TOOLS08

Session

Session 2

Jun 30, 2008, 11:15 AM

Max-Planck-Institut für Physik (Werner-Heisenberg-Institut)

Conveners

Session 2

• Wolfgang Hollik (MPI Munich)

47. Welcome

6/30/08, 11:15 AM

0. Overview talk: Introduction to the conference

Michael Peskin (SLAC)

6/30/08, 11:30 AM

2. Parameter estimation with Markov Chain Monte Carlo techniques

Jan Hamann (Unknown)

6/30/08, 12:30 PM

In the field of cosmology, the analysis of observational data with Bayesian methods is wide-spread. Only fairly recently it was suggested to apply these methods also to particle physics, to constrain the free parameters of supersymmetric models such as the CMSSM. The technical challenge of these analyses lies in the need to accurately sample a multi-dimensional parameter space in a reasonable...