Friday, April 21, 2006

Checking In:... My favorite talk of the conference so far (although I have enjoyed most of them) was a joint talk given by Anthony Lasenby and Mike Hobson, both from Cambridge, in which they discussed in a very pedagogical way how one performs Bayesian estimates of whether cosmological datasets prefer one particular theoretical model over another one. (Via Cosmic Variance.) Hanna, it looks like the folks at home are paying attention... 9:36:16 PM