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

from Monday, November 17, 2025 (9:00 AM) to Friday, November 21, 2025 (6:00 PM)


        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
Nov 17, 2025
Nov 18, 2025
Nov 19, 2025
Nov 20, 2025
Nov 21, 2025
AM
10:00 AM --- Arrival ---
11:00 AM Introduction - Lydia Brenner (Nikhef National institute for subatomic physics (NL))  
11:05 AM
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 1:05 PM)
11:05 AM Lecture - Robert Dacey Cousins Jr (Univ. of California Los Angeles (UCLA)) Robert Cousins Jr Robert Cousins Jr (University of California Los Angeles (US))  
9:00 AM
Fundamentals of Machine Learning - Tilman Plehn (until 11:00 AM)
9:00 AM Lecture - Tilman Plehn (Heidelberg University) Tilman Plehn Tilman Plehn Tilman Plehn  
11:00 AM
Fundamentals of Machine Learning (until 1:00 PM)
11:00 AM Hands-on  
9:00 AM
Simulation Based Inference (until 10:00 AM)
9:00 AM Lecture - Jay Ajitbhai Sandesara (University of Wisconsin Madison (US))  
10:00 AM
Simulation Based Inference (until 12:00 PM)
10:00 AM Hands-on  
8:55 AM Group photo - Lydia Brenner (Nikhef National institute for subatomic physics (NL))  
9:00 AM Guest Lecture: Vision of the future - Gregor Kasieczka (Hamburg University (DE)) Gregor Kasieczka  
10:00 AM
Anomaly Detection (until 12:00 PM)
10:00 AM Lecture - Gaia Grosso (IAIFI, MIT)  
9:00 AM
Advanced topics (until 12:00 PM)
9:00 AM Lecture - Mikael Kuusela (Carnegie Mellon University (US))  
PM
1:05 PM --- Lunch ---
2:00 PM
Basics of Statistics (until 4:00 PM)
2:00 PM Lecture - Robert Dacey Cousins Jr (Univ. of California Los Angeles (UCLA)) Robert Cousins Jr Robert Cousins Jr (University of California Los Angeles (US))  
4:00 PM
Basics of Statistics (until 6:00 PM)
4:00 PM Hands-on  
6:00 PM Guest Lecture: What not to do - Roger Barlow (University of Huddersfield (GB))  
7:00 PM --- Dinner ---
8:00 PM --- Welcome Reception ---
1:00 PM --- Lunch ---
2:00 PM
Fundamentals of Machine Learning (until 3:00 PM)
2:00 PM Lecture - Tilman Plehn (Heidelberg University) Tilman Plehn Tilman Plehn Tilman Plehn  
3:00 PM
Fundamentals of Machine Learning (until 4:00 PM)
3:00 PM Hands-on  
4:00 PM
Simulation Based Inference - Jay Ajitbhai Sandesara (University of Wisconsin Madison (US)) (until 5:00 PM)
4:00 PM Lecture - Jay Ajitbhai Sandesara (University of Wisconsin Madison (US))  
5:00 PM
Simulation Based Inference (until 6:00 PM)
5:00 PM Hands-on  
6:00 PM Guest Lecture: What to do - Wouter Verkerke (Nikhef National institute for subatomic physics (NL))  
7:00 PM --- Dinner ---
12:00 PM Guest lecture: SBI for Gravitational Waves - Maximilian Dax  
1:00 PM --- Lunch ---
2:00 PM
Simulation Based Inference (until 3:00 PM)
2:00 PM Lecture - Jay Ajitbhai Sandesara (University of Wisconsin Madison (US))  
3:00 PM
Simulation Based Inference (until 4:00 PM)
3:00 PM Hands-on  
7:00 PM --- Dinner ---
12:00 PM
Anomaly Detection (until 1:00 PM)
12:00 PM Hands-on  
1:00 PM --- Lunch ---
2:00 PM
Anomaly Detection (until 3:00 PM)
2:00 PM Lecture - Gaia Grosso (IAIFI, MIT)  
3:00 PM
Anomaly Detection (until 4:00 PM)
4:00 PM Guest lecture: Anomaly detection in cosmology - Carolina Cuesta Lazaro  
5:00 PM
Advanced topics - Mikael Kuusela (Carnegie Mellon University (US)) (until 6:00 PM)
5:00 PM Lecture - Mikael Kuusela (Carnegie Mellon University (US))  
6:00 PM Guest lecture: Physics informed ML - Dr Purvasha Chakravarti (University College London)  
7:00 PM --- Dinner ---
12:00 PM
Advanced topics (until 1:00 PM)
12:00 PM Hands-on  
1:00 PM --- Lunch ---
2:00 PM
Advanced topics (until 3:00 PM)
2:00 PM Hands-on  
3:00 PM Guest Lecture: Interpretability - Rikab Gambhir (Rutgers State Univ. of New Jersey (US)) Rikab Gambhir (MIT)  
4:00 PM Wrap up