PhyStat-nu Fermilab 2016

US/Central
Louis Lyons (Imperial College, London and Oxford), Thomas Junk (Fermilab)
Description
Fermilab is hosting an international workshop on statistical issues in experimental neutrino physics, called Phystat-Nu Fermilab 2016. This workshop will bring together statisticians and experimental physicists to address the challenges raised in the design of future neutrino experiments and producing the most valuable results from running ones. The increased precision of current and future experiments requires careful review and selection of statistical techniques and procedures for controlling systematic uncertainty. The workshop will address interaction reconstruction techniques, selecting and classifying events, measuring model parameters, controlling systematic uncertainties, setting limits on rare processes, discovery of new processes and phenomena, choosing between models, Bayesian and frequentist techniques, and combining the results of experiments. Remote connections are available at http://readytalk.com with meeting ID 3872183. The US toll-free number is +1 866 740 1260 and the toll number is +1 303 248 0285. Computer audio and international toll-free numbers are available at http://readytalk.com
Participants
  • Adam Aurisano
  • Adam Lister
  • Aixin Tan
  • Aleena Rafique
  • Aleena Rafique
  • Alexander Himmel
  • Alexander Radovic
  • Alissa Monte
  • Andrei Gaponenko
  • Andrew Furmanski
  • Andrew Norman
  • Andrey Sheshukov
  • Anna Reine
  • Ariana Hackenburg
  • Aristeidis Tsaris
  • Asher Kaboth
  • Balint Radics
  • Balint Radics
  • Barnali Chowdhury
  • Biao Wang
  • Biswaranjan Behera
  • Brian Rebel
  • Brooke Russell
  • Christopher Backhouse
  • Christopher Haufe
  • Corey Adams
  • Costas Andreopoulos
  • Craig Moore
  • Daisy Kalra
  • David Caratelli
  • David Caratelli
  • David Kaleko
  • David Moore
  • David van Dyk
  • Deborah Harris
  • Diego Tonelli
  • Diego Tonelli
  • Dominic Brailsford
  • Edgar Valencia-Rodriguez
  • Elena Gramellini
  • Elizabeth Worcester
  • Erica Smith
  • Erika Catano Mur
  • Evan Niner
  • Farrukh Azfar
  • Fernanda Psihas
  • Gabriel Perdue
  • Gonzalo Díaz Bautista
  • Jaroslav Zalesak
  • Jeremy Hewes
  • Jeremy Wolcott
  • Jessica Esquivel
  • JJ Cherry
  • John Cherry
  • Jonathan Paley
  • Jose Ignacio Crespo Anadon
  • Jose Sepulveda
  • Joshua Hignight
  • Justo Martin-Albo
  • Jyoti Joshi
  • Jyoti Tripathi
  • Kanika Sachdev
  • Katarzyna Frankiewicz
  • Katherine Woodruff
  • Keith Matera
  • Kendall Mahn
  • Kuldeep Maan
  • Kyle Jero
  • Laura Fields
  • Leonidas Aliaga Soplin
  • Liang Yang
  • Libo Jiang
  • Lorena Escudero
  • Lorena Escudero
  • Louis Lyons
  • Louise Suter
  • Mario A. Acero Ortega
  • Mark McCarthy
  • Mark Ross-Lonergan
  • Matt Toups
  • Matt Toups
  • Matthew Bass
  • Maury Goodman
  • Maury Goodman
  • Mayly Sanchez
  • Mehreen Sultana
  • Michael Mooney
  • Michael Wallbank
  • Mikael Kuusela
  • Nataly Roa
  • Nitin Yadav
  • Ornella Palamara
  • Pengfei Ding
  • Peter Shanahan
  • Philip Hamilton
  • Pierce Weatherly
  • Pilar Coloma
  • Pip Hamilton
  • Rachel Carr
  • Ranjan Dharmapalan
  • Raquel Castillo Fernandez
  • Richard Lockhart
  • Robert Cousins
  • Ryan Murphy
  • Ryan Patterson
  • Sam Zeller
  • Scott Locke
  • Scott Oser
  • Serhan Tufanli
  • Shao-Feng Ge
  • Siva Prasad Kasetti
  • Stefano Roberto Soleti
  • Stefano Tognini
  • Steve Dennis
  • Steve Dennis
  • Steven Young
  • Test2 Test2
  • Thomas Junk
  • Thomas Karl Warburton
  • Tia Miceli
  • Tingjun Yang
  • Todd Kuffner
  • Varuna Crishan Meddage
  • Vassili Papavassiliou
  • Vaurna Meddage
  • Victor Genty
  • Wenqin Xu
  • Xiao Luo
  • Xin Qian
  • Yi-Hsuan "Cindy" Lin
  • Yoshi Uchida
  • Yoshi Uchida
  • Zelimir Djurcic
    • 8:30 AM 9:00 AM
      Registration IARC

