Move Over – The Talk I Will Not Give
Last week I was in Amsterdam, where I attended the first European AI for Fundamental Physics conference (EUCAIF). Unfortunately I could not properly follow the works there, as in the midst of it I got grounded by a very nasty bronchial bug. Then o... Continue reading
Shaping The Future Of AI For Fundamental Physics
From April 30 to May 3 more than 300 researchers in fundamental physics will gather in Amsterdam for the first edition of the EUCAIF conference, an initiative supported by the APPEC, NuPecc and ECFA consortia, which is meant to structure future Europea... Continue reading
On Rating Universities
In a world where we live hostages of advertisement, where our email addresses and phone numbers are sold and bought by companies eager to intrude in our lives and command our actions, preferences, tastes; in a world where appearance trumps substance 10... Continue reading
Goodbye Peter Higgs, And Thanks For The Boson
Peter Higgs passed away yesterday, at the age of 94. The scottish physicist, a winner of the 2013 Nobel Prize in Physics together with Francois Englert, hypothesized in 1964 the existence of the most mysterious elementary particle we know of, the Higgs... Continue reading
Significance Of Counting Experiments With Background Uncertainty
In the course of Statistics for Data Analysis I give every spring to PhD students in Physics I spend some time discussing the apparently trivial problem of evaluating the significance of an excess of observed events N over expected background B. T... Continue reading
The Analogy: A Powerful Instrument For Physics Outreach
About a month ago I was contacted by a colleague who invited me to write a piece on the topic of science outreach for an electronic journal (Ithaca). I was happy to accept, but when I later pondered on what I would have liked to write, I could not help... Continue reading
On The Utility Function Of Future Experiments
At a recent meeting of the board of editors of a journal I am an editor of, it was decided to produce a special issue (to commemorate an important anniversary). As I liked the idea I got carried away a bit, and proposed to write an article for it. ... Continue reading
A New Free Tool For The Optimization Of Muon Tomography
Muon tomography is one of the most important spinoffs of fundamental research with particle detectors -if not the most important. read more Continue reading
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