We shall follow the
growth of probability theory and applications from the 1650s onwards, in
parallel with the development of statistical inference. Bayesian,
Neyman-Pearson hypothesis testing and Fisherian likelihood methods will all be
covered, with an emphasis on relating theory to a wide range of
applications. Practical sessions will use SciPy and feature
closed-form solutions, iterative and Monte Carlo simulation methods.
We shall follow the
growth of probability theory and applications from the 1650s onwards, in
parallel with the development of statistical inference. Bayesian,
Neyman-Pearson hypothesis testing and Fisherian likelihood methods will all be
covered, with an emphasis on relating theory to a wide range of
applications. Practical sessions will use SciPy and feature
closed-form solutions, iterative and Monte Carlo simulation methods.
The crucial role that the Higgs boson plays in the
standard model for strong weak and electromagnetic interactions is reviewed.
Recently a resonance with properties consistent with
those expected for the Higgs boson has been discovered at the large hadron collider (LHC).
This discovery
constrains speculations about new physics beyond what is in the standard
model. The motivation for such new physics, at roughly the energy scale probed
by LHC experiments, and the nature of the constraints imposed by the recent
LHC results are discussed.
We shall follow the
growth of probability theory and applications from the 1650s onwards, in
parallel with the development of statistical inference. Bayesian,
Neyman-Pearson hypothesis testing and Fisherian likelihood methods will all be
covered, with an emphasis on relating theory to a wide range of
applications. Practical sessions will use SciPy and feature
closed-form solutions, iterative and Monte Carlo simulation methods.
The LHC detectors are allowing experimentalists to look
"inside" of jets and study the properties of these. Jet substructure
gives us the tools to study boosted resonances that decay into jets. In
this talk, I will discuss an extension of substructure techniques to beyond the
Standard Model signals where reconstructing resonances may not be optimal, but
these techniques still allow us to pick out these signals from a busy QCD
environment.
The idea that the graviton may be massive has seen a
resurgence of interest due to recent progress which has overcome its
traditional problems.
I will review this recent progress, which has
led to a consistent ghost-free effective field theory of
a massive graviton, with a stable hierarchy between the graviton mass and the
cutoff, and how this theory has the potential to resolve the naturalness
problem of the cosmological constant.