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Abstract:
The discovery of the Higgs boson and the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in 2012 was a momentous event in the history of Particle Physics, fifty years in the making. The Higgs field provides elementary particles with mass and it completes the Standard Model (SM) of Particle Physics. However, the SM is incomplete. Based on a number of anomalies observed in the data, our Institute predicted the existence of new bosonic degrees of freedom, leading to the anomalous production charged leptons at the LHC. The status of experimental observations of these predictions and the impact on future e+e- colliders will be briefly reviewed.
The observation of the Higgs boson is a quintessential Big Big Data problem that includes the extensive use of Machine Learning. As a result, the SA-CERN program has become a powerhouse for skill development in Big Data and Machine Learning. A Technology Innovation Platform has been created at iThemba LABS to boost technology transfer activities in various areas, including Big Data and Artificial Intelligence. Significant technology transfer efforts have been directed towards modelling of the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond. Advanced analytics and Artificial Intelligence have been used to provide recommendations to policymakers and public health management.
Brief Bio:
A PhD from Columbia University, Bruce Mellado, is a Professor at the University of the Witwatersrand, a Senior Researcher of iThemba LABS and serves as the Director of the Institute for Collider Particle Physics. He was Chairperson of the Institutional Board of the Tile Calorimeter at the ATLAS experiment. He was the National Contact Physicist of South Africa at the ATLAS experiment and the co-Chair of the Nuclear Particle and Radiation Division of South African Institute of Physics. He is the recipient of several awards and fellowships, including the TW Kambule-NSTF Award for Research in 2021, which as conferred by the Minister of Higher Education, Science and Innovation, and the Vice-Chancellor Award for Research in 2022. He is a Fellow of the African Academy of Sciences and an Internationally acclaimed researcher of the National Research Foundation. He is also the Executive Director of the Africa-Canada Artificial Intelligence & Data Innovation Consortium funded by the Canadian IDRC.
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