      IARC

    • 9:00 AM 10:50 AM
      Opening Session IARC Auditorium

      IARC Auditorium

      • 9:00 AM
        Welcome and Introduction 5m
        Speaker: Dr Thomas Junk (Fermilab)
        Slides
      • 9:05 AM
        Welcome from the Director 5m
        Speaker: Nigel Lockyer (Fermilab)
      • 9:10 AM
        Introduction to Neutrino Physics 40m
        Speaker: Dr Stephen Parke (Fermilab)
        Slides
      • 9:50 AM
        Introduction to Statistics for Neutrino Experiments 1h
        Speaker: Louis Lyons (Imperial College, London and Oxford)
        Slides
    • 10:50 AM 11:20 AM
      Coffee 30m IARC

      IARC

    • 11:20 AM 12:00 PM
      LIGO Session IARC Auditorium

      IARC Auditorium

      • 11:20 AM
        Statistical Methods Used by LIGO 40m
        Speaker: Dr Chris Pankow (Northwestern University)
        Slides
    • 12:00 PM 1:30 PM
      Lunch 1h 30m On your own

      On your own

    • 1:30 PM 3:40 PM
      Monday Afternoon 1 IARC Auditorium

      IARC Auditorium

      • 1:30 PM
        Long-Baseline Neutrino Experiment Analysis Techniques 40m
        Speaker: Dr Christopher Backhouse (Caltech)
        Slides
      • 2:10 PM
        Statistical Quantification of Discovery in Neutrino Physics 30m
        Speaker: Prof. David van Dyk (Imperial College London)
        Slides
      • 2:40 PM
        MINERvA Analysis Techniques 30m
        Speaker: Dr Laura Fields (Fermilab)
        Slides
      • 3:10 PM
        Global Neutrino Cross Section Fits and Challenges 30m
        Speaker: Prof. Kendall Mahn (Michigan State University)
        Slides
    • 3:40 PM 4:10 PM
      Coffee 30m IARC

      IARC

    • 4:10 PM 6:10 PM
      Monday Afternoon 2 IARC Auditorium

      IARC Auditorium

      • 4:10 PM
        VALOR -- Systematic Constraint Fits 30m
        Speaker: Dr Steve Dennis (University of Liverpool)
        Slides
      • 4:40 PM
        VALOR -- Oscillation Fits 30m
        Speaker: Dr Lorena Escudero (University of Cambridge)
        Slides
      • 5:10 PM
        Sensitivity of Neutrino Oscillation Experiments to CP Violation 30m
        Speaker: Pilar Coloma (Fermilab)
        Slides
      • 5:40 PM
        Post-Selection Inference 30m
        Speaker: Prof. Todd Kuffner (Washington University in St. Louis)
        Slides
    • 6:30 PM 8:30 PM
      Reception and Refreshments at Wilson Hall 2h Wilson Hall

      Wilson Hall

    • 9:00 AM 10:30 AM
      Tuesday Morning 1 IARC Auditorium

      IARC Auditorium

      • 9:00 AM
        Gaussian CLs 30m
        Speaker: Prof. Aixin Tan (University of Iowa)
        Slides
      • 9:30 AM
        Likelihood-Free Inference 30m
        Speaker: Kyle Cranmer (NYU)
        Paper
        Slides
      • 10:00 AM
        Sensitivity of Muon Decay at Rest Experiments to CP Violation 30m
        Speaker: Dr Shao-Feng Ge (Max-Planck-Institut fuer Kernphysik, Germany)
        Slides
    • 10:30 AM 11:00 AM
      Coffee 30m IARC

