The talk will start by summarising the status of large galaxy surveys and “tensions" in the standard cosmological Lambda-Cold-Dark-Matter model. We will then describe the important role of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning in analysing the next generation of surveys of billions of objects, and the training of the next generation of physicists for the big data challenges.
Friday, 30 October 2020, ore 14:30 — Webex seminar
Precision measurements are an integral part of particle physics. They are essential for determining free parameters of the Standard Model (SM), and also for searching for signals of new physics beyond the SM. Apart from collider results from LEP, Tevatron, and the LHC, the increasing role is being played by precision measurements performed at much lower energies, well below the weak scale. In this talk I will review the place of nuclear beta transitions in this program. Thanks to the improving accuracy of experiment, theory, and lattice calculations, the precision level of beta transitions is reaching order 10^-4 in some cases. In particular, the so-called superallowed beta transitions give currently the most precise determination of the Vud parameter in the CKM matrix. I will describe the wide spectrum of current and planned experiments, and how they improve our understanding of the SM and non-SM physics. Finally, I will discuss the role of the so-called mirror beta transitions in this precision program.
Friday, 16 October 2020, ore 14:30 — Webex seminar