Terascale Statistics School 2025
from
Monday 24 February 2025 (10:00)
to
Friday 28 February 2025 (14:00)
Monday 24 February 2025
12:30
Registration
Registration
12:30 - 13:15
Room: Seminarraum 4a/b
13:15
Welcome
-
Andreas Hinzmann
(
CMS (CMS Fachgruppe Searches)
)
Olaf Behnke
(
CMS (CMS Fachgruppe TOP)
)
Welcome
Andreas Hinzmann
(
CMS (CMS Fachgruppe Searches)
)
Olaf Behnke
(
CMS (CMS Fachgruppe TOP)
)
13:15 - 13:20
Room: Seminarraum 4a/b
13:20
Basics (Probabilities, Distributions, CLT)
-
Roger Barlow
(
Huddersfield
)
Basics (Probabilities, Distributions, CLT)
Roger Barlow
(
Huddersfield
)
13:20 - 15:00
Room: Seminarraum 4a/b
Lectures + Discussions
15:00
Coffee Break
Coffee Break
15:00 - 15:30
Room: Seminarraum 4a/b
15:30
Hypothesis Testing - basics
-
Glen Cowan
(
RHUL
)
Hypothesis Testing - basics
Glen Cowan
(
RHUL
)
15:30 - 16:30
Room: Seminarraum 4a/b
Lecture + Discussion
16:30
Hypothesis testing - Tutorial
-
Glen Cowan
(
RHUL
)
Hypothesis testing - Tutorial
Glen Cowan
(
RHUL
)
16:30 - 17:30
Room: Seminarraum 4a/b
Tutorial: Link to files: https://www.pp.rhul.ac.uk/~cowan/stat/exercises/ Description/Tasksheet (file is also attached): https://www.pp.rhul.ac.uk/~cowan/stat/exercises/cowan_stat_exercises.pdf Today: Exercises on hypothesis testing 1a-1g, see p.32 ff
Tuesday 25 February 2025
09:00
Parameter Estimation
-
Roger Barlow
(
Huddersfield
)
Parameter Estimation
Roger Barlow
(
Huddersfield
)
09:00 - 10:00
Room: Seminarraum 4a/b
Lectures + Discussion
10:00
Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:00 - 10:30
Room: Seminarraum 4a/b
10:30
Parameter Estimation - Tutorial
-
Glen Cowan
(
RHUL
)
Parameter Estimation - Tutorial
Glen Cowan
(
RHUL
)
10:30 - 12:30
Room: Seminarraum 4a/b
Tutorial - Introduction to the Python code and practical exercises with it https://www.pp.rhul.ac.uk/~cowan/stat/exercises/cowan_stat_exercises.pdf Today: p4 ff Tutorial 1: Maximum Likelihood Fitting
12:30
Lunch Break
Lunch Break
12:30 - 14:00
Room: Canteen
14:00
Hypothesis Testing - Limit Setting
-
Glen Cowan
(
RHUL
)
Hypothesis Testing - Limit Setting
Glen Cowan
(
RHUL
)
14:00 - 15:30
Room: Seminarraum 4a/b
Lectures + Discussions
15:30
Coffee Break
Coffee Break
15:30 - 16:00
Room: Seminarraum 4a/b
16:00
Systematics
-
Roger Barlow
(
Huddersfield
)
Systematics
Roger Barlow
(
Huddersfield
)
16:00 - 17:30
Room: Seminarraum 4a/b
Lectures + Discussions
Wednesday 26 February 2025
09:00
Bayesian Parameter Estimation - Intro + Tutorial
-
Glen Cowan
(
RHUL
)
Bayesian Parameter Estimation - Intro + Tutorial
Glen Cowan
(
RHUL
)
09:00 - 10:30
Room: Seminarraum 2
Tutorial + introductory Lecture
10:30
Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:30 - 11:00
Room: Seminarraum 4a/b
11:00
Systematics: Errors on Errors
-
Glen Cowan
(
RHUL
)
Systematics: Errors on Errors
Glen Cowan
(
RHUL
)
11:00 - 12:30
