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Roger BarlowProfessor of Particle PhysicsManchester Telephone (+44)-161-275-4178 Fax (+44)-161-275-0480 Location Room 6.7, Schuster Laboratory, Manchester |
| Most used links | arXiv | Manchester Mailing Lists | Manchester Finance | Manchester Mail and Calendar | Manchester Agenda server | Manchester portal | |||
| Things I run | The Manchester Particle Physics group | The CONFORM FFAG project | The Manchester BaBar group | The Manchester Accelerator group and blog | Beyond the Awayday discussions | Thorea Research association | |||
| Teaching | Lecture notes for PHYS10302 | Lecture notes for PHYS40521 | Tutorial Sheets Questions | Tutorial Sheets Answers | Tutorial Attendance | School Teaching Pages | Campus Solutions | Blackboard system | |
| Other University stuff | John Rylands Electronic Journals | MIS | Staff Directory | Student Directory | |||||
| LHCb | Meetings | EVO | Flat | Software tutorials | Shifts | ||||
| Referee stuff | JHEP (Roger at hep) | PRL 470577 when | Nature | European Journal of physics | |||||
| Meetings | Meetings Arranger | Nigel's Collimators page | EMC calorimeter Software meetings | MDI meetings | The BIRS conference on statistics | ||||
| Other Things I'm in | The Academia.edu tree | Moss Owners club | The Cockcroft Institute for Accelerator Science | The Royal Statistical Society | CALICE | Tatton Liberal Democrats | The IoP HEPP group | The EPS and the EPS committee | The BIRS challenge |
| Computing stuff | TIER2 hardware tickets Northgrid Dashboard ATLAS tests |
Sophos | Phystat repository | ||||||
| Accelerator Activities | BASROC | EuCARD | EuroTev | EuDet | CARE | CARE project | My TURTLE how-to notes | List of Accelerator Meetings | The Super B factory |
| BaBar | Home Page | Tau to 3 prong pizero hypernews | Tau to 3 prong pizero BAIS entry | Statistics hypernews | Tau QED hypernews | BaBar UK hypernews | |||
| Outreach | PP UK | The British Science Association | |||||||
| Travel | Trains | American Airlines | Air France | lufthansa | British Airways | Hertz | |||
| CERN lectures | Lecture 1 | Lecture 2 | Lecture 3 | Lecture 4 | Lecture 5 | ||||
| Most Recent papers | Search for Second-Class Currents in τ ¯ → ω π ¯ ν(τ), (Physical Review Letters Vol.103, No.4, 24 July 2009) | Towards a dedicated high-intensity muon facility Physica B: Condensed Matter Volume 404, Issues 5-7, 15 April 2009, Pages 1024-1027 | Simulation of High Order Short Range Wake Fields | A note on Delta ln L = - 1/2 errors | Asymmetric Errors | Introduction to Statistical issues in Particle Physics | Effectsof Position, Angle and Energy Offsets on Spoilers in the TESLA BDS | ||
| SLUO lectures | Systematic Errors (Lecture 5) | Resampling and the Bootstrap (Lecture 6) | Fitting: some selected topics (Lecture 7) | Signals, Backgrounds and Probabilities (Lecture 8) | Unfolding (Lecture 9) | ||||
| Information | Manchester Phone and email directory | Faculty of Science | The Guardian | The Macclesfield Express | HBOOK manual | PAW manual | |||
| Research grants | JeS form | eGAP form | |||||||
| jobs |
IoP jobs list | Manchester jobs list | BaBar jobs list | CERN jobs list | Cockcroft jobs list | Spires jobs list | APS accelerator jobs list |
| Date | Talk | Occasion | Where given |
2009 | |||
| October 20th | ADSR activity in the UK | High Power Proton Workshop | Fermilab |
| October 15th | Results from small numbers | Bohr Lunch | Manchester |
| October 11th | Intervals and Limits | Workshop on Advanced Statistical Methods in HEP | Karlsruhe |
| September 24th | ADSR activity in the UK | FFAG09 | Fermilab |
| September 14th | Antimatter and press report | Scibar | Bollington |
| August 18th | CALICE design and testbeam results (Not my own work, but presented for the CALICE collaboration) | Lepton Photon Conference | Hamburg |
| June 17th | Simulating LHC collimation | EuCARD kickoff | CERN |
| June 10th | nsFFAGs and ADSRs | Seminar | Lancaster |
| May 25th | Antimatter | Scibar | Didsbury |
| May 25th | LHC Backgrounds | LHCb week | CERN |
| May 11th | Welcome and introduction | CONFORM openday | Daresbury |
| April 17th | Future plans | ThorEA meeting | Huddersfield |
| April 17th | What is an nsFFAG? | ThorEA meeting | Huddersfield |
