Data Analysis Block Course

Name: Data Analysis Block Course
Start: 2025-07-21T09:00:00+02:00
End: 2025-08-08T13:00:00+02:00
Location: TUD/RUB/Hybrid

21 Jul 2025, 09:00 → 8 Aug 2025, 13:00 Europe/Zurich

TUD/RUB/Hybrid

TUD: Otto-Hahn-Straße 4, 44227 Dortmund, CP-03-123 RUB: Universitätstr. 150, 44780 Bochum, NB2/158

Description

TU Dortmund: Otto-Hahn-Straße 4, 44227 Dortmund, CP-03-123
RU Bochum: Universitätstr. 150, 44780 Bochum, NB2/158
Hybrid: Zoom Link

Literature:

G. Cowan , Statistical Data Analysis
O. Behnke et al., Data Analysis in High Energy Physics

Previous courses:

RUB course, (repository)
TUD 2024

Monday 21 July
- Mon 21 Jul
- Tue 22 Jul
- Wed 23 Jul
- Thu 24 Jul
- Mon 28 Jul
- Tue 29 Jul
- Wed 30 Jul
- Thu 31 Jul
- Fri 8 Aug
- 1
  
  Lecture - Distributions and sampling, Markov Chain Monte Carlo
  
  Speaker: Michael Schmelling (Max Planck Society (DE))
- 2
  
  Exercises
  
  Speaker: Jan Peter Wagner (Technische Universitaet Dortmund (DE))
- 3
  
  Lecture
  
  Speaker: Michael Schmelling (Max Planck Society (DE))
- 4
  
  Exercises
  
  Speaker: Jan Peter Wagner (Technische Universitaet Dortmund (DE))
Tuesday 22 July
- Mon 21 Jul
- Tue 22 Jul
- Wed 23 Jul
- Thu 24 Jul
- Mon 28 Jul
- Tue 29 Jul
- Wed 30 Jul
- Thu 31 Jul
- Fri 8 Aug
- 5
  
  Lecture - Least Squares and Maximum Likelihood Fitting
  
  Speaker: Michael Schmelling (Max Planck Society (DE))
- 6
  
  Exercises
  
  Speaker: Jan Peter Wagner (Technische Universitaet Dortmund (DE))
- 7
  
  Lecture
  
  Speaker: Michael Schmelling (Max Planck Society (DE))
- 8
  
  Exercises
  
  Speaker: Jan Peter Wagner (Technische Universitaet Dortmund (DE))
Wednesday 23 July
- Mon 21 Jul
- Tue 22 Jul
- Wed 23 Jul
- Thu 24 Jul
- Mon 28 Jul
- Tue 29 Jul
- Wed 30 Jul
- Thu 31 Jul
- Fri 8 Aug
- 9
  
  Lecture - Error Propagation, COWs and sWeights
  
  Speaker: Michael Schmelling (Max Planck Society (DE))
- 10
  
  Exercises
  
  Speaker: Jan Peter Wagner (Technische Universitaet Dortmund (DE))
- 11
  
  Lecture
  
  Speaker: Michael Schmelling (Max Planck Society (DE))
- 12
  
  Exercises
  
  Speaker: Jan Peter Wagner (Technische Universitaet Dortmund (DE))
Thursday 24 July
- Mon 21 Jul
- Tue 22 Jul
- Wed 23 Jul
- Thu 24 Jul
- Mon 28 Jul
- Tue 29 Jul
- Wed 30 Jul
- Thu 31 Jul
- Fri 8 Aug
- 13
  
  Lecture - Parametrization and unfolding
  
  Speaker: Michael Schmelling (Max Planck Society (DE))
- 14
  
  Exercises
  
  Speaker: Jan Peter Wagner (Technische Universitaet Dortmund (DE))
- 15
  
  Lecture
  
  Speaker: Michael Schmelling (Max Planck Society (DE))
- 16
  
  Exercises
  
  Speaker: Jan Peter Wagner (Technische Universitaet Dortmund (DE))
Monday 28 July
- Mon 21 Jul
- Tue 22 Jul
- Wed 23 Jul
- Thu 24 Jul
- Mon 28 Jul
- Tue 29 Jul
- Wed 30 Jul
- Thu 31 Jul
- Fri 8 Aug
- 17
  
  Automatic Differentiation
  
  Speaker: Prof. Mikhail Mikhasenko (Ruhr Univeristy Bochum)
- 18
  
  Exercises
- 19
  
  Machine Learning (loss, ROC)
  
  Speaker: Prof. Mikhail Mikhasenko (Ruhr Univeristy Bochum)
- 20
  
  Exercises
Tuesday 29 July
- Mon 21 Jul
- Tue 22 Jul
- Wed 23 Jul
- Thu 24 Jul
- Mon 28 Jul
- Tue 29 Jul
- Wed 30 Jul
- Thu 31 Jul
- Fri 8 Aug
- 21
  
  Decision Trees, Adaboost
  
  Speaker: Prof. Mikhail Mikhasenko (Ruhr Univeristy Bochum)
- 22
  
  Exercises
- 23
  
  Decision Trees, GradientBoost
  
  Speaker: Prof. Mikhail Mikhasenko (Ruhr Univeristy Bochum)
- 24
  
  Exercises
Wednesday 30 July
- Mon 21 Jul
- Tue 22 Jul
- Wed 23 Jul
- Thu 24 Jul
- Mon 28 Jul
- Tue 29 Jul
- Wed 30 Jul
- Thu 31 Jul
- Fri 8 Aug
- 25
  
  Neural Networks : General introduction
  
  Speaker: Prof. Mikhail Mikhasenko (Ruhr Univeristy Bochum)
- 26
  
  Exercises
- 27
  
  Neural networks : Bias-Variance TradeOff and regularization techniques
  
  Speaker: Prof. Mikhail Mikhasenko (Ruhr Univeristy Bochum)
- 28
  
  Exercises
Thursday 31 July
- Mon 21 Jul
- Tue 22 Jul
- Wed 23 Jul
- Thu 24 Jul
- Mon 28 Jul
- Tue 29 Jul
- Wed 30 Jul
- Thu 31 Jul
- Fri 8 Aug
- 29
  
  Normalizing flows : Introduction
  
  Speaker: Prof. Mikhail Mikhasenko (Ruhr Univeristy Bochum)
- 30
  
  Exercises
- 31
  
  Normalizing flows : Applications
  
  Speaker: Prof. Mikhail Mikhasenko (Ruhr Univeristy Bochum)
- 32
  
  Exercises
Friday 8 August
- Mon 21 Jul
- Tue 22 Jul
- Wed 23 Jul
- Thu 24 Jul
- Mon 28 Jul
- Tue 29 Jul
- Wed 30 Jul
- Thu 31 Jul
- Fri 8 Aug
- 33
  **date to be decided** Written Exam (in person, in different locations)
  - Pen and paper
  - Time: 1:30h
  - 5-6 Problems
  - ChatGPT is not allowed