional talks at the Science Library. In addition to these, we will serve lunch to PhD candidates in our lounge in Kristine Bonnevies hus every Thursday. Due to limited space (40 people), this will be first come, first served. See how to find us here (download).
Our lounge can also be booked by PhDs and Postdocs on a regular basis, whether it is for a meeting or just to hang out – we have fresh coffee all day long! Read more about the series and the upcoming program here.