I'm pretty excited about the Recast reintepretation framework. The basic idea is that we want to capture the data processing pipeline associated with a search for new physics and then provide an API to it (original paper ). This will allow scientists outside the big LHC collaborations to request that a …

I'm just finishing an intense and exciting week focusing a lot on the role of software and data in science. The big event was a workshop on Indexing Astronomical Software jointly organized by AAS and GitHub and supported by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. It was a small workshop with …

My first storify. Some physics based on the information of the Philae's big bounce in this article

Some news... I've joined the Crayfis collaboration.

A few months ago my friend Daniel Whiteson told me about his crazy idea to use the cameras in smart phones to detect ultra high energy cosmic rays. Sure, the CMOS sensor in your cell phone is basically the same as the technology …

One of the big perks of the academic career path is sabbatical -- a year or half-year without teaching, where you often travel to a different location and often focus on some big project or perhaps a totally new subject. My path to tenure was pretty quick PhD (5 yrs), post-doc …