Astrostatistics - September 19-21, 2012

This three day workshop, held at SAMSI, brought together astrophysicists and statisticians to brainstorm on advanced topics in statistical inference in the context of modern empirical astrophysics.

The importance of rigorous application of statistical methods to astrophysical data analysis has increased enormously in the last two decades. There has been a paradigm shift that involves constantly dealing with large data sets at multiple wavelengths, which requires complex automated processes that necessitate a diverse set of sophisticated statistical techniques. The current and upcoming astrophysics missions such as the SDSS, Planck, LSST and LIGO continue this trend to even larger data sets and parameter sets. The workshop brought  together astrophysicists from diverse sub-disciplines who have used statistical analysis in their research, and statisticians who have experience with statistical issues in astrophysics, in order to create a forum for extensive interactions on state-of-the-art statistical inference as applicable to astrophysical problems.

List of astronomy topics:
* Transients in Astrophysics: the search for transients, search for periodicities
* Large sky surveys, Dark Energy Survey
* Cosmic Microwave Background studies
* Galaxy Evolution
* Exoplanets
* Current missions (Fermi, SDSS, DES, Planck)
* Future missions (LSST, LIGO)

List of topics on improved statistical inference:
* Non-Linear Data Transformation
* Sparsity 
* Data Mining
* Bayesian Methods

Schedule

Wednesday, September 19, 2012
at SAMSI
Room 150

Thursday, September 20, 2012
at SAMSI
Room 150

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Friday, September 21, 2012
at SAMSI
Room 150