PHYSTAT-LHC 2007

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500/1-001 - Main Auditorium (CERN)

500/1-001 - Main Auditorium

CERN

400
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    • 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

    • 08:30 14:00
      Session I: invited talks 500/1-001 - Main Auditorium

      500/1-001 - Main Auditorium

      CERN

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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

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        Speaker: J. Engelen / A. De Roeck
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        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

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        Speaker: David Cox
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        Video in CDS
      • 10:10
        Experience from searches at the Tevatron 45m 500/1-001 - Main Auditorium

        500/1-001 - Main Auditorium

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        Speaker: Wade Fisher
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        Video in CDS
      • 10:55
        Coffee break 25m 500/1-001 - Main Auditorium (CERN)

        500/1-001 - Main Auditorium

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      • 11:20
        p-values and nuisance parameters 45m 500/1-001 - Main Auditorium

        500/1-001 - Main Auditorium

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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

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        Speaker: Kyle Cranmer
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        Video in CDS
      • 12:50
        Lunch break 1h 10m 500/1-001 - Main Auditorium (CERN)

        500/1-001 - Main Auditorium

        CERN

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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
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      • 14:40
        Dilution of statistical significance in Higgs searches in H->ZZ 25m
        Speaker: Alexey Drozdetskiy
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      • 15:05
        Subtracting histograms using profile likelihood 25m
        Speaker: Andre Nepomunceno
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      • 15:30
        Event weighting with near-optimal variance for background-subtracted data 25m
        Speaker: Jim Linnemann
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      • 15:55
        Coffee break 30m
      • 16:25
        SFitter - Determining SUSY parameters 25m
        Speaker: Remi Lafaye
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      • 16:50
        A Bayesian approach to constrained MSSM 25m
        Speaker: Leszek Roszkowski
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      • 17:15
        Statistical bias of fit parameters 25m
        Speaker: Sergei Redin
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      • 17:40
        Confidence distributions in statistical inference 25m
        Speaker: Sergey Bitukov
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    • 09:00 14:00
      Session III: invited and contributed talks 500/1-001 - Main Auditorium

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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
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        Video in CDS
      • 12:15
        Testing for a Signal 25m
        Speaker: Wolfgang Rolke
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        Video in CDS
      • 12:40
        Lunch break 15m
    • 14:00 19:00
      Session IV: invited and contributed talks 500/1-001 - Main Auditorium

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      chairs: Rene Brun, Nancy Reid

      Video in CDS
      • 14:00
        Statistical software tools for LHC analyses 45m
        Speaker: Wouter Verkerke
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      • 14:45
        Statistical software in ROOT 25m
        Speaker: Lorenzo Moneta
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        Video in CDS
      • 15:10
        TMVA - Toolkit for multivariate data analysis with ROOT 25m
        Speaker: Frederik Tegenfeldt
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        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
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        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

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      • 21:00
        After dinner talk 30m
        Speaker: Fred James
    • 09:00 14:00
      Session V: invited talks and contributed talks 500/1-001 - Main Auditorium

      500/1-001 - Main Auditorium

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      Chairs: Luc Demortier, Ian Hinchliffe

      • 09:00
        Probability matching priors in LHC Physics - a pragmatic approach 25m
        Speaker: Paul Baines
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        Video in CDS
      • 09:25
        Incorporating systematic uncertainty in a test of background-only hypothesis 25m
        Speaker: Jordan Tucker
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        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
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        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

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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