Faculty Research Lightning Talk
Event starts on this day
Feb
14
2024
Event Starts at:
10:00 am
– 11:00 am
In Person (view details)
Cost:
Free
Event starts on this day
Feb
14
2024
The Lightning Talks Series from the Vice President for Research, Scholarship and Creative Endeavors has an eclectic mix of new faculty researchers, provides a space to build interdisciplinary connections and builds awareness of UT-led expertise.
Description
Scott Kravitz, Ph.D is an assistant professor of physics in the College of Natural Sciences. His talk is titled: "Exploring Dark Matter with Machine Learning and Solid Xenon"
Dark matter makes up roughly 85% of the mass of the known Universe, yet we know very little about it beyond its gravitational pull. Kravitz' goal is to detect dark matter here on Earth for the first time and to understand what it is made of at the particle level.
This talk will describe how machine learning methods can be used to help analyze dark matter search data more effectively, and how a new type of particle detector using solid xenon may be the key to dark matter discovery in a future experiment.