Comments on: from PhD to postdoc http://www.quantumdiaries.org/2012/07/31/from-phd-to-postdoc/ Thoughts on work and life from particle physicists from around the world. Fri, 24 May 2013 07:05:48 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Emily Thompson http://www.quantumdiaries.org/2012/07/31/from-phd-to-postdoc/#comment-81659 Emily Thompson Fri, 03 Aug 2012 08:24:15 +0000 http://www.quantumdiaries.org/?p=24484#comment-81659 Hi JC,
Background estimation is definitely a good topic, but it’s very dependent on the particular analysis you’re working on. I have a few other posts in the pipeline, but I’ll try to dedicate one specifically to boosted tops soon.
Thanks!
-Emily

]]> By: JC http://www.quantumdiaries.org/2012/07/31/from-phd-to-postdoc/#comment-81430 JC Wed, 01 Aug 2012 21:02:21 +0000 http://www.quantumdiaries.org/?p=24484#comment-81430 Thanks for your post. Leaving a comfort zone always presents a certain amount of anxiety and apprehension – but that’s how we truly grow and learn.

A topic I’d interested in someone posting a short post on how physicists model background events to achieve the needed ‘signal-to-noise’ to recognize something new. Questions the post might be able to address include, what machines are used to conduct these computations, to what order (in the case of perturbation theories) are these models conducted, who preforms this ‘background’ work (experimentalists? detector engineers? theorists?), and what is the validation/vetting process to ensure models that compute expectation background events are correct and independent across the various experiments at CERN or elsewhere.

Thanks for your consideration

]]> By: Flip http://www.quantumdiaries.org/2012/07/31/from-phd-to-postdoc/#comment-81391 Flip Wed, 01 Aug 2012 17:26:07 +0000 http://www.quantumdiaries.org/?p=24484#comment-81391 Welcome, Emily!

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