Talks

Nicole speaking at a conference

ATLAS thesis award ceremony (Feb 2024). PC Marco Montella

Conferences & workshops

(Planned) b-tagging unlocks the Higgs potential

Invited plenary, DPG (German physics society) conference • abstract
Erlangen, Germany • Mar 2025

Machine Learning for Particle Physics

Invited, Belle II Germany workshop • slides
Bonn, Germany • Sep 2025

Introduction to High Energy Physics

Invited, MIAPbP Build Big or Build smart workshop • slides
Munich, Germany • Aug 2025

Detectors for 10 TeV Wakefield Colliders

Invited plenary, ALEGRO workshop • slides
SLAC, USA • Mar 2025

Finetuning Foundation Models

Invited, CMS Foundation Models mini-workshop • slidesrecording
CERN, Switzerland • Oct 2024

Flavor tagging performance in ATLAS and CMS

Invited, COMETA General meeting • slides
Izmir, Turkey • Feb 2024

Hunting for di-Higgs in hadronic final states

Invited, GlühWien workshop on ML and HEP • slides
Vienna, Austria • Dec 2023

Background estimation in the HH → 4b searches

Invited plenary, Higgs 2023 • slides
Beijing, China • Nov 2023

Deep Sets for Flavor Tagging on ATLAS

Contributed Plenary, Connecting The Dots • slidesrecording
Princeton, USA • Apr 2020

Seminars

Transforming Jet flavour tagging on ATLAS

Research Progress Meeting Seminar
Berkeley, USA • Jul 2025

Transforming Jet flavour tagging on ATLAS

Santa Cruz Institute for Particle Physics Seminar
Santa Cruz, USA • Jul 2025

Foundation Models meets Jet Tagging

Physics at the TeV-Scale Group Seminar
Heidelberg, Germany • Nov 2024

Jet Flavour Tagging at the LHC

Center for Particle Physics, University of Siegen
Siegen, Germany • Nov 2024

Exploring the mysteries of the cosmos at the subatomic scales

European Space Observatory AI forum
Garching, Germany • Mar 2023

Set and sequence learning for particle identification at the LHC

Machine Learning and Science Forum
Berkeley, USA • Nov 2020

ATLAS workshops

These ATLAS workshops are large talks as they're attended by O(100) people, though links are internal to ATLAS.

HH → 4b: status and plans

Di-Higgs Workshop • slides
CERN • June 2025

New avenues for exploration with AI

Higgs and Di-Boson Searches (HDBS) Workshop • slides
Nikhef, Netherlands • July 2024

Flavor tagging working group summary

ATLAS Collaboration week • slides
Thessaloniki, Greece • June 2024

Highlights from Higgs and associated searches

ATLAS Collaboration week • slides
CERN • Feb 2024

A Search for Non-Resonant HH→4b

ATLAS Collaboration week, thesis award ceremony • slides
CERN • Feb 2024

Data-driven QCD estimation: state-of-the-art techniques and new ideas

di-Higgs Workshop • slides
CERN • Jan 2024

Machine Learning for Background Modelling

HDBS + EXOTICS Workshop • slides
Barcelona, Spain • Oct 2023

Machine Learning for Background Modeling

Higgs Workshop • slides
Tokyo, Japan • Oct 2023

Interpolation for data-driven backgrounds in HH → 4b

Higgs and Di-Boson Search Workshop • slides
Uppsala, Sweden • Sept 2022

Interpolation for background estimation in HH → 4b

ATLAS Machine Learning Workshop • slides
CERN • April 2021

Machine Learning for Low-Level Inputs

ATLAS Higgs and Di-Boson Search Workshop • slides
CERN • Aug 2020

Recent Developments in Flavour Tagging on ATLAS

ATLAS Machine Learning Workshop • slides
CERN • Nov 2019

ML for FTAG

Flavor tagging and tracking workshop • High pTTruth TrackingNew NN architectures
DESY, Germany • June 2019