Physics Graduate Student Seminar with Jason Bub on Bayes of Our Lives: A Probability Soap Opera of Nuclear Proportions

Thomas Bayes and his friend Andrey Markov spend their time trapezing around Monte Carlo. One fateful night, they happen upon a distressed Stephen Weinberg, struggling to reconcile the relationship between his Effective Field Theories (EFTs) and nuclear data. Not being ones to stand by idly, Markov and Bayes endeavor to help Weinberg. A stochastic chain of events leads the trio to the discovery of a lifetime: they can quantify the uncertainty in the relationship between the EFTs and nuclear data. Thus, they embark on a journey to maximize the likelihood of a successful and fruitful relationship for the future to come, allowing for the propagation of their uncertainty quantification to any future relationships that Weinberg's EFTs might have.

*This live special of Bayes of Our Lives will have one airing only at 4:30 pm in Crow 204.