PHYSTAT Dark Matter 2019

from Wednesday 31 July 2019 (00:30) to Friday 2 August 2019 (22:45)
Stockholm university

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
31 Jul 2019
1 Aug 2019
2 Aug 2019
AM
09:30
General - Jan Conrad (until 11:00)
09:30 Introductory Statistics Talks - Louis Lyons (Imperial College (GB)) Glen Cowan  
11:00 --- Break ---
11:30
General - Hugh Lippincott (Fermilab) (until 12:40)
11:30 Intro to workshop - Jan Conrad  
11:40 Status of direct detection experiments and their approaches to statistical inference - Dr Jim Dobson  
12:10 Including direct detection likelihoods in global fits - Felix Kahlhoefer (RWTH Aachen)  
09:00
General - Ben Loer Ben Loer (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory) (until 10:30)
09:00 Likelihood asymptotics and beyond - Alessandra Brazzale  
09:30 Improved Inference for the Signal Significance - Igor Volobouev (Texas Tech University (US))  
10:00 Imposing overcoverage on small signals. - Dr Knut Dundas Morå  
10:30 --- Break ---
11:00
General - Olaf Behnke (DESY) (until 12:00)
11:00 Detecting new signals under background mismodelling - Dr Sara Algeri (University of Minnesota)  
11:30 Partially specified models and nuisance parameters - Dr Heather Battey (Imperial College London)  
09:00
General - Luca Grandi (The University of Chicago) (until 10:15)
09:00 Nuclear physics of dark matter direct detection - MARTIN HOFERICHTER (University of Washington)  
09:35 Dark matter in the Milky Way - Dr Christopher McCabe (King's College London)  
10:15
Discussion - Luca Grandi (The University of Chicago) (until 10:30)
10:30 --- Break ---
11:00
General - Hagar Landsmann (until 12:00)
11:00 Machine learning in HEP - Jan Kieseler (CERN)  
11:30 Dark Machines - using machine learning to solve dark matter related problems - Luc Hendriks Luc Hendriks (Nikhef)  
PM
12:40 --- Lunch ---
14:30
General - Tina Pollmann (Technische Universität München) (until 16:00)
14:30 Blinding and salting in dark matter searches. - Maria Elena Monzani (Stanford University)  
15:00 Blinding Strategies for Dark Matter Searches - Dr Ben Loer (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory)  
15:30 Correcting for the look-elsewhere effect: why, when and how - Dr Sara Algeri (University of Minnesota)  
16:00 --- Break ---
16:30
General - Jim Dobson (until 18:00)
16:30 The LHC Experience - Nicholas Wardle (Imperial College (GB))  
17:00 Statistical Inference in Double-Beta Decay Searches - Matteo Agostini  
17:30 Limit setting: evolution vs. inteligent design - Dr Hagar Landsmann (Weizmann Inst. of Science)  
18:00
Poster session (until 20:25)
18:05 Bayesian and frequentist approaches to discoveries - Dr Andrew Fowlie (Nanjing Normal University)  
18:05 DAMA/LIBRA Phase I and II combined analysis in the standard WIMP scenario - Dr Ianni Aldo (INFN - LNGS)  
18:05 Improving the LUX PLR Code - SHAUN ALSUM (University of Wisconsin-Madison)  
18:05 Statistical Analysis for COSINE-100 - Dr Young Ju Ko (Institute for Basic Science (IBS))  
18:05 Uncertainties in the dark matter velocity distribution - Dr Andrew Fowlie (Nanjing Normal University)  
18:05 Using the profile-likelihood method to search for dark matter in DEAP-3600 - Ms Ashlea Kemp (Royal Holloway, University of London)  
18:05 WIMP Dark Matter Modulation Analysis on Data from Low Threshold Germanium Detectors - Hau-Bin Li (Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan)  
12:00
Discussion - Olaf Behnke (DESY) (until 12:30)
12:30 --- Lunch ---
14:00
General - Maria Elena Monzani (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory) maria monzani (Stanford University) (until 15:30)
14:00 Crystal-based Detector Background and Response Modeling - Robert Calkins (Southern Methodist University)  
14:30 Background and detector response modeling in single electron-hole pair sensitive crystal detectors - Belina von Krosigk (University of Hamburg)  
15:00 A statistical model for the leakage of backgrounds mitigated by pulseshape discrimination methods - Tina Pollmann (Technische Universität München)  
15:30 --- Break ---
16:00
General - Jelle Aalbers (Nikhef) Dr Jelle Aalbers (Stockholm University) (until 16:30)
16:00 A novel approach to assess the impact of the Fano factor on the sensitivity of low-mass dark matter experiments - Mr Daniel Durnford (University of Alberta)  
16:30
Discussion - Jelle Aalbers (Stockholm University) Jelle Aalbers (Nikhef) (until 17:00)
18:00 --- Workshop dinner ---
12:00 --- Lunch ---
13:30 Reflections on 20+ years of Feldman-Cousins: Hypothesis testing of a point null vs a continuous alternative - Robert Cousins Jr (University of California Los Angeles (US)) Robert Dacey Cousins Jr (Univ. of California Los Angeles (UCLA)) Robert Cousins Jr (University of California Los Angeles (US))  
14:10
Discussion - Hugh Lippincott (Fermilab) Jan Conrad (until 15:10)
15:10 --- Break ---
15:40
General - Jan Conrad (until 16:40)
15:40 Statisticians summary - Alessandra Brazzale  
16:10 Physicists Summary - Hugh Lippincott (Fermilab)  
16:40
Discussion (until 17:40)