PHYSTAT-SBI 2024 - Simulation Based Inference in Fundamental Physics

from Wednesday, May 15, 2024 (9:00 AM) to Friday, May 17, 2024 (6:40 PM)
Max Planck Institute for Physics

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
May 15, 2024
May 16, 2024
May 17, 2024
AM
9:00 AM --- Breakfast Coffee & Arrival ---
9:30 AM Welcome & Intro - Lukas Alexander Heinrich (Technische Universitat Munchen (DE))  
10:00 AM The frontiers of simulation-based inference (Part 1) - Gilles Louppe  
11:00 AM The frontiers of simulation-based inference (Part 2) - Kyle Stuart Cranmer (University of Wisconsin Madison (US))  
9:00 AM SBI in HEP Meets Reality - Alexander Held (University of Wisconsin Madison (US))  
10:00 AM Practical SBI for Measurements at the LHC - Jay Ajitbhai Sandesara (University of Massachusetts (US))  
10:30 AM --- Coffee Break ---
11:00 AM Precision systematics for unbinned hypothesis tests - Robert Schoefbeck (Austrian Academy of Sciences (AT))  
11:30 AM Dataset-wide inference in the presence of systematic uncertainties - Philipp Windischhofer (University of Chicago (US))  
9:00 AM Enabling ML Techniques for SBI I - Jakub Tomczak  
10:00 AM Sourcerer: Sample-based Maximum Entropy Source Distribution Estimation - Guy Moss  
10:30 AM --- Coffee ---
11:00 AM SBI Tools - Christoph Weniger  
PM
2:00 PM A Statistical Perspective on SBI - Paul Bürkner  
3:00 PM The Causal Chambers: Real Physical Systems as a Testbed for AI Methodology - Juan L. Gamella  
3:30 PM --- Coffee Break ---
4:00 PM Diagnostics in SBI - Julia Linhart  
5:00 PM Simulation-based Inference in Astrophysics - Dr Francesca Capel (Max Planck Institute for Physics)  
7:30 PM Beergarden  
2:00 PM SBI Cosmo - Laurence Perreault Levasseur  
3:00 PM Robust Bayesian Inference for Simulator-based Models - Harita Dellaporta  
3:30 PM --- Coffee Break ---
4:00 PM Model Misspecification and SBI - Antoine Wehenkel  
5:00 PM Goodness-of-Fit in SBI - Noemi Anau Montel  
5:30 PM PolySwyft: a sequential simulation-based nested sampler - Dr Will Handley  
6:00 PM --- Poster Session ---
2:00 PM Frequentist Topics in SBI - Ann Lee (Carnegie Mellon University)  
3:00 PM Classification under Nuisance Parameters and Generalized Label Shift in Likelihood-Free Inference - Luca Masserano  
3:30 PM Neural Simulation-Based Inference of the Neutron Star Equation of State directly from Telescope Spectra - Len Brandes (Technical University of Munich)  
4:00 PM --- Coffee Break ---
4:30 PM Physics Impressions - Aishik Ghosh (University of California Irvine (US))  
5:00 PM Stats/ML Impressions - Mikael Kuusela (Carnegie Mellon University (US))  
5:30 PM Closeout - Lukas Alexander Heinrich (Technische Universitat Munchen (DE))