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

PHYSTAT2011

from Monday, January 17, 2011 (8:00 AM) to Thursday, January 20, 2011 (6:30 PM)
CERN (222/R-001)

: Sessions

: Talks

: Breaks

Jan 17, 2011

Jan 18, 2011

Jan 19, 2011

Jan 20, 2011

8:45 AM	Registration (until 9:15 AM)
9:15 AM	Introduction - Sergio Bertolucci (CERN) Slides Video in CDS
9:30 AM	Open issues in the wake of Banff 2010 - Luc Demortier (High Energy Physics - Rockefeller University) Prof. Luc Demortier (The Rockefeller University) Paper Slides Video in CDS
10:20 AM	--- Coffee break ---
10:50 AM	Discovery problems: a statistical view - David Cox Paper Slides Video in CDS
11:40 AM	Bayesian approach to discovery - James Berger (Duke University) Paper Slides Video in CDS

9:00 AM	Combining significances - Nikolai Krasnikov (Institute for Nuclear Research (INR)) Slides Video in CDS
9:20 AM	Experience from searches at the Tevatron - Harrison Prosper (Department of Physics, B-159-Florida State University) Paper Slides Video in CDS
10:10 AM	--- Coffee break and Poster Session ---
10:40 AM	Combining ATLAS+CMS Higgs searches - Kyle Cranmer (NYU) Paper Slides Video in CDS
11:10 AM	Likelihood ratios for search experiments - Glen Cowan (Royal Holloway) Paper Slides Video in CDS
11:40 AM	Parton distributions: determining probabilities in a space of functions - Stefano Forte (Milan University) Paper Slides Video in CDS

9:00 AM	Bayesian Analysis Toolkit for searches - Shabnaz Pashapour (Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, II. Physikalisches Institut) Paper Slides Video in CDS
9:30 AM	RooStats for Searches - Dr Grégory Schott (Universität Karlsruhe) Paper Slides Video in CDS
10:20 AM	p-values for model validation - Frederik Beaujean (Max Planck Institute for Physics) Paper Slides Video in CDS
10:50 AM	--- Coffee break ---
11:20 AM	Detection of small/rare features - Sylvain Sardy (Université de Genève) Paper Slides Video in CDS
11:50 AM	Searches in Astrophysics and Cosmology - Ofer Lahav Paper Slides Video in CDS

8:00 AM	Workshop on unfolding and deconvolution (until 6:30 PM)
8:45 AM	Registration
9:00 AM	Introductory comments - Louis Lyons (Imperial College and Oxford) Paper Slides Unfolding_Introd.pdf Unfolding_Intro.pdf Unfolding_Intro.pptx
9:10 AM	A statistician's view - Victor Panaretos (EPFL) Paper Slides
10:00 AM	Unfolding methods for particle physics - Volker Blobel (UHH - Institut fuer Experimental Physik-Universitaet Hamburg-Un) Paper Slides
10:40 AM	--- Coffee break, and poster session ---
11:10 AM	Regularization and error assignment in unfolding - Guenter Zech (Universitaet Siegen) Paper Slides
11:40 AM	Unfolding with SVD - Vato Kartvelishvili (Lancaster University) Paper Slides
12:10 PM	Bayesian Unfolding - Katharina Bierwagen (Fak. fur Phys., II Physikal. Inst.-Georg-August-Universitaet Goe) Paper Slides
12:25 PM	Discussion: comparison of HEP methods
12:45 PM	--- Lunch break ---
2:00 PM	Iterative dynamically stabilized method of data unfolding - Dr Bogdan Malaescu (CERN) Paper Slides
2:25 PM	SVD-based unfolding: implementation and experience - Kerstin Tackmann (CERN) Paper Slides
2:45 PM	Regularization by control of resolution function - Michael Schmelling Paper Slides
3:05 PM	ARU - towards optimal unfolding of data distributions - Hans Dembinski (KIT Karlsruhe, Germany) Paper Slides
3:30 PM	Unfolding algorithms and tests using RooUnfold - Dr Tim Adye (RAL) Paper Slides
3:55 PM	--- Coffee break ---
4:25 PM	CMS unfolding - Matthias Artur Weber (Eidgenossische Tech. Hochschule Zuerich (ETHZ)) Paper Slides
4:55 PM	ATLAS unfolding - Dr Georgios Choudalakis (University of Chicago, Enrico Fermi Institute) Paper Slides
5:25 PM	ALICE unfolding - Jan Fiete Grosse-Oetringhaus (CERN) Paper Slides
5:45 PM	Summary and discussion - Victor Panaretos (EPFL)

12:30 PM	--- Lunch break ---
2:00 PM	Bayes and discovery - Jose Bernardo Paper Slides Video in CDS
2:50 PM	Discussion on reference priors Paper
3:50 PM	--- Coffee break ---
4:20 PM	Reference priors and model inference - Maurizio Pierini (Conseil Europeen Recherche Nucl. (CERN)) Paper Slides Video in CDS
4:50 PM	CMS searches - Amnon Harel (University of Rochester) Paper Slides Video in CDS
5:20 PM	ATLAS searches - Diego Casadei (New York University) Paper Slides Video in CDS
5:50 PM	LHCb searches - Jose Angel Hernando Morata (Universidade de Santiago de Compostela) Paper Slides Video in CDS
6:30 PM	--- Welcome drink ---

12:30 PM	--- Lunch break ---
2:00 PM	A Statistician's approach to setting limits - David van Dyk Paper Slides Video in CDS
2:50 PM	Deriving upper limits on event magnitude, in case of non-detection, from gravitational wave searches - Christian Roever Paper Slides Video in CDS
3:20 PM	Multichannel number counting experiments - Dr Valery Zhukov (University Karlsruhe) Paper Slides Video in CDS
3:50 PM	--- Coffee break ---
4:20 PM	Banff Challenge 2 - signal significance - Tom Junk (Department of Physics) Tom Junk (Department of Physics-Carleton University-Unknown) Paper Slides bc2results_1.pdf bc2results_1.pptx bc2results_junk.pdf bc2results_junk.pptx Video in CDS
5:10 PM	Global SUSY fits - Roberto Trotta (Imperial College London) Kyle Cranmer (NYU) Paper Slides Video in CDS
5:40 PM	Profiling nuisance parameters for search experiments - John Conway (University of California, Davis) Paper Slides Video in CDS
7:00 PM	--- Conference Dinner ---

12:40 PM	--- Lunch break ---
2:00 PM	Signal discovery in sparse spectra: a Bayesian analysis - Allen Caldwell (Max Planck Institute) Paper Slides Video in CDS
2:30 PM	Look Elsewhere Effect - ofer vitells Paper Slides Video in CDS
3:00 PM	An alternative view of LEE - Gioacchino Ranucci (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare) Paper Slides Video in CDS
3:30 PM	--- Coffee break ---
4:00 PM	Conference Summary - Glen Cowan (Royal Holloway) Glen Cowan (Royal Holloway College-University of London-Unknown) Paper Slides Video in CDS

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