Location
This workshop will be held at NC Biotech Center / Hamner Conference Center in RTP.
Description
The transition workshop for the ASTRO (samsi.info/astro) program is an opportunity for the active working groups in the program to exchange results and share their perspectives on common issues. This workshop is focused on recent research progress that has been made in connection with the many research areas spanned by the ASTRO program. Sessions of talks dedicated to each working group will feature presentations by active members. The workshop also seeks to facilitate planning for continuing collaborations on further research questions to extend beyond the period of the ASTRO program.
All ASTRO participants are asked to acknowledge support in any relevant publications and presentations, “This material was based upon work partially supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant DMS-1127914 to the Statistical and Applied Mathematical Sciences Institute.” See /forms-resources/crediting-samsi/.
Schedule and Supporting Media
Speakers
Jogesh Babu (Penn State University)
Jake Coleman (Duke)
Rebekah Dawson (Penn State University)
Collin Eubanks (Carnegie Mellon University)
Eric Ford (Penn State University)
Matthew Graham (California Institute of Technology)
Danley Hsu (Penn State University)
David Jones (SAMSI)
Sheila Kannappan (UNC-Chapel Hill)
Soumen Lahiri (N.C. State)
Ashish Mahabal (California Institute of Technology)
Rafael Martinez-Galarza (Harvard)
Jess McIver (California Institute of Technology)
Jackeline Moreno (Drexel University)
Bo Ning (N.C. State)
Ana-Maria Staicu (N.C. State)
David Stenning (SAMSI)
Hyungsuk Tak (SAMSI)
Virisha Timmaraju (Texas A&M)
Supporting Media
Printable Schedule
Speaker Titles/Abstracts
Poster Titles
Monday, May 8, 2017
The Hamner Center, Dogwood Rm
Description | Speaker | Slides | Videos |
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Introduction and Welcome | Sujit Ghosh, SAMSI Deputy Director | ||
Recap of the ASTRO Program | Jogesh Babu, Penn State University | ||
Overview of Working Group II Activities | Ashish Mahabal, Caltech | ||
Overview of Working Group III Activities | Soumen Lahiri, N.C. State | ||
Overview of Working Group IV Activities: Heirarchical Modeling of Astrophysical Populations | Eric Ford, Penn State University | ||
Overview of Working Group I Activities | David Stenning, SAMSI | ||
Working Group IV Presentations | Eric Ford, Penn State University | ||
Hunting for Planets in the Presence of Stellar Activity | David Jones, SAMSI | ||
Nonparametric Prediction and the Exoplanet Mass-Radius Relationship | Bo Ning, N.C. State | ||
Hierarchical Modeling of the RESOLVE Survey | Sheila Kannappan, UNC-Chapel Hill | ||
Testing the Origins of Close-in Exoplanet Populations | Rebekah Dawson, Penn State University | ||
Working Group III Presentations | Soumen Lahiri, N.C. State | ||
Robust and Accurate Inference via a Mixture of Gaussian and T-type Error Distributions | Hyungsuk Tak, SAMSI | ||
Pulsar Timing for GWB: Statistical Methods | Jogesh Babu (Penn State University) and Soumen Lahiri (N.C. State) | ||
Statistical Challenges in Analyzing LIGO Gravitational Wave Data | Jessica McIver, Caltech |
Tuesday, May 9, 2017
The Hamner Center, Dogwood Rm
Description | Speaker | Slides | Videos |
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Working Group II Presentations | Ashish Mahabal, Caltech | ||
Building a Training Set for a LSST Light Curve Classifier | Rafael Martinez-Galarza, Harvard | ||
Scheduling Observations and Period Finding | Ana-Maria Staicu, N.C. State | ||
Where do AGN Live in CARMA Parameter Space? Difficulties in Constraining Model Parameters | Jackeline Moreno, Drexel | ||
Preparing for the LSST | Virisha Timmaraju, Texas A&M | ||
Working Group I Presentations | Robert Wolpert, Duke | ||
Computer Model Calibration to Enable Disaggregation of Large Parameter Spaces, with Application to Mars Rover Data | David Stenning, SAMSI | ||
Computer Emulation with Frequency Histogram Output | Jake Coleman, Duke | ||
Improving the Accuracy of Planet Occurrence Rates from Kepler Using Approximate Bayesian Computation | Danley Hsu, Penn State University | ||
Multi-resolution Mapping of the Intergalactic Medium | Collin Eubanks, Carnegie Mellon University | ||
Poster Session: | |||
A Study of Galaxy Group Velocity Dispersions Using Heirarchical Bayesian Modeling | Charles Bonfield, UNC-Chapel Hill | ||
Applications of Persistent Homology | Brittany Fasy, Montana State University | ||
Modeling Exoplanet Transit Timing Variations Using Geometric MCMC | Noah Tuchow, Penn State University | ||
Modeling Period & Period Ratio Distributions of Exoplanetary Systems | Mathhias Yan He, Penn State University |
Wednesday, May 10, 2017
The Hamner Center, Dogwood Rm
Description | Speaker | Slides | Videos |
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Announcements and Updates | Sujit Ghosh, SAMSI Deputy Director | ||
Panel: Challenges and Opportunities for the ASTRO program | Jogesh Babu, Penn State University | ||
Program Leaders of Working Groups: Collect feedback for program reports | |||
Program Reports Preparation: Working Groups meet separately to prepare reports | |||
Concluding Remarks, Adjourn and LUNCH |
Questions: email [email protected]