Abigail Stevens – Comparing origins of low-frequency quasi-periodic oscillations with spectral timing

ECAP, room 307 Erwin-Rommel-Str 1, Erlangen, Germany

The light curves of low-mass X-ray binaries show variability on timescales from milliseconds to months. The shorter (sub-second) variability is particularly interesting because it is thought to probe the inner region of the accretion disk and the central compact object. X-ray spectral-timing is a new type of analysis that seeks...

Stefan Geißelsöder – Pattern recognition and deep learning

ECAP, room 307 Erwin-Rommel-Str 1, Erlangen, Germany

Algorithms from the field of pattern recognition are used throughout industry and academia. In particular machine learning algorithms have become an established technique in modern experimental physics, for instance for the discrimination between desired measurements and background. In recent years, the concept of deep learning has gained considerable attention in...