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The Long Baseline Neutrino Experiment (LBNE) will utilize a beamline facility located at Fermilab to carry out a compelling research program in neutrino physics. The facility will aim a wide band beam of neutrinos toward a detector placed…
The last decade was remarkable for neutrino physics. In particular, the phenomenon of neutrino flavor oscillations has been firmly established by a series of independent measurements. All parameters of the neutrino mixing are now known and…
The first activities of the Canfranc Underground Laboratory ("Laboratorio Subterr\'aneo de Canfranc", LSC) started in the mid-eighties in a railway tunnel located under the Spanish Pyrenees; since then, it has become an international…
Double machine learning (DML) delivers valid inference on low-dimensional causal parameters while permitting flexible nuisance estimation, but its computational cost becomes prohibitive once cross-fitted learners must be trained on massive…
Dark matter search experiments demand low to ultralow radiation background to operate. It is very important to understand the nature of the radiation background including knowledge about the sources contributing to it. Sometimes, evaluation…
Scientists studying deep ocean microbial ecosystems use limited numbers of sediment samples collected from the seafloor to characterize important life-sustaining biogeochemical cycles in the environment. Yet conducting fieldwork to sample…
Recent developments in underground science are reviewed. Recent efforts to built a deep multi-purpose underground laboratory in the U.S. to explore a wide range of science are summarized.
We perform a comprehensive study of the ability of the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE) to answer outstanding questions in the neutrino sector. We consider the sensitivities to the mass hierarchy, the octant of \theta_{23} and to…
Drug discovery projects entail cycles of design, synthesis, and testing that yield a series of chemically related small molecules whose properties, such as binding affinity to a given target protein, are progressively tailored to a…
The 2020 Update of the European Strategy for Particle Physics (ESPP) (see https://cds.cern.ch/record/2720129 ) recommended that muon beam R\&D should be considered a high-priority future initiative and that a programme of experimentation be…
This thesis explored applications of the new emerging techniques of artificial intelligence and deep learning (neural networks in particular) for predictive maintenance, diagnostics and prognostics. Many neural architectures such as…
The Long Baseline Neutrino Experiment (LBNE) will utilize a neutrino beamline facility located at Fermilab to carry out a compelling research program in neutrino physics. The facility will aim a beam of neutrinos toward a detector placed at…
As humans venture deeper into space, the need for a lunar settlement, housing the first group of settlers, grows steadily. By means of new technologies such as in situ resource utilisation (ISRU) as well as computational design, this goal…
The preponderance of matter over antimatter in the early universe, the dynamics of the supernovae that produced the heavy elements necessary for life, and whether protons eventually decay -- these mysteries at the forefront of particle…
The discovery of cosmic acceleration has inspired ambitious experimental and observational efforts to understand its origin. Many of these take the form of large astronomical surveys, sometimes using new, special-purpose instrumentation,…
Surprisingly promising results have been achieved by deep learning (DL) systems in recent years. Many of these achievements have been reached in academic settings, or by large technology companies with highly skilled research groups and…
A completely new under-water dark-room test facility (UWDTF) has been built at the University of Winnipeg during 2021-2023, for the testing of the equipments, optical components and detectors before they might be used in different…
DUET, a proposed NASA Midex class mission, will produce a catalog of ~20,000 X-ray selected clusters and groups of galaxies suitable for detailed cosmological investigations. We present the cosmological constraints achievable by DUET, the…
Design Space Exploration (DSE) is essential to modern CPU design, yet current frameworks struggle to scale and generalize in high-dimensional architectural spaces. As the dimensionality of design spaces continues to grow, existing DSE…
To efficiently support large-scale NNs, multi-level hardware, leveraging advanced integration and interconnection technologies, has emerged as a promising solution to counter the slowdown of Moore's law. However, the vast design space of…