Machine learning the formation of dark matter halos

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• Luisa Lucie-Smith (UCL)
• Wednesday 29 January 2020, 11:00-11:30
• Battcock Tea area.

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Dark matter halos are the fundamental building blocks of cosmic large-scale structure. Improving our theoretical understanding of their structure, evolution and formation is an essential step towards understanding how galaxies form. I will present a machine learning approach which aims to provide new physical insights into the physics driving halo formation. We train a machine learning algorithm to learn the relationship between the initial conditions and the final dark matter halos directly from N-body simulations. We evaluate the predictive performance of the algorithm when provided with different types of information about the initial conditions, allowing us to infer which aspects of the early-Universe density field impact the formation of the final dark matter halos. I will also present ongoing work which extends our method to deep learning algorithms, able to extract directly from the initial density field the features that are relevant to halo formation.

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