Schedule for: 23w5096 - Systematic Effects and Nuisance Parameters in Particle Physics Data Analyses

Beginning on Sunday, April 23 and ending Friday April 28, 2023

All times in Banff, Alberta time, MDT (UTC-6).

Sunday, April 23
16:00 - 17:30 Check-in begins at 16:00 on Sunday and is open 24 hours (Front Desk - Professional Development Centre)
17:30 - 19:30 Dinner
A buffet dinner is served daily between 5:30pm and 7:30pm in Vistas Dining Room, top floor of the Sally Borden Building.
(Vistas Dining Room)
20:00 - 22:00 Informal gathering (TCPL Foyer)
Monday, April 24
07:00 - 08:45 Breakfast
Breakfast is served daily between 7 and 9am in the Vistas Dining Room, the top floor of the Sally Borden Building.
(Vistas Dining Room)
08:45 - 09:00 Introduction and Welcome by BIRS Staff
A brief introduction to BIRS with important logistical information, technology instruction, and opportunity for participants to ask questions.
(TCPL 201)
09:00 - 09:10 Olaf Behnke: Introduction to Meeting (TCPL 201)
09:10 - 09:35 NICHOLAS WARDLE: PHYSTAT-Systematics 2021 review - Physicist's view (chair: O. Behnke)
Session chaired by Olaf Behnke
(TCPL 201)
09:35 - 10:00 Sara Algeri: PHYSTAT-Systematics 2021 review - Statistician's view (chair: O. Behnke) (TCPL 201)
10:00 - 10:15 Olaf Behnke: PHYSTAT-Systematics 2021 - Discussion Session (TCPL 201)
10:15 - 10:45 Coffee Break (TCPL Foyer)
10:45 - 11:05 Robert Cousins: Marginalise v Profile - Physicist's view (chair: G. Cowan)
Session chaired by Glen Cowan
(TCPL 201)
11:05 - 11:25 Anthony Davison: Marginalise v Profile - Statistician's view (chair: G. Cowan) (TCPL 201)
11:25 - 12:00 Glen Cowan: Marginalise vs Profile - Discussion Session (TCPL 201)
12:00 - 13:00 Lunch
Lunch is served daily between 11:30am and 1:30pm in the Vistas Dining Room, the top floor of the Sally Borden Building.
(TCPL 201)
13:00 - 13:30 Guided Tour of The Banff Centre
Meet in the PDC front desk for a guided tour of The Banff Centre campus.
(TCPL 201)
13:30 - 13:40 Group Photo
Meet in foyer of TCPL to participate in the BIRS group photo. The photograph will be taken outdoors, so dress appropriately for the weather. Please don't be late, or you might not be in the official group photo!
(TCPL Foyer)
13:45 - 14:10 Francesca Capel: Bayesian approaches in Astro/Cosmo (chair: Wolfgang Rolke) (TCPL 201)
14:10 - 14:45 Wolfgang Rolke: Bayesian approaches in Astro/Cosmo - Discussion Session (TCPL 201)
15:05 - 15:35 Coffee Break (TCPL Foyer)
15:15 - 15:40 David van Dyk: Pragmatic v Full Likelihood approaches (chair: A. Brazzale) (TCPL 201)
15:40 - 16:15 Alessandra Brazzale: Pragmatic v Full Likelihood approaches - Discussion Session (TCPL 201)
16:15 - 16:40 Ann Lee: Likelihood-free frequentist Inference (chair L. Heinrich) (TCPL 201)
16:40 - 16:55 Alex Shen: Simulation-based inference of atmospheric cosmic-ray showers (chair: L. Heinrich) (TCPL 201)
16:55 - 17:30 Lukas Heinrich: Likelihood-free frequentist Inference - Discussion Session (TCPL 201)
17:30 - 19:30 Dinner
A buffet dinner is served daily between 5:30pm and 7:30pm in Vistas Dining Room, top floor of the Sally Borden Building.
