Statistical Issues Related to Searches

Europe/Zurich
Tel Aviv University, School of Physics, Melamed Ha

Tel Aviv University, School of Physics, Melamed Ha

Louis Lyons, Ehud Duchovni and Erez Etzion
Description
A one-day non formal meeting on statistical issues related to searches. This would include both establishing limits for unobserved phenomena, and assessing the significance or p-value of observed effects. We envisage this meeting as being relevant for Particle and Nuclear Physicists, Astrophysicists and Statisticians. This interdisciplinary meeting theme is practical approach to statistical problems in physics. It will cover basic probability problems, error handling, determination of parameters and the use of statistical techniques in Physics data analysis. The level will be suitable for the whole Astrophysics and High Energy Physics communities starting at the level of graduate students with some experience of statistics. For details: http://lep1.tau.ac.il/erez/stat
    • 10:30 10:45
      Coffee 15m
    • 10:45 11:15
      Looking for SUSY at the LHC with the LSL algorithm 30m
      Speaker: Duchovni, Ehud (Weizmann Institute)
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    • 11:15 11:30
      Looking for SUSY at the LHC with the SLEUTH algorithm 15m
      Speaker: Ran Feldesh (Ben Gurion University)
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    • 11:30 12:00
      Evolution from gravitational lensing statistics 30m
      Speaker: Ofek, Eran (Tel Aviv University)
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    • 12:00 13:30
      LUNCH BREAK 1h 30m
    • 13:30 14:15
      Methods of setting limits in the presence of systematic uncertainties 45m
      Speaker: Lyons, Louis (Oxford)
    • 14:15 14:45
      Higgs Search and limits 30m
      Speaker: Gross, Eilam (Weizmann Institute)
    • 14:45 15:15
      SYS-Rem in searches for extrasolar planets 30m
      Speaker: Tamuz, Omer (Tel Aviv University)
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    • 15:15 15:45
      Statistics of Solar Activities 30m
      Speaker: Pustilnik, Lev (Israel Cosmic Ray Center, and Tel Aviv University)
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