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 …

Warning I need to fix some css problems with pelican-bootstrap3 and embeded notebooks.

You might want to view the notebook with nbviewer instead.

Recently I've been learning more about docker and all the things it can do for us. My student Lukas Heinrich has been working on the Recast project and using docker heavily. In parallel, Tim Head and I have been talking a lot about projects like binder and everware, which let …