RESULTS OF THE ELECTRON NEUTRINO APPEARANCE SEARCH IN MINOS

In this talk I present the results of the search for electron-neutrino 
appearance in the MINOS far detector corresponding to an exposure of
3.14e20 POT. An observation of electron neutrino appearance would be 
an unequivocal sign of a non-zero theta_{13} mixing angle, which is 
the last unknown mixing angle in the three neutrino picture and which 
is inextricably linked to the existence of leptonic CP violation. I the
talk I review the two different approaches for event classification used 
in the analysis, with a special emphasis on a highly effective new technique 
developed at Caltech and where each event in the data is compared to very 
large libraries of simulated signal and background events. I also review the 
techniques used to predict our backgrounds, the derivation of our signal 
efficiency and systematic uncertainties as well as the prospects for future 
analyses.