Physics

A W, A Z, And A Top Quark

The world of elementary particles has something in common with our own: there are large inequalities in the properties of particles, as in the properties of human beings. The heaviest particle, the top quark, with its estimated mass of 172 GeV is five orde ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Jun 3 2023 - 1:58am

Last Day To Apply To PhD In Physics In Padova

The University of Padova has extended until tomorrow, June 8 at 1PM CEST the deadline to submit applications to be enrolled in a Ph.D. course in Physics at the University of Padova.  Below I summarize a previous post that describes the opportunity.  ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Jun 7 2023 - 7:09am

Are You A Theorist Or An Experimentalist?

A colloquium with a former thesis intern yesterday brought me to ponder again over the important question of determining whether a student should choose an experimental or rather a theoretical curriculum of studies. It is a problem that arises at a variabl ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Jun 23 2023 - 3:23am

Understanding The Great Discovery of A Universal Gravitational Wave Background by the Interational Pulsar Timing Array Collaboration.

W hat are gravitational waves? What are Pulsars and what does it mean to time a pulsar? How does this relate to past and future observations of gravitational waves? These are all fundamental questions to ask and this article seeks to answer them in simple ...

Blog Post - Hontas Farmer - Jun 29 2023 - 11:49am

Summer = Work

Summer is supposedly a period where people take it a tad easier, spend some vacation time away from anything that is work-related, and "tune out" of the deadlines and rythms of daily work activities that dominate their existence at other times of ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Jul 21 2023 - 7:02am

MODE Workshop In Princeton

Although researchers in fundamental science have a tendency to "stick to what works" and avoid disruptive innovations until they are shown to be well-tested and robust, the recent advances in computer science leading to the diffusion of deep neur ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Jul 25 2023 - 3:08pm

Automatic Differentiation: DerivGrind

Wait a minute- why is an article about automatic differentiation labeled under the "Physics" category? Well, I will explain that in a minute. First of all, let me explain what automatic differentiation is.  Computing derivatives of functions is a ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Aug 8 2023 - 8:21am

Multithreading For Dummies

What is multithreading? It is the use of multiple processors to perform tasks in parallel by a single computer program. I have known this simple fact for over thirty years, but funnily enough I never explored it in practice. The reason is fundamentally tha ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Aug 16 2023 - 2:02pm

On The Multiverse

I recently read a book by Martin Rees, "On the future". I found it an agile small book packed full with wisdom and interesting considerations on what's in the plate for humanity in the coming decades, centuries, millennia, billions of years. ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Aug 24 2023 - 9:46am

A Visit To ICTS

The Indian Center for Theoretical Sciences is located in a rural area a few kilometers north of Bangalore, in southern India. Bangalore is a mid-sized city that saw a very big expansion in the past few years due to having become a center for the informatio ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Sep 5 2023 - 6:06am