Tuesday, February 20, 2024

Lecture Course 2024

 Eight four-hour sessions (two-hour lecture and two-hour practicals)

 Schedule: from 13:30 to 17:30 every Tuesday from February 20 to April 09 2024.

Location: Nouvelle salle de Conseil (room E282, 2nd floor), Institut Charles Sadron (on the Cronenbourg campus of the CNRS).

Contact: Doru Constantin

Thursday, January 4, 2024

Introduction

Performing research in experimental physics involves acquiring, processing, analyzing and interpreting data with much higher proficiency than typically required during undergraduate studies. In particular, a rigorous treatment of measurement uncertainties is crucial for a proper validation of the hypotheses motivating the experiments. We aim to bridge this gap both at the theoretical and the practical level, so each session will consist of a lecture to introduce the concepts and a computer-based practical part where they will be applied. We will discuss the following topics:

  • Probabilities: random variables, distribution laws, moments
  • Sampling and statistics
  • Error and uncertainty: definitions, error propagation and composition
  • Linear fitting: weighting, parameter uncertainty. Confidence intervals
  • Nonlinear fitting: algorithms, constraints, difficulties
  • Introduction to Bayesian theory
     

Introduction

Performing research in experimental physics involves acquiring, processing, analyzing and interpreting data with much higher proficiency tha...