<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1973325134074985276</id><updated>2011-04-26T09:19:15.155-07:00</updated><title type='text'>P.T.P Hutauruk</title><subtitle type='html'>"I want to know how God created this world.  I am not interested in this or that phenomenon, in the spectrum of this or that element.  I want to know His thoughts; the rest are details." -- Albert Einstein.  "If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?" - Albert Einstein</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://paradahutauruk.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1973325134074985276/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://paradahutauruk.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>parada hutauruk</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>11</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1973325134074985276.post-4952647307288801859</id><published>2009-04-30T02:00:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-04-30T02:01:06.081-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Happy 20th birthday, World Wide Web</title><content type='html'>&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Berners-Lee returned to CERN on 13 March this year to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the birth of the World Wide Web. He was joined by several web pioneers, including Robert Cailliau and Jean-François Groff, who worked with Berners-Lee in the early days of the project, and Ben Segal, the person who brought the internet to CERN. In between reminiscing about life at CERN and the early years of the web, the four gave a demonstration of the first ever web browser running on the very same NeXT computer on which Berners-Lee wrote the original browser and server software.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;The event was not only about the history of the web; it also included a short keynote speech from Berners-Lee, which was followed by a panel discussion on the future of the web. The panel members were contemporary experts who Berners-Lee believes are currently working with the web in an exciting way. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Berners-Lee's original 1989 proposal showed how information could easily be transferred over the internet by using hypertext, the now familiar point-and-click system of navigating through information pages. The following year, Cailliau, a systems engineer, joined the project and soon became its number-one advocate.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The birth of the web&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;" class="articleThumbnailLeft"&gt;&lt;a title="Robert Cailliau" href="http://cerncourier.com/cws/article/cern/38707/1/CCwww2_04_09"&gt;&lt;img src="http://images.iop.org/objects/cern/cern/thumb/49/4/18/CCwww2_04_09.jpg" title="Robert Cailliau" alt="Robert Cailliau" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Robert Cailliau&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;   &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Berners-Lee's idea was to bring together hypertext with the internet and personal computers, thereby having a single information network to help CERN physicists to share all of the computer-stored information not only at the laboratory but around the world. Hypertext would enable users to browse easily between documents on web pages that use links. Berners-Lee went on to produce a browser-editor with the goal of developing a tool to make a creative space to share and edit information and build a common hypertext. What should they call this new browser? "The Mine of Information"? "The Information Mesh"? When they settled on a name in May 1990 – before even the first piece of code had been written – it was Tim who suggested "the World Wide Web", or "WWW".&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Development work began in earnest using NeXT computers delivered to CERN in September 1990. &lt;a href="http://info.cern.ch/"&gt;Info.cern.ch&lt;/a&gt; was the address of the world's first web site and web server, which was running on one NeXT computer by Christmas of 1990. The first web-page address was &lt;a href="http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html"&gt;http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html&lt;/a&gt;, which gave information about the WWW project. Visitors to the pages could learn more about hypertext, technical details for creating their own web page and an explanation on how to search the web for information. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;To allow the web to extend, Berners-Lee's team needed to distribute server and browser software. The NeXT systems, however, were far more advanced than the computers that many other people had at their disposal, so they set to work on a far less sophisticated piece of software for distribution. By the spring of 1991, testing was under way on a universal line-mode browser, created by Nicola Pellow, a technical student. The browser was designed to run on any computer or terminal and worked using a simple menu with numbers to provide the links. There was no mouse and no graphics, just plain text, but it allowed anyone with an internet connection to access the information on the web.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;" class="articleThumbnailRight"&gt;&lt;a title="www@20" href="http://cerncourier.com/cws/article/cern/38707/1/CCwww3_04_09"&gt;&lt;img src="http://images.iop.org/objects/cern/cern/thumb/49/4/18/CCwww3_04_09.jpg" title="www@20" alt="www@20" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;www@20&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;   &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Servers began to appear in other institutions across Europe throughout 1991 and by December the first server outside the continent was installed in the US at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC). By November 1992 there were 26 servers in the world and by October 1993 the number had increased to more than 200 known web servers. In February 1993 the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign released the first version of Mosaic, which made the web easily available to ordinary PC and Macintosh computers.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;The rest, as they say, is history. Although the web began as a tool to aid particle physicists, today it is used in countless ways by the global community. Today the primary purpose of household computers is not to compute but "to go on the web".&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Berners-Lee left CERN in 1994 to run the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and help to develop guidelines to ensure long-term growth of the web. So what predictions do Berners-Lee and the W3C have for the future of the web? What might it look like at the age of 30? &lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;In his talk at the WWW@20 celebrations Berners-Lee outlined his hopes and expectations for the future: "There are currently roughly the same number of web pages as there are neurons in the human brain". The difference, he went on to say, is that the number of web pages increases as the web grows older.