Last week, I was in Arlington, Virginia to give a talk at a cybersecurity research workshop called LASER 2013. Why did they want to hear a particle physicist speak? Well, this particular workshop is focused on “properly conducted experimental (cyber) security research,” so they want to hear from people in other fields about how we run experiments, publish the results, and think about science in general. So I gave a talk, slightly over an hour long, that used the Higgs boson to illustrate the giant experiments we do at the LHC, the social organization required to do them, and their results. I said a lot of things here that you don’t normally say explicitly as part of a particle physics conference, and I also heard what sort of experiments one can do in cybersecurity research. We had some very interesting discussions about how experimentation and data analysis really work, and I really appreciate the opportunity I had to participate in the workshop.
You can watch my whole talk here, and I would definitely appreciate your feedback:
Tags: Higgs boson, science
