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SUMMARY:Science Breaks: From the Big Bang to AI
DESCRIPTION:Join Professor Roberto Trotta as he discusses how AI and Machin
 e Learning are helping us hunt for dark matter.\n\n\n Play videoProfessor 
 Roberto Trotta invites you to Science Breaks: From the Big Bang to AI\n\nA
 bstract\nAt the beginning of last century\, the Nobel Prize Winning physic
 ist Ernest Rutherford reportedly believed that “If your experiment needs
  statistics\, you ought to have done a better experiment”. And yet today
 \, advanced astrostatistical methods belong to the toolbox of every cosmol
 ogist\, and Artificial Intelligence (AI) is poised to change how we look a
 t the Universe. \nLast year\, Professor Roberto Trotta gave his Inaugural 
 lecture and discussed how astrostatistics will meet the challenges posed b
 y big data to help answer fundamental questions of the cosmos: what is the
  Universe made of? How did it begin? What will its ultimate destiny be? Yo
 u can watch this lecture here: From the Big Bang to AI.\nIn this latest ev
 ent in the Science Breaks series\, Professor Trotta will expand on his Ina
 ugural lecture\, discussing how AI and Machine Learning are helping us hun
 t for dark matter. He will also delve into the latest research on dark mat
 ter lurking in the centre of our own Galaxy\, the Milky Way: What do we kn
 ow\, and how do we find out more? \n\nBiography\nRoberto Trotta is Profess
 or of Astrostatistics at Imperial College London. His research in cosmolog
 y aims at elucidating the nature of dark matter and dark energy in the cos
 mos\, which together account for 95% of the contents of the universe. He i
 s also a Visiting Professor of Cosmology at Gresham College\, London. \nHe
  was born and grew up in the Italian speaking part of Switzerland. After o
 btaining an MSc(Hons) in Physics from ETH Zurich and a PhD in Theoretical 
 Physics from the University of Geneva\, he was the Sir Norman Lockyer Fell
 ow of the Royal Astronomical Society at Oxford University\, and a Junior F
 ellow of St Anne’s College\, before being appointed at Imperial in 2008.
 \nProfessor Trotta is an experienced science communicator\, who develops n
 ovel ways of making abstract concepts in cosmology more tangible for the p
 ublic at large\, and seeks to make astronomy communication more inclusive.
  He has collaborated with chefs and human-machine interaction experts to d
 esign immersive experiences that convey cosmological ideas in a multi- sen
 sory fashion. He is the recipient of numerous awards for his research\, te
 aching and public engagement activities\, including the Lord Kelvin Award 
 of the British Association for the Advancement of Science\, the Michelson 
 Prize of Case Western Reserve University\, the Chair George Lemaitre of th
 e University of Louvain and two President’s Awards for Excellence at Imp
 erial College London. His award-winning first book for the public\, ‘The
  Edge of the Sky’ explains the Universe using only the most common 1\,00
 0 words in English\, for which he was named one of the 100 Global Thinkers
  2014 by Foreign Policy magazine. Professor Trotta was awarded the Annie M
 aunder Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society 2020 for his work in public
  engagement with cosmology. Outside Imperial\, Professor Trotta is a Direc
 tor and co-founder of Data Fusion Consultants\, offering data analytical s
 olutions derived from his research.\n\n 
URL:https://www.imperial.ac.uk/events/122085/science-breaks-from-the-big-ba
 ng-to-ai/
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