"True measurements…false discoveries"

Note: *Coffee will be served at 3pm; Talk begins at 3:30pm
Speaker: Tiziano Camporesi , CMS-CERN Team Leader, and Resident Director, BU/CMS Internship Program

When: February 27, 2018 (Tue), 03:30PM to 04:30PM (add to my calendar)
Location: SCI 109
Hosted by: Lawrence Sulak
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This event is part of the Physics Department Colloquia Series.

The history of particle physics has seen extraordinary claims: some of them turned out to be false. In this colloquium, after some historical background, I will detail what experimenters do today to avoid false claims and certify real discoveries.