Terascale Statistics Tools School

29 Sept 2008, 14:00 → 2 Oct 2008, 13:15 Europe/Berlin

Sem FEL Hall, bld 28c (DESY)

Claus Kleinwort (DESY), Olaf Behnke (DESY), Stefan Schmitt (DESY)

Welcome to the first Terascale Statistics Tools school :-) Our exciting programe consists of: - Plenary lectures... in general the aim is to cover the most important statistics related tasks/problems relevant for LHC data analyses - Special highlight talks - Practical work on exemplary problems. For this we will distribute the participants in groups of 20-25 persons. The group work is conducted by tutors. A part of the group work is performed at the computer (will be provided by us) Please take note: - The school fee is 25 Euro: This includes all nutrition costs (cookies, coffee, barbecue, etc.) - Accomodation: A limited number of rooms has been preserved at the DESY hostel http://guest-services.desy.de/hostel_in_hamburg. Please book yourself. Further information - see also http://www.terascale.de/stat2008

Desy Hamburg site map - relevant places of the school are marked Map of DESY Hamburg with relevant places of the Terascale Statistics School marked

Monday 29 September

11:00 → 14:00 Registration

14:00 → 14:15 Welcome

Speakers: Claus Kleinwort (DESY), Olaf Behnke (DESY), Stefan Schmitt (DESY)

14:15 → 15:00 Multivariate Analysis Techniques I

Speaker: Helge Voss (MPI-K Heidelberg)

Slides Terascale_MultivariateAnalysisTechniques.ppt

tar ball with data + macros + pdf file for tar ball with data + macros + pdf file for introduction http://hvoss.web.cern.ch/hvoss/terascale/MAGIC.tgz

tar ball with TMVA package http://hvoss.web.cern.ch/hvoss/terascale/TMVA-v3.9.5b.tgz

Text description of the exercises http://hvoss.web.cern.ch/hvoss/terascale/exercises.txt

15:00 → 15:15 Coffee break

15:15 → 16:00 Multivariate Analysis Techniques II (Slides see Multivariate Analysis Techniques I)

Speaker: Helge Voss (MPI-K Heidelberg)

16:00 → 16:30 Coffee break

16:30 → 17:30 Fitting Techniques I

Speaker: Volker Blobel (Uni HH)

Slides blobel080929_fitting_1.pdf.pdf

18:00 → 19:30 Welcome Reception (Canteen Extension)

Tuesday 30 September

09:30 → 10:15 Searches - Limits - Discoveries I

Speaker: Luc Demortier (Rockefeller University)

Slides TeraScaleDemortier1.pdf

10:15 → 10:30 Coffee break

10:30 → 11:15 Fitting techniques II (Slides see Fitting Techniques I)

Speaker: Volker Blobel (Uni HH)

11:15 → 11:45 Coffee break

11:45 → 12:45 Practical work on exemplary problems: paper exercises with solutions

Solve given practical problems; working in small teams

Paper pwork_paper.pdf

12:45 → 14:00 Lunch break

14:00 → 15:30 Practical work on exemplary problems: computer exercises with solutions

Paper pwork_computer.pdf

15:30 → 16:00 Coffee break

16:00 → 16:45 Special practical problems in data analysis - The art of determining systematic errors I

Speaker: Rainer Wanke (Uni Mainz)

Slides DESY_Lecture_Oct08_1_nooverlay.pdf

16:45 → 17:15 Final coffee & tea break of the day

17:15 → 18:15 Frequently Bayesian - the role of probability in data analysis

Speaker: Glen Cowan (Royal Holloway, London)

Slides cowan_DESY_1.pdf

Wednesday 1 October

09:15 → 10:00 Searches - Limits - Discoveries II

Speaker: Luc Demortier (Rockefeller University)

Slides TeraScaleDemortier2.pdf

10:00 → 10:15 Coffee break

10:15 → 11:00 Bayesian Statistics

Speaker: Glen Cowan (Royal Holloway, University of London)

Slides cowan_DESY_2.pdf

11:00 → 11:15 Coffee Break

11:15 → 12:15 Practical work on exemplary problems (PDF files -> see yesterdays sessions)

12:15 → 13:00 Lunch Break

13:00 → 14:30 Practical work on exemplary problems (PDF files -> see yesterdays sessions)

14:30 → 15:00 Coffee Break

15:00 → 15:45 Special practical problems in data analysis - The art of determining systematic errors II

Speaker: Rainer Wanke (Uni Mainz)

Slides DESY_Lecture_Oct08_2_nooverlay.pdf

15:45 → 16:00 Coffee & Tea break

16:00 → 16:45 Recent statistical software developments in ROOT

Speaker: Lorenzo Moneta (CERN)

Slides Moneta_081001_RootStat.pdf

16:45 → 17:15 Final Coffee & Tea break

17:15 → 18:15 Real, false and missed discoveries in high energy physics

Speaker: Luc Demortier (Rockefeller University)

Slides Demortier081001_HEPdiscoveries.pdf

18:30 → 21:00 Terascale Barbecue

Thursday 2 October

09:30 → 10:15 Advanced unfolding techniques

Speaker: Volker Blobel (Uni HH)

Slides blobel081002_unfolding.pdf

10:15 → 10:30 Coffee break

11:00 → 12:00 Invited Talk - Outlook: Searching for new signals at the LHC

Speaker: Markus Schumacher (Uni Siegen)

Slides statschool-schumacher.ppt

12:00 → 12:05 Terascale Analysis Centre presents itself

Speaker: Dr Thomas Schoerner-Sadenius (Hamburg University)

Slides Schoerner081002_abschluss.pdf

12:05 → 13:15 Lunch