Name: PhyStat-nu Fermilab 2016
Start: 2016-09-19T08:00:00-05:00
End: 2016-09-21T17:00:00-05:00
Location: No location set

PhyStat-nu Fermilab 2016

from Monday, 19 September 2016 (08:00) to Wednesday, 21 September 2016 (17:00)

Monday, 19 September 2016

08:30

08:30 - 09:00
Room: IARC
09:00
09:00 - 10:50
Room: IARC Auditorium
Contributions

09:00 Welcome and Introduction - Thomas Junk (Fermilab)

09:05 Welcome from the Director - Nigel Lockyer (Fermilab)

09:10 Introduction to Neutrino Physics - Stephen Parke (Fermilab)

09:50 Introduction to Statistics for Neutrino Experiments - Louis Lyons (Imperial College, London and Oxford)
10:50 Coffee
Coffee
10:50 - 11:20
Room: IARC
11:20
11:20 - 12:00
Room: IARC Auditorium
Contributions

11:20 Statistical Methods Used by LIGO - Chris Pankow (Northwestern University)
12:00 Lunch
Lunch
12:00 - 13:30
Room: On your own
13:30
13:30 - 15:40
Room: IARC Auditorium
Contributions

13:30 Long-Baseline Neutrino Experiment Analysis Techniques - Christopher Backhouse (Caltech)

14:10 Statistical Quantification of Discovery in Neutrino Physics - David van Dyk (Imperial College London)

14:40 MINERvA Analysis Techniques - Laura Fields (Fermilab)

15:10 Global Neutrino Cross Section Fits and Challenges - Kendall Mahn (Michigan State University)
15:40 Coffee
Coffee
15:40 - 16:10
Room: IARC
16:10
16:10 - 18:10
Room: IARC Auditorium
Contributions

16:10 VALOR -- Systematic Constraint Fits - Steve Dennis (University of Liverpool)

16:40 VALOR -- Oscillation Fits - Lorena Escudero (University of Cambridge)

17:10 Sensitivity of Neutrino Oscillation Experiments to CP Violation - Pilar Coloma (Fermilab)

17:40 Post-Selection Inference - Todd Kuffner (Washington University in St. Louis)
18:30 Reception and Refreshments at Wilson Hall
Reception and Refreshments at Wilson Hall
18:30 - 20:30
Room: Wilson Hall
Tuesday, 20 September 2016
09:00
09:00 - 10:30
Room: IARC Auditorium
Contributions

09:00 Gaussian CLs - Aixin Tan (University of Iowa)

09:30 Likelihood-Free Inference - Kyle Cranmer (NYU)

10:00 Sensitivity of Muon Decay at Rest Experiments to CP Violation - Shao-Feng Ge (Max-Planck-Institut fuer Kernphysik, Germany)
10:30 Coffee
Coffee
10:30 - 11:00
Room: IARC
11:00
11:00 - 12:00
Room: IARC Auditorium
Contributions

11:00 Solar Neutrinos - Scott Oser (UBC)

11:30 Supernova Burst Neutrinos - JJ Cherry (Los Alamos National Laboratories)
12:00 Lunch
Lunch
12:00 - 13:30
Room: On your own
13:30
13:30 - 15:00
Room: IARC Auditorium
Contributions

13:30 Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay - David Moore (Yale University)

14:00 Deep Learning/MVA Advances - Steven Young (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)

14:30 Short-Baseline Analysis Techniques - Zarko Pavlovic (Fermilab)
15:00 Coffee
Coffee
15:00 - 15:30
Room: IARC
15:30
15:30 - 17:15
Room: IARC Auditorium
Contributions

15:30 Collider Experience - Thomas Junk (Fermilab)

16:00 Reactor Experiment Summary - Xin Qian (BNL)

16:30 Individualized Inference - Xiao-Li Meng

17:00 Likelihood-based test statistic in Solar Axion Searches - Wenqin Xu (University of South Dakota)
18:00 Dinner Catered at Wilson Hall
Dinner Catered at Wilson Hall
18:00 - 20:00
Room: Wilson Hall
Wednesday, 21 September 2016
09:00
09:00 - 10:00
Room: IARC Auditorium
Contributions

09:00 Statistical Approaches for IceCube, DeepCore, and PINGU Neutrino Oscillation Analyses - Joshua Hignight

09:20 Blind Analyses in the High-Statistics Regime with Atmospheric Neutrinos in DeepCore - Joshua Hignight (Michigan State University)

09:40 Statistical Issues in High-Energy Neutrino Analyses - Kyle Jero
10:00 Coffee
Coffee
10:00 - 10:30
Room: IARC
10:30
10:30 - 12:00
Room: IARC Auditorium
Contributions

10:30 Panel Discussion - Costas Andreopoulos (University of Liverpool and STFC/RAL) David van Dyk (Imperial College London) Kyle Cranmer (NYU) Robert Cousins (UCLA) Xiao-Li Meng (Harvard University)
12:00 Lunch
Lunch
12:00 - 13:30
Room: On your own
13:30
13:30 - 15:00
Room: IARC Auditorium
Contributions

13:30 Believability of Signals - Maury Goodman (Argonne)

14:00 Unfolding Techniques - Mikael Kuusela

14:30 Reflections on Statistical Data Analysis in Neutrino Experiments since NOMAD and Feldman-Cousins - Robert Cousins (UCLA)
15:00 Coffee
Coffee
15:00 - 15:20
15:20
15:20 - 17:00
Room: IARC Auditorium
Contributions

15:20 Physicist's Summary - Asher Kaboth (RHUL)

16:10 Statistician's Summary - Richard Lockhart (Simon Fraser University)