PHYSTAT-LHC 2007

Name: PHYSTAT-LHC 2007
Start: 2007-06-26T16:00:00+02:00
End: 2007-06-29T18:00:00+02:00
Location: CERN

26 Jun 2007, 16:00 → 29 Jun 2007, 18:00 Europe/Zurich

500/1-001 - Main Auditorium (CERN)

500/1-001 - Main Auditorium

CERN

400

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Description

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Tuesday 26 June
- 16:00 → 20:00
  Registration and Welcome Drink B40-cafeteria
  
  B40-cafeteria
  
  CERN
  - 17:00
    
    Registration 1h B40-cafeteria
    
    B40-cafeteria
    
    CERN
  - 18:00
    
    Welcome Drink (Building 40/ground floor) 2h B40-cafeteria
    
    B40-cafeteria
    
    CERN
Wednesday 27 June
- 08:30 → 14:00
  Session I: invited talks 500/1-001 - Main Auditorium
  
  500/1-001 - Main Auditorium
  
  CERN
  
  400
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  chairs: Fred James, Glen Cowan
  - 08:30
    
    Registration 30m AMPHI. PRINCIPAL
    
    AMPHI. PRINCIPAL
    
    CERN
  - 09:00
    
    Welcome 15m 500/1-001 - Main Auditorium
    
    500/1-001 - Main Auditorium
    
    CERN
    
    400
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    Speaker: J. Engelen / A. De Roeck
    
    Slides
    
    Video in CDS
  - 09:15
    
    The last 50 years of statistical research: which aspects might be relevant for Particle Physics? 55m 500/1-001 - Main Auditorium
    
    500/1-001 - Main Auditorium
    
    CERN
    
    400
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    Speaker: David Cox
    
    Slides
    
    Video in CDS
  - 10:10
    
    Experience from searches at the Tevatron 45m 500/1-001 - Main Auditorium
    
    500/1-001 - Main Auditorium
    
    CERN
    
    400
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    Speaker: Wade Fisher
    
    Slides
    
    Video in CDS
  - 10:55
    
    Coffee break 25m 500/1-001 - Main Auditorium (CERN)
    
    500/1-001 - Main Auditorium
    
    CERN
    
    400
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  - 11:20
    
    p-values and nuisance parameters 45m 500/1-001 - Main Auditorium
    
    500/1-001 - Main Auditorium
    
    CERN
    
    400
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    Speaker: Luc Demortier
    
    Slides
    
    Video in CDS
  - 12:05
    
    Practical problems in LHC searches for Higgs, SUSY particles and surprises 45m 500/1-001 - Main Auditorium
    
    500/1-001 - Main Auditorium
    
    CERN
    
    400
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    Speaker: Kyle Cranmer
    
    Slides
    
    Video in CDS
  - 12:50
    
    Lunch break 1h 10m 500/1-001 - Main Auditorium (CERN)
    
    500/1-001 - Main Auditorium
    
    CERN
    
    400
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- 14:15 → 19:15
  Session II: contributed talks 6-2-024
  
  6-2-024
  
  CERN
  
  Chairs: Harrison Prosper, Jim Linnemann
  
  ATTENTION: This session will take place in Building 6 room 2/024
  - 14:15
    
    Combining channels with fits 25m
    
    Speaker: Bill Quayle
    
    Slides
  - 14:40
    
    Dilution of statistical significance in Higgs searches in H->ZZ 25m
    
    Speaker: Alexey Drozdetskiy
    
    Slides
  - 15:05
    
    Subtracting histograms using profile likelihood 25m
    
    Speaker: Andre Nepomunceno
    
    Slides
  - 15:30
    
    Event weighting with near-optimal variance for background-subtracted data 25m
    
    Speaker: Jim Linnemann
    
    Slides
  - 15:55
    
    Coffee break 30m
  - 16:25
    
    SFitter - Determining SUSY parameters 25m
    
    Speaker: Remi Lafaye
    
    Slides
  - 16:50
    
    A Bayesian approach to constrained MSSM 25m
    
    Speaker: Leszek Roszkowski
    
    Slides
  - 17:15
    
    Statistical bias of fit parameters 25m
    
    Speaker: Sergei Redin
    
    Slides
  - 17:40
    
    Confidence distributions in statistical inference 25m
    
    Speaker: Sergey Bitukov
    
    Slides
Thursday 28 June
- 09:00 → 14:00
  Session III: invited and contributed talks 500/1-001 - Main Auditorium
  
  500/1-001 - Main Auditorium
  
  CERN
  
  400
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  chairs: Bob Cousins, Jim Berger
  - 09:00
    