(Vistas Dining Room)
Tuesday, April 25
07:00 - 08:45 Breakfast
Breakfast is served daily between 7 and 9am in the Vistas Dining Room, the top floor of the Sally Borden Building.
(Vistas Dining Room)
09:00 - 09:25 Chad Schafer: Model Selection (chair: N. Wardle) (TCPL 201)
09:25 - 09:40 Lucas Kania: Uncertainty quantification via influence functions (chair: N. Wardle) (TCPL 201)
09:40 - 10:15 NICHOLAS WARDLE: Model Selection - Discussion Session (TCPL 201)
10:15 - 10:45 Coffee Break (TCPL Foyer)
10:45 - 11:10 Nicolas Morange: Background and Signal Shapes (chair: S. Williams) (TCPL 201)
11:10 - 11:45 Sarah Williams: Background and Signal Shapes - Discussion Session (TCPL 201)
11:45 - 13:00 Lunch
Lunch is served daily between 11:30am and 1:30pm in the Vistas Dining Room, the top floor of the Sally Borden Building.
(TCPL 201)
13:00 - 13:25 Lydia Brenner: Template morphing (chair: H. Gray) (TCPL 201)
13:25 - 14:00 Heather Gray: Template Morphing - Discussion Session (TCPL 201)
14:00 - 14:15 Philipp Windischhofer: Optimal Transport (chair: R. Lockhart) (TCPL 201)
14:15 - 14:30 Tudor Manole: Optimal Transport (chair: R. Lockhart) (TCPL 201)
14:30 - 15:00 Richard Lockhart: Optimal Transport - Discussion Session (TCPL 201)
15:00 - 15:30 Coffee Break (TCPL Foyer)
15:30 - 15:55 Galin Jones: Systematics  in MC (chair: T. Junk) (TCPL 201)
15:55 - 16:30 Tom Junk: Systematics in MC - Discussion Session (TCPL 201)
16:30 - 16:55 Frank Tackmann: Theory Uncertainties (chair: I. Volobouev) (TCPL 201)
16:55 - 17:30 Igor Volobouev: Theory Uncertainties - Discussion Session (TCPL 201)
17:30 - 18:00 Tom Junk: Presentation of a Data Analysis Challenge (chair: Pueh Leng Tan) (TCPL 201)
18:00 - 19:30 Dinner
A buffet dinner is served daily between 5:30pm and 7:30pm in Vistas Dining Room, top floor of the Sally Borden Building.
(Vistas Dining Room)
Wednesday, April 26
07:00 - 08:45 Breakfast
Breakfast is served daily between 7 and 9am in the Vistas Dining Room, the top floor of the Sally Borden Building.
(Vistas Dining Room)
09:00 - 09:25 Roger Barlow: Asymmetric Uncertainties (chair: I. Volobouev) (TCPL 201)
09:25 - 10:00 Igor Volobouev: Asymmetric Uncertainties - Discussion Session (TCPL 201)
10:00 - 10:30 Coffee Break (TCPL Foyer)
10:30 - 10:55 Enzo Canonero: Error on Error (chair: S. Algeri) (TCPL 201)
10:55 - 11:30 Sara Algeri: Error on Error - Discussion Session (TCPL 201)
11:30 - 11:55 Edward T Atkin: Treatment of systematic uncertainties in neutrino oscillation analyses (TCPL 201)
11:55 - 12:30 Robert Cousins: Systematics in Neutrino Physics data analyses - Discussion Session (TCPL 201)
12:30 - 13:30 Lunch
Lunch is served daily between 11:30am and 1:30pm in the Vistas Dining Room, the top floor of the Sally Borden Building.
(Vistas Dining Room)
13:30 - 17:30 Free Afternoon (Banff National Park)
17:30 - 19:30 Dinner
A buffet dinner is served daily between 5:30pm and 7:30pm in Vistas Dining Room, top floor of the Sally Borden Building.
