Statistical Ecosystem Blueprint

from Tuesday, 24 February 2026 (10:00) to Wednesday, 25 February 2026 (18:00)
CERN (73/1-031)

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
24 Feb 2026
25 Feb 2026
AM
PM
13:00
Model Building - Matthew Feickert (University of Wisconsin Madison (US)) Massimiliano Galli (Princeton University (US)) (until 16:00)
13:00 Welcome and Introduction - Massimiliano Galli (Princeton University (US)) Matthew Feickert (University of Wisconsin Madison (US))  
13:10 Model Building in RooFit and RooStats (ROOT Team) - Jonas Rembser (CERN)  
13:40 Model Building in HS3 - Dr Carsten Burgard (Hamburg University (DE))  
14:10 Statistical model format and publication in CMS - Dr Giacomo Ortona (Universita e INFN Torino (IT))  
14:40 --- Coffee Break ---
15:00 Serialization and publication of statistical models in ATLAS - Dr Giordon Holtsberg Stark (University of California,Santa Cruz (US))  
15:30 HistFactory v2 - Jay Ajitbhai Sandesara (University of Wisconsin Madison (US))  
16:00
Discussion - Massimiliano Galli (Princeton University (US)) Matthew Feickert (University of Wisconsin Madison (US)) (until 18:00)
16:00 Brainstorming: What did we not capture here?  
16:10 Group Discussion  
17:00 Sub Group Discussions  
17:40 Day Summary  
13:00
Statistical Tools - Matthew Feickert (University of Wisconsin Madison (US)) Massimiliano Galli (Princeton University (US)) (until 16:00)
13:00 Introduction of Day Topics - Massimiliano Galli (Princeton University (US)) Matthew Feickert (University of Wisconsin Madison (US))  
13:10 RooFit and Automatic Differentiation (ROOT Team) - Jonas Rembser (CERN)  
13:40 Nascent JAX ecosystem - Mohamed Aly (Princeton University (US)) Peter Fackeldey (Princeton University (US))  
14:10 Combine: Overview and future looking - Aliya Nigamova (Paul Scherrer Institute (CH))  
14:40 --- Coffee Break ---
15:00 ATLAS statistical tooling roundup / future outlook - Tomas Dado (CERN)  
15:30 PHYSTAT: Report from the community on Statistics meets ML - Lukas Alexander Heinrich (Technische Universitat Munchen (DE))  
16:00
Discussion - Massimiliano Galli (Princeton University (US)) Matthew Feickert (University of Wisconsin Madison (US)) (until 18:00)
16:00 Brainstorming: What did we not capture here? - Massimiliano Galli (Princeton University (US)) Matthew Feickert (University of Wisconsin Madison (US))  
16:10 Group Discussion  
17:00 Sub Group Discussions  
17:40 Day Summary