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Poll Created Mon 5 Dec 2016 1:27AM
How is dark matter being investigating at CERN? Closed Thu 8 Dec 2016 1:01AM
Let's find out about the evidence that supports the hypothesis of dark matter, so that when we get the answer we understand it better. an attached file might links to some clear short explanation.
Results
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Agree | 50.0% | 1 |
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| Abstain | 50.0% | 1 |
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| Disagree | 0.0% | 0 | ||
| Block | 0.0% | 0 | ||
| Undecided | 0% | 27 |
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2 of 29 people have participated (6%)
Janette Wilmott
Mon 5 Dec 2016 1:30AM
I like it but it is taking us outside the curriculum and I'd like to give more weight to questions that will help us with our exams first.
Mark Focas
Mon 5 Dec 2016 1:38AM
Maybe in the question there could be links to the appropriate curriculum outcomes to help steer the comments in a good direction?
Janette Wilmott Tue 17 Jan 2017 9:38PM
Welcome Stelios. I’m Janette Wilmott. I led the design and development of LHC physics masterclass, which includes access to your impressive HYPATIA tool. Thanks for joining us to help us analyse the data.
Stelios Vourakis Fri 20 Jan 2017 12:10AM
Hi Janette, thanks for your interest in HYPATIA and your kind words about the tool.
Deleted account Fri 9 Jun 2017 5:58AM
Hi from Australia! I'm new to the forum and will also do my best to help answer questions and participate in discussion. I've participated in a few ATLAS masterclasses with HYPATIA and see it as such a great program and tool to introduce young minds to the exciting field of high energy physics. Just a little about my experience and interests: While a PhD student I helped create the techniques and software ATLAS uses to identify tau leptons and then joined the search for the Higgs boson decaying into two tau leptons. Now as a researcher at the University of Melbourne I am working with a team searching for dark matter and building and testing new particle identification techniques using deep neural networks common in computer vision applications. High energy physics really does present huge opportunities to bring together many areas of expertise!
Christine Sat 10 Jun 2017 4:20PM
Great Noel!!Thank you for your nice words and welcome on board.Please let us know of any problems with the Masterclasses and tell us ahead (if you know) of the dates on which they take place.
Also have in mind that we have an HYPATIA version which is targeted for university students' labs (to teach them the cut optimization).If you are interested in using it for your students, Stelios can provide more info and links
Stelios Vourakis · Tue 17 Jan 2017 3:17PM
Hello everyone, I'm Stelios Vourakis, the co-author of HYPATIA (together with Christine Kourkoumelis). I'll try to help with any questions regarding the application and the physics behind it.