Dr William Bell
Teaching Fellow
Computer and Information Sciences
Personal statement
I have performed experimental particle physics research, publishing analyses on detectors and data measurements, while working at national and international research institutes. My work has involved constructing new analysis approaches to standard model measurements and searches. I have led analyses in large international collaborations and served as a research group convenor, editorial board chair and journal reviewer.
I have led the development of computer software applications, within international collaborations and in the commerical sector. Within the commerical sector, I have worked as a senior consultant software developer in several different market areas. My experience of software development covers several decades, a range of different computer programming languages and different development lifecycles.
I have constructed a range of teaching materials for schools and the general public. I have contributed to and led public engagement events in France, Switzerland and the UK. I have published many computer programming articles and served as a computer programming magazine editor.
Area of Expertise
Computer programming languages: Assembler, Bash, BASIC, C, C++, C#, FORTRAN77, Java, LabVIEW, Perl, PHP, Python, SQL, VBA.
Databases: MariaDB, MongoDB, MySQL, Oracle, PostgreSQL, SQLite, SQL Server.
Architectures: Tandy TRS-80, BBC Micro, Amstrad CPC 464, Acorn Achimedies, Acorn A series, Z80, x86 PCs from 386 onwards, Dec Alpha, VAX, Sun Sparc, Intel-based Macs and a range of microcontroller and micropressor embedded systems.
Operating systems: Linux, Microsoft Windows, OSX (MacOS), RiscOS, UNIX, VMS and embedded systems.
Publications
- Differential top-antitop cross-section measurements as a function of observables constructed from final-state particles using pp collisions at √s = 7TeV in the ATLAS detector
- Aad G, Abbott B, Abdallah J, Abdel Khalek S, Abdinov O, Aben R, Abi B, Bell William,
- Journal of High Energy Physics Vol 2015 (2015)
- https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP06(2015)100
- Measurement of the tt production cross-section as a function of jet multiplicity and jet transverse momentum in 7 TeV proton-proton collisions with the ATLAS detector.
- Aad G, Abbott B, Abdallah J, Abdel Khalek S, Abdinov O, Aben R, Abi B, Abolins M, Bell William,
- Journal of High Energy Physics Vol 2015 (2015)
- https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP01(2015)020
- Measurement of the top quark pair production cross-section with ATLAS in the single lepton channel.
- Aad G, Abbott B, Abdallah J, Abdelalim A A, Abdesselam A, Abdinov O, Abi B, Abolins M, Bell William,
- Physics Letters B Vol 711, pp. 244-263 (2012)
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2012.03.083
- Measurements of single top quark production at ATLAS
- Bell W H
- Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron, DESY 339-342 (2012)
- A measurement of the ratio √ of the W and Z cross sections with exactly one associated jet in pp collisions at s = 7 TeV with ATLAS.
- Aad G, Abbott B, Abdallah J, Abdelalim A A, Abdesselam A, Abdinov O, Abi B, Abolins M, Bell William,
- Phys.Lett. B Vol 708, pp. 221-240 (2012)
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2012.01.042
- Charged-particle multiplicities in pp interactions measured with the ATLAS detector at the LHC
- , Aad G, Abbott B, Abdallah J, Abdelalim A A, Abdesselam A, Abdinov O, Abi B, Abolins M, Bell William
- New Journal of Physics Vol 13 (2011)
- https://doi.org/10.1088/1367-2630/13/5/053033
Teaching
- Practical software engineering.
- Computer programming with Python.
- Cloud computing.
- Container-driven development.
- Web services.
- Object relational mappers.
Research Interests
- Experimental particle physics.
- Data analysis and simulation of physical systems.
Contact
Dr
William
Bell
Teaching Fellow
Computer and Information Sciences
Email: william.bell@strath.ac.uk
Tel: Unlisted