Physicists and statisticians get technical in Durham

Durham University's Institute for Particle Physics Phenomenology hosted a conference on advanced statistical techniques in particle physics on 18-22 March this year. Building on the success of workshops held at CERN and Fermilab in early 2000 covering the extraction of limits from the non-observation of sought-for signals, the meeting covered a wider range of statistical issues relevant to analysing data and extracting results in particle physics. Astroparticle physics was also included, since many of the analysis problems encountered in this emerging field are similar to those in traditional accelerator experiments.