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, September 19, 2016 (8:00 AM) to Wednesday, September 21, 2016 (5:00 PM)

Monday, September 19, 2016

8:30 AM

8:30 AM - 9:00 AM
Room: IARC
9:00 AM
9:00 AM - 10:50 AM
Room: IARC Auditorium
Contributions

9:00 AM Welcome and Introduction - Thomas Junk (Fermilab)

9:05 AM Welcome from the Director - Nigel Lockyer (Fermilab)

9:10 AM Introduction to Neutrino Physics - Stephen Parke (Fermilab)

9:50 AM Introduction to Statistics for Neutrino Experiments - Louis Lyons (Imperial College, London and Oxford)
10:50 AM Coffee
Coffee
10:50 AM - 11:20 AM
Room: IARC
11:20 AM
11:20 AM - 12:00 PM
Room: IARC Auditorium
Contributions

11:20 AM Statistical Methods Used by LIGO - Chris Pankow (Northwestern University)
12:00 PM Lunch
Lunch
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
Room: On your own
1:30 PM
1:30 PM - 3:40 PM
Room: IARC Auditorium
Contributions

1:30 PM Long-Baseline Neutrino Experiment Analysis Techniques - Christopher Backhouse (Caltech)

2:10 PM Statistical Quantification of Discovery in Neutrino Physics - David van Dyk (Imperial College London)

2:40 PM MINERvA Analysis Techniques - Laura Fields (Fermilab)

3:10 PM Global Neutrino Cross Section Fits and Challenges - Kendall Mahn (Michigan State University)
3:40 PM Coffee
Coffee
3:40 PM - 4:10 PM
Room: IARC
4:10 PM
4:10 PM - 6:10 PM
Room: IARC Auditorium
Contributions

4:10 PM VALOR -- Systematic Constraint Fits - Steve Dennis (University of Liverpool)

4:40 PM VALOR -- Oscillation Fits - Lorena Escudero (University of Cambridge)

5:10 PM Sensitivity of Neutrino Oscillation Experiments to CP Violation - Pilar Coloma (Fermilab)

5:40 PM Post-Selection Inference - Todd Kuffner (Washington University in St. Louis)
6:30 PM Reception and Refreshments at Wilson Hall
Reception and Refreshments at Wilson Hall
6:30 PM - 8:30 PM
Room: Wilson Hall
Tuesday, September 20, 2016
9:00 AM
9:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Room: IARC Auditorium
Contributions

9:00 AM Gaussian CLs - Aixin Tan (University of Iowa)

9:30 AM Likelihood-Free Inference - Kyle Cranmer (NYU)

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

11:00 AM Solar Neutrinos - Scott Oser (UBC)

11:30 AM Supernova Burst Neutrinos - JJ Cherry (Los Alamos National Laboratories)
12:00 PM Lunch
Lunch
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
Room: On your own
1:30 PM
1:30 PM - 3:00 PM
Room: IARC Auditorium
Contributions

1:30 PM Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay - David Moore (Yale University)

2:00 PM Deep Learning/MVA Advances - Steven Young (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)

2:30 PM Short-Baseline Analysis Techniques - Zarko Pavlovic (Fermilab)
3:00 PM Coffee
Coffee
3:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Room: IARC
3:30 PM
3:30 PM - 5:15 PM
Room: IARC Auditorium
Contributions

3:30 PM Collider Experience - Thomas Junk (Fermilab)

4:00 PM Reactor Experiment Summary - Xin Qian (BNL)

4:30 PM Individualized Inference - Xiao-Li Meng

5:00 PM Likelihood-based test statistic in Solar Axion Searches - Wenqin Xu (University of South Dakota)
6:00 PM Dinner Catered at Wilson Hall
Dinner Catered at Wilson Hall
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Room: Wilson Hall
Wednesday, September 21, 2016
9:00 AM
9:00 AM - 10:00 AM
Room: IARC Auditorium
Contributions

9:00 AM Statistical Approaches for IceCube, DeepCore, and PINGU Neutrino Oscillation Analyses - Joshua Hignight

9:20 AM Blind Analyses in the High-Statistics Regime with Atmospheric Neutrinos in DeepCore - Joshua Hignight (Michigan State University)

9:40 AM Statistical Issues in High-Energy Neutrino Analyses - Kyle Jero
10:00 AM Coffee
Coffee
10:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Room: IARC
10:30 AM
10:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Room: IARC Auditorium
Contributions

10:30 AM 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 PM Lunch
Lunch
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
Room: On your own
1:30 PM
1:30 PM - 3:00 PM
Room: IARC Auditorium
Contributions

1:30 PM Believability of Signals - Maury Goodman (Argonne)

2:00 PM Unfolding Techniques - Mikael Kuusela

2:30 PM Reflections on Statistical Data Analysis in Neutrino Experiments since NOMAD and Feldman-Cousins - Robert Cousins (UCLA)
3:00 PM Coffee
Coffee
3:00 PM - 3:20 PM
3:20 PM
3:20 PM - 5:00 PM
Room: IARC Auditorium
Contributions

3:20 PM Physicist's Summary - Asher Kaboth (RHUL)

4:10 PM Statistician's Summary - Richard Lockhart (Simon Fraser University)