PHYSTAT2011

from Monday 17 January 2011 (08:00) to Thursday 20 January 2011 (18:30)
CERN (222/R-001)

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
17 Jan 2011
18 Jan 2011
19 Jan 2011
20 Jan 2011
AM
08:45
Registration (until 09:15)
09:15 Introduction - Sergio Bertolucci (CERN)  
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Video in CDS
09:30 Open issues in the wake of Banff 2010 - Luc Demortier (High Energy Physics - Rockefeller University) Prof. Luc Demortier (The Rockefeller University)  
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10:20 --- Coffee break ---
10:50 Discovery problems: a statistical view - David Cox  
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11:40 Bayesian approach to discovery - James Berger (Duke University)  
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09:00 Combining significances - Nikolai Krasnikov (Institute for Nuclear Research (INR))  
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09:20 Experience from searches at the Tevatron - Harrison Prosper (Department of Physics, B-159-Florida State University)  
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10:10 --- Coffee break and Poster Session ---
10:40 Combining ATLAS+CMS Higgs searches - Kyle Cranmer (NYU)  
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11:10 Likelihood ratios for search experiments - Glen Cowan (Royal Holloway)  
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11:40 Parton distributions: determining probabilities in a space of functions - Stefano Forte (Milan University)  
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09:00 Bayesian Analysis Toolkit for searches - Shabnaz Pashapour (Georg-August-Universitรคt Gรถttingen, II. Physikalisches Institut)  
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09:30 RooStats for Searches - Dr Grรฉgory Schott (Universitรคt Karlsruhe)  
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10:20 p-values for model validation - Frederik Beaujean (Max Planck Institute for Physics)  
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10:50 --- Coffee break ---
11:20 Detection of small/rare features - Sylvain Sardy (Universitรฉ de Genรจve)  
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Video in CDS
11:50 Searches in Astrophysics and Cosmology - Ofer Lahav  
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08:00
Workshop on unfolding and deconvolution (until 18:30)
08:45 Registration  
09:00 Introductory comments - Louis Lyons (Imperial College and Oxford)  
09:10 A statistician's view - Victor Panaretos (EPFL)  
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10:00 Unfolding methods for particle physics - Volker Blobel (UHH - Institut fuer Experimental Physik-Universitaet Hamburg-Un)  
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10:40 --- Coffee break, and poster session ---
11:10 Regularization and error assignment in unfolding - Guenter Zech (Universitaet Siegen)  
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11:40 Unfolding with SVD - Vato Kartvelishvili (Lancaster University)  
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12:10 Bayesian Unfolding - Katharina Bierwagen (Fak. fur Phys., II Physikal. Inst.-Georg-August-Universitaet Goe)  
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12:25 Discussion: comparison of HEP methods  
12:45 --- Lunch break ---
14:00 Iterative dynamically stabilized method of data unfolding - Dr Bogdan Malaescu (CERN)  
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14:25 SVD-based unfolding: implementation and experience - Kerstin Tackmann (CERN)  
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14:45 Regularization by control of resolution function - Michael Schmelling  
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15:05 ARU - towards optimal unfolding of data distributions - Hans Dembinski (KIT Karlsruhe, Germany)  
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15:30 Unfolding algorithms and tests using RooUnfold - Dr Tim Adye (RAL)  
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15:55 --- Coffee break ---
16:25 CMS unfolding - Matthias Artur Weber (Eidgenossische Tech. Hochschule Zuerich (ETHZ))  
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16:55 ATLAS unfolding - Dr Georgios Choudalakis (University of Chicago, Enrico Fermi Institute)  
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17:25 ALICE unfolding - Jan Fiete Grosse-Oetringhaus (CERN)  
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17:45 Summary and discussion - Victor Panaretos (EPFL)  
PM
12:30 --- Lunch break ---
14:00 Bayes and discovery - Jose Bernardo  
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Video in CDS
14:50 Discussion on reference priors  
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15:50 --- Coffee break ---
16:20 Reference priors and model inference - Maurizio Pierini (Conseil Europeen Recherche Nucl. (CERN))  
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16:50 CMS searches - Amnon Harel (University of Rochester)  
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17:20 ATLAS searches - Diego Casadei (New York University)  
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17:50 LHCb searches - Jose Angel Hernando Morata (Universidade de Santiago de Compostela)  
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18:30 --- Welcome drink ---
12:30 --- Lunch break ---
14:00 A Statistician's approach to setting limits - David van Dyk  
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14:50 Deriving upper limits on event magnitude, in case of non-detection, from gravitational wave searches - Christian Roever  
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15:20 Multichannel number counting experiments - Dr Valery Zhukov (University Karlsruhe)  
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15:50 --- Coffee break ---
16:20 Banff Challenge 2 - signal significance - Tom Junk (Department of Physics) Tom Junk (Department of Physics-Carleton University-Unknown)  
17:10 Global SUSY fits - Roberto Trotta (Imperial College London) Kyle Cranmer (NYU)  
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17:40 Profiling nuisance parameters for search experiments - John Conway (University of California, Davis)  
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19:00 --- Conference Dinner ---
12:40 --- Lunch break ---
14:00 Signal discovery in sparse spectra: a Bayesian analysis - Allen Caldwell (Max Planck Institute)  
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14:30 Look Elsewhere Effect - ofer vitells  
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15:00 An alternative view of LEE - Gioacchino Ranucci (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)  
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15:30 --- Coffee break ---
16:00 Conference Summary - Glen Cowan (Royal Holloway) Glen Cowan (Royal Holloway College-University of London-Unknown)  
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Video in CDS