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Kyle Cranmer

University of Wisconsin – Madison

Kyle Cranmer is the David R. Anderson Director of the Data Science Institute and a Professor of Physics, Statistics, and Computer Science at the University of Wisconsin – Madison. He was awarded the Presidential Early Career Award for Science and Engineering in 2007, the National Science Foundation’s Career Award in 2009, the Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics in 2025, and became a Fellow of the American Physical Society in 2021 for his work related to the discovery of the Higgs boson at the Large Hadron Collider. In 2025, he was awarded the inaugural Margot and Tom Pritzker Prize for AI in Science.

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Wed, Feb 4, 5:30–6:30pm
Flug Forum, Aspen Center for Physics