Next colloquium
Next colloquium
Wednesday, 26 June at 3 pm
Patrick Spradlin
Reproduction is the Heart of Empirical Science
Mistakes occur. It happens to everyone. Things go wrong and sometimes even stringent application of peer review cannot catch errors. For this reason, independent replication of results is at the foundation of empirical science, defining what we know to be true about the physical universe. Unfortunately, independent replication is becoming increasingly difficult in particle physics due to growing sample sizes, the impracticality of replicating large scale processing of data, and the often long intervals between successive experiments. I will discuss the importance of replication in particle physics using examples of unreproducible results from my personal experience in charm physics.
Colloquia 2018/19
Colloquia 2018/19
2018
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19/09/2018 |
Daniele Faccio (Glasgow) |
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26/09/2018 |
Steve Barnett (Glasgow) |
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10/10/2018 |
Daniel J. Smith (Glasgow) |
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24/10/2018 |
Laura Nuttall (Portsmouth) |
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7/11/2018 |
Ilja Gerhardt (MPI-FKF Stuttgart) |
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21/11/2018 |
Leo Molina-Luna (TU Darmstadt) |
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5/12/2018 |
Christian Bonato (Heriot-Watt) |
2019
Date |
Speaker |
Title |
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16/01/2019 |
Sally Jordan (Open University) |
Demographic gaps in physics retention and attainment: Myth and reality |
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23/01/2019 |
Ed Daw (Sheffield) |
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06/02/2019 |
Viv Kendon (Durham) |
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20/02/2019 |
Sir Michael Berry (Bristol) |
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6/03/2019 |
Susan Smith (ATLAS) |
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20/03/2019 |
Christoph Englert (Glasgow) |
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17/4/2019 |
Sneha Malde (Oxford) |
Beautiful and Charming CP violation: Looking for cracks in the Standard Model |
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14/5/2019 |
tba |
Colloquium on Mental Heath Awareness |
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22/5/2019 |
Andrew Laing (Texas Arlington) |
Double beta decay as a probe of the fundamental nature of the neutrino |
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26/6/2019 |
Patrick Spradlin |
Reproduction is the Heart of Empirical Science |
Wednesdays 3-4 pm
Room 257, Kelvin Building (unless otherwise stated)
Coffee and doughnuts available after the colloquium
All welcome!
Coordinated with the Strathclyde Physics Colloquia
Contact
Questions? Comments? Speaker suggestions?
Please use the dedicated padlet to leave your comment or contact Dr Jörg Götte
Joerg.Goette@Glasgow.ac.uk
Kelvin Building
Room 523
Ext 7563
