1st PhyStat School of Statistics: Statistics in the era of ML

from Monday, 17 November 2025 (09:00) to Friday, 21 November 2025 (18:00)


        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
17 Nov 2025
18 Nov 2025
19 Nov 2025
20 Nov 2025
21 Nov 2025
AM
10:00 --- Arrival ---
11:00 Introduction - Lydia Brenner (Nikhef National institute for subatomic physics (NL))  
11:05
Basics of Statistics - Robert Cousins Jr (University of California Los Angeles (US)) Robert Dacey Cousins Jr (Univ. of California Los Angeles (UCLA)) Robert Cousins Jr (until 13:05)
11:05 Lecture - Robert Dacey Cousins Jr (Univ. of California Los Angeles (UCLA)) Robert Cousins Jr Robert Cousins Jr (University of California Los Angeles (US))  
09:00
Fundamentals of Machine Learning - Tilman Plehn (until 11:00)
09:00 Lecture - Tilman Plehn (Heidelberg University) Tilman Plehn Tilman Plehn Tilman Plehn  
11:00
Fundamentals of Machine Learning (until 13:00)
11:00 Hands-on  
09:00
Simulation Based Inference (until 10:00)
09:00 Lecture - Jay Ajitbhai Sandesara (University of Wisconsin Madison (US))  
10:00
Simulation Based Inference (until 12:00)
10:00 Hands-on  
08:55 Group photo - Lydia Brenner (Nikhef National institute for subatomic physics (NL))  
09:00 Guest Lecture: Vision of the future - Gregor Kasieczka (Hamburg University (DE)) Gregor Kasieczka  
10:00
Anomaly Detection (until 12:00)
10:00 Lecture - Gaia Grosso (IAIFI, MIT)  
09:00
Advanced topics (until 12:00)
09:00 Lecture - Mikael Kuusela (Carnegie Mellon University (US))  
PM
13:05 --- Lunch ---
14:00
Basics of Statistics (until 16:00)
14:00 Lecture - Robert Dacey Cousins Jr (Univ. of California Los Angeles (UCLA)) Robert Cousins Jr Robert Cousins Jr (University of California Los Angeles (US))  
16:00
Basics of Statistics (until 18:00)
16:00 Hands-on  
18:00 Guest Lecture: What not to do - Roger Barlow (University of Huddersfield (GB))  
19:00 --- Dinner ---
20:00 --- Welcome Reception ---
13:00 --- Lunch ---
14:00
Fundamentals of Machine Learning (until 15:00)
14:00 Lecture - Tilman Plehn (Heidelberg University) Tilman Plehn Tilman Plehn Tilman Plehn  
15:00
Fundamentals of Machine Learning (until 16:00)
15:00 Hands-on  
16:00
Simulation Based Inference - Jay Ajitbhai Sandesara (University of Wisconsin Madison (US)) (until 17:00)
16:00 Lecture - Jay Ajitbhai Sandesara (University of Wisconsin Madison (US))  
17:00
Simulation Based Inference (until 18:00)
17:00 Hands-on  
18:00 Guest Lecture: What to do - Wouter Verkerke (Nikhef National institute for subatomic physics (NL))  
19:00 --- Dinner ---
12:00 Guest lecture: SBI for Gravitational Waves - Maximilian Dax  
13:00 --- Lunch ---
14:00
Simulation Based Inference (until 15:00)
14:00 Lecture - Jay Ajitbhai Sandesara (University of Wisconsin Madison (US))  
15:00
Simulation Based Inference (until 16:00)
15:00 Hands-on  
19:00 --- Dinner ---
12:00
Anomaly Detection (until 13:00)
12:00 Hands-on  
13:00 --- Lunch ---
14:00
Anomaly Detection (until 15:00)
14:00 Lecture - Gaia Grosso (IAIFI, MIT)  
15:00
Anomaly Detection (until 16:00)
16:00 Guest lecture: Anomaly detection in cosmology - Carolina Cuesta Lazaro  
17:00
Advanced topics - Mikael Kuusela (Carnegie Mellon University (US)) (until 18:00)
17:00 Lecture - Mikael Kuusela (Carnegie Mellon University (US))  
18:00 Guest lecture: Physics informed ML - Dr Purvasha Chakravarti (University College London)  
19:00 --- Dinner ---
12:00
Advanced topics (until 13:00)
12:00 Hands-on  
13:00 --- Lunch ---
14:00
Advanced topics (until 15:00)
14:00 Hands-on  
15:00 Guest Lecture: Interpretability - Rikab Gambhir (Rutgers State Univ. of New Jersey (US)) Rikab Gambhir (MIT)  
16:00 Wrap up