Name: HEPML workshop at NIPS14
Start: 2014-12-13T08:30:00+01:00
End: 2014-12-13T18:30:00+01:00
Location: Palais des Congrès de Montréal

HEPML workshop at NIPS14

Saturday, December 13, 2014 - 8:30 AM

Monday, December 8, 2014
Tuesday, December 9, 2014
Wednesday, December 10, 2014
Thursday, December 11, 2014
Friday, December 12, 2014
Saturday, December 13, 2014
8:30 AM
8:30 AM - 10:00 AM
Room: Level 5, room 511 c
Contributions

8:30 AM Welcome - Balázs Kégl (LAL)

8:45 AM HEP&ML and the HiggsML challenge - Balázs Kégl (LAL)

9:20 AM Embedding ML in Classical Statistical tests used in HEP (invited talk) - Kyle Cranmer (New York University)
10:00 AM

10:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Room: Level 5, room 511 c
10:30 AM
10:30 AM - 12:10 PM
Room: Level 5, room 511 c
Contributions

10:30 AM Presentation of the winner of the HiggsML challenge - Gábor Melis

10:50 AM Presentation of the runner up of the HiggsML challenge - Tim Salimans

11:10 AM Presentation of the winner of the HEP meets ML prize - Tianqi Chen

11:30 AM Real time data analysis at the LHC : present and future - Vava Gligorov
3:00 PM
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Room: Level 5, room 511 c
Contributions

3:00 PM Machine Learning for Ultra-High-Energy Physics (invited talk) - Daniel Whiteson

3:40 PM Weighted Classification Cascades for Optimizing Discovery Significance in the HiggsML Challenge - Lester Mackey

4:00 PM Consistent optimization of AMS by logistic loss minimization - Wojciech Kotlowski
4:30 PM

4:30 PM - 5:00 PM
Room: Level 5, room 511 c
5:00 PM
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
Room: Level 5, room 511 c
Contributions

5:00 PM Ensemble of maximied Weighted AUC models for the maximization of the median discovery significance - Roberto Diaz Morales (University Carlos III de Madrid)

5:20 PM Deep Learning In High-Energy Physics (invited talk) - Pierre Baldi

6:00 PM Panel discussion