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;One important future development is the "Semantic Web" – a place where machines can do all of the tedious work. The concept is to create a web where machines can interpret pages like humans. It will be a "move from using a search engine to an answer engine," explains Christian Bizer of the web-based system groups at Freie Universität Berlin. "When I search the web I don't want to find documents, I want to find answers to my questions!" he says. If a search engine can understand a web page then it can pick out the exact answer to a question, rather than simply presenting you with a list of web pages.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;" class="articleThumbnailLeft"&gt;&lt;a title="Historic NeXT computer" href="http://cerncourier.com/cws/article/cern/38707/1/CCwww4_04_09"&gt;&lt;img src="http://images.iop.org/objects/cern/cern/thumb/49/4/18/CCwww4_04_09.jpg" title="Historic NeXT computer" alt="Historic NeXT computer" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Historic NeXT computer&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;   &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;As Berners-Lee put it: "The Semantic Web is a web of data. There is a lot of data that we all use every day, and it's not part of the web. For example, I can see my bank statements on the web, and my photographs, and I can see my appointments in a calendar, but can I see my photos in a calendar to see what I was doing when I took them? Can I see bank-statement lines in a calendar? Why not? Because we don't have a web of data. Because data is controlled by applications, and each application keeps it to itself."&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;"Device independence" is a move towards a greater variety of equipment that can connect to the web. Only a few years ago, virtually the only way to access the web was through a PC or workstation. Now, mobile handsets, smart phones, PDAs, interactive television systems, voice-response systems, kiosks and even some domestic appliances can access the web. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;The mobile web is one of the fastest-developing areas of web use. Already, more global web browsing is done on hand-held devices, like mobile phones, than on laptops. It is especially important in developing countries, where landlines and broadband are still rare. For example, African fishermen are using the web on old mobile phones to check the market price of fish to make sure that they arrive at the best port to sell their daily catch. The W3C is trying to create standards for browsing the web on phones and to encourage people to make the web more accessible to everyone in the world.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;• The full-length webcast of the WWW@20 event is available at &lt;a href="http://cdsweb.cern.ch/record/1167328?ln=en"&gt;http://cdsweb.cern.ch/record/1167328?ln=en&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;        &lt;/div&gt;&lt;h3 style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1973325134074985276-4952647307288801859?l=paradahutauruk.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://paradahutauruk.blogspot.com/feeds/4952647307288801859/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1973325134074985276&amp;postID=4952647307288801859' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1973325134074985276/posts/default/4952647307288801859'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1973325134074985276/posts/default/4952647307288801859'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://paradahutauruk.blogspot.com/2009/04/happy-20th-birthday-world-wide-web.html' title='Happy 20th birthday, World Wide Web'/><author><name>parada hutauruk</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1973325134074985276.post-6965105232546401356</id><published>2009-04-30T01:08:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-04-30T01:10:46.719-07:00</updated><title type='text'>NSCL researchers constrain nuclear symmetry energy at low density</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;" class="articleBody"&gt; &lt;p&gt;By analysing collisions between several combinations of tin nuclei, researchers at the Michigan State University National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory (NSCL) have refined the understanding of nuclear symmetry energy. Their work marks the first successful theoretical explanation of common observables that are related to symmetry energy in heavy-ion experiments. The results should help in discerning the properties of neutron stars, particularly in the crust region.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;div class="articleThumbnailRight"&gt;&lt;a title="Betty Tsang" href="http://cerncourier.com/cws/article/cern/38696/1/CCnew6_04_09"&gt;&lt;img src="http://images.iop.org/objects/cern/cern/thumb/49/4/7/CCnew6_04_09.jpg" title="Betty Tsang" alt="Betty Tsang" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Betty Tsang&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;   &lt;p&gt;The nuclear attraction between a neutron and a proton is, on average, stronger than that between two protons or two neutrons. The nuclear contribution to the difference between the binding energy of a system of all neutrons and another with equal numbers of protons and neutrons is known as the symmetry energy. To allow for this difference, formulae to calculate nuclear masses include a symmetry-energy term. This term often takes a form that assumes the symmetry energy to be independent of density, even though its value inside the nucleus, at normal density, should exceed its value at the surface, where the density is lower and the ratio of proton to neutron densities differs from that for the nuclear interior. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;The symmetry energy of a stable nucleus reflects typical nuclear densities of about 2–3 × 10&lt;sup&gt;14&lt;/sup&gt; g/cm&lt;sup&gt;3&lt;/sup&gt;; it contributes modestly to the binding energy but influences significantly the stability of nuclei against beta decay. Despite the sensitivity of nuclear masses to its average value, the precise understanding of the dependence of symmetry energy on density has proved elusive, leading to large uncertainties in theoretical predictions for properties of nuclei that are very rich in neutrons. The effects of symmetry energy loom even larger in environments that have unusual ratios of protons to neutrons and much larger ranges of density, such as in neutron stars. There, the dependence of the symmetry energy upon density is one of the most uncertain parts of the mathematical palette describing the forces at play. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Now, Betty Tsang, Bill Lynch, Pawel Danielewicz and colleagues have helped to constrain understanding of the density dependency of symmetry energy by studying how it affects heavy-ion reactions at NSCL's Coupled Cyclotron Facility (Tsang &lt;i&gt;et al.&lt;/i&gt; 2009). In two experiments, the team directed various beams of tin nuclei at stationary targets of tin. The four combinations included a beam of &lt;sup&gt;124&lt;/sup&gt;Sn (50 protons and 74 neutrons) on a target of &lt;sup&gt;124&lt;/sup&gt;Sn, &lt;sup&gt;112&lt;/sup&gt;Sn (62 neutrons) on &lt;sup&gt;112&lt;/sup&gt;Sn, &lt;sup&gt;124&lt;/sup&gt;Sn on &lt;sup&gt;112&lt;/sup&gt;Sn, and &lt;sup&gt;112&lt;/sup&gt;Sn on &lt;sup&gt;124&lt;/sup&gt;Sn. This allowed the researchers to create and study nuclear matter with different neutron-to-proton ratios over a range of density, which could be varied by adjusting the energy of the beam and the centrality of the collisions. