Location
This workshop was held at the Hamner Conference Center in Research Triangle Park.
Description
A vast range of statistical problems arise in modern astronomical and space sciences research, particularly due to the flood of data produced by both ground-based and space-based astronomical surveys at many wave-bands. A resurgence of interest in statistical and applied mathematical methods has emerged among astronomers and astrophysicists as they seek insights into the physical phenomena underlying such complex data. Researchers often confront problems for which the common approaches in astronomy either inadequately utilize known methods or require the development of new methods. Although, astronomy was responsible for many important statistical concepts and methods in the past few centuries, in contrast with the biological and social sciences, the statistical needs of physical scientists have been neglected during past decades.
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Schedule and Supporting Media
Speakers Bios Titles/Abstracts
Monday, August 22, 2016
Hamner Conference Center RTP
Description | Speaker | Slides | Videos | |
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Opening Remarks | Sujit Ghosh, SAMSI; G. Jogesh Babu, PSU | Ghosh Babu | ||
“Science and Statistics in Time Domain Astronomy and Cosmic Demographics” | Tom Loredo, Cornell; Eric Feigelson, PSU | Part I Part II | ||
“Introduction to Exoplanet Data” | Bekki Dawson, PSU | |||
“Multidimensional Clustering, Model Comparison, Measurement Uncertainty, Selection Effects etc., in GW” | Will Farr, U Birmingham | |||
“Transients: Gotta catch ‘em all” | Ashish Mahabal, Caltech; Matthew Graham, Caltech | |||
“Hierarchical Modeling of Exoplanet Populations” | Angie Wolfgang, PSU | |||
“Disentangling Overlapping Astronomical Sources using Spatial, Spectral, and Temporal Information” | David Jones, SAMSI | |||
Panel Discussion | Jessi Cisewski, Yale;Sujit Ghosh, SAMSI;Jogesh Babu, PSU |
Tuesday, August 23, 2016
Hamner Conference Center RTP
Description | Speaker | Slides | Videos |
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“Separating Stellar Activity from Doppler Shifts” | Paul Robertson, PSU | ||
“Constructing Flexible Likelihood Functions for Spectroscopic Inference in the Systematics-Dominated Regime” | Ian Czekala, Harvard | ||
“Using Bayesian Computing to Solve a Complex Problem in Astrophysics” | David Stenning, SAMSI | ||
Panel Discussion | Eric Feigelson, PSU; Jessi Cisewski, Yale | ||
“Gravitational Wave Astronomy with Ground-based Detectors” | John Veitch, U. Birmingham | Part I Part II | |
“Pulsar Timing Arrays and Detection of Nanohertz Gravitational Waves” | Jim Cordes, Cornell | ||
“Characterization of GW Transients” | Ben Farr, U. Chicago | ||
Panel Discussion | James Long, Texas A&M; Justin Ellis, Caltech; Illya Mandel, U of Birmingham |
Wednesday, August 24, 2016
Hamner Conference Center RTP
Description | Speaker | Slides | Videos |
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“Inference for non-Stationary, non-Gaussian, Irregularly-Sampled Processes” | Robert Wolpert, Duke | ||
An Introduction Computer Model Calibration with an Application to Radiative Shock Hydrodynamics | Derek Bingham, Simon Fraser University | ||
“Beyond Stationary Gaussian Processes: An overview of model based non-Gaussioan time series analysis – AR, ARIMA, ARfIMA, GARCH, …” | Soumendra Lahiri, NCSU | ||
“Bayesian Estimates of Time Delays between Gravitationally Lensed Stochastic Light Curves and Time Delay Challenge II” | Hyungsuk Tak, SAMSI | ||
Panel Discussion | Eric Ford, PSU; Jeff Scargle, NASA; Eric Feigelson, PSU | ||
“Statistical Challenges in Cosmology” | Elisabeth Krause, Stanford | ||
“Hierarchical Bayesian Models for Type Ia Supernova Cosmology” | Kaisey Mandel, Harvard–Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics | ||
Lightning Talks: 2-5-minute talks by participants presenting posters | Moderator: Sujit Ghosh, SAMSI |
Thursday, August 25, 2016
Hamner Conference Center RTP
Description | Speaker | Slides | Videos | |
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“Nonparametric methods for Irregularly Spaced Non-Gaussian Spatial Data Analysis” | Soumendra Lahiri, NCSU | |||
“Time Series Explorer: Bayesian Blocks with Generalized Profiles and in Higher Dimensions” | Jeff Scargle, NASA and Tom Loredo, Cornell | |||
“Multi-Epoch Source Detection” | Tamas Budavari, JHU | |||
Panel Discussion | Ashish Mahabal, Caltech; Matthew Graham, Caltech; Bekki Dawson, PSU; Will Farr, U Birmingham | |||
Working Groups | Sujit Ghosh, SAMSI; Jogesh Babu, PSU | |||
Working Group I: Uncertainty Quantification and Reduced Order Modeling in Gravitation, Astrophysics, and Cosmology | Moderator: Derek Bingham, Simon Fraser | |||
Working Group II: Synoptic Time Domain Surveys | Moderator: Ashish Mahabal, Caltech | |||
Working Group III: Time Series Analysis for Exoplanets & Gravitational Waves: Beyond Stationary Gaussian Processes | Moderator: Ben Farr, University of Chicago | |||
Working Group IV: Population Modeling & Signal Separation for Exoplanets & Gravitational Waves | Moderator: Eric Ford, PSU | |||
Working Group V: Statistics, Computation, and Modeling in Cosmology | Moderators: Joe Guinness, NCSU / Elisabeth Krause, Stanford |
Friday, August 26, 2016