PHYSTAT - Statistics meets ML

from Monday, September 9, 2024 (2:00 AM) to Thursday, September 12, 2024 (6:00 PM)
Imperial College London (Lecture Theatre 2, Blackett Laboratory)

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
Sep 9, 2024
Sep 10, 2024
Sep 11, 2024
Sep 12, 2024
AM
8:30 AM
Registration (until 9:00 AM) (Lecture Theatre 2, Blackett Laboratory)
9:00 AM
Talks - Wouter Verkerke (Nikhef National institute for subatomic physics (NL)) (until 10:30 AM) (Lecture Theatre 2, Blackett Laboratory)
9:00 AM Welcome   (Lecture Theatre 2, Blackett Laboratory)
9:15 AM ML in Particle Physics - Gregor Kasieczka (Hamburg University (DE))   (Lecture Theatre 2, Blackett Laboratory)
10:00 AM Lorentz-Equivariant Geometric Algebra Transformers for High-Energy Physics - Jonas Spinner   (Lecture Theatre 2, Blackett Laboratory)
10:30 AM
Break (until 11:00 AM) (Lecture Theatre 2, Blackett Laboratory)
11:00 AM
Talks - Alan Heavens (until 12:30 PM) (Lecture Theatre 2, Blackett Laboratory)
11:00 AM Cosmology and machine learning - Ben Wandelt   (Lecture Theatre 2, Blackett Laboratory)
11:45 AM Simulation-based machine learning for gravitational-wave analysis - Maximilian Dax   (Lecture Theatre 2, Blackett Laboratory)
9:00 AM
Talks - Daniel Mortlock (until 10:35 AM) (Lecture Theatre 2, Blackett Laboratory)
9:00 AM Theoretical and Societal Topics in AI and Deep Learning for Physicists - Pierre Baldi   (Lecture Theatre 2, Blackett Laboratory)
9:45 AM AI Benchmarks and Science - Jeyan Thiyagalingam (Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Science and Technology Facilities Council)   (Lecture Theatre 2, Blackett Laboratory)
10:10 AM Improved Weak Lensing Photometric Redshift Calibration via StratLearn and Hierarchical Modeling - Maximilian Autenrieth (Imperial College London)   (Lecture Theatre 2, Blackett Laboratory)
10:35 AM
Break (until 11:00 AM) (Lecture Theatre 2, Blackett Laboratory)
11:00 AM
Talks - Olaf Behnke (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DE)) (until 12:30 PM) (Lecture Theatre 2, Blackett Laboratory)
11:00 AM Simulation-based Inference (SBI) - Aishik Ghosh (University of California Irvine (US))   (Lecture Theatre 2, Blackett Laboratory)
11:45 AM Extending Unfolding Methods With Machine Learning - Vinicius Mikuni (LBL)   (Lecture Theatre 2, Blackett Laboratory)
9:00 AM
Talks - David A. van Dyk (Imperial College London) (until 10:15 AM) (Lecture Theatre 2, Blackett Laboratory)
9:00 AM Model misspecification meets ML: a HEP perspective - Alexander Held (University of Wisconsin Madison (US))   (Lecture Theatre 2, Blackett Laboratory)
9:45 AM Learned harmonic mean estimation of the Bayesian evidence with normalizing flows - Alicja Polanska (University College London)   (Lecture Theatre 2, Blackett Laboratory)
10:15 AM
Break (until 10:45 AM) (Lecture Theatre 2, Blackett Laboratory)
10:45 AM
Talks - Jason McEwen (until 12:35 PM) (Lecture Theatre 2, Blackett Laboratory)
10:45 AM Interpretability in Semi-Supervised Classifier Tests for Model-Independent Searches of New Physics - Mikael Kuusela (Carnegie Mellon University (US))   (Lecture Theatre 2, Blackett Laboratory)
11:15 AM pop-cosmos: investigating the explainability of a high-dimensional, data-driven generative model in cosmology - Hiranya Peiris   (Lecture Theatre 2, Blackett Laboratory)
11:45 AM Identifying Tau Neutrinos in IceCube - Philipp Eller (Wisconsin)   (Lecture Theatre 2, Blackett Laboratory)
12:10 PM Conditional generation - Tobias Golling (Universite de Geneve (CH))   (Lecture Theatre 2, Blackett Laboratory)
PM
1:15 PM
Registration (until 1:45 PM) (Lecture Theatre 2, Blackett Laboratory)
1:45 PM
Introductory talks. These optional talks are aimed at people who feel that they would like more background introductory material, before the next 3 days' taks. - Benedikt Maier (Imperial College (GB)) (until 3:45 PM) (Lecture Theatre 2, Blackett Laboratory)
1:45 PM Welcome - Louis Lyons (Imperial College (GB))   (Lecture Theatre 2, Blackett Laboratory)
2:00 PM Astro/Cosmology for others - Eleni Tsaprazi   (Lecture Theatre 2, Blackett Laboratory)
