As the 23 faithful readers of this blog already know, I recently wrote a book that describes the searches for new physics undertaken by a glorious particle physics experiment, CDF, during the eighties and nineties. The book, titled "Anomaly! Collider physics and the quest for new phenomena at Fermilab", is coming out at the end of November. More information and reviews on the book can be obtained at this link. Or you can directly pre-order the book via AMazon by following the link on the right column here (you may have to scroll down) -->
Loosely connected with the above are a few seminars and colloquia which I am giving at Universities and research laboratories this fall. I was in Oslo on October 26th and in Lisbon on Oct 27th for that purpose, where I gave a seminar titled "Extraordinary Claims: the 0.000029% Criterion". The same seminar will be offered at 12.30 on November 8th at SLAC (Stanford Linear Accelerator Center), in California, and on November 11th at a physics colloquium at Northwestern University, at 4PM. I hope that if you are around you will show up there to say hi! (More information is provided at these links: Stanford - Northwestern).
I am also going to try and see if it is possible to broadcast these two events live to a wider audience. One option would be facebook, but maybe there is some better way to do that. I am still unable to promise anything, but watch this space for updates...
If I have to judge by the past experience with this talk, it is generally well received by audiences spanning from experimentalist to theorists and astrophysicists. I know the statistical topics that are touched in the presentation are not always very broadly known even in similar audiences, hence I introduce the basic concepts and lingo at the start. So I look forward to these two events next week...
