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, 30 March 2009 (12:00) to Wednesday, 1 April 2009 (18:00)

Monday, 30 March 2009

12:45 Registration
Registration
12:45 - 14:30
Room: DESY auditorium
14:30 Welcome - Olaf Behnke (DESY) Thomas Schoerner-Sadenius (DESY)
Welcome
- Olaf Behnke (DESY)
- Thomas Schoerner-Sadenius (DESY)
14:30 - 14:45
Room: DESY auditorium
14:45 Introductory Lecture on Fitting I - Hermann Kolanoski (HU Berlin/DESY Zeuthen)
Introductory Lecture on Fitting I
- Hermann Kolanoski (HU Berlin/DESY Zeuthen)
14:45 - 15:30
Room: DESY auditorium
15:30 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
15:30 - 15:55
Room: DESY auditorium
15:55 Introductory Lecture on Fitting II - Hermann Kolanoski (Humboldt-Universität Berlin)
Introductory Lecture on Fitting II
- Hermann Kolanoski (Humboldt-Universität Berlin)
15:55 - 16:40
Room: DESY auditorium
16:40 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
16:40 - 17:00
Room: DESY auditorium

17:00 Getting started with local computers (environment) for practical work
Getting started with local computers (environment) for practical work
17:00 - 17:45
Room: Sem 2 and Sem 4

18:00 Welcome Reception
Welcome Reception
18:00 - 20:00
Room: Canteen annex
Tuesday, 31 March 2009
09:15 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)
09:15 - 12:15
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 Lunch Break
Lunch Break
12:15 - 13:45
Room: Canteen
13:45 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)
13:45 - 16:45
Room: Sem 2 and Sem 4
16:45 Coffee and Tea
Coffee and Tea
16:45 - 17:00
Room: DESY auditorium
17:00 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)
17:00 - 17:45
Room: DESY auditorium
Wednesday, 1 April 2009
09:15 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)
09:15 - 12:00
Room: Sem 2 and Sem 4
12:00 Lunch Break
Lunch Break
12:00 - 13:30
Room: Canteen
13:30 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)
13:30 - 16:15
Room: Sem 2 and Sem 4
16:15 See you! - Thomas Schoerner-Sadenius (DESY) Olaf Behnke (DESY)
See you!
- Thomas Schoerner-Sadenius (DESY)
- Olaf Behnke (DESY)
16:15 - 16:20
Room: Sem 2 and 4