| April 1st | Tau physics with Babar | UK BaBarFest | QMUL |
| February 24th | EMMA | ALICE stakeholder meeting | Cockcroft |
| February 11th | EMMA, BASROC, Hadron therapy and ADSRS | STFC Review | Cockcroft |
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2008 | |||
| October 15th | Resistive Collimator Wakefields | CLIC08 | CERN |
| September 16th | ADSR Systems | DIUS visit | Manchester |
| September 9th | Proliferation and ADSR systems | ADSR08 | Manchester |
| September 4th | ADSR UK activity | FFAG08 | Manchester |
| July 28th | ADSR + FFAG future plans | 3rd FFAG workshop | Cockcroft |
| July 28th | Computation of Resistive Wakefields | Wakefields Interest Group | Cockcroft |
| April 8th | BASROC and CONFORM | Muon Source Workshop | Cockcroft |
| March 20th | Detecting Particles | Masterclass | Manchester |
| February 21st | R | HEP computing seminar | Manchester |
| February 14th | Collimator Wakefields in Merlin (for Adriana Bungau) | MERLIN developers meeting | DESY |
| February 11th | Probability: Bayesian versus Frequentist and why it matters | Seminar | Ecole Polytechnique |
| January 7th | ADSRs and FFAGs | ADSR workshop | Daresbury |
2007 | |||
| December 20-21 | My year for Accelerators , eScience , BaBar and The Group | Group Annual meeting | Manchester |
| December 13th | Some Wakefield issues | LET workshop | SLAC |
| December 6th | Accelerator Science | EPSRC visit | Manchester |
| November 29th | Deconvolution of a Causal Signal | Wakefield Interest Group | Cockcroft |
| November 26th | CONFORM | Scientific Advisory Committee | Cockcroft |
| October 23rd | Information for Simulations: Wakefields | GDE Simulation Kickoff Meting | Fermilab |
| October 15th | Reconstructing Delta Wakes from Bunch Wakes | COLSIM Meeting | CERN |
| October 11th | Results from Small Numbers | Seminar | Warwick |
| September 26th | Results from Small Numbers | Seminar | Manchester |
| September 19th | CONFORM | Project Management Committee | Cockcroft |
| September 7th | Manchester and STFC and Particle Physics | STFC visit | Manchester |
| July | Welcome to Manchester | SuperNEMO meeting | Manchester |
| June 28th | Delta Wakes from Bunch Wakes (THPAN081 Paper and Poster) | PAC 2007 | Albuquerque |
| June 28th | The CONFORM project (THPMN078 Paper and Poster) | PAC 2007 | Albuquerque |
| May 15th | ILC collimator wakefield studies | Wakefield workshop | Daresbury |
| May 3rd | The CONFORM project | BASROC launch | Daresbury |
| May 1st | Particle Physics and eScience | eSNW e-Science showcase | Manchester |
| March 20th | BaBar and the Grid | GridPP18 | Glasgow |
| March 1st | From Bunch to Delta wakes | Eurotev COLSIM meeting | CERN |
2006 | |||
| December | Status reports on Babar, Accelerators and The Manchester Group | Christmas Meeting | Manchester |
| December 4th | Manchester and some collimation results | Eurotev COLSIM meeting | CERN |
| November 22nd | EMMA - the first NS-FFAG | Cockcroft SAC | Daresbury |
| October 25th | The Higgs Boson: what it is and how to find it | Seminar | UCLAN |
| October 2nd | Results from small numbers | Seminar | QMUL |
| August | pdf Lecture 1 , 2 , 3 , odp Lecture 1 , 2 , 3 | SLUO lectures on confidence levels | SLAC |
| July | Rare B and tau decays and searches for New Physics Talk and Write-up | ICHEP plenary talk | Moscow |
| July 16th | Limits from several channels; chi squared and significance | BIRS workshop on statistics | Banff |
| June 21st | chi squared and sigma | BaBar Collaboration Meeting | Montreal |
| June | MLR significance | just thoughts | |
| April | FFAG bid | Basic Technology Fund | |
| February | PHYSTAT: Making the most of statistical techniques | Article | CERN Courier |
| 12 January | Some Wakefield Studies | Cockcroft All Hand Meeting | Daresbury |
| 10 January | Everything you always wanted to know about limits | YETI | Durham |
| 6 January | Group Review of 2005/6 | Annual Group Meeting | Manchester |
| 4 January | Personal Review of 2005 | Annual Group Meeting | Manchester |
2005 | |||
| 9 December | Plans for HEPP2007 | EPS HEPP committee meeting | CERN |
| 16 November | Developments in Bayesian Priors | IoP Half day meeting on Statistics | Manchester |
