Name: Fitting Workshop / School
Start: 2009-03-30T12:00:00+02:00
End: 2009-04-01T18:00:00+02:00
Location: DESY Hamburg

Fitting Workshop / School

from Monday, March 30, 2009 (12:00 PM) to Wednesday, April 1, 2009 (6:00 PM)

Monday, March 30, 2009

12:45 PM Registration
Registration
12:45 PM - 2:30 PM
Room: DESY auditorium
2:30 PM Welcome - Olaf Behnke (DESY) Thomas Schoerner-Sadenius (DESY)
Welcome
- Olaf Behnke (DESY)
- Thomas Schoerner-Sadenius (DESY)
2:30 PM - 2:45 PM
Room: DESY auditorium
2:45 PM Introductory Lecture on Fitting I - Hermann Kolanoski (HU Berlin/DESY Zeuthen)
Introductory Lecture on Fitting I
- Hermann Kolanoski (HU Berlin/DESY Zeuthen)
2:45 PM - 3:30 PM
Room: DESY auditorium
3:30 PM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
3:30 PM - 3:55 PM
Room: DESY auditorium
3:55 PM Introductory Lecture on Fitting II - Hermann Kolanoski (Humboldt-Universität Berlin)
Introductory Lecture on Fitting II
- Hermann Kolanoski (Humboldt-Universität Berlin)
3:55 PM - 4:40 PM
Room: DESY auditorium
4:40 PM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
4:40 PM - 5:00 PM
Room: DESY auditorium

5:00 PM Getting started with local computers (environment) for practical work
Getting started with local computers (environment) for practical work
5:00 PM - 5:45 PM
Room: Sem 2 and Sem 4

6:00 PM Welcome Reception
Welcome Reception
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Room: Canteen annex
Tuesday, March 31, 2009
9:15 AM Mini-lectures and Practical Work I: Linear Least squares fit problems: constant, straight line, parabola & others, physics examples, clever parameter choice, solution by normal equations, parameter errors and correlations, fit quality tests, outlier rejection - Olaf Behnke (DESY) Martin Goebel (Uni Hamburg / DESY) Thomas Schoerner-Sadenius (DESY) Igor Rubinsky (Uni HH)
Mini-lectures and Practical Work I: Linear Least squares fit problems: constant, straight line, parabola & others, physics examples, clever parameter choice, solution by normal equations, parameter errors and correlations, fit quality tests, outlier rejection
- Olaf Behnke (DESY)
- Martin Goebel (Uni Hamburg / DESY)
- Thomas Schoerner-Sadenius (DESY)
- Igor Rubinsky (Uni HH)
9:15 AM - 12:15 PM
Room: Sem 2 and Sem 4 Diving into the world of most frequent fit problems: fits of a constant, straight line, parabola, polynom, physics examples, clever choice of parameters, solution by normal equations, parameter errors and correlations, fit quality tests, outlier rejection
12:15 PM Lunch Break
Lunch Break
12:15 PM - 1:45 PM
Room: Canteen
1:45 PM Mini-Lectures and Practical Work II: Non-linear fit problems: e.g. fit of signal peak(s) on background, cases of small and large stats., systematic and correlated errors, Poisson vs gaussian approximation, other likelihood estimators - Kevin Kroeninger (University of Goettingen) Carsten Hensel (Uni Goettingen)
Mini-Lectures and Practical Work II: Non-linear fit problems: e.g. fit of signal peak(s) on background, cases of small and large stats., systematic and correlated errors, Poisson vs gaussian approximation, other likelihood estimators
- Kevin Kroeninger (University of Goettingen)
- Carsten Hensel (Uni Goettingen)
1:45 PM - 4:45 PM
Room: Sem 2 and Sem 4
4:45 PM Coffee and Tea
Coffee and Tea
4:45 PM - 5:00 PM
Room: DESY auditorium
5:00 PM Highlight lecture: Systematic uncertainties in statistical data analysis - Glen Cowan (Royal Holloway University of London)
Highlight lecture: Systematic uncertainties in statistical data analysis
- Glen Cowan (Royal Holloway University of London)
5:00 PM - 5:45 PM
Room: DESY auditorium
Wednesday, April 1, 2009
9:15 AM Mini-Lectures and Practical Work III: Extended fits with many parameters such as kinematic constraint fits, e.g. ttbar reconstruction - Benno List (Uni Hamburg) Benedikt Mura (Universität Hamburg) Christian Sander (University of Hamburg)
Mini-Lectures and Practical Work III: Extended fits with many parameters such as kinematic constraint fits, e.g. ttbar reconstruction
- Benno List (Uni Hamburg)
- Benedikt Mura (Universität Hamburg)
- Christian Sander (University of Hamburg)
9:15 AM - 12:00 PM
Room: Sem 2 and Sem 4
12:00 PM Lunch Break
Lunch Break
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
Room: Canteen
1:30 PM Mini lectures and practical work IV: Advanced fitting tool in ROOT (RooFit and others) - Gregory Schott (University of Karlsruhe)
Mini lectures and practical work IV: Advanced fitting tool in ROOT (RooFit and others)
- Gregory Schott (University of Karlsruhe)
1:30 PM - 4:15 PM
Room: Sem 2 and Sem 4
4:15 PM See you! - Thomas Schoerner-Sadenius (DESY) Olaf Behnke (DESY)
See you!
- Thomas Schoerner-Sadenius (DESY)
- Olaf Behnke (DESY)
4:15 PM - 4:20 PM
Room: Sem 2 and 4