The AstroStat Slog » conference http://hea-www.harvard.edu/AstroStat/slog Weaving together Astronomy+Statistics+Computer Science+Engineering+Intrumentation, far beyond the growing borders Fri, 09 Sep 2011 17:05:33 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4 [announce] upcoming workshops and conferences http://hea-www.harvard.edu/AstroStat/slog/2011/announce-upcoming-workshops-and-conferences/ http://hea-www.harvard.edu/AstroStat/slog/2011/announce-upcoming-workshops-and-conferences/#comments Wed, 09 Feb 2011 23:03:38 +0000 chasc http://hea-www.harvard.edu/AstroStat/slog/?p=4277 Kirk Borne has compiled a list of interesting workshops and conferences coming up in the near future:

The Future of Scientific Knowledge Discovery in Open Networked Environments
http://sites.nationalacademies.org/PGA/brdi/PGA_060422

New York Workshop on Computer, Earth, and Space Sciences 2011
http://www.giss.nasa.gov/meetings/cess2011/

Innovations in Data-Intensive Astronomy
http://www.nrao.edu/meetings/bigdata/

Astrostatistics and Data Mining in Large Astronomical Databases
http://www.iwinac.uned.es/Astrostatistics/

Statistical Challenges in Modern Astronomy V (including summer school & tutorials)
http://astrostatistics.psu.edu/su11scma5/

Very Wide Field Surveys in the Light of Astro2010
http://widefield2011.pha.jhu.edu/

Statistical Methods for Very Large Datasets
http://www.regonline.com/builder/site/Default.aspx?eventid=757633

23rd Scientific and Statistical Database Management Conference
http://ssdbm2011.ssdbm.org/

International Statistical Institute (ISI) World Congress
http://www.isi2011.ie/

NASA Conference on Intelligent Data Understanding
https://c3.ndc.nasa.gov/dashlink/projects/43/

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[announce] SCMA V http://hea-www.harvard.edu/AstroStat/slog/2011/announce-scma-v/ http://hea-www.harvard.edu/AstroStat/slog/2011/announce-scma-v/#comments Sat, 15 Jan 2011 03:35:03 +0000 chasc http://hea-www.harvard.edu/AstroStat/slog/?p=4274 via David van Dyk, information about 3 events in astrostatistics hosted by Penn State’s Center for Astrostatistics:

  1. Summer School in Statistics for Astronomers VII (June 6-10, 2011)
  2. Pre-conference Tutorials (June 11-12, 2011)
  3. Statistical Challenges in Modern Astronomy V (June 13-17, 2011)*

*Web site: http://astrostatistics.psu.edu/su11scma5/

Registration is now open until May 6
(Summer School registration may close earlier if the enrollment limit is reached)

Contributed papers for the SCMA V conference are welcome

Summer School in Statistics for Astronomers: The seventh summer school is an intensive week covering basic statistical inference, several fields of applied statistics, and hands-on experience with the R computing environment. Topics include: exploratory data analysis, hypothesis testing, parameter estimation, regression, bootstrap resampling, model selection & goodness-of-fit, maximum likelihood and Bayesian methods, nonparametrics, spatial processes, and times series. Instructors are mostly faculty members in statistics.

Pre-conference tutorials: Instruction in four areas of astrostatistical interest presented during the weekend between the Summer School and SCMA V conference. Topics are: Bayesian computation and MCMC; data mining; R for astronomers; and wavelets for image analysis. Instructors are members of the SCMA V Scientific Organizing Committee.

SCMA V conference: Held every five years, SCMA conferences are the premier cross-disciplinary forum for research statisticians and astronomers to discuss methodological issues of mutual interest. Session topics include: statistical modeling in astronomy, Bayesian analysis across astronomy; Bayesian cosmology; data mining and informatics; sparsity; interpreting astrophysical simulations; time domain astronomy; spatial and image analysis; and future directions for astrostatistics. Invited lectures will be followed by cross-disciplinary commentaries. The conference welcomes contributed papers from statisticians and astronomers.

Visit http://astrostatistics.psu.edu/su11scma5/ for more information and registration

Contacts:
Eric Feigelson, Dept. of Astronomy & Astrophysics, Penn State, edf@astro.psu.edu
G. Jogesh Babu, Dept. of Statistics, Penn State, babu@stat.psu.edu

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