DM-Stat: Statistical Challenges in the Search for Dark Matter
Videos from BIRS Workshop
Bradley Kavanagh, University of Amsterdam
Monday Feb 26, 2018 09:13 - 10:23
OVERVIEW: Dark matter
David van Dyk, Imperial College London
Monday Feb 26, 2018 14:05 - 15:12
OVERVIEW: Model selection, including Bayesian and Frequency perspectives
Chad Schafer, Carnegie Mellon University
Monday Feb 26, 2018 15:47 - 16:48
OVERVIEW: Statistical Learning
Luc Hendriks, Radboud University
Monday Feb 26, 2018 16:49 - 17:19
Simulation inversion: use machine learning to predict model parameters from observables
Wolfgang Rau, Queen's University
Tuesday Feb 27, 2018 09:03 - 10:14
OVERVIEW: Direct searches for dark matter
Pat Scott, Imperial College
Tuesday Feb 27, 2018 11:09 - 11:40
Dark matter model comparison
Melissa van Beekveld, Radboud University
Tuesday Feb 27, 2018 11:45 - 12:18
Problems of scanning a large parameter space
Alyson Brooks, Rutgers University
Tuesday Feb 27, 2018 14:02 - 15:04
OVERVIEW: Dark matter structure and simulations
Fabio Iocco, ICTP-SAIFR
Tuesday Feb 27, 2018 15:33 - 16:10
The impact of Galactic astrophysical uncertainties on the reconstruction of DM properties
Francis-Yan Cyr-Racine, Harvard University
Tuesday Feb 27, 2018 16:11 - 16:49
Statistical challenges in substructure lensing
Ben Safdi, University of Michigan
Tuesday Feb 27, 2018 16:49 - 17:34
Probing particle dark matter with Gaia DR1
Christoph Weniger, University of Amsterdam
Wednesday Feb 28, 2018 09:03 - 10:14
OVERVIEW: statistics in indirect detection
Tracy Slatyer, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Wednesday Feb 28, 2018 10:35 - 11:13
Characterizing point source populations with non-Poissonian template fitting
Daniel Nieto, Universidad Complutense de Madrid
Wednesday Feb 28, 2018 11:14 - 11:55
Enhancing the sensitivity to dark matter signatures in the very-high-energy gamma-ray band through machine learning
Yue-Lin Sming Tsai, Academia Sinica
Thursday Mar 1, 2018 10:35 - 11:07
WIMP or non-WIMP? Thermal DM or non-thermal DM? The question to ask before global analysis
Thomas Edwards, University of Amsterdam
Thursday Mar 1, 2018 11:09 - 11:31
Fast Forecasting for Counting Experiments
Siddharth Mishra-Sharma, Princeton University
Thursday Mar 1, 2018 11:32 - 12:00
Extragalactic and Galactic Searches for Dark Matter Annihilation
Robert Wolpert, Duke University
Thursday Mar 1, 2018 14:16 - 14:59
OVERVIEW: Non-Exchangeable Hierarchical Bayes Models for Synthesizing Disparate Information
Sara Algeri, Imperial College London
Thursday Mar 1, 2018 15:31 - 16:01
Comparing non-nested models by Testing One Hypothesis Multiple times
Christoph Weniger, University of Amsterdam
Thursday Mar 1, 2018 16:03 - 16:35
Euclideanized signals: facilitating pheno-focused model exploration
Alberto Casas, Instituto de Física Teórica, IFT-UAM/CSIC
Thursday Mar 1, 2018 16:36 - 17:15
Quantifying the naturalness of dark matter models
Judita Mamuzic, IFIC / CSIC - UV
Friday Mar 2, 2018 09:02 - 09:28
Global significance for overlapping signal regions
Jessi Ciesewski-Kehe, University of Wisconsin - Madison
Friday Mar 2, 2018 09:30 - 10:01
Approximate Bayesian Computation (ABC)
Aaron Vincent, Queen's University
Friday Mar 2, 2018 10:39 - 10:55
Summary and closing