2:25 PM Particle Physics for others - Daniel Winterbottom (Imperial College (GB))   (Lecture Theatre 2, Blackett Laboratory)
3:00 PM Introduction to Machine Learning - Lucas Makinen (Imperial College London)   (Lecture Theatre 2, Blackett Laboratory)
3:45 PM
Break (until 4:15 PM) (Lecture Theatre 2, Blackett Laboratory)
4:15 PM
Introductory talks. These optional talks are aimed at people who feel that they would like more background introductory material, before the next 3 days' taks. - Matteo Agostini (until 5:35 PM) (Lecture Theatre 2, Blackett Laboratory)
4:15 PM Types of ML in Astro/Cosmology - Dr Niall Jeffrey (University College London)   (Lecture Theatre 2, Blackett Laboratory)
4:55 PM Types of ML in Particle Physics - Jonathon Mark Langford (Imperial College (GB))   (Lecture Theatre 2, Blackett Laboratory)
12:30 PM
Break (until 2:00 PM) (Lecture Theatre 2, Blackett Laboratory)
2:00 PM
Talks - Sergei Gleyzer (University of Alabama (US)) (until 3:30 PM) (Lecture Theatre 2, Blackett Laboratory)
2:00 PM Interpretable Machine Learning for Particle Physics - Jesse Thaler (MIT/IAIFI)   (Lecture Theatre 2, Blackett Laboratory)
2:45 PM Understanding and mitigating failures in anomaly detection: a probabilistic perspective - Lily Zhang   (Lecture Theatre 2, Blackett Laboratory)
3:30 PM
Break (until 4:00 PM) (Lecture Theatre 2, Blackett Laboratory)
4:00 PM
Talks - Robert Cousins Jr (until 6:00 PM) (Lecture Theatre 2, Blackett Laboratory)
4:00 PM Statistical tests for anomaly detection at the LHC - Gaia Grosso   (Lecture Theatre 2, Blackett Laboratory)
4:45 PM Detecting New Physics as data anomalies at the LHC: Transitioning from small-scale toy datasets to millions of complex proton collisions - Thea Aarrestad (ETH Zurich (CH))   (Lecture Theatre 2, Blackett Laboratory)
5:10 PM Anomaly aware machine learning for dark matter direct detection at the DARWIN experiment - Andre Joshua Scaffidi   (Lecture Theatre 2, Blackett Laboratory)
5:35 PM Feldman-Cousins’ ML Cousin - Joshua Villarreal   (Lecture Theatre 2, Blackett Laboratory)
6:00 PM
Social (until 7:15 PM) (Lecture Theatre 2, Blackett Laboratory)
6:00 PM Uncertainty-aware machine learning for the LHC - Nina Elmer   (Lecture Theatre 2, Blackett Laboratory)
6:01 PM Generative models: their evaluation and their limitations - Samuele Grossi (Università degli studi di Genova & INFN sezione di Genova)   (Lecture Theatre 2, Blackett Laboratory)
6:02 PM Limits to classification performance by relating Kullback-Leibler divergence to Cohen’s Kappa - Stephen Watts   (Lecture Theatre 2, Blackett Laboratory)
6:03 PM Graph neural networks on the test bench in HEP applications - Emanuel Lorenz Pfeffer (KIT - Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (DE))   (Lecture Theatre 2, Blackett Laboratory)
6:04 PM Interpolated Likelihoods for Fast Reinterpretations - Tom Runting (Imperial College (GB))   (Lecture Theatre 2, Blackett Laboratory)
6:05 PM Efficient machine learning for statistical hypothesis testing - Dr Marco Letizia   (Lecture Theatre 2, Blackett Laboratory)
6:06 PM Integrating Explainable AI in Data Analyses of ATLAS Experiment at CERN - Joseph Carmignani (University of Liverpool (GB))   (Lecture Theatre 2, Blackett Laboratory)
6:07 PM Proximal Nested Sampling with Data-Driven AI Priors - Henry Aldridge (UCL)   (Lecture Theatre 2, Blackett Laboratory)
6:08 PM Generative models of astrophysical fields with scattering transforms on the sphere - Matt Price   (Lecture Theatre 2, Blackett Laboratory)
6:09 PM Advanced techniques for Simulation Based Inference in collider physics - Giovanni De Crescenzo (University of Heidelberg)   (Lecture Theatre 2, Blackett Laboratory)
6:10 PM SBI for wide field weak lensing - Kiyam Lin   (Lecture Theatre 2, Blackett Laboratory)
6:11 PM Exhaustive Symbolic Regression: Learning Astrophysics directly from Data - Harry Desmond (University of Portsmouth)   (Lecture Theatre 2, Blackett Laboratory)
6:12 PM Usage of weakly correlated observables for nuisance parameter fits - Lars Stietz (Hamburg University of Technology (DE))   (Lecture Theatre 2, Blackett Laboratory)
