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PHYSTAT seminar: Optimal Transport With Applications to Background Modeling

Name: PHYSTAT seminar: Optimal Transport With Applications to Background Modeling
Start: 2020-10-28T15:00:00+01:00
End: 2020-10-28T16:00:00+01:00
Location: CERN

by Larry Wasserman (Carnegie Mellon University)

Wednesday 28 Oct 2020, 15:00 → 16:00 Europe/Zurich

CERN

Description

I will give an introduction to the theory of optimal transport which
is a method for constructing mappings between distributions. Optimal
transport has become a popular tool in statistics and machine learning
and has many applications. After introducing the basic ideas I will
discuss an application to estimating the background distribution for
testing for di-Higgs events.

This is joint work with: Tudor Manole, Patrick Bryant,
John Alison and Mikael Kuusela.

The seminar will be done remote only.

Password: 152560

Organised by

M. Girone, M. Elsing, L. Moneta, M. Pierini
Event co-organised with the PHYSTAT Committee

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PHYSTAT seminar: Optimal Transport With Applications to Background Modeling

by Larry Wasserman (Carnegie Mellon University)

CERN