Artificial intelligence boosts multimessenger astronomy, ‘Quantum on the Clock’ winners

Physics World Weekly Podcast

In this episode of the Physics World Weekly podcast, Elena Cuoco of the European Gravitational Observatory (EGO) explains how multimessenger astronomy will benefit from artificial intelligence.

Multimessenger astronomy involves studying an object using a variety of different signals such as gravitational waves, light, neutrinos, X-rays and more. Cuoco, who is the EGO’s Head of Data Science explains how machine learning will help astronomers makes sense out of this deluge of information.

Also in this podcast we speak to three winners of the inaugural “Quantum on the Clock” competition, which challenged pre-university students from across the UK and Ireland to create short videos that explain an aspect of quantum science and technology in just three minutes.

The videos could be solo or team efforts. Solo champion Hannah Chapman along with the winning team of May Cui and Margaret Liu explain how they came up with ideas for their videos and talk about the challenges of making quantum mechanics accessible to a broad audience.