First Circular

(Japanese Border Measures will be changed after October 11^th, 2022, and then the schedule of deadline for Applicants for on-site participation from overseas is changed.)

The Kobayashi-Maskawa Institute for the Origin of Particles and the Universe (KMI) was established in 2010 at Nagoya University to explore new frontiers of modern physics beyond the Standard Model. KMI decided to launch the KMI school in 2018, to which we invite distinguished researchers to KMI to have them give their lectures on specific topics every year. The KMI school is intended for graduate school students and young post-docs. We would like you to encourage young members of your groups to join the KMI school.

The 4th KMI school will be held with the topic “Statistical Data Analysis and Anomalies in Particle Physics and Astrophysics”. Analysis of large data samples is required in particle physics and astrophysics. To obtain physics results from such large amounts of data, methods based on advanced statistics are extensively applied. The lecture on statistical data analysis will be helpful to many researchers, including our members in KMI. In addition to the lecture, we will also have topical seminars on anomalies in particle physics and astrophysics. They might be mirages, which appear on statistical fluctuations. On the other hand, they might be hints for big discoveries.

We will hold the 4th KMI school as follows:

1. Date:

December 15^th to 17^th, 2022
(December 14^th to 17^th, 2022 if the lecturer cannot come to KMI and the lecture is online.)

2.Conference venue:

KMI Science Symposia (ES635) in Nagoya University
We will also broadcast the lectures and seminars by ZOOM for online participants.

3. Program:

1) One lecture to learn the basics of statistical data analysis as well as the tutorial course (1.5 hours x3 for lectures, 1.5 hours x3 for tutorial)
“Statistical data analysis and tutorial”/ Glen Cowan (Royal Holloway, University of London)
The detail of the tutorial will be announced later in the 2nd circular.

2)We will also organize topical seminars on anomalies in particle physics and astrophysics as follows (titles are tentative, about 45 min for each seminar)
Anomalies in cosmology: Marco Raveri (University of Genoa)
Anomalies in flavor physics: Teppei Kitahara (KMI, Nagoya University)
Anomalies in energy frontier physics: Takuya Nobe (ICEPP, University of Tokyo)
Neutron lifetime problem: Albert Young (North Carolina State Univ.)
muon g-2: Kim Siang Khaw (Shanghai Jiao Tong University)
Anomalies in cosmic rays Shunsaku Horiuchi (Virginia Tech.)

3)Poster session:
We encourage participants to present their research results at the poster session in the KMI school. We will not limit their topics to research with data analysis, but all the topics related to particle physics and astrophysics. A presenter prize will be awarded to those who give the best presentation among them.