PHYSTAT - Statistics meets ML - VERaIPHY

from Monday, 16 February 2026 (08:00) to Tuesday, 17 February 2026 (18:30)
Nikhef (Colloquium room)

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
16 Feb 2026
17 Feb 2026
AM
09:00 Registration (with coffee)  
09:30 Welcome and Introduction - Louis Lyons (Imperial College (GB)) Lydia Brenner (Nikhef National institute for subatomic physics (NL))  
10:00 Statistical Properties of Training & Generalization - Itay Lavie (Harvard University) Noam Levi (Tel Aviv University) Prof. Jonatan Kahn (University of Toronto)  
10:30 --- Q&A ---
10:45 --- Coffee Break ---
11:15 Uncertainty Quantification - Manuel Haußmann (Universität Heidelberg) Ramon Winterhalder (Università degli Studi di Milano) Maria Ubiali (University of Cambridge (GB))  
11:45 --- Q&A ---
09:00 Information Theory & Data Representation - Samuel Byrne Klein (Universite de Geneve (CH)) Daniel Muthukrishna (MIT) Anna Scaife (University of Manchester)  
09:30 --- Q&A ---
09:45 Interpretability & Explainability - Rikab Gambhir (Rutgers State Univ. of New Jersey (US)) Rikab Gambhir Rikab Gambhir (MIT) Jesse Thaler (MIT) Luisa Lucie-Smith  
10:15 --- Q&A ---
10:30 --- Coffee Break ---
11:00 Model Selection & Inductive Bias - Jan Tuzlic Offermann (Brown University (US)) Prof. Soledad Villar (Johns Hopkins University) Alexander Bogatskiy (Flatiron Institute, Simons Foundation)  
11:30 --- Q&A ---
11:45 Future Directions & Open Challenges - Lukas Alexander Heinrich (Technische Universitat Munchen (DE)) Gaia Grosso (IAIFI, MIT) Vinicius Massami Mikuni (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (US))  
PM
12:00 --- Lunch Break ---
13:15 Robustness - Dr Juan M. Cruz Martinez (Universidad de Sevilla (ES)) Michael Kagan (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US)) Carolina Cuesta Lazaro Alexander Held (University of Wisconsin Madison (US))  
13:45 --- Q&A ---
14:00 Inference & Parameter Estimation - Theo Heimel (UCLouvain)  
14:30 --- Q&A ---
14:45 --- Coffee Break ---
15:15 Generative Models & Statistical Validation - Sascha Diefenbacher (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (US))  
15:45 --- Q&A ---
16:00 Anomaly Detection & Statistical Discovery - Oz Amram (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US)) Dr Marco Letizia Mikael Kuusela (Carnegie Mellon University (US))  
16:30 --- Q&A ---
16:45 --- Coffee Break ---
17:15 Roundtable  
12:15 --- Q&A ---
12:30 Roundtable  
13:30 Concluding thoughts - Lydia Brenner (Nikhef National institute for subatomic physics (NL)) Tilman Plehn Gaia Grosso (IAIFI, MIT) Louis Lyons (Imperial College (GB)) Ramon Winterhalder (Università degli Studi di Milano)  
13:45 --- Lunch Break ---