Research and developments in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning being carried out by major international laboratories – such as Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL), Argonne National Laboratory and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory – open the third day of work at the Dune Collaboration Meeting this Wednesday (23). Since Monday (21), the event has been bringing together scientists from around the world at Unicamp, in Campinas, to assess the progress of the Dune Project ( Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment ), the largest study ever carried out on neutrinos – fundamental subatomic particles for understanding the origin, composition and evolution of the universe.
The goal of these workshops is to verify the use of advanced algorithms and neural networks to process the large volumes of data generated by the DUNE particle detectors. Based at Fermilab, the particle physics laboratory of the U.S. Department of Energy, and with the participation of CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research laboratory – located in Geneva – the project brings together approximately 200 institutions from 37 countries. Unicamp is the project leader in Latin America.
As was the case on Tuesday (22), throughout Wednesday, more than a dozen lectures, parallel sessions and closed sessions are scheduled, distributed across seven auditoriums on campus – at the Gleb Wataghin Institute of Physics (IFGW), at EA2 and at the Faculty of Civil Engineering, Architecture and Urbanism (FECFAU).
In the evening, two cultural events will take place. One of them will be the show " The Dance of Particles ," conceived within the Science and Art extension project, coordinated by Professor Ana Amélia Bergamini Machado from IFGW, one of the organizers of the Dune Collaboration.
The show is a collective creation, bringing together students from IFGW, the Institute of Computing (IC), and the Institute of Arts (IA). It took eight months to complete. Six students worked on creating the choreography, costumes, and visual elements, based on the idea of finding another language to talk about physics phenomena. The performance begins at 19 pm at Casa do Lago, on the Barão Geraldo campus of Unicamp.
Also on Wednesday, a short film about neutrino physics will be shown – a film conceived by Professor Marcelo Guzo, from IFGW, and financed by Fapesp's "Young Researcher" program. The production is part of the dissemination area of the project by Professor Ettore Segreto, one of the scientists leading Unicamp's participation in DUNE.
Balance
Ana Amélia Machado gave a positive assessment of the first days of the event. “In each of the auditoriums, one of the different working groups that make up the DUNE Project is being discussed. These are the computing teams, the photon detector team, and the far detector team ,” she said, referring to the detector responsible for capturing the interactions of neutrinos after they have traveled more than 1.300 kilometers.
At the opening ceremony of the event, held in the auditorium of the Institute of Geosciences (IG) on Monday (21), the group put together a puzzle. Scientists and researchers contributed by placing a piece, and the collaboration composed a panel, where the meeting's logo in Campinas appears.
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Scientists from around the world gather to discuss Project Dune.
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