Terascale Statistics School 2015

Europe/Berlin
BAH 1 (DESY Hamburg)

BAH 1

DESY Hamburg

Description
The Terascale alliance statistics school March 23, 13h00 - March 27, 13h00 at DESY Hamburg is designed for master/PhD students and young postdocs analysing LHC or other particle physics experiments data.
It aims at providing education/support/guidance for essential tasks in physics analyses such as fitting parameters or setting limits.

The tentative programme comprises:
- Frederick James: Comprehensive Lectures on statistics for HEP data analyses:

- Basic concepts
- Point and interval estimation
- Hypothesis tests
- Goodness of fit tests
- Decision theory
- Applications (e.g. fits to histograms)

- Lorenzo Moneta:

- RooStats/RooFit tutorial

- Christian Autermann:

- Limits estimation lectures & tutorial

- Glen Cowan:

- Combination of measurements and limits

- Andrea Valassi:

     - Combination with emphasis on the BLUE method


Please take note: The school is followed on 30-31 March by a 2-days HistFitter Tutorial. More information coming soon!

Registration fee: 50 Euro (this includes all nutrition costs for coffee and cookies and the school dinner on one of the evenings. The fee is to be paid in cash during the registration).

New: Map of DESY and venues of the school:
http://desy.de/~obehnke/map.pdf

Participants
  • Aleksandra Lelek
  • Ali Harb
  • Andreas Ditte
  • Angela Burger
  • Ann-Kathrin Schütz
  • Anna Kopp
  • Arne-Rasmus Draeger
  • Artur Akhmetshin
  • Chiara Rizzi
  • Christian Heinz
  • Christian Schillo
  • Cora Fischer
  • Denise Hellwig
  • Dirk Sammel
  • Dominik Nowatschin
  • Emanuele Usai
  • Florian Jetter
  • Georgios Voutsinas
  • Giuseppe Lerner
  • Gregor Geßner
  • Heiner Tholen
  • Holger Herr
  • Ingo Burmeister
  • Isabel Nitsche
  • Ishan Pokharel
  • Juan Manuel Grados
  • Ksenia Gasnikova
  • Lukas Hehn
  • Lukas Koch
  • Lydia Beresford
  • Malte Hoffmann
  • Manuel Simon
  • Marc Stoever
  • Marek Niedziela
  • Miroslav Gabriel
  • Nataliia Kovalchuk
  • Nello Bruscino
  • Patrick Connor
  • Patrick Foldenauer
  • Petar Petrov
  • Philipp Goecke
  • Rene Caspart
  • Sergey Yashchenko
  • Silvia Fracchia
  • Simon Schmitz
  • Simon Spannagel
  • Sonja Bartkowski
  • Stefan Schoppmann
  • Stefano Manzoni
  • Suvi-Leena Lehtinen
  • Tadeusz Bilka
  • Tobias Kupfer
  • Ye Chen
    • 1
      Welcome BAH 1

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      Speakers: Dr Isabell-A. Melzer-Pellmann (DESY), Dr Olaf Behnke (DESY), kerstin Hoepfner (RWTH Aachen)
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    • 2
      Introduction BAH 1

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      Speaker: Dr Frederick James (CERN)
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    • 15:40
      Coffee break BAH 1

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    • 3
      Basic lecture BAH 1

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      Speaker: Dr Frederick James (CERN)
    • 4
      Computer preparation BAH 1

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    • 18:30
      Get-together Foyer of Auditorium

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    • 5
      Basic lecture BAH 1

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      Speaker: Dr Frederick James (CERN)
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    • 10:30
      Coffee break BAH 1

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    • 6
      Limit setting BAH 1

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      Speaker: Christian Autermann (Hamburg)
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    • 12:30
      Lunch break BAH 1

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    • 7
      Tutorial: Roostats BAH 1

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      Speaker: Dr Lorenzo Moneta (CERN)
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    • 15:45
      Coffee break BAH 1

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    • 8
      Tutorial: Roostats BAH 1

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      Speaker: Dr Lorenzo Moneta (CERN)
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    • 9
      Basic lecture BAH 1

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      Speaker: Dr Frederick James (CERN)
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    • 10:30
      Coffee break BAH 1

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    • 10
      Limit setting BAH 1

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      Speaker: Christian Autermann (Hamburg)
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    • 12:30
      Lunch break BAH 1

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    • 11
      Tutorial: Roostats BAH 1

      BAH 1

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      Speaker: Dr Lorenzo Moneta (CERN)
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      Twiki for Exercises
    • 15:30
      Coffee break BAH 1

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    • 12
      Tutorial: Roostats BAH 1

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      Speaker: Dr Lorenzo Moneta (CERN)
    • 19:00
      School dinner Bistro

      Bistro

    • 13
      Basic lecture BAH 1

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      Speaker: Dr Frederick James (CERN)
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    • 10:30
      Coffee break BAH 1

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    • 14
      Combination BAH 1

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      Speaker: Prof. Glen Cowan (Royal Holloway, University of London)
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    • 12:30
      Lunch break BAH 1

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    • 15
      Combination BAH 1

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      Speaker: Dr Andrea Valassi (CERN)
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    • 15:30
      Coffee break BAH 1

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    • 16
      Tutorial BAH 1

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      Speaker: Dr Lorenzo Moneta (CERN)
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      Twiki page for Exercises
    • 17
      DESY Tour - sign up here: http://doodle.com/mnm4udyxzdw2fgg9 BAH 1

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    • 18
      Combination BAH 1

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      Speaker: Andrea Valassi (CERN)
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    • 10:30
      Coffee break BAH 1

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    • 19
      Statistical challenges in LHC Run 2 BAH 1

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      Speaker: Prof. Glen Cowan (Royal Holloway, University of London)
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    • 20
      Goodby BAH 1

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      Speaker: Dr Olaf Behnke (DESY)