Jan Conrad
		Fellow of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences (akademiforskare), docent Stockholm University Fysikum AlbaNova University Centre SE-10961 Stockholm Sweden Tel: +46 (0)8 5537 8769 conrad at physto dot se
Publications	Teaching	Experiments	Former experiments
SPIRES Fermi GST Statistics ALICE Other
SPIRES
List from SPIRES
Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope
Presentations
A simple Chi2 analysis of the DC2 benchmark simulations Talk given on the Dark Matter Working group VRVS meeting, May 2006. The AMANDA neutrino telescope:results from GRB and Dark matter searches Talk given on GLAST Science Lunch, SLAC, Stanford, USA (March 2006)
Publications
Cosmological WIMPs, Higgs Dark Matter and GLAST A. Sellerholm, J. Conrad, L. Bergstrom, J. Edsjo, To appear in the proceedings of SciNe-GHE07, Frascati, Rome, Italy, 18-20 Jun 2007. Submitted to Frascati Phys.Ser. Searches for Particle Dark Matter with the GLAST Large Area Telescope J. Conrad for the GLAST LAT collaboration, Proceedings of Rencontres de la Physique de la Valee d'Aoste, La Thuile, Feb (2007) Preliminary results of the LAT Calibration Unit beam tests L. Baldini, G. Barbiellini, R. Bellazini, ..., J. Conrad (62 authors), THE FIRST GLAST SYMPOSIUM. AIP Conference Proceedings, Volume 921, pp. 190-201 (2007) GLAST sensitivity to cosmological Dark Matter annihilations into gamma-rays L. Bergstrom, J. Conrad, J. Edsjo, A. Sellerholm, THE FIRST GLAST SYMPOSIUM. AIP Conference Proceedings, Volume 921, pp. 504-505 (2007) Estimate for GLAST LAT Milky Way Dark Matter WIMP Line Sensitivity Y. Edmonds, E. Baltz, E. Bloom, J. Cohen-Tanugi, J. Conrad, G. Godfrey, J. Scargle, L. Wai, P. Wang, THE FIRST GLAST SYMPOSIUM. AIP Conference Proceedings, Volume 921, pp. 514-515 (2007) On Detecting Strange Quark Matter with GLAST-LAT P. Carlson, J. Conrad, THE FIRST GLAST SYMPOSIUM. AIP Conference Proceedings, Volume 921, pp. 518-519 (2007) Statistical analysis of detection of, and upper limits on, dark matter lines J. Conrad, J. Scargle, T. Ylinen, THE FIRST GLAST SYMPOSIUM. AIP Conference Proceedings, Volume 921, pp. 586-587 (2007) Fluctuation studies and energy reconstruction in a segmented calorimeter S. Bergenius Gavler, P. Carlson, J. Conrad     submitted to IEEE TNS, Talk given att IEEE/NSS-MIC, San Diego, USA, October (2006)
Statistics
Software
Software for the generalized Highland & Cousins method (POLE webpage) Software for the Profile Likelihood (TRolke)
Presentations
Upper limits and Discovery in Search for Exotic Physics Talk given at EPNT 2006, Uppsala, Sweden (September 2006). What should sensitivity estimates mean Talk given at NuFact06, Irvine, USA (August 2006). PHYSTAT 2005: Claiming Higgs discovery using the jack-knife and finding SUSY using RULES Talk given at Uppsala and Stockholm University (February 2006). Top background estimation Talk given at BNL ATLAS Physics meeting (by Fredrik Tegenfeldt). Confidence Intervals in Particle(Astro) Physics Talk given at Zurich University (November 2005). Remarks on confidence interval classes in ROOT (what should I use ?) Talk given on ROOT Users Workshop, Geneva, (September 2005). Likelihood Ratio intervals with Bayesian Treatment of Uncertainties: Coverage, power and combined experiments Talk given (by Fredrik Tegenfeldt) at PHYSTAT 2005, Oxford, (September 2005). Confidence Intervals including Systematics: The final answer? Talk given on Uppsala University, HEP seminar, (April 2004).