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;The team collected data on several observables, including isospin diffusion, which probes the neutron-to-proton ratio of neutron-rich projectile nuclei after collisions with neutron-deficient target nuclei. During grazing collisions at relative velocities of 0.3 &lt;i&gt;c&lt;/i&gt;, a neck region with reduced density can form between projectile and target nuclei through which neutrons and protons can diffuse. The stronger the symmetry energy is in this neck region, the more likely the neutron-to-proton ratios in the projectile and target nuclei will equilibrate and become equal. A second observable involves comparisons of the energy spectra of neutrons and protons in central head-on collisions. In this case the symmetry energy expels neutrons from the central overlap region of the projectile and target nuclei; the ratio of neutron-to-proton emission then provides a probe of the variation in symmetry energy as the system compresses and expands during the collision.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;By comparing the experimental data to results obtained with theoretical models developed by their Chinese colleagues, YingXun Zhang and Zhuxia Li at the China Institute of Atomic Energy, the team obtained constraints on the density dependence of symmetry energy at densities ranging from normal down to around one third nuclear matter density. The results will help to describe the inner crust of neutron stars, where the density of nuclear matter is in the 1–2 × 10&lt;sup&gt;14&lt;/sup&gt; g/cm&lt;sup&gt;3&lt;/sup&gt; range. The role of symmetry energy at the cores of such stars, where the density of nuclear matter reaches 8 × 10&lt;sup&gt;14&lt;/sup&gt; g/cm&lt;sup&gt;3&lt;/sup&gt;, is currently associated with the largest uncertainty in descriptions of neutron stars. &lt;/p&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;           &lt;/div&gt;&lt;h3 style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Further reading&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;   &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;M B Tsang &lt;i&gt;et al.&lt;/i&gt; 2009 &lt;cite&gt;Phys. Rev. Lett.&lt;/cite&gt; &lt;strong&gt;102&lt;/strong&gt; 122701.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://cerncourier.com/cws/article/cern/38696" target="_blank"&gt;source : http://cerncourier.com/cws/&lt;wbr&gt;article/cern/38696&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1973325134074985276-6965105232546401356?l=paradahutauruk.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://paradahutauruk.blogspot.com/feeds/6965105232546401356/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1973325134074985276&amp;postID=6965105232546401356' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1973325134074985276/posts/default/6965105232546401356'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1973325134074985276/posts/default/6965105232546401356'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://paradahutauruk.blogspot.com/2009/04/nscl-researchers-constrain-nuclear.html' title='NSCL researchers constrain nuclear symmetry energy at low density'/><author><name>parada hutauruk</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1973325134074985276.post-8238931649443368937</id><published>2008-12-18T14:55:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-12-18T14:58:43.465-08:00</updated><title type='text'>100 world physics experts to meet at Depok</title><content type='html'>&lt;!-- google_ad_section_start --&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Depok, West of Java (ANTARA News) - No less than 100 world class physics experts from 24 countries will join a world conference held at the University of Indonesia (UI) campus, from Tuesday (Aug 19) through Saturday (Aug 23), a spokesperson of the university said here on Monday.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"This conference will be attended by some 100 participants from 24 countries. These people are outstanding physicians mostly from the MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)in the U.S and from Tokyo University in Japan. Japan will send 30 percent, the highest number, and Indonesia will be represented by 8 physicians," UI spokeswoman Devi Rahmawati, told ANTARA News&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;She said the conference themed "The Fourth Asia-Pacific Conference on Few-Body Problems in Physics 2008" (APFB08), and scheduled to be opened by Minister of Research and Technology Kusmayanto Kadiman along with Rector of UI Gumilar R Somantri and Dean of Science School Adi Basukriadi.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;She also explained that the conference to be held in Depok is the fourth for "few-body" problems in physics for the Asia-Pacific region.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The first conference held in 1999 at Tokyo, Japan. The next was held in 2002 in Shanghai, China, and the third was in 2005 in Nakhon Ratchasima, Thailand.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Devi further said the organizers have received a list of 94  abstracts which will be delivered on orally or in  posters.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;During the five-day meeting, the participants will discuss the latest techniques to solve "few-body" problems in physics and the latest findings in physics, she said. (*)(http://www.antara.co.id)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1973325134074985276-8238931649443368937?l=paradahutauruk.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://paradahutauruk.blogspot.com/feeds/8238931649443368937/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1973325134074985276&amp;postID=8238931649443368937' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1973325134074985276/posts/default/8238931649443368937'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1973325134074985276/posts/default/8238931649443368937'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://paradahutauruk.blogspot.com/2008/12/100-world-physics-experts-to-meet-at.html' title='100 world physics experts to meet at Depok'/><author><name>parada hutauruk</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1973325134074985276.post-792252917922050871</id><published>2008-10-17T13:12:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-10-17T13:52:35.601-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Breaking  News  From Broken Symmetries : Nobel Prize in Physics 2008</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style=";font-family:courier new;font-size:85%;"  &gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aflnEFxZ790/SPj3ebMC0VI/AAAAAAAAAOk/bB1ZDnupcis/s1600-h/kobayashi.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 89px; height: 126px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aflnEFxZ790/SPj3ebMC0VI/AAAAAAAAAOk/bB1ZDnupcis/s320/kobayashi.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5258224667021463890" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_aflnEFxZ790/SPj3Uu0orgI/AAAAAAAAAOc/TFnYgA0Iw7M/s1600-h/maskawa.