INT Program INT-16-2a

Bayesian Methods in Nuclear Physics

June 13 - July 8, 2016


Seminars

(To view talks click on the title)

Date Speaker Powerpoint or .pdf Video Recording
June 13, 2016 D. Bingham "An introduction to Bayesian statistics and model calibration" Video Not Available
June 13, 2016 D. Smith "The Bayesian Unified Monte Carlo Method for Evaluating and Utilizing Nuclear Reaction Data" Video Not Available
June 14, 2016 B. Szpak "Sloppiness of nuclear structure models" Video Not Available
June 14, 2016 D. Neudecker "Going beyond generalized least squares algorithms for estimating nuclear data observables" Video Not Available
June 15, 2016 D. Ireland "Baryon Spectroscopy: Data Consistency and Model Discrimination" Video Not Available
June 15, 2016 J. Bernhard/
S. Bass
  • Introduction
  • "Extraction of quark-gluon-plasma properties via a model to data analysis of relativistic heavy-ion collisions"
  • Video Not Available
    June 16, 2016 H. W. Griesshammer "A Pedestrian's Perspective of Applying Bayesian Statistics in Effective Field Theories" Video Not Available
    June 16, 2016 D. Vretenar "Sloppy nuclear energy density functionals: model reduction by manifold boundaries" Video Not Available
    June 17, 2016 V. Bulaevskaya "A Very Brief Overview of Model Comparison Approaches" Video Not Available
    June 17, 2016 M. Grosskopf "Simple Example of a Gaussian Process" Video Not Available
    June 20, 2016 E. Lawrence "An Example of Bayesian Model Calibration" Video Not Available
    June 20, 2016 J. Auvinen "Constraining the input parameters of a transport+hydrodynamics model of heavy ion collisions in RHIC beam energy scan range with the help of Gaussian emulators" Video Not Available
    June 21, 2016 A. Walker-Loud "A poor man's attempt at fancy fitting of noisy lattice QCD data with exponentially degrading signal-to-noise ratios" Video Not Available
    June 21, 2016 C. Qi "Optimisation of the shell-model Hamiltonian for heavy nuclei and the underlying uncertainty" Video Not Available
    June 22, 2016 K. Bennaceur "Fitting nonlocal energy density functionals for low-energy nuclear structure" Video Not Available
    June 22, 2016 R. Navarro Perez "Statistical analysis of Nucleon-Nucleon interactions" Video Not Available
    June 23, 2016 C. C. Chang "Bayesian constraint curve fitting for lattice QCD" Video Not Available
    June 23, 2016 S. Wesolowski "Bayesian methods for effective field theories" Video Not Available
    June 24, 2016 D. Gazit "Bayes this! Identifying and quantifying theoretical uncertainties." Video Not Available
    June 27, 2016 N. Singpurwalla "The Bayesian Paradigm for Quantifying Uncertainty - A Tutorial" Video Not Available
    June 27, 2016 S. Pratt "Quantitative Conclusions from Heavy-Ion Collisions" Video Not Available
    June 28, 2016 K. Wendt "Uncertainty Quantification Challenges From Modern Ab Initio Nuclear Theory" Video Not Available
    June 28, 2016 X. Zhang "How well do we understand Beryllium-7 + proton -> Boron-8 + photon? A Bayesian Analysis Based on Effective Field Theory" Video Not Available
    June 29, 2016 J. Lattimer "The Roles of Nuclear Physics and the Maximum Mass in Constraining the Neutron Star Radius" Video Not Available
    June 29, 2016 M. Buchoff "Propagating Nuclear Uncertainties from Databases to Applications" Video Not Available
    June 30, 2016 R. Soltz "Application of Bayesian Methods to Finding Jets in Heavy Ion Collisions, and potential applications in Nuclear Security" [pdf] || [pptx] Video Not Available
    June 30, 2016 B. Lackey "Measuring the neutron-star equation of state with gravitational-wave observations" Video Not Available
    July 4, 2016 I. Vernon "Bayesian statistics applied to complex models of physical systems" Video Not Available
    July 4, 2016 A. Ekström "Uncertainty quantification in ab initio nuclear theory" Video Not Available
    July 5, 2016 N. Klco/D. Phillips "Estimating and checking truncation errors in effective field theory" [Part 1]
    [Part 2]
    Video Not Available
    July 5, 2016 R. Surman "Connecting nuclear masses to the mysterious origins of the heavy elements" Video Not Available
    July 6, 2016 W. Nazarewicz "Nuclear charge and neutron radii and nuclear matter: correlation analysis in Skyrme-DFT" Video Not Available
    July 6, 2016 J. Piekarewicz "Constraining Neutron Star Properties from Laboratory Experiments" Video Not Available
    July 7, 2016 A. Afanasjev "The uncertainty quantifications in covariant density functional theory" Video Not Available
    July 7, 2016 K. Chatziioannou/N. Yunes "Probing Neutron Star Interiors with Gravitational Waves" Video Not Available
    July 8, 2016 I. Vernon "Designing New Experiments" Video Not Available


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