| 3 November | Collimators (for Adam Mercer) | Collimator Meeting | Daresbury |
| 3 November | More about Wakefields | Collimator Meeting | Daresbury |
| 12 October | CALICE: UK plans | CALICE Collaboration Meeting | DESY |
| September | What happens at CERN? | Schools talk | Altrincham |
| 12 September | Asymmetric Statistical Errors | PHYSTAT05 | Oxford |
| 9 September | CALICE: WP4 - Thermal and Mechanical | CALICE UK Meeting | Cambridge |
| 13 July | The BbgUtils package | BabarGrid Meeting | Ferrara |
| 7 July | Wake Fields and Collimators | LC-ABD Meeting | Cambridge |
| 5 July | babar and the grid | GridPP 13 | Durham |
| 28 June | Group computing Strategy | PP Group Meeting | Manchester |
| 27 June | PPARC Science at Manchester | Northern Way Meeting | Leeds |
| May | Wakefields in High Energy beams(poster) | PAC05 | Knoxville |
| May | Predicting PEP-II accelerator induced backgrounds with LPTURTLE(poster) | PAC05 | Knoxville |
| 7th May | Einstein's Legacy | Public lecture | Manchester |
| April | tau to pi+- pi+ pi- pi0 nu | BaBar meeting | Durham |
| January | Personal Review of 2004 | Group Christmas Meeting | Manchester |
2004 | |||
| December 2004 | The UK Tier A Centre | Babar CSC | SLAC |
| 8th December 2004 | EMC Software News | Babar collaboration Meeting | SLAC |
| 5th December 2004 | EMC workshop summary and outlook | Babar collaboration Meeting | SLAC |
| November 2004 | CALICE: Thermal and Mechanical issues | CALICE UK Meeting | UCL |
| 22nd October 2004 | CALICE | Future Directions Meeting | Manchester |
| 12th October 2004 | BaBar at RAL | BaBar CSC Meeting | SLAC |
| September 2004 | BaBarGrid; UK status and plans | BaBar Collaboration Meeting | Dresden |
| 23rd September 2004 | EMC Status | BaBar Collaboration Meeting | Dresden |
| 22nd September 2004 | EMC Software Developments | BaBar Collaboration Meeting | Dresden |
| 12th July 2004 | EMC Simulation: progress and Plans | BaBar Simulation Workshop | SLAC |
| June 2004 | EMC plans for Release 15/16 | BaBar Collaboration Meeting | SLAC |
| May 2004 | Other Ongoing EMC Projects | BaBar Collaboration Meeting | SLAC |
| May 2004 | 2nd class currents | BaBar Collaboration Meeting | SLAC |
| April 2004 | IoP HEPP Group Chairman's Report | IoP HEPP group AGM | Birmingham |
| March 2004 | EMC status part 2 | BaBar Operations Meeting | SLAC |
| February 2004 | AliBaBa: the first Distributed Physics Analysis ising the Grid | BaBar Collaboration Meeting | SLAC |
| February 2004 | The EMC in 2004 | BaBar Collaboration Meeting | SLAC |
| 4 February 2004 | BaBarGrid | GridPP9 | CERN |
| 27th January 2004 | EMC + Neutrals Issues | BaBar Neutrals Group Meeting | SLAC |
| January 2004 | Accelerators in 2003 | Group Christmas Meeting | Manchester |
| January 2004 | Personal Review of 2003 | Group Christmas Meeting | Manchester |
| January 2004 | Grid stuff in 2003 | Group Christmas Meeting | Manchester |
2003 | |||
| December 2003 | EMC status | BaBar Operations Meeting | SLAC |
| November 2003 | EMC status | BaBar Operations Meeting | SLAC |
| 31st October 2003 | The GRID - Hype or reality? | J V Atanasoff Symposium | Iowa State University |
| 23 October 2003 | UK TierA usage | BaBar CSC | SLAC |
| 22 September 2003 | EMC Backgrounds and Radiation Issues | Background workshop | SLAC |
| 8 September 2003 | Introduction to Statistical Issues in Particle Physics | PHYSTAT03 | SLAC |
| September 2003 | Asymmetric Errors | PHYSTAT03 | SLAC |
| June 2003 | Observaion in BaBar of a narrow resonance in the D+s pizero system at 2317 MeV | FPCP conference | Paris |
| June 2003 | Babar distributed computing resources | BaBar Computing review | SLAC |
| May 2003 | Asymmetric Errors | BaBar collaboration meeting | Elba |
| May 2003 | A skimdata interface | BaBar collaboration meeting | Elba |
| 5th February 2003 | melting TESLA spoilers | LC-UK meeting | QMW |
| 5th February 2003 | The LC-ABD collaboration | LC-UK meeting | QMW |
| 31st January | The future of GridPP: BaBar, DØ and other experiments | GridPP2 | Cosenors House |
More on my SLAC
website
Past results appear in various preprints and a book
Source code for the HMCMLL code for fitting distributions with finite MC statistics is available
My Myers-Briggs Psychological Type indicator is INTJ which explains a lot.