      IARC

    • 11:00 AM 12:00 PM
      Tuesday Morning 2 IARC Auditorium

      IARC Auditorium

      • 11:00 AM
        Solar Neutrinos 30m
        Speaker: Scott Oser (UBC)
        Slides
      • 11:30 AM
        Supernova Burst Neutrinos 30m
        Speaker: JJ Cherry (Los Alamos National Laboratories)
        Slides
    • 12:00 PM 1:30 PM
      Lunch 1h 30m On your own

      On your own

    • 1:30 PM 3:00 PM
      Tuesday Afternoon 1 IARC Auditorium

      IARC Auditorium

      • 1:30 PM
        Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay 30m
        Speaker: Prof. David Moore (Yale University)
        Slides
      • 2:00 PM
        Deep Learning/MVA Advances 30m
        Speaker: Dr Steven Young (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
        Slides
      • 2:30 PM
        Short-Baseline Analysis Techniques 30m
        Speaker: Dr Zarko Pavlovic (Fermilab)
        Slides
    • 3:00 PM 3:30 PM
      Coffee 30m IARC

      IARC

    • 3:30 PM 5:15 PM
      Tuesday Afternoon 2 IARC Auditorium

      IARC Auditorium

      • 3:30 PM
        Collider Experience 30m
        Speaker: Dr Thomas Junk (Fermilab)
        Slides
      • 4:00 PM
        Reactor Experiment Summary 30m
        Speaker: Dr Xin Qian (BNL)
        Slides
      • 4:30 PM
        Individualized Inference 30m
        Speaker: Prof. Xiao-Li Meng
        Slides
      • 5:00 PM
        Likelihood-based test statistic in Solar Axion Searches 15m
        Speaker: Dr Wenqin Xu (University of South Dakota)
        Slides
    • 6:00 PM 8:00 PM
      Dinner Catered at Wilson Hall 2h Wilson Hall

      Wilson Hall

    • 9:00 AM 10:00 AM
      Wednesday Morning 1 IARC Auditorium

      IARC Auditorium

      • 9:00 AM
        Statistical Approaches for IceCube, DeepCore, and PINGU Neutrino Oscillation Analyses 20m
        Speaker: Dr Joshua Hignight
        Slides
      • 9:20 AM
        Blind Analyses in the High-Statistics Regime with Atmospheric Neutrinos in DeepCore 20m
        Speaker: Dr Joshua Hignight (Michigan State University)
        Slides
      • 9:40 AM
        Statistical Issues in High-Energy Neutrino Analyses 20m
        Speaker: Mr Kyle Jero
        Slides
    • 10:00 AM 10:30 AM
      Coffee 30m IARC

      IARC

    • 10:30 AM 12:00 PM
      Panel Discussion IARC Auditorium

      IARC Auditorium

      Convener: Dr Thomas Junk (Fermilab)
      • 10:30 AM
        Panel Discussion 1h 30m IARC Auditorium

        IARC Auditorium

        Speakers: Dr Costas Andreopoulos (University of Liverpool and STFC/RAL), Prof. David van Dyk (Imperial College London), Kyle Cranmer (NYU), Prof. Robert Cousins (UCLA), Prof. Xiao-Li Meng (Harvard University)
        Slides
    • 12:00 PM 1:30 PM
      Lunch 1h 30m On your own

      On your own

    • 1:30 PM 3:00 PM
      Wednesday Afternoon 1 IARC Auditorium

      IARC Auditorium

      • 1:30 PM
        Believability of Signals 30m
        Speaker: Maury Goodman (Argonne)
        Slides
      • 2:00 PM
        Unfolding Techniques 30m
        Speaker: Dr Mikael Kuusela
        Slides
      • 2:30 PM
        Reflections on Statistical Data Analysis in Neutrino Experiments since NOMAD and Feldman-Cousins 30m
        Speaker: Prof. Robert Cousins (UCLA)
        Slides
    • 3:00 PM 3:20 PM
      Coffee 20m
    • 3:20 PM 5:00 PM
      Closing Session IARC Auditorium

      IARC Auditorium

      • 3:20 PM
        Physicist's Summary 50m
        Speaker: Dr Asher Kaboth (RHUL)
        Slides
      • 4:10 PM
        Statistician's Summary 50m
        Speaker: Prof. Richard Lockhart (Simon Fraser University)
        Slides