Particle Theory Seminar: Kyle Cranmer, NYU, “A new inference technique with applications to Higgs Effective Field Theory”

Event time: 
Tuesday, April 19, 2016 - 3:30pm to 4:30pm
Location: 
Sloane Physics Laboratory (SPL), 52 See map
217 Prospect St.
New Haven, CT 06511
Event description: 

“A new inference technique with applications to Higgs Effective Field Theory”

Our field doesn’t have a good technique for measuring parameters of a theory
when one needs to incorporate a complicated detector response
(encoded in a detector simulation) and wants to take advantage of the
information of a high-dimensional observation. I will outline a novel “likelihood-free”
inference technique that addresses this problem. As an example, I’ll discuss
applications of this technique for Higgs Effective Field Theory.