Name: PHYSTAT2011
Start: 2011-01-17T08:00:00+01:00
End: 2011-01-20T18:30:00+01:00
Location: CERN

PHYSTAT2011

from Monday, 17 January 2011 (08:00) to Thursday, 20 January 2011 (18:30)

Monday, 17 January 2011

08:45

08:45 - 09:15
Room: 222/R-001
09:15 Introduction - Sergio Bertolucci (CERN)
Introduction
- Sergio Bertolucci (CERN)
09:15 - 09:30
Room: 222/R-001
09:30 Open issues in the wake of Banff 2010 - Luc Demortier (High Energy Physics - Rockefeller University) Luc Demortier (The Rockefeller University)
Open issues in the wake of Banff 2010
- Luc Demortier (High Energy Physics - Rockefeller University)
- Luc Demortier (The Rockefeller University)
09:30 - 10:20
Room: 222/R-001
10:20 Coffee break
Coffee break
10:20 - 10:50
Room: 222/R-001
10:50 Discovery problems: a statistical view - David Cox
Discovery problems: a statistical view
- David Cox
10:50 - 11:40
Room: 222/R-001
11:40 Bayesian approach to discovery - James Berger (Duke University)
Bayesian approach to discovery
- James Berger (Duke University)
11:40 - 12:30
Room: 222/R-001
12:30 Lunch break
Lunch break
12:30 - 14:00
Room: 222/R-001
14:00 Bayes and discovery - Jose Bernardo
Bayes and discovery
- Jose Bernardo
14:00 - 14:50
Room: 222/R-001
14:50 Discussion on reference priors
Discussion on reference priors
14:50 - 15:50
Room: 222/R-001