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 93px; height: 131px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_aflnEFxZ790/SPj3Uu0orgI/AAAAAAAAAOc/TFnYgA0Iw7M/s320/maskawa.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5258224500493299202" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div  style="text-align: justify;font-family:courier new;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_aflnEFxZ790/SPj1t7u34zI/AAAAAAAAAOE/Oy_oX2GNbj4/s1600-h/nambu.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 97px; height: 130px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_aflnEFxZ790/SPj1t7u34zI/AAAAAAAAAOE/Oy_oX2GNbj4/s320/nambu.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5258222734432265010" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;The breaking news of this year in physics is a honor to three physicists who working on the spontaneous symmetries breaking. One of them is Prof. Y. Nambu &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;from the Enrico Fermi Institute, University of Chicago ,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;who got a half of the sharing prize. He got a prize for the discovery of the mechanism of spontaneous broken symmetry in subatomic physics. The second is Prof. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="h3teaser"  style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Makoto Kobayashi&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt; from the High Energy Accelerator Research Organization, Japan&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="h3teaser"  style="font-size:85%;"&gt; and the third one is Prof.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="h3teaser"  style="font-size:85%;"&gt; Toshihide Maskawa  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;from Kyoto University&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="h3teaser"  style="font-size:85%;"&gt;. Each of them got quarter of the sharing prize. Both proposed the theory &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;for the discovery of the origin of &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_aflnEFxZ790/SPj27fDZrXI/AAAAAAAAAOM/BuWGUYBvqWs/s1600-h/Spontaneous_symmetry_breaking.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 115px; height: 96px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_aflnEFxZ790/SPj27fDZrXI/AAAAAAAAAOM/BuWGUYBvqWs/s320/Spontaneous_symmetry_breaking.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5258224066763533682" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;the broken symmetry which predicts the existence of at least three families of quarks in nature.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Anyway, in the standard model, spontaneous symmetry breaking is accomplished by using the Higgs boson and is responsible for the masses of the W and Z bosons. A slightly more technical presentation of this mechanism is given in the article on the Yukawa interaction, where it is shown how spontaneous symmetry breaking can be used to give mass to fermions. The picture  on the  right  side is  a  famous  "Mexican  Hat" which describe the spontaneous symmetry broken.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1973325134074985276-792252917922050871?l=paradahutauruk.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://paradahutauruk.blogspot.com/feeds/792252917922050871/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1973325134074985276&amp;postID=792252917922050871' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1973325134074985276/posts/default/792252917922050871'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1973325134074985276/posts/default/792252917922050871'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://paradahutauruk.blogspot.com/2008/10/breaking-news-from-broken-symmetries.html' title='Breaking  News  From Broken Symmetries : Nobel Prize in Physics 2008'/><author><name>parada hutauruk</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aflnEFxZ790/SPj3ebMC0VI/AAAAAAAAAOk/bB1ZDnupcis/s72-c/kobayashi.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1973325134074985276.post-1795990769319518633</id><published>2008-10-09T14:01:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-10-09T14:21:08.936-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Bayesian Analysis in Kaon Photoproduction</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aflnEFxZ790/SO50lTHAhsI/AAAAAAAAAMk/4q-da6GZcR4/s1600-h/Lambdareaction.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aflnEFxZ790/SO50lTHAhsI/AAAAAAAAAMk/4q-da6GZcR4/s320/Lambdareaction.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5255265999321597634" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Angular distributions of differential cross sections from the latest &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;CLAS data sets ~\cite{bradford}, for the reaction ${\gamma}+p&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;{\rightarrow} K^{+} + {\Lambda}$ have been analyzed using associated &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Legendre polynomials. This analysis is based upon theoretical calculations &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;in Ref.~\cite{fasano} where all sixteen observables in kaon &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;photoproduction can be classified into four Legendre classes. Each &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;observable can be described by an expansion of associated Legendre &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;polynomial functions. One of the questions to be addressed is how many &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;associated Legendre polynomials are required to describe the data. In &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;this preliminary analysis, we used data models with different numbers &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;of associated Legendre polynomials. We then compared these models by &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;calculating posterior probabilities of the models.  We found that the &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;CLAS data set needs no more than four associated Legendre polynomials&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;to describe the differential cross section data. In addition, we also &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;show the extracted coefficients of the best model.