(Vistas Dining Room)
Thursday, April 27
07:00 - 08:45 Breakfast
Breakfast is served daily between 7 and 9am in the Vistas Dining Room, the top floor of the Sally Borden Building.
(Vistas Dining Room)
09:00 - 09:25 Michael Kagan: Machine Learning (chair: L. Heinrich) (TCPL 201)
09:25 - 10:00 Lukas Heinrich: Machine Learning - Discussion Session (TCPL 201)
10:00 - 10:30 Coffee Break (TCPL Foyer)
10:30 - 10:55 Tommaso Dorigo: ML for reducing systematic uncertainties (chair: H. Gray) (TCPL 201)
10:55 - 11:30 Heather Gray: ML for reducing systematic uncertainties - Discussion Session (TCPL 201)
11:30 - 13:00 Lunch
Lunch is served daily between 11:30am and 1:30pm in the Vistas Dining Room, the top floor of the Sally Borden Building.
(Vistas Dining Room)
13:00 - 13:25 Gaia Grosso: Systematics in ML  model independent searches (chair: I. Ochoa) (TCPL 201)
13:25 - 14:00 Ines Ochoa: Systematics in ML model independent searches - Discussion Session (TCPL 201)
14:00 - 14:25 Purvasha Chakravarti: Semi-supervised classifiers (chair: P. Windischhofer) (TCPL 201)
14:25 - 15:00 Philipp Windischhofer: Semi-supervised classifiers - Discussion Session (TCPL 201)
15:00 - 15:30 Coffee Break (TCPL Foyer)
15:30 - 15:55 Slavomira Stefkova: Systematics in selected flavour physics topics (e.g. rare decays) (chair: K. Tackmann) (TCPL 201)
15:55 - 16:30 Kerstin Tackmann: Systematics in selected flavour physics topics (e.g. rare decays) - Discussion Session (TCPL 201)
16:30 - 16:50 Michael Stanley: Systematic uncertainties in unfolding of differential measurements (chair: G. Cowan) (TCPL 201)
16:50 - 17:10 Richard Zhu: Systematic uncertainties in unfolding of differential measurements (chair: G. Cowan) (TCPL 201)
17:10 - 17:40 Glen Cowan: Systematic uncertainties in unfolding of differential measurements - Discussion Session (TCPL 201)
17:40 - 19:30 Dinner
A buffet dinner is served daily between 5:30pm and 7:30pm in Vistas Dining Room, top floor of the Sally Borden Building.
(Vistas Dining Room)
Friday, April 28
07:00 - 08:30 Breakfast
Breakfast is served daily between 7 and 9am in the Vistas Dining Room, the top floor of the Sally Borden Building.
(Vistas Dining Room)
08:45 - 09:30 Checkout by 11AM
5-day workshop participants are welcome to use BIRS facilities (TCPL ) until 3 pm on Friday, although participants are still required to checkout of the guest rooms by 11AM.
(Front Desk - Professional Development Centre)
08:45 - 09:30 Olaf Behnke: Friday Talks (TCPL 201)
09:30 - 10:00 André David: + All: Closing session - Thoughts on meeting part I (chair: L. Lyons)
This is a discussion session where all participants can express their thoughts about the workshop, what they have learnt from it, points that need further discussion and which ideas they have for a future workshop, etc.
(TCPL 201)
10:00 - 10:30 Coffee Break (TCPL Foyer)
10:30 - 11:30 Mikael Kuusela: + All: Closing session - Thoughts on meeting part II (chair: L. Lyons)
This is a discussion session where all participants can express their thoughts about the workshop, what they have learnt from it, points that need further discussion and which ideas they have for a future workshop, etc.
(TCPL 201)
11:30 - 13:30 Lunch from 11:30 to 13:30 (Vistas Dining Room)
11:30 - 11:35 Olaf Behnke: closing (TCPL 201)