Addressing Large Hadron Collider Challenges by Machine Learning

This specialization gives an introduction to deep learning, reinforcement learning, natural language understanding, computer vision and Bayesian methods. Top Kaggle machine learning practitioners and CERN scientists will share their experience of solving real-world problems and help you to fill the gaps between theory and practice. Upon completion of 7 courses you will be able to apply modern machine learning methods in enterprise and understand the caveats of real-world data and settings.

Created by: Andrei Ustyuzhanin

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Overall Score : 88 / 100

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Course Description

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is the largest data generation machine for the time being. It doesn't produce the big data, the data is gigantic. Just one of the four experiments generates thousands gigabytes per second. The intensity of data flow is only going to be increased over the time. So the data processing techniques have to be quite sophisticated and unique. In this course we'll introduce students into the main concepts of the Physics behind those data flow so the main puzzles of the Universe Physicists are seeking answers for will be much more transparent. Of course we will scrutinize the major stages of the data processing pipelines, and focus on the role of the Machine Learning techniques for such tasks as track pattern recognition, particle identification, online real-time processing (triggers) and search for very rare decays. The assignments of this course will give you opportunity to apply your skills in the search for the New Physics using advanced data analysis techniques. Upon the completion of the course you will understand both the principles of the Experimental Physics and Machine Learning much better.Do you have technical problems? Write to us: coursera@hse.ru

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Dr. Andrey Ustyuzhanin - the head of Yandex-CERN joint projects as well as the head of Laboratory of Methods for Big Data Analysis at NRU HSE. His team is the member of frontier research international collaborations: LHCb - collaboration at Large Hadron Collider, SHiP (Search for Hidden Particles) - experiment being designed for the New Physics discovery. His group is unique for both collaborations, since majority of the team members are coming from the Computer and Data Science worlds. The major priority of his research is the design of new Machine Learning methods and using them to solve tough scientific enigmas thus improving the fundamental understanding of our world. Discovering the deeper truth about the Universe by applying data analysis methods is the major source of inspiration in his lifelong journey. Andrey is co-author of the course on the Machine Learning applied to the High Energy Physics at Yandex School of Data Analysis and organizes annual international summer schools following the similar set of topics.

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By Vaibhav O on 24-Apr-19

Some assignments are too abstract and difficult to get through without external help

By James h on 14-Jan-19

FUN !!!!

By Milos V on 8-Mar-19

This course was walk in the park in comparison to the other ones in the specialization. However, it would not be so if I did not complete all of the previous ones. Non-perfect score goes because I think that practical assignments should be better explained like: "do some feature engineering", "feel free to use any models", etc.

By Wei X on 17-Oct-18

nice starting point for graduate students or senior undergraduate students who want to dig deeper in this direction

By Shanaya M on 30-Aug-18

For an undergrad student of computer science, this course provides great insights into the world of astrophysics and how machine learning can be applied to solve some of the greatest mysteries of the universe.