BAND has held four BAND camps to disseminate BAND tools and ideas to the community. One was completely virtual (December 2020), one hybrid (December 2021), and two in-person (May 2023 and October 2026). These were all in conjunction with workshops on Information and Statistics in Nuclear Experiment and Theory (ISNET).
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BAND Camp 2026 was a one-day set of pedagogical presentations and tutorials organized by the Bayesian Analysis of Nuclear Dynamics (BAND) collaboration. Materials were geared towards students and earlier career researchers, and aimed to provide an introduction to the software tools developed by BAND and to the corresponding concepts and methods of Bayesian uncertainty quantification.
The camp taught attendees to use Bayesian statistics, which is a mathematical method for updating the probability of a hypothesis as more evidence becomes available. In nuclear physics, researchers can use BAND tools when fitting (or “calibrating”) a model to experimental data, when estimating the uncertainties in a particular model, and in order to combine disparate models of a particular observable.
BAND’s software has tools that are designed to facilitate these steps in the Bayesian workflow. The software thus lowers the barrier for nuclear-physics researchers wishing to employ Bayesian methods, acting as a “bridge” between applied math and nuclear physics data.
Introduction to the BAND software framework
Daniel Phillips (OU)
BAND Camp at the Information and Statistics in Nuclear Experiment and Theory (ISNET-12) conference.
October 5, 2026
Gaussian Process emulation and surmise
Moses Chan (NW)
BAND Camp at the Information and Statistics in Nuclear Experiment and Theory (ISNET-12) conference.
October 5, 2026
Calibrating an optical model using BAND tools
Kyle Beyer (MSU)
BAND Camp at the Information and Statistics in Nuclear Experiment and Theory (ISNET-12) conference.
October 5, 2026
Discrepancy functions and using them in calibration
Sunil Jaiswal (WSU) and Dick Furnstahl (OSU)
BAND Camp at the Information and Statistics in Nuclear Experiment and Theory (ISNET-12) conference.
October 5, 2026
Bayesian Model Combination and the example of nuclear masses
Kyle Godbey (NVIDIA)
BAND Camp at the Information and Statistics in Nuclear Experiment and Theory (ISNET-12) conference.
October 5, 2026
Bayesian Tree mixing using Taweret
Matt Pratola (IU)
BAND Camp at the Information and Statistics in Nuclear Experiment and Theory (ISNET-12) conference.
October 5, 2026
Gaussian Process mixing using Taweret
Alexandra Semposki (OSU)
BAND Camp at the Information and Statistics in Nuclear Experiment and Theory (ISNET-12) conference.
October 5, 2026
Pre-BAND-camp YouTube video introducing Bayesian methods (60 min.)
Pablo Giuliani (MSU) and Federi Viens (MSU)
BAND Camp at the Information and Statistics in Nuclear Experiment and Theory (ISNET-9) conference.
May 15, 2023
The Bayesian Analysis of Nuclear Dynamics Framework
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Özge Sürer (Miami) and Moses Chan (Northwestern)
BAND Camp at the Information and Statistics in Nuclear Experiment and Theory (ISNET-9) conference.
May 22, 2023
ROSE: Theory and implementation
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Daniel Odell (OU) and Pablo Giuliani (MSU)
BAND Camp at the Information and Statistics in Nuclear Experiment and Theory (ISNET-9) conference.
May 22, 2023
Bayesian Model Mixing: Theory
[video]
Matt Pratola (OSU)
BAND Camp at the Information and Statistics in Nuclear Experiment and Theory (ISNET-9) conference.
May 22, 2023
Bayesian Model Mixing using Taweret
[video]
Alexandra Semposki (OU) and John Yannotty (OSU)
BAND Camp at the Information and Statistics in Nuclear Experiment and Theory (ISNET-9) conference.
May 22, 2023
The Bayesian Mass Explorer, BMEX
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Kyle Godbey (MSU) and Witek Nazarewicz (MSU)
BAND Camp at the Information and Statistics in Nuclear Experiment and Theory (ISNET-9) conference.
May 22, 2023
Experimental Design and the BAND software framework
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Dick Furnstahl (OSU)
BAND Camp at the Information and Statistics in Nuclear Experiment and Theory (ISNET-9) conference.
May 22, 2023
Bayesian Modeling: Mixing and Averaging
Frederi Viens (MSU)
BAND Camp at the Information and Statistics in Nuclear Experiment and Theory (ISNET-v8) conference.
December 13, 2021
BAND Software Overview
Ozge Surer
BAND Camp at the Information and Statistics in Nuclear Experiment and Theory (ISNET-8) conference.
December 13, 2021
Emulators
Jordan Melendez (Root, OSU)
BAND Camp at the Information and Statistics in Nuclear Experiment and Theory (ISNET-8) conference.
December 13, 2021
Coming attractions
Daniel Phillips (OU)
BAND Camp at the Information and Statistics in Nuclear Experiment and Theory (ISNET-8) conference.
December 13, 2021
The Bayesian Analysis of Nuclear Dynamics Framework: A Brief Introduction
Daniel Phillips (OU)
BAND Camp at the Information and Statistics in Nuclear Experiment and Theory (ISNET-v8) conference.
December 14, 2020
Bayesian Basics
Michael Grosskopf (LANL)
BAND Camp at the Information and Statistics in Nuclear Experiment and Theory (ISNET-v8) conference.
December 14, 2020
Model Emulation and Parameter Estimation
Simon Mak (Duke U) and Derek Everett (OSU)
BAND Camp at the Information and Statistics in Nuclear Experiment and Theory (ISNET-v8) conference.
December 14, 2020
Bayesian Analysis of Nuclear Dynamics: Early Directions in Bayesian Model Mixing
Matt Pratola (OSU)
BAND Camp at the Information and Statistics in Nuclear Experiment and Theory (ISNET-v8) conference.
December 14, 2020