I like murmurations!

Bernard Chazelle proved that if each bird adjusts its velocity and position to the other birds within a fixed radius, the time it takes to converge to a steady state tends to infinity as the number of birds increases. pic.twitter.com/Wq9iruUefl

— Fermat's Library (@fermatslibrary …

Despite the reputation of 2016 as a terrible year, it was pretty good for me on a personal and professional level. Many of the ideas that were born during my sabbaticall matured this year. Many of my collaborations also flourished.

The 750 GeV Excess

The year started with a bang …

I've been a bit annoyed with feed.mikle.com, the RSS feed widget I'm using on my homepage. Sometimes it doesn't update, and while it is convenient, I can't modify the code to be able to tweak it. In particular, I'd like to get mathjax to work on the titles …

This is my first attempt at a collaboration map -- it's woefully incomplete and I've largely omitted projects happening within the ATLAS collaboration. Check it out first, and then read the blog post below. The collaboration map has three components:

• people: center
• projects: left
• collaborations: right

For a long time I've …

Earlier this week I joined the Reproducibility Symposium at NYU. It was an interesting workshop/unconference with a great group of people. A huge thanks to Vicky Steeves and Juliana Freire that organized the event.

Introduction and Terminology Problems

It started with some nice talks by Jake VanderPlas and Katy …

Well I caught the fever for the 750 GeV excess too. While ATLAS policies prevent me from submitting a paper to the arXiv about a preliminary result, I couldn't help but write up these thoughts on the excess in the context of Supersplit Supersymmetry. Note, they do not represent any …