15:50 Coffee break
Coffee break
15:50 - 16:20
Room: 222/R-001
16:20 Reference priors and model inference - Maurizio Pierini (Conseil Europeen Recherche Nucl. (CERN))
Reference priors and model inference
- Maurizio Pierini (Conseil Europeen Recherche Nucl. (CERN))
16:20 - 16:50
Room: 222/R-001
16:50 CMS searches - Amnon Harel (University of Rochester)
CMS searches
- Amnon Harel (University of Rochester)
16:50 - 17:20
Room: 222/R-001
17:20 ATLAS searches - Diego Casadei (New York University)
ATLAS searches
- Diego Casadei (New York University)
17:20 - 17:50
Room: 222/R-001
17:50 LHCb searches - Jose Angel Hernando Morata (Universidade de Santiago de Compostela)
LHCb searches
- Jose Angel Hernando Morata (Universidade de Santiago de Compostela)
17:50 - 18:20
Room: 222/R-001
18:30 Welcome drink
Welcome drink
18:30 - 19:30
Room: 222/R-001
Tuesday, 18 January 2011
09:00 Combining significances - Nikolai Krasnikov (Institute for Nuclear Research (INR))
Combining significances
- Nikolai Krasnikov (Institute for Nuclear Research (INR))
09:00 - 09:20
Room: 222/R-001
09:20 Experience from searches at the Tevatron - Harrison Prosper (Department of Physics, B-159-Florida State University)
Experience from searches at the Tevatron
- Harrison Prosper (Department of Physics, B-159-Florida State University)
09:20 - 10:10
Room: 222/R-001
10:10 Coffee break and Poster Session
Coffee break and Poster Session
10:10 - 10:40
Room: 222/R-001
10:40 Combining ATLAS+CMS Higgs searches - Kyle Cranmer (NYU)
Combining ATLAS+CMS Higgs searches
- Kyle Cranmer (NYU)
10:40 - 11:10
Room: 222/R-001
11:10 Likelihood ratios for search experiments - Glen Cowan (Royal Holloway)
Likelihood ratios for search experiments
- Glen Cowan (Royal Holloway)
11:10 - 11:40
Room: 222/R-001
11:40 Parton distributions: determining probabilities in a space of functions - Stefano Forte (Milan University)
Parton distributions: determining probabilities in a space of functions
- Stefano Forte (Milan University)
11:40 - 12:30
Room: 222/R-001
12:30 Lunch break
Lunch break
12:30 - 14:00
Room: 222/R-001
14:00 A Statistician's approach to setting limits - David van Dyk
A Statistician's approach to setting limits
- David van Dyk
14:00 - 14:50
Room: 222/R-001
14:50 Deriving upper limits on event magnitude, in case of non-detection, from gravitational wave searches - Christian Roever
Deriving upper limits on event magnitude, in case of non-detection, from gravitational wave searches
- Christian Roever
14:50 - 15:20
Room: 222/R-001
15:20 Multichannel number counting experiments - Valery Zhukov (University Karlsruhe)
Multichannel number counting experiments
- Valery Zhukov (University Karlsruhe)
15:20 - 15:50
Room: 222/R-001
15:50 Coffee break
Coffee break
15:50 - 16:20
Room: 222/R-001
16:20 Banff Challenge 2 - signal significance - Tom Junk (Department of Physics) Tom Junk (Department of Physics-Carleton University-Unknown)
Banff Challenge 2 - signal significance
- Tom Junk (Department of Physics)
- Tom Junk (Department of Physics-Carleton University-Unknown)
16:20 - 17:10
Room: 222/R-001
17:10 Global SUSY fits - Roberto Trotta (Imperial College London) Kyle Cranmer (NYU)
Global SUSY fits
- Roberto Trotta (Imperial College London)
- Kyle Cranmer (NYU)
17:10 - 17:40
Room: 222/R-001
17:40 Profiling nuisance parameters for search experiments - John Conway (University of California, Davis)
Profiling nuisance parameters for search experiments
- John Conway (University of California, Davis)
17:40 - 18:00
Room: 222/R-001
19:00 Conference Dinner
Conference Dinner
19:00 - 21:00
Room: 222/R-001
Wednesday, 19 January 2011
09:00 Bayesian Analysis Toolkit for searches - Shabnaz Pashapour (Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, II. Physikalisches Institut)
Bayesian Analysis Toolkit for searches
- Shabnaz Pashapour (Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, II. Physikalisches Institut)
09:00 - 09:30
Room: 222/R-001
09:30 RooStats for Searches - Grégory Schott (Universität Karlsruhe)
RooStats for Searches
- Grégory Schott (Universität Karlsruhe)
09:30 - 10:20
Room: 222/R-001
10:20 p-values for model validation - Frederik Beaujean (Max Planck Institute for Physics)
p-values for model validation
- Frederik Beaujean (Max Planck Institute for Physics)
10:20 - 10:50
Room: 222/R-001
10:50 Coffee break
Coffee break
10:50 - 11:20
Room: 222/R-001
11:20 Detection of small/rare features - Sylvain Sardy (Université de Genève)
Detection of small/rare features
- Sylvain Sardy (Université de Genève)
11:20 - 11:50
Room: 222/R-001
11:50 Searches in Astrophysics and Cosmology - Ofer Lahav
Searches in Astrophysics and Cosmology
- Ofer Lahav
11:50 - 12:40
Room: 222/R-001
12:40 Lunch break
Lunch break
12:40 - 14:00
Room: 222/R-001
14:00 Signal discovery in sparse spectra: a Bayesian analysis - Allen Caldwell (Max Planck Institute)
Signal discovery in sparse spectra: a Bayesian analysis
- Allen Caldwell (Max Planck Institute)
14:00 - 14:30
Room: 222/R-001
14:30 Look Elsewhere Effect - ofer vitells
Look Elsewhere Effect
- ofer vitells
14:30 - 15:00
Room: 222/R-001
15:00 An alternative view of LEE - Gioacchino Ranucci (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)
An alternative view of LEE
- Gioacchino Ranucci (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)
15:00 - 15:30
Room: 222/R-001
15:30 Coffee break
Coffee break
15:30 - 16:00
Room: 222/R-001
16:00 Conference Summary - Glen Cowan (Royal Holloway) Glen Cowan (Royal Holloway College-University of London-Unknown)
Conference Summary
- Glen Cowan (Royal Holloway)
- Glen Cowan (Royal Holloway College-University of London-Unknown)
16:00 - 17:00
Room: 222/R-001
Thursday, 20 January 2011
08:00
08:00 - 18:30
Room: 222/R-001
Contributions

08:45 Registration

09:00 Introductory comments - Louis Lyons (Imperial College and Oxford)

09:10 A statistician's view - Victor Panaretos (EPFL)

10:00 Unfolding methods for particle physics - Volker Blobel (UHH - Institut fuer Experimental Physik-Universitaet Hamburg-Un)

11:10 Regularization and error assignment in unfolding - Guenter Zech (Universitaet Siegen)

11:40 Unfolding with SVD - Vato Kartvelishvili (Lancaster University)

12:10 Bayesian Unfolding - Katharina Bierwagen (Fak. fur Phys., II Physikal. Inst.-Georg-August-Universitaet Goe)

12:25 Discussion: comparison of HEP methods

14:00 Iterative dynamically stabilized method of data unfolding - Bogdan Malaescu (CERN)

14:25 SVD-based unfolding: implementation and experience - Kerstin Tackmann (CERN)

14:45 Regularization by control of resolution function - Michael Schmelling

15:05 ARU - towards optimal unfolding of data distributions - Hans Dembinski (KIT Karlsruhe, Germany)

15:30 Unfolding algorithms and tests using RooUnfold - Tim Adye (RAL)

16:25 CMS unfolding - Matthias Artur Weber (Eidgenossische Tech. Hochschule Zuerich (ETHZ))

16:55 ATLAS unfolding - Georgios Choudalakis (University of Chicago, Enrico Fermi Institute)

17:25 ALICE unfolding - Jan Fiete Grosse-Oetringhaus (CERN)

17:45 Summary and discussion - Victor Panaretos (EPFL)