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Running a Workshop 13 Jul 2013 | 12:15 pm
I ran the second workshop of my career two weeks ago. There were two big differences and a small one between this one and the first one I ran. First, the first one was an OSG workshop. It had no paral...
In Praise of 7” 23 Oct 2012 | 10:20 am
I have lots of posts I’d like to write, but I have no time. I swear! Unless external events force my hand. In this case, I suppose I should be writing about the apparent crazy conviction of the geolog...
The Higgs. Whaaaa? 6 Jul 2012 | 01:56 pm
Ok. This post is for all my non-physics friends who have been asking me… What just happened? Why is everyone talking about this Higgs thing!? It does what!? Actually, two things. It gives fundamenta...
We only let students do posters 6 Jun 2012 | 03:13 am
I’m here at the PLHC conference in Vancouver, Canada (fantastic city, if you’ve not visited). I did a poster for the conference on some work I’ve done on combining the ATLAS b-tagging calibrations (th...
CHEP Trends: Multi-Threading 25 May 2012 | 07:11 am
I find the topic of multi-threading fascinating. Moore’s law means that we now are heading to a multi-core world rather than just faster processors. But we’ve written all of our code as single threade...
CHEP Trends: Libraries 25 May 2012 | 01:36 am
I’m attending CHEP – Computers in High Energy Physics – which is being hosted by New York University this year, in New York City. A lot of fun – most of my family is on the east coast so it is cool to...
The Way You Look at the World Will Change… Soon 3 Dec 2011 | 09:33 am
We are coming up on one of those “lucky to be alive to see this” moments. Sometime in the next year we will all know, one way or the other, if the Standard Model Higgs exists. Or it does not exist. Ho...
So long, and thanks for all the protons! 30 Sep 2011 | 05:49 am
And there were a lot of protons! This is a picture of the Cockroft-Walton at Fermilab’s Tevatron. This is where it all starts. It isn’t that much of an exaggeration to say that my career started her...
The Square Wheel 20 Sep 2011 | 07:02 am
Another geek post, I’m afraid. Last week I posted about some general difficulties I was having with doing analysis at the LHC. I actually got a fair amount of response – but all of it was people talki...
Reinventing the wheel 11 Sep 2011 | 12:49 am
Last October (2010) my term came to and end running the ATLAS flavor-tagging group. It was time to get back to being a plot-making member of ATLAS. I don’t know how most people feel when they run a la...
