Royal Holloway, University of LondonEgham, Surrey, TW20 0EX
Phone: + 44 (0)1784 443452
Fax:+ 44 (0)1784 472794
E-mail: g.cowan@rhul.ac.uk or glen.cowan@cern.ch
Room: Wilson 262
Royal Holloway, University of London
Antimatter: the picture that was not
reversed. Talk given to the West of London Astronomical Society, 12
March 2007 (ppt,
pdf).
RHUL sees the
2004 Venus Transit. Link to
Guardian with our jet + planet photo. And here is a related
talk I gave at the IoP Physics
Update Course at RHUL, 9 April 2005.
Royal Holloway physics department
Royal Holloway particle physics
group.
The
course page for
Computing and Statistical Data Analysis (for
Particle Physics PhD and PH4515),
and the versions of this course for the
University of Aachen Graduiertenkolleg (Feb 2009), for
YETI 2007 (IPPP Durham)
and for the
CERN Summer Student Lecture Programme.
Lectures on Statistical Methods
for Discovery and Limits at the
University of Freiburg Graduiertenkolleg
Physik an Hadron-Beschleunigern (June 2011),
at the DESY Terascale School (October 2011),
and at the NIKHEF Onderzoekschool
Subatomaire Fysica (December 2011).
The "Asimov Paper", aka
Asymptotic formulae for likelihood-based tests of new physics, by
Cowan, Cranmer, Gross and Vitells, EPJC
71 (2011) 1554. or
arXiv:1007.1727. Some of
the content is described in this talk (Cambridge seminar,
14.10.10).
Materials for the
lectures on
statistical methods for particle physics at Tsinghua University,
12-16 April, 2010.
Academic training lectures
on
Statistics at the LHC, CERN, 14-17 June, 2010.
The materials for my lectures on
advanced statistical methods for data
analysis (multivariate methods) for the University of Mainz
(Klausurtagung des GK "Eichtheorien -- experimentelle Tests...",
Bullay/Mosel, 15-17 September, 2008). These are updated versions of
my lectures on multivariate statistical
methods in particle physics (CERN Academic Training Lectures,
16-19 June, 2008).
The
University of London Postgraduate
Lectures in Particle Physics.
The home page of
Statistical Data Analysis
(the book)
Course page for
PH3520 (Particle Physics).
Old course pages for
PH2900 (astronomy),
PH3930 (particle astrophysics), and
PH2150 (scientific computing skills),
PH3140 (Galaxies seminar),
PH3010 (MSci skills).
The
ALEPH and
Cosmo-LEP
experiments at
CERN, and some recent
ALEPH work.
The
BaBar experiment at
SLAC, the
UK BaBar home page, the
RHUL
BaBar computing page,
and some BaBar work.
The
ATLAS Experiment. The
ATLAS Statistics Forum page, its
hypernews and
agenda pages; more useful ATLAS stuff.
The Conference on
Statistical Challenges in Modern Astronomy IV at
the Penn State Center for Astrostatistics, 12-15 June 2006.
The
XIV International
Workshop on Deep Inelastic Scattering (DIS 2006),
20/April/2006 - 24/April/2006, Tsukuba, Japan.
The Conference on
Statistical Problems in Particle Physics, Astrophysics
and Cosmology at SLAC 8th - 11th September 2003.
(Glen Cowan
reports!);
PHYSTAT05 in
Oxford from 12-15 September 2005,
PHYSTAT-LHC at
CERN, 27-29 June 2007;
PHYSTAT 2011 at CERN, 17-19 January 2011.
The
Topical Seminar on Frontier of Particle Physics 2004: QCD and Light Hadrons
, Beijing, 26-30 September, 2004.
Some interesting
links.
Some basic stuff
about baseball and pictures of
the
2005 staff-student game.
Some
astronomy stuff.