Selected Talks
- The Automated Physicist:
Experimental Particle Physics in the Era of AI (2018)
Musings about the future of particle physics and what AI might contribute to that future
- Probability,
Then, Now, and perhaps Tomorrow (2017)
A talk sketching the history of probability - SUperSYmmetry:
A Report from the Front, SESAPS, U of Virginia (2016)
A summary of what we have learned about low-energy supersymmetry from the Large Hadron Collider. - In
Search of New Physics or Why We Need to Talk More!
Kanpur, India (2015)
A talk given to an audience of theorists urging greater cooperation between experimentalists and theorists. In truth, this talk is really directed not to theorists, who, typically, are eager to cooperate, but rather at to those on my side of the divide.
The following talks were given in the
context of the 1995 to 2009 search for single top quark
production at the Fermilab Tevatron.
- Boosting: Or
How To Make a Silk Purse Out of a Pig's Ear, Fermilab
(2005)
A brief tutorial on boosting, that is, improving classifiers by averaging the outputs of many weak classifiers. Here is an associated writeup.
- PHYSTAT05
Highlights, Fermilab (2005)
Highlights of the 2005 PHYSTAT workshop. - Reaching
For The Top Take II, Fermilab (2005)
Some words of wisdom (I hope!) about how to manage the sociology of a discovery. I gave this talk to the Dzero Single Top Group well before the 2009 discovery that top quarks can indeed be created singly, as predicted by the Standard Model.
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