Mike Williams (physicist) explained

Michael Williams
Fields:Particle physics
Machine Learning
Workplaces:Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Imperial College London
Thesis Title:Measurement of the differential cross section and spin density matrix elements along with a partial wave analysis for gamma p to omega p using CLAS at Jefferson Lab
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Doctoral Advisor:Curtis Meyer
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Education:Carnegie Mellon University
Saint Vincent College

Michael Williams is an experimental particle physicist, faculty member at MIT, and inaugural Deputy Director of the NSF AI Institute for Artificial Intelligence and Fundamental Interactions (IAIFI).

Biography

Williams grew up in suburban Pittsburgh, a city he remained in for his undergraduate and graduate studies.[1] Initially unsure of what he wanted to study or pursue as a career,[2] Williams double-majored in physics and mathematics summa cum laude at Saint Vincent College in 2001 before earning his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees at Carnegie Mellon University under the supervision of Curtis Meyer in 2007.[3] [4] He worked as a postdoctoral fellow at Imperial College London from 2008 until his appointment as a professor in the Laboratory for Nuclear Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2012.[5] [6] A tenured professor in the MIT Department of Physics, Williams is also an affiliate member of the MIT Statistics and Data Science Center and the MIT Institute for Data, Systems, and Society.[7] [8]

Through his experimental particle physics research, Williams primarily focuses on "searching for as-yet-unknown particles and forces, possibly components of the dark sector of matter, and on studying largely unexplored emergent properties of QCD." Williams leads the MIT group working on the LHCb experiment,[9] [10] [11] [12] [13] a detector at CERN's Large Hadron Collider (LHC) named for its focus on the bottom quark. He also works on the GlueX experiment at Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (JLab), which studies a class of particles called mesons. Notably, Williams is also the inaugural deputy director of IAIFI, a new National Science Foundation AI Institute given $20 million in initial funding, and works on the development and use of AI tools for furthering accelerator physics research.[14] [15] [16]

In connection with his work on IAIFI, Williams and colleague Jesse Thaler also created and co-chair a new degree program at MIT, an interdisciplinary PhD in physics, statistics, and data science.[17] [18]

Honors

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Michael Williams » MIT Physics. 2021-03-12. MIT Physics. en-US.
  2. Web site: Michael Williams. 2021-03-12. The Council of Independent Colleges. en-US.
  3. Web site: Physics Tree - Mike Williams. 2021-03-12. academictree.org.
  4. Web site: Former Graduate Students in Medium Energy Physics. 2021-03-12. www-meg.phys.cmu.edu.
  5. Web site: Meet the 2019 tenured professors in the School of Science. 2021-03-12. MIT News Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 10 July 2019 . en.
  6. Web site: INSPIRE. 2021-03-12. inspirehep.net.
  7. Web site: People Michael Williams. 2021-03-12. MIT Statistics and Data Science Center. en-US.
  8. Web site: Michael Williams. 2021-03-12. IDSS. en-US.
  9. Web site: Charley. Sarah. What's new for LHC Run II. 2021-03-12. symmetry magazine. 13 February 2015 . en.
  10. Web site: Scientists Are Hunting for the 'Dark Photon'—a Portal to the Dark Universe. 2021-03-12. Gizmodo. 9 February 2018 . en-us.
  11. Web site: Charley. Sarah. Watching 'the clock' at the LHC. 2021-03-12. symmetry magazine. 3 September 2014 . en.
  12. Web site: February 2015. Jesse Emspak 18. World's Largest Atom Smasher Returns: 4 Things It Could Find. 2021-03-12. livescience.com. 18 February 2015 . en.
  13. Web site: Hannah Diehl and Bryce Hwang named 2017-18 Goldwater Scholars. 2021-03-12. MIT News Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 6 April 2017 . en.
  14. Web site: Gnida. Manuel. Machine learning proliferates in particle physics. 2021-03-12. symmetry magazine. August 2018 . en.
  15. Web site: Science. Laboratory for Nuclear. MIT. 2020-08-30. NSF Announces MIT-Led Institute for Artificial Intelligence and Fundamental Interactions. 2021-03-12. SciTechDaily. en-US.
  16. News: Overbye. Dennis. 2020-11-23. Can a Computer Devise a Theory of Everything?. en-US. The New York Times. 2021-03-12. 0362-4331.
  17. Web site: National Science Foundation announces MIT-led Institute for Artificial Intelligence and Fundamental Interactions. 2021-03-12. MIT News Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 26 August 2020 . en.
  18. Web site: PhD in Physics, Statistics, and Data Science » MIT Physics. 2021-03-12. MIT Physics. en-US.
  19. Web site: Five from MIT win Early Career Awards. 2021-03-12. MIT News Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 8 May 2013 . en.
  20. Web site: Awards Jefferson Lab. 2021-03-12. www.jlab.org.
  21. Web site: University. Carnegie Mellon. The Guy C. Berry Graduate Research Award - Mellon College of Science - Carnegie Mellon University. 2021-03-12. www.cmu.edu. en.

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