Participation by invitation only.
Location:
This workshop will take place at the International Center for Theoretical Sciences (ICTS), Bengaluru, India.
Description:
This workshop, co-sponsored by ICTS (India), is part of the SAMSI year-long program on Statistical, Mathematical and Computational Methods for Astronomy (ASTRO) and the primary goal of this mid-program workshop is to further enrich the SAMSI ASTRO program by including international researchers in the area of synoptic time domain surveys and time series analysis of gravitational wave data. The participants of the workshop will focus on advancing the current understanding of the above stated research topics by incorporating expertise of researchers from India and the U.S. who are working on Electromagnetic (EM) counterparts to Gravitational Wave (GW) sources.
In essence, this workshop would enable U.S. researchers to learn from the expertise of Indian researchers (at leading institutions in India) and also enable U.S. researchers to exchange and share the methodologies developed by two of the five working groups of the SAMSI ASTRO program.
The workshop will begin with a few overview lectures designed to familiarize attendees with current trends in time domain astronomy and modern methodologies in statistics and applied mathematics. The subsequent part of the workshop will follow with specialized research lectures on the existing subgroups, panel discussions about collaboration possibilities between different groups with specific end-points in mind through collaborative research sessions.
Questions: For those interested in participating or for further details, please contact one of the organizers or the SAMSI directorate liaison listed on the right. For more information about this program, visit the Time Series Analysis for Synoptic and Gravitational Wave Astronomy page at ICTS.
Schedule and Supporting Media
Blog Posts
ICTS Contribution – Kaustubh Vaghmare: When Astronomy Met Statistics
SAMSI Contribution – Jackeline Moreno: Drexel PhD Candidate Gains Perspective on Big Data in Astronomy at International Workshop
Monday, March 20, 2017
International Center for Theoretical Sciences (ICTS), Bengaluru, India
Description | Speaker | Slides | Videos |
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ICTS Welcome | Parameswaran Ajith, ICTS | ||
SAMSI Deputy Director’s Welcome | Sujit Ghosh, SAMSI | ||
Scientific Aims | Ashish Mahabal, CalTech | video | |
Challenges for Real-time and Archival Time domain astronomy | Ashish Mahabal, CalTech | video | |
GW astronomy: Overview | Archana Pai, IISER Trivandrum | video | |
Statistics in astronomy & the SAMSI ASTRO Program | Jogesh Babu, Penn State | video | |
Panel and discussions | James Long, Texas A&M | ||
Building a training set for an automatic LSST light curve classifier | Rafael Martinez Galarza, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics | video | |
Searching for ultraviolet transients with UNIT | Koshy George, India Institute of Astrophysics | video | |
Structure Function & CARMA Analysis of QSO Light curves | Jackeline Moreno, Drexel | ||
Feature selection and classification methods for CRTS (Panel Discussion) | N Sajeeth Philip, David Jones & Sujit Ghosh |
Tuesday, March 21, 2017
International Center for Theoretical Sciences (ICTS), Bengaluru, India
Description | Speaker | Slides | Videos |
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Issues in time domain astronomy | Matthew Graham, Washington State | video | |
Challenges in Source Parameter Estimation in GW Astronomy | Rajesh Nayak | video | |
Statistical Challenges in time domain astronomy | James Long, Texas A&M | video | |
Panel and Discussion | David Stenning & Hyungsuk Tak, SAMSI | ||
Anand Sengupta, Indian Institue of Technology Gandhinagar |
Wednesday, March 22, 2017
International Center for Theoretical Sciences (ICTS), Bengaluru, India
Description | Speaker | Slides | Videos |
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Compact binaries, sky localization & all that | Sukanta Bose, Washington State University | ||
Observing facilities in India | Varun Bhalerao, IIT Bombay | video | |
Finding counterparts in X-ray data: The Search for Electromagnetic Counterparts to GW sources | Varun Bhalerao, IIT Bombay | video | |
Panel and Discussion | Ashish Mahabal, CalTech | ||
Kuntal Misra, Aryabhatta Research Institute of Observational Sciences (ARIES) | |||
Transient noise in the LIGO detectors | Jessica McIver, LIGO | video | |
The physical, statistical and computational challenges of Pulsar Timing | Justin Ellis, CalTech | video | |
Robust inference via a mixture of Gaussian and t-type error distributions | Hyungsuk Tak, SAMSI | video | |
Lightning talks related to posters |
Thursday, March 23, 2017
International Center for Theoretical Sciences (ICTS), Bengaluru, India
Description | Speaker | Slides | Videos |
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Gamma Ray Bursts & Associated Supernovae | Kuntal Misra, Aryabhatta Research Institute of Observational Sciences (ARIES) | video | |
Redshift distribution of short duration GRBs | L. Resmi, Indian Institute of Space & Technology (IIST) | NOT AVAILABLE | |
Hybrid geometric-stochastic GW template banks | Anand Sengupta, Indian Institue of Technology Gandhinagar | video | |
Bayesian model selection of population synthesis models of CBCs | Sumit Kumar, ICTS-TIFR | video | |
Bayesian identification of strongly lensed GW events | M. K. Haris, ICTS |