We held the third Machine Learning for Physical Sciences workshop at NeurIPS2020 on December 11, 2020.

• Website: Machine Learning for Physical Sciences
• Some live tweets: #ML4PS2020

We had more than 150 posters and more than 200 people attend the poster session on Gather Town. Gather Town worked surprisingly well.

We …

I've just started to collect material that I use for a class at NYU into a Jupyter book. It's here:

https://cranmer.github.io/intro-exp-phys-book/introduction

We held ML4Jets at NYU January 15-17, 2020. We had about 115 in attendance.

Despite the reputation of 2016 as a terrible year, it was pretty good for me on a personal and professional level. Many of the ideas that were born during my sabbaticall matured this year. Many of my collaborations also flourished.

The 750 GeV Excess

The year started with a bang …

Well I caught the fever for the 750 GeV excess too. While ATLAS policies prevent me from submitting a paper to the arXiv about a preliminary result, I couldn't help but write up these thoughts on the excess in the context of Supersplit Supersymmetry. Note, they do not represent any …

Recently I've been learning more about docker and all the things it can do for us. My student Lukas Heinrich has been working on the Recast project and using docker heavily. In parallel, Tim Head and I have been talking a lot about projects like binder and everware, which let …