Gravity seminar -ÌýGregory Ashton Seminar
- Time:
- 14:00
- Date:
- 27 February 2025
- Venue:
- Building 54, room 10037
For more information regarding this seminar, please email Jonathan Thompson at J.E.Thompson@soton.ac.uk .
Event details
Title: Using distribution-free uncertainty quantification to enhance searches for gravitational wave signals
Abstract: This talk will introduce Conformal Prediction, a distribution-free algorithm for augmenting arbitrary classification and regression algorithms with quantified and fully calibrated uncertainty estimates. I will motivate this work by comparing with classical threshold-based procedures used throughout astronomy and demonstrating a toy model. I will then demonstrate how conformal prediction can enhance the search for gravitational waves from compact binary coalescence events.
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Speaker information
Gregory Ashton (Royal Holloway, University of London)