6:13 PM Accounting for Selection Effects in Supernova Cosmology with Simulation-Based Inference and Hierarchical Bayesian Modelling - Benjamin Boyd (University of Cambridge)   (Lecture Theatre 2, Blackett Laboratory)
6:14 PM COmoving Computer Acceleration (COCA): Correcting Emulation Errors for Trustworthy N-Body Simulations - Deaglan Bartlett (Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris)   (Lecture Theatre 2, Blackett Laboratory)
6:15 PM Application of Machine Learning Based Top Quark and Jet Tagging to Hadronic Four-Top Final States Induced by SM as well as BSM Processes - Monika Machalová   (Lecture Theatre 2, Blackett Laboratory)
6:16 PM Accelerating High-Dimensional Cosmological Inference with COSMOPOWER - Alessio Spurio Mancini (Royal Holloway, University of London)   (Lecture Theatre 2, Blackett Laboratory)
6:17 PM Learning Optimal and Interpretable Summary Statistics of Galaxy Catalogs with SBI - Kai Lehman (LMU Munich)   (Lecture Theatre 2, Blackett Laboratory)
6:18 PM How to Unfold Top Decays - Sofia Palacios Schweitzer (Heidelberg) Tilman Plehn (Heidelberg University)   (Lecture Theatre 2, Blackett Laboratory)
6:19 PM Noise injection node regularization for robust learning - Noam Levi (Tel Aviv University)   (Lecture Theatre 2, Blackett Laboratory)
6:20 PM Modeling Smooth Backgrounds at Collider Experiments With Log Gaussian Cox Processes - Yuval Yitzhak Frid (Tel Aviv University (IL))   (Lecture Theatre 2, Blackett Laboratory)
6:21 PM Precision Machine Learning for the Matrix Element Method - Nathan Huetsch (Heidelberg) Tilman Plehn (Heidelberg University)   (Lecture Theatre 2, Blackett Laboratory)
6:22 PM The Landscape of Unfolding with Machine Learning - Xavier Marino (Heidelberg) Tilman Plehn (Heidelberg University)   (Lecture Theatre 2, Blackett Laboratory)
12:30 PM
Break (until 2:00 PM) (Lecture Theatre 2, Blackett Laboratory)
2:00 PM
Talks - Ryan James Nichol (UCL) (until 4:00 PM) (Lecture Theatre 2, Blackett Laboratory)
2:00 PM Generative Unfolding - Tilman Plehn (Heidelberg University)   (Lecture Theatre 2, Blackett Laboratory)
2:25 PM lsbi: linear simulation based inference - Dr William Handley   (Lecture Theatre 2, Blackett Laboratory)
2:50 PM Robust signal detection with classifiers decorrelated via optimal transport - Dr Purvasha Chakravarti (UCL)   (Lecture Theatre 2, Blackett Laboratory)
3:15 PM The statistics of deep generative models for the LHC - Ramon Winterhalder (UCLouvain)   (Lecture Theatre 2, Blackett Laboratory)
4:00 PM
Break (until 4:30 PM) (Lecture Theatre 2, Blackett Laboratory)
4:30 PM
Talks - Glen Cowan (Royal Holloway, University of London) (until 6:05 PM) (Lecture Theatre 2, Blackett Laboratory)
4:30 PM Fairness Methods in Particle Physics Event Classification - Oliver Rieger (Nikhef National institute for subatomic physics (NL))   (Lecture Theatre 2, Blackett Laboratory)
4:55 PM Systematics: Misery or Muse? - Kyle Stuart Cranmer (University of Wisconsin Madison (US))   (Lecture Theatre 2, Blackett Laboratory)
5:40 PM Development of systematic-aware neural network trainings for binned-likelihood-analyses at the LHC - Artur Monsch (KIT - Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (DE))   (Lecture Theatre 2, Blackett Laboratory)
7:00 PM
Social (until 9:00 PM) (Lecture Theatre 2, Blackett Laboratory)
12:35 PM
Break (until 2:00 PM) (Lecture Theatre 2, Blackett Laboratory)
2:00 PM
Talks - Kaisey Mandel (University of Cambridge) (until 3:30 PM) (Lecture Theatre 2, Blackett Laboratory)
2:00 PM Highlights, ML - Gilles Louppe Gilles Louppe   (Lecture Theatre 2, Blackett Laboratory)
2:45 PM Highlights, Statistics - Mikael Kuusela (Carnegie Mellon University (US))   (Lecture Theatre 2, Blackett Laboratory)
3:30 PM
Break (until 4:00 PM) (Lecture Theatre 2, Blackett Laboratory)
4:00 PM
Talks - Lydia Brenner (Nikhef National institute for subatomic physics (NL)) (until 5:45 PM) (Lecture Theatre 2, Blackett Laboratory)
4:00 PM Highlights, Astro/Cosmo - Luisa Lucie-Smith   (Lecture Theatre 2, Blackett Laboratory)
4:45 PM Highlights, Particle Physics - Lukas Alexander Heinrich (Technische Universitat Munchen (DE))   (Lecture Theatre 2, Blackett Laboratory)
5:30 PM Closing discussion   (Lecture Theatre 2, Blackett Laboratory)