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:85%;" &gt;Introduction&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Significant information on the structure of the nucleon can be &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;obtained by studying its excitation spectrum. Over the last few &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;decades, a large amount information about the spectrum of the nucleon &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;has been collected. Most of this information has been extracted from &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;pion-induced and pion photoproduction reactions. However, pionic &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;reactions may have biased the information on the existence of certain &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;resonances. Constituent quark model calculations predict a much richer &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;resonance spectrum than has been observed in pion production &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;experiments~\cite{capstick}. Predicted resonances which have not been &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;observed are called "missing" resonances. Instead, the constituent &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;quark model also predicts that these "missing" resonances may couple &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;strongly to  K$\Lambda$ and K$\Sigma$ channels or &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;other final states involving vector &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;mesons~\cite{capstick,mart1,mart2}. Since performing kaon-hyperon, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;kaon-nucleon or hyperon-nucleon scattering experiments is a daunting &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;task, kaon photoproduction on the nucleon appears to be a good &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;alternative solution~\cite{mart1,mart2}.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Experiments on kaon photoproduction and electroproduction started in &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;the 1960s. However the old experimental data are often inconsistent &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;and have large error bars. In recent years a large amount of data for &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;kaon photoproduction has been collected. High statistics &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;data from CLAS, for differential cross sections, recoil polarization, $C_{x}$ an&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;d &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;$C_{z}$ double polarizations for the reaction $\gamma + p \rightarrow &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;K^{+} + \Lambda$ have been published~\cite{bradford,bradfor2}. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Additional experimental data have also been measured by &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;SAPHIR~\cite{glander,tran,glander2}, LEPS~\cite{sumihama,zegers} and &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;GRAAL~\cite{leres}.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Several previous analyses have been applied to the results of these &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;experiments, such as &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Isobar models~\cite{mart1,mart2,ireland,janssen,janssen2} and &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Coupled channel models~\cite{shyklar,usov,penner}. However different &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;theoretical model calculations often produce very different &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;predictions. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;In Ref.\cite{fasano} all sixteen observables in kaon &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;photoproduction were shown to be classified into the classes &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;${\cal L}_0(\hat{{\bf I}};\hat{{\bf E}};\hat{{\bf C_{z'}}};\hat{{\bf&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;L_{z'}}})$, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;${\cal L}_{1a}(\hat{{\bf P}}; \hat{{\bf H}}; \hat{{\bf C_{x'}}}; \hat{{\bf&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;L_{x'}}})$, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;${\cal L}_{1b}(\hat{{\bf T}}; \hat{{\bf F}}; \hat{{\bf O_{x'}}};&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;\hat{{\bf T_{z'}}})$ &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;and ${\cal L}_2(\hat{{\bf {\Sigma}}}; \hat{{\bf G}}; \hat{{\bf &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;O_{z'}}}; \hat{{\bf T_{x'}}})$, where each class is an expansion in a &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;different set of associated Legendre polynomials. What is not apparent &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;is how many terms in each expansion are required. This work attempts &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;to address the issue by examining data models with different numbers &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;of terms, and calculating which one has the greatest posterior &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;probability. In this article we only focus on the differential cross &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;section observables, which are described by the associated Legendre &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;class ${\cal L}_0$.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;(PTPH)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1973325134074985276-1795990769319518633?l=paradahutauruk.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://paradahutauruk.blogspot.com/feeds/1795990769319518633/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1973325134074985276&amp;postID=1795990769319518633' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1973325134074985276/posts/default/1795990769319518633'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1973325134074985276/posts/default/1795990769319518633'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://paradahutauruk.blogspot.com/2008/10/bayesian-analysis-in-kaon-phoprodcution.html' title='Bayesian Analysis in Kaon Photoproduction'/><author><name>parada hutauruk</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aflnEFxZ790/SO50lTHAhsI/AAAAAAAAAMk/4q-da6GZcR4/s72-c/Lambdareaction.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1973325134074985276.post-2814216072344387758</id><published>2008-10-09T13:37:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-10-09T13:59:09.211-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Who was the Reverend Thomas Bayes?</title><content type='html'>&lt;center&gt; &lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.bayesian.org/images/bayes.jpg" border="2" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;  &lt;/center&gt; &lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Bayes, Thomas &lt;/b&gt;(b. 1702, London - d. 1761, Tunbridge Wells,    Kent), mathematician who first used probability inductively and established a    mathematical basis for probability inference (a means of calculating, from the    number of times an event has not occured, the probability that it will occur    in future trials).    &lt;/span&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;He set down his findings on probability in "Essay Towards Solving a Problem    in the Doctrine of Chances" (1763), published posthumously in the    &lt;i&gt;Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. &lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;   &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;The only works he is known to have published in his lifetime are &lt;i&gt;Divine    Benevolence, or an Attempt to Prove That the Principal End of the Divine    Providence and Government is the Happiness of His Creatures &lt;/i&gt;(1731) and    &lt;i&gt;An Introduction to the Doctrine of Fluxions, and a Defence of the    Mathematicians Against the Objections of the Author of the Analyst &lt;/i&gt;(1736)    which countered attacks by Bishop Berkeley on the logical foundations of    Newton's calculus. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Here is some more information about Bayes  taken from the book &lt;cite&gt;The Official Guide to Bunhill Fields&lt;/cite&gt;. Bunhill  Fields is a park in London, England where Bayes is buried (see The Burial Place  of Bayes below).  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;He was a Presbyterian minister in Tunbridge Wells from 1731, son    of the Rev. Joshua Bayes, a Nonconformist minister. It is thought that his    election to the Royal Society might have been based on a tract of 1736 in    which Bayes defended the views and philosophy of Sir Isaac Newton. A notebook    of his exists, and includes a method of finding the time and place of    conjunction of two planets, notes on weights and measures, a method of    differentiation, and logarithms. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Thomas Bayes' contributions are immortalized by naming a fundamental proposition in probability, called Bayes Rule, after him. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;(The following is quoted from the Encyclopaedia Britannica)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1973325134074985276-2814216072344387758?l=paradahutauruk.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://paradahutauruk.blogspot.com/feeds/2814216072344387758/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1973325134074985276&amp;postID=2814216072344387758' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1973325134074985276/posts/default/2814216072344387758'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1973325134074985276/posts/default/2814216072344387758'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://paradahutauruk.blogspot.com/2008/10/who-was-reverend-thomas-bayes.html' title='Who was the Reverend Thomas Bayes?'/><author><name>parada hutauruk</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1973325134074985276.post-4374951869292438302</id><published>2008-10-09T13:28:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-10-09T13:42:04.387-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Bayesian Analysis</title><content type='html'>&lt;h3&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;What is Bayesian    Analysis?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;  &lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;    What we now know as Bayesian statistics has not had a clear run since 1763.    Although Bayes's method was enthusiastically taken up by Laplace and other    leading probabilists of the day, it fell into disrepute in the 19th century    because they did not yet know how to handle prior probabilities properly. The    first half of the 20th century saw the development of a completely different    theory, now called frequentist statistics. But the flame of Bayesian thinking    was kept alive by a few thinkers such as Bruno de Finetti in Italy and Harold    Jeffreys in England. The modern Bayesian movement began in the second half of    the 20th century, spearheaded by Jimmy Savage in the USA and Dennis Lindley in    Britain, but Bayesian inference remained extremely difficult to implement    until the late 1980s and early 1990s when powerful computers became widely    accessible and new computational methods were developed. The subsequent    explosion of interest in Bayesian statistics has led not only to extensive    research in Bayesian methodology but also to the use of Bayesian methods to    address pressing questions in diverse application areas such as astrophysics,    weather forecasting, health care policy, and criminal justice. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;    Scientific hypotheses typically are expressed through probability    distributions for observable scientific data. These probability distributions    depend on unknown quantities called parameters. In the Bayesian paradigm,    current knowledge about the model parameters is expressed by placing a    probability distribution on the parameters, called the "prior distribution",    often written as &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;center&gt;    &lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.bayesian.org/bayesexp/bayesexp__1.png" alt="MATH" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/center&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;    When new data &lt;strong&gt;y&lt;/strong&gt; become available, the information they    contain regarding the model parameters is expressed in the "likelihood," which    is proportional to the distribution of the observed data given the model    parameters, written as &lt;/span&gt;&lt;center&gt;   &lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.bayesian.org/bayesexp/bayesexp__2.png" alt="MATH" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/center&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;    This information is then combined with the prior to produce an updated    probability distribution called the "posterior distribution," on which all    Bayesian inference is based. Bayes' Theorem, an elementary identity in    probability theory, states how the update is done mathematically: the    posterior is proportional to the prior times the likelihood, or more    precisely, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;center&gt;   &lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.bayesian.org/bayesexp/bayesexp__3.png" alt="MATH" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/center&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;    In theory, the posterior distribution is always available, but in    realistically complex models, the required analytic computations often are    intractable. Over several years, in the late 1980s and early 1990s, it was    realized that methods for drawing &lt;em&gt;samples&lt;/em&gt; from the posterior    distribution could be very widely applicable. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;    There are many reasons for adopting Bayesian methods, and their applications    appear in diverse fields. Many people advocate the Bayesian approach because    of its philosophical consistency. Various fundamental theorems show that if a    person wants to make consistent and sound decisions in the face of    uncertainty, then the only way to do so is to use Bayesian methods. Others    point to logical problems with frequentist methods that do not arise in the    Bayesian framework. On the other hand, prior probabilities are intrinsically    subjective -- your prior information is different from mine -- and many    statisticians see this as a fundamental drawback to Bayesian statistics.    Advocates of the Bayesian approach argue that this is inescapable, and that    frequentist methods also entail subjective choices, but this has been a basic    source of contention between the `fundamentalist' supporters of the two    statistical paradigms for at least the last 50 years. In contrast, it is more    the pragmatic advantages of the Bayesian approach that have fuelled its strong    growth over the last 20 years, and are the reason for its adoption in a    rapidly growing variety of fields. Powerful computational tools allow Bayesian    methods to tackle large and complex statistical problems with relative ease,    where frequentist methods can only approximate or fail altogether. Bayesian    modelling methods provide natural ways for people in many disciplines to    structure their data and knowledge, and they yield direct and intuitive    answers to the practitioner's questions. