PHYSTAT-LHC 2007

from Tuesday 26 June 2007 (16:00) to Friday 29 June 2007 (18:00)
CERN (500/1-001)

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
26 Jun 2007
27 Jun 2007
28 Jun 2007
29 Jun 2007
AM
08:30
Session I: invited talks (until 14:00)
08:30 Registration   (AMPHI. PRINCIPAL)
09:00 Welcome - 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? - David Cox  
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Video in CDS
10:10 Experience from searches at the Tevatron - Wade Fisher  
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Video in CDS
10:55 --- Coffee break ---
11:20 p-values and nuisance parameters - Luc Demortier  
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Video in CDS
12:05 Practical problems in LHC searches for Higgs, SUSY particles and surprises - Kyle Cranmer  
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Video in CDS
12:50 --- Lunch break ---
09:00
Session III: invited and contributed talks (until 14:00)
09:00 ATLAS+CMS statistical wish-list - Eilam Gross  
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Video in CDS
09:45 LHCb statistical wish-list - Yuehong Xie  
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Video in CDS
10:15 ALICE statistical wish-list - Jouri Belikov  
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10:45 Discussion  
11:00 --- Coffee break ---
11:30 Experimental design - Nancy Reid  
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Video in CDS
12:15 Testing for a Signal - Wolfgang Rolke  
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Video in CDS
12:40 --- Lunch break ---
09:00
Session V: invited talks and contributed talks (until 14:00)
09:00 Probability matching priors in LHC Physics - a pragmatic approach - Paul Baines  
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Video in CDS
09:25 Incorporating systematic uncertainty in a test of background-only hypothesis - Jordan Tucker  
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09:50 A pitfall in estimating systematic errors - Jim Linnemann  
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10:15 --- Coffee break ---
10:45 Role of uncertainties in parton distribution functions - Robert Thorne  
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Video in CDS
11:30 Review of the Banff Challenge on Upper Limits - Joel Heinrich  
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Video in CDS
12:15 --- Lunch break ---
PM
16:00
Registration and Welcome Drink (until 20:00) (B40-cafeteria)
17:00 Registration   (B40-cafeteria)
18:00 Welcome Drink (Building 40/ground floor)  
14:15
Session II: contributed talks (until 19:15) (6-2-024)
14:15 Combining channels with fits - Bill Quayle  
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14:40 Dilution of statistical significance in Higgs searches in H->ZZ - Alexey Drozdetskiy  
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15:05 Subtracting histograms using profile likelihood - Andre Nepomunceno  
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15:30 Event weighting with near-optimal variance for background-subtracted data - Jim Linnemann  
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15:55 --- Coffee break ---
16:25 SFitter - Determining SUSY parameters - Remi Lafaye  
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16:50 A Bayesian approach to constrained MSSM - Leszek Roszkowski  
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17:15 Statistical bias of fit parameters - Sergei Redin  
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17:40 Confidence distributions in statistical inference - Sergey Bitukov  
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14:00
Session IV: invited and contributed talks (until 19:00)
Video in CDS
14:00 Statistical software tools for LHC analyses - Wouter Verkerke  
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14:45 Statistical software in ROOT - Lorenzo Moneta  
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Video in CDS
15:10 TMVA - Toolkit for multivariate data analysis with ROOT - Frederik Tegenfeldt  
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15:35 StatPattern Recognition for multivariate classification - Ilya Narsky  
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Video in CDS
16:00 --- Coffee break ---
16:30 Statistician's approach to incorporating nuisance parameters in discovery issues (By video link) - Radford Neal  
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Video in CDS
17:15 Discusion on the experiments' wish list  
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19:00
Conference dinner (until 22:00)
21:00 After dinner talk - Fred James  
14:00
Session VI: invited talks (until 16:00)
14:00 Bayesian analysis: objectivity, multiplicity, and discovery - Jim Berger  
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Video in CDS
14:45 Conference Summary - Bob Cousins  
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Video in CDS