Draft Agenda
The workshop timetable is now the definitive schedule -- this is a working draft.
Monday – September 19, 2016
8:30 - 9:00 Registration -- IARC
9:00 - 9:05 Welcome and introduction -- T. Junk
9:05 - 9:10 Welcome from the Fermilab Director -- N. Lockyer
9:10 - 9:50 Introduction to Neutrino Physics -- Stephen Parke
9:50 - 10:50 Introduction to Statistics for Neutrino Experiments -- Louis Lyons
10:50 - 11:20 Coffee
11:20 - 12:00 Statistical Methods used by LIGO -- Chris Pankow
12:00 - 1:30 Lunch
1:30 - 2:10 Global Neutrino Cross Section Fits and Challenges -- Kendall Mahn
2:10 - 2:50 Long-Baseline Neutrino Experiment Analysis Techniques -- Chris Backhouse
2:50 - 3:20 Statistical Quantification of Discovery in Neutrino Physics -- David van Dyk
3:20 - 3:50 Coffee
3:50 - 4:20 VALOR -- Systematic Constraint Fits Steve Dennis
4:20 - 4:50 VALOR -- Oscillation Fits Lorena Escudero
4:50 - 5:20 Sensitivity of Neutrino Oscillation Experiments to CP Violation -- Pilar Coloma
5:20 - 5:50 Sensitivity of Muon Decay at Rest Experiments to CP Violation -- Shao-Feng Ge
5:50 - 6:20 Reactor Experiment Summary -- Xin Qian
6:30 - 8:30 Reception and Refreshments at Wilson Hall
Tuesday – September 20, 2016
9:00 - 9:30 Gaussian CLs -- Aixin Tan
9:30 - 10:00 Likelihood-Free Inference -- Kyle Cranmer
10:00 - 10:30 Post-Selection Inference -- Todd Kuffner
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee
11:00 - 11:30 Solar Neutrinos -- Scott Oser
11:30 - 12:00 Supernova Burst Neutrinos -- JJ Cherry
12:00 - 1:30 Lunch
1:30 - 2:00 Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay -- Dave Moore
2:00 - 2:30 Short-Baseline Analysis Techniques -- Zarko Pavlovic
2:30 - 3:00 Deep Learning/MVA advances -- Steven Young
3:00 - 3:30 Coffee
3:30 - 4:00 Collider Experience -- Tom Junk
4:00 - 4:30 MINERvA Talk -- Laura Fields
4:30 - 5:00 Fiducial Inference -- Xiao-Li Meng
5:00 - 5:15 Likelihood-based test statistic in Solar Axion searches -- Wenqin Xu
6:00 - 8:00 Dinner Catered at Wilson Hall
Wednesday – September 21, 2016
9:00 - 9:20 Statistical approaches for IceCube, DeepCore, and PINGU neutrino oscillation analyses -- Joshua Hignight
9:20 - 9:40 Blind analyses in the high-statistics regime with atmospheric neutrinos in DeepCore -- Joshua Hignight
9:40 - 10:00 Statistical issues in high-energy neutrino analyses -- Kyle Jero
10:00 - 10:30 Coffee
10:30 - 12:00 Panel Discussion
Panelists: Statisticians Xiao-Li Meng and David van Dyk, and Particle Physicists Costas Andreopoulos, Bob Cousins, and Kyle Cranmer. Panel Chair: Tom Junk
12:00 - 1:30 Lunch
1:30 - 2:00 Believability of Signals -- Maury Goodman
2:00 - 2:30 Unfolding Techniques -- Mikael Kuusela
2:30 - 3:00 Reflections on statistical data analysis in neutrino experiments since NOMAD and Feldman-Cousins -- Bob Cousins
3:00 - 3:20 Coffee
3:20 - 4:10 Physicist's Summary -- Asher Kaboth
4:10 - 5:00 Statistician's Summary -- Richard Lockhart
19–21 Sep 2016
US/Central timezone