Publications
On sensitivity calculations for neutrino oscillation experiments J. Conrad, Nucl. Instrum. Meth., A580:1460-1465 (2007). The BIRS confidence interval problem treated with a hybrid Bayesian method J. Conrad, contributed to BIRS workshop on Statistical Inference in High Energy Physics, Banff, Canada, Juli 2006. Applying rule ensembles to the search for super-symmetry at the large hadron collider J. Conrad & F. Tegenfeldt, J. High Energy Phys. JHEP 07 (2006) 040. Likelihood Ratio Intervals with Bayesian Treatment of Uncertainties: Coverage, Power and Combined Experiments J. Conrad & F. Tegenfeldt, to appear in proceedings of PhysStat'05, Oxford, UK, September 2005, Imperial College Press. Limits and Confidence Intervals in Presence of Nuisance Parameters W. Rolke, A. Lopez, J. Conrad, Nucl. Instrum. Meth., A551:493-503 (2005). On Bayesian Treatment of Systematic Uncertainties In Confidence Interval Calculation F. Tegenfeldt & J. Conrad, Nucl. Instrum. Meth., A539:407-413 (2005). A Program For Confidence Interval Calculations For a Poisson Process With Background Including Systematic Uncertainties: POLE 1.0 J. Conrad, Comput. Phys. Commun. 158:117-123 (2004).  Coverage of Confidence Intervals For Poisson Statistics In Presence Of Systematic Uncertainties J. Conrad, O. Botner, A. Hallgren, C.P. de los Heros, Published in *Durham 2002, Advanced statistical techniques in particle physics* 58-63. Including Systematic Uncertainties in Confidence Interval Construction for Poisson Statistics J. Conrad, O. Botner, A. Hallgren, C.P. de los Heros, Phys. Rev. D67:012002 (2003).
ALICE
Presentations
Pixel Fast-OR: simulation Talk given on ALICE progress report (November 2005). SPD offline - status and outlook Talk given on SPD general meeting, ITS week, (November 2005). Beam Tests and Simulation of Prototypes of the ALICE Silicon Pixel Detector Talk given on Position Sensitive Detectors Conference, Liverpool, Sept 2005. The Pixel Fast-Or as minimum bias trigger in proton-proton collisons Talk given on ALICE Proton-Proton Physics meeting, Juli 2005. FAST-OR and VZERO Trigger in Proton-Proton Collisions: first look Talk given on CERN-SPD meeting, April 2005. ITS 2004 beam test offline: Update Talk given on SPD general meeting, ITS week (February 2005). ALICE Progress Report: Pixels-Offline Talk given on Alice Progress Report: Pixels (December 2004). ITS Beamtest 2004: Offline Software Talk given on SPD General Meeting, ITS week (November 2004). Techniques to estimate the intrinsic resolution of the ALICE Silicon Pixel Detector Talk given (with Paul Nilsson) on SPD General Meeting, ITS week (November 2004). Pixel Response simulation: Update Talk given on SPD General Meeting, ITS week (November 2004). Status of Test Beam Simulation and AliRoot Talk given on SPD General Meeting, ITS week (May 2004). SPD Test Beam Simulation: Status Talk given on ITS offline meeting, ITS week (May 2004). Confidence Interval Calculations including Systematics and AMANDA Talk given on ALICE Club (April 2004).
Internal reports
INT-2006-005 Simulation of the ITS 2004 test beam with FLUKA and the ROOT Geometrical Modeler TGeo. INT-2005-025. Minimum bias triggers in proton-proton collisions with VZERO and pixel detectors. INT-2005-022. Comparison of SPD beam test data with the simulation models in AliRoot. INT-2005-003. Techniques to estimate the intrinsic resolution of ALICE SPD.
Other
AMANDA/IceCube Old talks (takes you to another server)