    ATLAS+CMS statistical wish-list 45m
    
    Speaker: Eilam Gross
    
    Slides
    
    Video in CDS
  - 09:45
    
    LHCb statistical wish-list 30m
    
    Speaker: Yuehong Xie
    
    Slides
    
    Video in CDS
  - 10:15
    
    ALICE statistical wish-list 30m
    
    Speaker: Jouri Belikov
    
    Slides
    
    Video in CDS
  - 10:45
    
    Discussion 15m
  - 11:00
    
    Coffee break 30m
  - 11:30
    
    Experimental design 45m
    
    Speaker: Nancy Reid
    
    Slides
    
    Video in CDS
  - 12:15
    
    Testing for a Signal 25m
    
    Speaker: Wolfgang Rolke
    
    Slides
    
    Video in CDS
  - 12:40
    
    Lunch break 15m
- 14:00 → 19:00
  Session IV: invited and contributed talks 500/1-001 - Main Auditorium
  
  500/1-001 - Main Auditorium
  
  CERN
  
  400
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  chairs: Rene Brun, Nancy Reid
  
  Video in CDS
  - 14:00
    
    Statistical software tools for LHC analyses 45m
    
    Speaker: Wouter Verkerke
    
    Slides
  - 14:45
    
    Statistical software in ROOT 25m
    
    Speaker: Lorenzo Moneta
    
    Slides
    
    Video in CDS
  - 15:10
    
    TMVA - Toolkit for multivariate data analysis with ROOT 25m
    
    Speaker: Frederik Tegenfeldt
    
    Slides
    
    Video in CDS
  - 15:35
    
    StatPattern Recognition for multivariate classification 25m
    
    Speaker: Ilya Narsky
    
    Slides
    
    Video in CDS
  - 16:00
    
    Coffee break 30m
  - 16:30
    
    Statistician's approach to incorporating nuisance parameters in discovery issues (By video link) 45m
    
    Speaker: Radford Neal
    
    Slides
    
    Video in CDS
  - 17:15
    
    Discusion on the experiments' wish list 45m
    
    Slides
- 19:00 → 22:00
  Conference dinner 500/1-001 - Main Auditorium
  
  500/1-001 - Main Auditorium
  
  CERN
  
  400
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  - 21:00
    
    After dinner talk 30m
    
    Speaker: Fred James
Friday 29 June
- 09:00 → 14:00
  Session V: invited talks and contributed talks 500/1-001 - Main Auditorium
  
  500/1-001 - Main Auditorium
  
  CERN
  
  400
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  Chairs: Luc Demortier, Ian Hinchliffe
  - 09:00
    
    Probability matching priors in LHC Physics - a pragmatic approach 25m
    
    Speaker: Paul Baines
    
    Slides
    
    Video in CDS
  - 09:25
    
    Incorporating systematic uncertainty in a test of background-only hypothesis 25m
    
    Speaker: Jordan Tucker
    
    Slides
    
    Video in CDS
  - 09:50
    
    A pitfall in estimating systematic errors 25m
    
    Speaker: Jim Linnemann
    
    Slides
    
    Video in CDS
  - 10:15
    
    Coffee break 30m
  - 10:45
    
    Role of uncertainties in parton distribution functions 45m
    
    Speaker: Robert Thorne
    
    Slides
    
    Video in CDS
  - 11:30
    
    Review of the Banff Challenge on Upper Limits 45m
    
    Speaker: Joel Heinrich
    
    Slides
    
    Video in CDS
  - 12:15
    
    Lunch break 1h 45m
- 14:00 → 16:00
  Session VI: invited talks 500/1-001 - Main Auditorium
  
  500/1-001 - Main Auditorium
  
  CERN
  
  400
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  chair: David Cox
  - 14:00
    
    Bayesian analysis: objectivity, multiplicity, and discovery 45m
    
    Speaker: Jim Berger
    
    Slides
    
    Video in CDS
  - 14:45
    
    Conference Summary 45m
    
    Speaker: Bob Cousins
    
    Slides
    
    Video in CDS

PHYSTAT-LHC 2007

500/1-001 - Main Auditorium

CERN

B40-cafeteria

CERN

B40-cafeteria

CERN

B40-cafeteria

CERN

500/1-001 - Main Auditorium

CERN

AMPHI. PRINCIPAL

CERN

500/1-001 - Main Auditorium

CERN

500/1-001 - Main Auditorium

CERN

500/1-001 - Main Auditorium

CERN

500/1-001 - Main Auditorium

CERN

500/1-001 - Main Auditorium

CERN

500/1-001 - Main Auditorium

CERN

500/1-001 - Main Auditorium

CERN

6-2-024

CERN

500/1-001 - Main Auditorium

CERN

500/1-001 - Main Auditorium

CERN

500/1-001 - Main Auditorium

CERN

500/1-001 - Main Auditorium

CERN

500/1-001 - Main Auditorium

CERN