What happened right after the beginning of it all? How did the atoms in your body like H and He condense out of the primordial soup? Why is it impossible for the Milky Way to exist without dark matter? We'll touch on all these questions (and more!) - you will think quantitatively about our cosmic origins!

Artificial intelligence (AI) is poised to be the most transformative technology of our lifetimes, while mysteries about the nature of physical reality offer some of the most challenging and exciting research problems in the world. Our mission is to marry these two subjects. This class is presented by scientists at the Institute for Artificial Intelligence and Fundamental Interactions (IAIFI), a research group based at MIT but also including Harvard, Northeastern, and Tufts. In this event, we will introduce ourselves and tell you about some of the fascinating work we're doing at the intersection of AI and physics -- from the galactic scale, to the regime of fundamental particles, to the unthinkably microscopic domain of string theory which unifies quantum mechanics and gravity. Come to this class and learn why, as we say at IAIFI, "deep learning (AI) plus deep thinking (physics) equals deeper understanding."