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
- 09:00 → 10:30
  
  Lecture - Distributions and sampling, Markov Chain Monte Carlo 1h 30m
  
  Speaker: Michael Schmelling (Max Planck Society (DE))
- 10:45 → 12:00
  
  Exercises 1h 15m
  
  Speaker: Jan Peter Wagner (Technische Universitaet Dortmund (DE))
- 13:30 → 14:30
  
  Lecture 1h
  
  Speaker: Michael Schmelling (Max Planck Society (DE))
- 14:45 → 16:00
  
  Exercises 1h 15m
  
  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
- 09:00 → 10:30
  
  Lecture - Least Squares and Maximum Likelihood Fitting 1h 30m
  
  Speaker: Michael Schmelling (Max Planck Society (DE))
- 10:45 → 12:00
  
  Exercises 1h 15m
  
  Speaker: Jan Peter Wagner (Technische Universitaet Dortmund (DE))
- 13:30 → 14:30
  
  Lecture 1h
  
  Speaker: Michael Schmelling (Max Planck Society (DE))
- 14:45 → 16:00
  
  Exercises 1h 15m
  
  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
- 09:00 → 10:30
  
  Lecture - Error Propagation, COWs and sWeights 1h 30m
  
  Speaker: Michael Schmelling (Max Planck Society (DE))
- 10:45 → 12:00
  
  Exercises 1h 15m
  
  Speaker: Jan Peter Wagner (Technische Universitaet Dortmund (DE))
- 13:30 → 14:30
  
  Lecture 1h
  
  Speaker: Michael Schmelling (Max Planck Society (DE))
- 14:45 → 16:00
  
  Exercises 1h 15m
  
  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
- 09:00 → 10:30
  
  Lecture - Parametrization and unfolding 1h 30m
  
  Speaker: Michael Schmelling (Max Planck Society (DE))
- 10:45 → 12:00
  
  Exercises 1h 15m
  
  Speaker: Jan Peter Wagner (Technische Universitaet Dortmund (DE))
- 13:30 → 14:30
  
  Lecture 1h
  
  Speaker: Michael Schmelling (Max Planck Society (DE))
- 14:45 → 16:00
  
  Exercises 1h 15m
  
  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
- 09:00 → 12:00
  
  Machine Learning (loss, ROC). Automatic differentiation 3h
- 13:30 → 16:30
  
  Exercises 3h
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
- 09:00 → 12:00
  
  Decision trees, AdaBoost, Gradient Boosting 3h
- 13:30 → 16:30
  
  Exercises 3h
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
- 09:00 → 12:00
  
  Neural Network 3h
- 13:30 → 16:30
  
  Exercises 3h
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
- 09:00 → 12:00
  
  Normalizing flows | Transformers 3h
- 13:30 → 16:30
  
  Exercises 3h
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
- 10:00 → 11:30
  **date to be decided** Written Exam (in person, in different locations) 1h 30m
  - Pen and paper
  - Time: 1:30h
  - 5-6 Problems
  - ChatGPT is not allowed

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Data Analysis Block Course

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