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;    There are many varieties of Bayesian analysis. The fullest version of the    Bayesian paradigm casts statistical problems in the framework of decision    making. It entails formulating subjective prior probabilities to express    pre-existing information, careful modelling of the data structure, checking    and allowing for uncertainty in model assumptions, formulating a set of    possible decisions and a utility function to express how the value of each    alternative decision is affected by the unknown model parameters. But each of    these components can be omitted. Many users of Bayesian methods do not employ    genuine prior information, either because it is insubstantial or because they    are uncomfortable with subjectivity. The decision-theoretic framework is also    widely omitted, with many feeling that statistical inference should not really    be formulated as a decision. So there are varieties of Bayesian analysis and    varieties of Bayesian analysts. But the common strand that underlies this    variation is the basic principle of using Bayes' theorem and expressing    uncertainty about unknown parameters probabilistically. (quoted from http://www.bayesian.org/ ).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1973325134074985276-4374951869292438302?l=paradahutauruk.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://paradahutauruk.blogspot.com/feeds/4374951869292438302/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1973325134074985276&amp;postID=4374951869292438302' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1973325134074985276/posts/default/4374951869292438302'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1973325134074985276/posts/default/4374951869292438302'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://paradahutauruk.blogspot.com/2008/10/bayesian-analysis.html' title='Bayesian Analysis'/><author><name>parada hutauruk</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1973325134074985276.post-8013965768109712366</id><published>2008-10-04T15:59:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-10-04T16:09:12.098-07:00</updated><title type='text'>KELVIN 2007</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_aflnEFxZ790/SOf3h92gevI/AAAAAAAAAMM/7oeKN3B2kR4/s1600-h/Kelvin-1000.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_aflnEFxZ790/SOf3h92gevI/AAAAAAAAAMM/7oeKN3B2kR4/s320/Kelvin-1000.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5253439653261900530" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Lord Kelvin was a giant of the 19&lt;sup&gt;th&lt;/sup&gt; Century Science, his fundamental contributions to thermal physics, electromagnetism and optics being matched by practical achievements ranging from undersea amplifiers to marine compasses.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;" o="urn:www.microsoft.com/office" st1="urn:www.microsoft.com/smarttags" st2="urn:www.microsoft.com/smarttags2" w="urn:www.microsoft.com/word" x="urn:www.microsoft.com/excel"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;In Glasgow, where Kelvin held the chair of Natural Philosophy for over 50 years, we plan to celebrate the 100&lt;sup&gt;th&lt;/sup&gt; anniversary of his death by inviting four leading scientists to look where the fields Kelvin started are now and where they are going. Sir Michael Berry will talk on vortices in light, Ed Hinds on cold atoms, Wilson Sibbett on telecommunications and Denis Weaire on Foams and Kelvin’s Legacy. The event will be chaired by the current holder of the Kelvin Chair, David Saxon.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;" o="urn:www.microsoft.com/office" st1="urn:www.microsoft.com/smarttags" st2="urn:www.microsoft.com/smarttags2" w="urn:www.microsoft.com/word" x="urn:www.microsoft.com/excel"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;This event will be held in the recently renovated Kelvin Gallery within the historic buildings of Glasgow University and adjacent to the Huntarian Gallery and Kelvin Exhibition.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1973325134074985276-8013965768109712366?l=paradahutauruk.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://paradahutauruk.blogspot.com/feeds/8013965768109712366/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1973325134074985276&amp;postID=8013965768109712366' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1973325134074985276/posts/default/8013965768109712366'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1973325134074985276/posts/default/8013965768109712366'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://paradahutauruk.blogspot.com/2008/10/kelvin-2007.html' title='KELVIN 2007'/><author><name>parada hutauruk</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_aflnEFxZ790/SOf3h92gevI/AAAAAAAAAMM/7oeKN3B2kR4/s72-c/Kelvin-1000.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1973325134074985276.post-1186972245890783417</id><published>2008-10-04T04:04:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-10-04T04:34:50.109-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Asia -Pacific Few Body 2008 Conference 2008</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aflnEFxZ790/SOdOeXlFIEI/AAAAAAAAAL8/KKEqrTrRNVY/s1600-h/apfb08-panorama-560.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aflnEFxZ790/SOdOeXlFIEI/AAAAAAAAAL8/KKEqrTrRNVY/s320/apfb08-panorama-560.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5253253773983555650" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: times new roman;"&gt;I&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt; was very glad to attend the Asia-Pacific Few Body 2008 in my own country. This conference, i thought the biggest conference in nuclear physics which there was in Indonesia as long as i knew. That was one reason why i attended this conference. Another reason is  because i got  funding support from department, so i can back to Indonesia with free  beside attend the conference :). Anyway, the conference started on 19-23 August in Indonesia University. The chairmans of local committee are Dr. Imam Fachruddin  and  Prof. Dr. Terry Mart. This conference attended the physicist from many country such as Japan, USA, Germany, Iran, Australia, Thailand, UK. Almost all of the participant presented about N-N interaction (two body), N-N-N interaction (three body), Kaon Photoproduction as well as the experimental.(PTPH)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1973325134074985276-1186972245890783417?l=paradahutauruk.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://paradahutauruk.blogspot.com/feeds/1186972245890783417/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1973325134074985276&amp;postID=1186972245890783417' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1973325134074985276/posts/default/1186972245890783417'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1973325134074985276/posts/default/1186972245890783417'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://paradahutauruk.blogspot.com/2008/10/asia-pacific-few-body-2008-conference.html' title='Asia -Pacific Few Body 2008 Conference 2008'/><author><name>parada hutauruk</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aflnEFxZ790/SOdOeXlFIEI/AAAAAAAAAL8/KKEqrTrRNVY/s72-c/apfb08-panorama-560.