Martin L. King
Description
The workshop has been very successfully concluded. We would like to thank all participants and presenters for making this event interesting and fruitful.
The lack of new physics discoveries at the LHC has had many significant effects on the field of particle physics. It has led to the re-evaluation of guiding principles such as naturalness, a decrease in the popularity of prominent models, such as supersymmetry, and an increase in model independent (MI) search methods. These MI methods aim at reducing BSM model dependence in a variety of ways and may include using bottom-up EFTs, using signature-based, rather than model-based, searches, performing SM precision measurements, or using unsupervised deep learning to let experimental data speak for itself as much as possible. This hybrid workshop will bring together physicists and philosophers of science to explore various aspects of this shift towards model-independent strategies, the tools they employ, as well as the methodological and epistemic issues they bring. We may examine questions such as:
The lack of new physics discoveries at the LHC has had many significant effects on the field of particle physics. It has led to the re-evaluation of guiding principles such as naturalness, a decrease in the popularity of prominent models, such as supersymmetry, and an increase in model independent (MI) search methods. These MI methods aim at reducing BSM model dependence in a variety of ways and may include using bottom-up EFTs, using signature-based, rather than model-based, searches, performing SM precision measurements, or using unsupervised deep learning to let experimental data speak for itself as much as possible. This hybrid workshop will bring together physicists and philosophers of science to explore various aspects of this shift towards model-independent strategies, the tools they employ, as well as the methodological and epistemic issues they bring. We may examine questions such as:
- what is model independence? How independent from models can one be?
- how does one historically, or philosophically, characterise the methodological shift that is happening?
- have there been other time periods during which physicists pursued model independence? what relation does this bear to today?
- why pursue model independence? what are its benefits and limitations?
- in what various ways are physicists reducing dependence on models, modelling biases, and modelling assumptions?
- how do deep learning and AI searches fit with model independent strategies?
- etc.
Speakers
- Kyle Cranmer (NYU, physics)
- Richard Dawid (University of Stockholm, philosophy)
- Cristophe Grojean (DESY, physics)
- Gregor Kasieczka (University of Hamburg, physics)
- Martin King (University of Bonn, philosophy)
- Adam Koberinski (University of Waterloo, philosophy)
- Michelangelo Mangano (CERN, physics)
- Michela Massimi (University of Edinburgh, philosophy)
- Sébastien Rivat (Max Planck Institute Berlin, philosophy)
- Emily Sullivan (Eindhoven University, philosophy)
Poster Session Speakers
- Nurida Boddenberg (Bonn)
- Rami Jreige (ENS Paris)
- Joshua Luczak (Singapose MU)
- Zachary Pirtle (George Washington)
Schedule and Abstracts
The schedule can found in three formats, on our indico site (which can print a pdf), in google calendar and iCal. All contain the abstracts. The schedules will be updated as needed.
Indico: indico.uni-wuppertal.de/event/196/
Google Calendar is found here: calendar.google.com/beyondmodels
iCal: iCal Calendar
Note: these are shortened links, so in order to load the calendars, you will have to click, copying and pasting will not work.
Indico: indico.uni-wuppertal.de/event/196/
Google Calendar is found here: calendar.google.com/beyondmodels
iCal: iCal Calendar
Note: these are shortened links, so in order to load the calendars, you will have to click, copying and pasting will not work.
Where
The talks will take place in room 0.052 at the FTD (Forschungs- und Technologie-Zentrum Detektorphysik) on the Poppelsdorf campus of the university at Kreuzbergweg 26, 53115.
The workshop will be in hybrid format. All talks will be shown at the following zoom link:
uni-bonn.zoom.us/j/65127363107?pwd=UEpNY21uVEZJcTM4blhiYXhwVHVlZz09
uni-bonn.zoom.us/j/65127363107?pwd=UEpNY21uVEZJcTM4blhiYXhwVHVlZz09
When
June 14 and 15, from 9:30-18:00
Register
Registration is closed. For more information, email [email protected].
Conference Dinner
There will be a conference dinner on June 14 at 19:00 at Restaurant Oliveto in the Ameron Hotel Königshof at Adenauer Allee 9, 53111.
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