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Lectures of the second week

Monday, June 17

Assigning probabilities (Daniel Phillips)

  • Choosing priors, Maximum Entropy

Model selection (Christian Forssén)

  • Model evidence
  • Bayes factor
  • Bayesian hypothesis testing

Tuesday, June 18

Assigning probabilities (2) (Daniel Phillips)

  • Summary of prior choice discussion, Maximum Entropy for reconstructing functions

Model selection (Dick Furnstahl)

  • Recap of 2019-06-17 exercises: Prior sensitivity of model evidence
  • Evidence when there is a naturalness prior
  • Computational issues for evidence and alternatives

Wednesday, June 19

Gaussian processes (Christian Forssén)

  • Gaussian processes as infinite-dimensional Gaussian distributions
  • From parametric models to Gaussian processes
  • Covariance functions

Gaussian process models for regression (Christian Forssén)

  • Gaussian process emulators

Thursday, June 20

Gaussian processes (Christian Forssén)

  • Gaussian process models for regression
  • Gaussian process emulators

MCMC sampling (Dick Furnstahl)

  • Visualization of Hamiltonian Monte Carlo (HMC) and the No-U-Turn Sampler (NUTS)
  • Physics of HMC
  • PyMC3 overview

Friday, June 21

Applications of Bayesian Methods in Nuclear Physics (Dick Furnstahl)

Why Bayes is Better (3) (Daniel Phillips)

  • Systematic errors: offset, normalization uncertainty, other experimental systematics, theory systematic from an EFT

Poster session (all participants)