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1973325134074985276.post-2769926597919170393</id><published>2007-04-30T14:47:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-10-04T04:03:30.133-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Fifth International Conference on  PERSPECTIVES IN HADRONIC PHYSICS</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;div face="verdana" style="text-align: justify; color: rgb(204, 255, 255);"&gt;&lt;a style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aflnEFxZ790/RjZkig2dMOI/AAAAAAAAAAk/22jwPx1pu3s/s1600-h/Picture+164.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aflnEFxZ790/RjZkig2dMOI/AAAAAAAAAAk/22jwPx1pu3s/s320/Picture+164.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5059341775494000866" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:times new roman;font-size:85%;"  &gt;Foto pada Fifth International Conference on  PERSPECTIVES IN HADRONIC PHYSICS, Particle-Nucleus and Nucleus-Nucleus Scattering at Relativistic Energies, Trieste Italy, 22 - 26 May 2006. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" &gt;From left to right, Suing Paccha Ruben Dario ( Equator), Roy J. Glauber (USA), Arnau Rios (SPAIN) and me&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(204, 204, 204);font-family:trebuchet ms;" &gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"&gt;Roy J. Glauber attended this conference to give a talk about the quantum theory of optical coherence.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"&gt;Many nuclear physicist and theorist attended this conference to give a talk about their working. Nuclear theorist presented about Deep Inelastic Scattering (DIS), nucleus-nucleus interaction such as proton-neutron interaction, proton-proton interaction, and nuclear matter. Later, nuclear physics or experimentalist presented what they measured in their experiment and explained the challenge or opportunity which they are going to do in their next experiment.  They also offered the nuclear theorist to submit proposal to them for doing collaboration.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;Through Deep Inelastic Scattering, the nuclear theorist tried to study and understand the interaction between quarks in protons and neutrons on the nucleus as well as spin of the quark and gluon. Another presenter presented about extreme density in nuclear matter and neutron star properties and Pentaquark. One of them was me.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1973325134074985276-2769926597919170393?l=paradahutauruk.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://paradahutauruk.blogspot.com/feeds/2769926597919170393/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1973325134074985276&amp;postID=2769926597919170393' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1973325134074985276/posts/default/2769926597919170393'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1973325134074985276/posts/default/2769926597919170393'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://paradahutauruk.blogspot.com/2007/04/ictp-conference.html' title='Fifth International Conference on  PERSPECTIVES IN HADRONIC PHYSICS'/><author><name>parada hutauruk</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aflnEFxZ790/RjZkig2dMOI/AAAAAAAAAAk/22jwPx1pu3s/s72-c/Picture+164.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1973325134074985276.post-3535800391157179929</id><published>2007-04-17T14:07:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-10-04T16:06:40.224-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Dari Quark ke Manusia</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_aflnEFxZ790/SOf22ZfmAfI/AAAAAAAAAME/WF7JC64EYM8/s1600-h/top_center.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_aflnEFxZ790/SOf22ZfmAfI/AAAAAAAAAME/WF7JC64EYM8/s320/top_center.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5253438904767742450" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;"  &gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;Pengetahuan&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(204, 204, 204);"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;tentang peradaban manusia dan semua interaksi di alam hampir dapat dijelaskan secara keseluruhan dengan ilmu fisika. Dimulai dengan ditemukannya atom sebagai penyusun terkecil materi oleh Demokritus pada abad ke-5 SM. Dilanjutkan dengan ditemukannya proton yang ditemukan oleh Ernest Rutherford pada tahun 1918 melalui eksperimennya dimana partikel alpha sebagai proyektil digunakan untuk membombardir  gas Nitrogen sebagai target. Dan ditemukannya elektron oleh JJ. Thompson serta ditemukannya netron oleh James Chadwick pada tahun 1932.  Pada tahun 1961, Murray Gell-Man dan Kazuhiko menemukan quark yang dikenal sebagai quark model.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;"  &gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(204, 204, 204);"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;Dengan ditemukannya quark,&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;maka terbukalah jalan bagi kita untuk bisa menjelaskan interaksi yang terjadi secara mikroskopis yang terjadi dalam tubuh manusia. Tubuh manusia tersusun dari organ-organ tubuh seperti organ pernafasan, organ pencernaan dan lainnya. Kemudian, organ tubuh disusun oleh jaringan-jaringan. Jaringan terdiri dari sel-sel. Sel terdiri dari molekul-molekul. Molekul terdiri dari atom-atom. Atom terdiri dari inti atom dan elektron (Lepton). Inti atom terdiri dari nukleon-nukleon yang tersusun dari proton dan netron. Setelah ditemukannya quark maka proton dan netron bukanlah partikel elementer lagi, dimana proton dan netron tersusun dari tiga quark yakni uud (dibaca : Up, Up, Down), netron disusun oleh udd (dibaca: Up,Down,Down) secara berturutan.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:85%;" &gt;Dengan diketahuinya penyusun elementer dari tubuh manusia maka terbuka jalan untuk mengetahui apa sebenarnya yang terjadi didalam tubuh manusia dan bagaimana tubuh manusia bisa tersusun sedemikian rupa. Benarkah ini bisa dijelaskan dan benar-benar bisa diteliti? Untuk menjawab pertanyaan ini, tidak bisa dengan menulis dan berteori ria, so lets do it.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1973325134074985276-3535800391157179929?l=paradahutauruk.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://paradahutauruk.blogspot.com/feeds/3535800391157179929/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1973325134074985276&amp;postID=3535800391157179929' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1973325134074985276/posts/default/3535800391157179929'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1973325134074985276/posts/default/3535800391157179929'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://paradahutauruk.blogspot.com/2007/04/dari-quark-ke-manusia.html' title='Dari Quark ke Manusia'/><author><name>parada hutauruk</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_aflnEFxZ790/SOf22ZfmAfI/AAAAAAAAAME/WF7JC64EYM8/s72-c/top_center.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry></feed>
