Speaker
Glen Cowan
(Royal Holloway, University of London)
Description
Statistical methods have for many years played a crucial role in fundamental research such as High Energy Physics, and in the recent Big Data era their importance has continued to increase. I will give a bird's-eye view of the most important tools used to compare theory and experiment in a way that extracts the maximum information from the hard-won data. The talk will touch on foundational questions of statistics and the scientific method, standard tools for used in searches for new phenomena, and the path to the future with modern methods from Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence.
Author
Glen Cowan
(Royal Holloway, University of London)