About three weeks ago, Jodi and I hosted an old friend and colleague. While his primary purpose was to come to SMU to deliver a seminar on his recent work in neutrino physics, he accidentally got me thinking (again) about improving my electronic logbook experience. I’ve spoken before about different ways you can choose to [...]
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Electronic Logbook: LATEX Makeover!
November 11, 2009
Communication: Breakdown
April 8, 2009
It’s been a number of years since I had to think – I mean really think – about electronic communication and HEP. On BaBar, I became accustomed to a specific model of communication. E-mail for personal correspondence, for which no record inside the collaboration is necessary (e.g. arranging a meeting time); Hypernews for conversations whose [...]
Electronic Logbooks
March 26, 2009
I’ve experimented over many years with electronic logbooks. I got tired of literally cutting and pasting print-outs of plots into paper logbooks, swollen by glue and pictures, back in 2001. Since then, I’ve experimented with a number of different electronic logbook technologies. It’s important to me that they can be backed up, and that data [...]










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Steve Sekula is an Assistant Professor of Experimental Particle Physics at Southern Methodist University. He earned his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2004, and currently works on the BaBar Experiment at SLAC and the ATLAS Experiment at CERN.