Room: Seminarraum 2
Lecture + Discussion + Tutorial Solutions are at https://www.pp.rhul.ac.uk/~cowan/stat/exercises_full/
12:30
Lunch Break
Lunch Break
12:30 - 14:00
Room: Canteen
14:00
Machine Learning I
-
Tilman Plehn
(
Heidelberg University
)
Tilman Plehn
(
Heidelberg University
)
Machine Learning I
Tilman Plehn
(
Heidelberg University
)
Tilman Plehn
(
Heidelberg University
)
14:00 - 16:00
Room: Seminarraum 2
Lectures + Discussions https://www.thphys.uni-heidelberg.de/~plehn/pics/modern_ml.pdf https://github.com/heidelberg-hepml/ml-tutorials
16:00
Coffee Break
Coffee Break
16:00 - 16:30
Room: Seminarraum 4a/b
16:30
Disasters in Statistical Inference in Particle Physics
-
Roger Barlow
(
Huddersfield
)
Disasters in Statistical Inference in Particle Physics
Roger Barlow
(
Huddersfield
)
16:30 - 17:30
Room: Seminarraum 2
Lecture + Discussion
18:30
School Dinner
School Dinner
18:30 - 20:30
Room: Canteen Extension 09a
Thursday 27 February 2025
09:00
Machine Learning II
-
Tilman Plehn
(
Heidelberg University
)
Tilman Plehn
(
Heidelberg University
)
Machine Learning II
Tilman Plehn
(
Heidelberg University
)
Tilman Plehn
(
Heidelberg University
)
09:00 - 10:30
Room: Seminarraum 2
Lectures + Discussions
10:30
Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:30 - 11:00
Room: Seminarraum 4a/b
11:00
Theory Uncertainties
-
Frank Tackmann
(
T (Phenomenology)
)
Theory Uncertainties
Frank Tackmann
(
T (Phenomenology)
)
11:00 - 12:30
Room: Seminarraum 2
Lectures + Discussion
12:30
Lunch Break
Lunch Break
12:30 - 14:00
Room: Canteen
14:00
Unfolding
-
Lydia Brenner
(
Nikhef
)
Unfolding
Lydia Brenner
(
Nikhef
)
14:00 - 16:00
Room: Seminarraum 2
Lectures + Discussion
16:00
Coffee Break
Coffee Break
16:00 - 16:30
Room: Seminarraum 4a/b
16:30
Asymmetric uncertainties
-
Roger Barlow
(
Huddersfield
)
Asymmetric uncertainties
Roger Barlow
(
Huddersfield
)
16:30 - 17:30
Room: Seminarraum 2
Lectures + Discussion
Friday 28 February 2025
09:00
Machine Learning III
-
Tilman Plehn
(
Heidelberg University
)
Tilman Plehn
(
Heidelberg University
)
Machine Learning III
Tilman Plehn
(
Heidelberg University
)
Tilman Plehn
(
Heidelberg University
)
09:00 - 10:45
Room: Seminarraum 2
Lectures + Discussion
10:45
Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:45 - 11:15
Room: Seminarraum 4a/b
11:15
Modern Bayesian inference in practice
-
Kevin Kröninger
(
TU Dortmund
)
Modern Bayesian inference in practice
Kevin Kröninger
(
TU Dortmund
)
11:15 - 12:15
Room: Seminarraum 2
Lectures + Discussion
12:15
Closing of school
-
Andreas Hinzmann
(
CMS (CMS Fachgruppe Searches)
)
Olaf Behnke
(
CMS (CMS Fachgruppe TOP)
)
Closing of school
Andreas Hinzmann
(
CMS (CMS Fachgruppe Searches)
)
Olaf Behnke
(
CMS (CMS Fachgruppe TOP)
)
12:15 - 12:30
Room: Seminarraum 2
12:30
Lunch Break
Lunch Break
12:30 - 14:00
Room: Canteen