Statistical
Challenges in Modern Astronomy IV
June
12-15, 2006
Monday June 12
7:30 - 9:00
Registration, poster setup, continental breakfast
Cosmology I
9:00 - 9:20 Daniel Larson, G.
Jogesh Babu, Eric Feigelson (Penn
State)
Greetings
9:20 - 10:20 Gary Hinshaw (NASA/GSFC)
The cosmic microwave
background, WMAP and inflation: Is ns<1?
10:20 - 10:40 Short break
10:40 - 11:20 Istvan Szapudi
(Hawaii)
Spatial statistics in the
cosmic microwave background maps
11:20 - 12:00 Christopher Genovese
(Carnegie Mellon) & Laura Cayon
(Purdue)
Cosmic microwave
background commentaries & discussion
12:00 - 1:20 Lunch Break
Cosmology II
1:20 - 2:00 Vicent Martinez
(Valencia)
Cosmic structures: A challenge for astrostatistics
2:00 - 2:40 Adrian Baddeley
(W Australia)
Validation of models for spatial point patterns
2:40 - 3:10 Ji Meng Loh
(Columbia) & Ofer Lahav
(UC London)
Large scale structure
commentaries & discussion
3:10 - 3:25 Short break
3:25 - 4:05 Christopher Kochanek
(Ohio State)
Turning AGN Microlensing From
a Curiosity Into a Tool
4:05 - 4:45 Gary Bernstein
(Penn)
Statistical Challenges of Weak Gravitational Lensing
4:45 - 5:05 Jiayang Sun (Case
Western
Reserve)
Gravitational lensing commentary & discussion
6:30 - 9:00 Reception & poster
viewing
Tuesday June 13
7:30 - 8:30 Continental breakfast
Small-N problems
8:30 - 9:10 Glen Cowan
(Royal Holloway UL)
The small-N problem in high energy physics
9:10 - 9:50 Harrison Prosper
(Florida State)
Bayesian Methods in particle physics: From small-N to large
9:50 - 10:20 Michael Woodroofe
(Michigan)
Commentary & discussion on
small-N in particle physics
10:20 - 10:35 Short break
10:35 - 11:15 Alanna Connors
(Eureka)
Measuring what we "see" in
Poisson images
11:15 - 11:35 David van Dyk
(UC Irvine)
Commentary & discussion of small-N in astronomy
11:35 - 12:05 "Two minute madness" Contributed Paper
presentations
12:05 - 1:30 Lunch Break
Astronomical surveys
1:30 - 2:10 Thomas Loredo
(Cornell)
Analyzing data from astronomical surveys: Issues and directions
2:10 - 2:30 Woncheol Jang
(Duke)
Commentary & discussion on survey methodology
2:30 - 3:10 Timothy Axelrod
(Arizona)
Photometric calibration: An intriguing statistical problem from the
Large Synoptic Survey Telescope
3:10 - 3:30 J. K. Ghosh
(Purdue)
Commentary &
discussion of photometric calibration problem
3:30 - 3:45 Short break
3:45 - 4:25 Robert Lupton
(Princeton)
The characterisation, subtraction, and addition of astronomical images
4:25 - 4:45 Rebecca Willett
(Duke)
Commentary &
discussion of image analysis
4:45 - 5:25 Robert Hanisch
(STScI/NVO)
The Virtual Observatory: Core
capabilities and support for statistical analyses in astronomy
5:25 - 5:45 G. Jogesh Babu
(Penn State)
Commentary & discussion of the Virtual Observatory
7:30 - 9:30 Poster viewing &
software demonstrations
Thomas
Loredo
(Cornell) & Alanna Connors
(Eureka)
Python Inference package
demonstration
Michael
Yukish
(Penn State) & Tin Kam Ho
(Bell Labs)
Data visualization software
demonstrations
Wednesday June 14
7:30 - 8:30 Continental breakfast
Planetary systems
8:30 - 9:10 Eric Ford
(UC Berkeley)
Bayesian model selection and
extrasolar planet detection
9:10 - 9:30 J. K. Ghosh
(Purdue)
Commentary & discussion of extrasolar planet detection
9:30 - 10:00 William Romanishin
(Oklahoma)
Statistics of optical
colors of Kuiper Belt Objects and Centaurs
10:00 - 10:20 Zhengyuan Zhu
(N Carolina)
Commentary & discussion of
Solar System minor bodies
10:20 - 10:35 Short break
10:35 - 11:15 Merlise Clyde
(Duke)
Current challenges in
Bayesian model choice
11:15 - 11:35 William Jefferys
(Texas/Vermont)
Commentary & discussion of Bayesian model selection
11:35 - 12:05 "Two minute madness" Contributed
Paper presentations
12:05 - 1:30 Lunch Break
Developments in statistics
1:30 - 2:10 Christopher Genovese
(Carnegie Mellon)
Nonparametric Inference and
the Dark Energy Equation of State
2:10 - 2:30 Eric Feigelson
(Penn State)
Commentary & discussion of
nonparametric inference
2:30 - 3:10 Rebecca Willett
(Duke)
Statistical analysis of photon-limited astronomical signals and images
3:10 - 3:30 Jeffrey Scargle
(NASA-Ames)
Commentary & discussion of
photon-limited problems
3:30 - 3:45 Short break
3:45 - 4:15 Michael Woodroofe
(Michigan)
Shape restricted estimation
in the search for Dark Matter
4:15 - 4:30 Martin Hendry
(Glasgow)
Commentary &
discussion on Dark Matter mapping
4:30 - 5:30 Poster viewing and
software demonstrations
David Hunter
(Penn State) & Adrian Baddeley
(W Australia)
R software demonstration
7:00 - 8:15 Banquet
8:15 - 9:00 Alfred Inselberg
(Tel Aviv/SDSC)
Multidimensional visualization
and its applications
Thursday June 15
8:00 - 9:00 Continental breakfast
Periodic variability
9:00 - 9:40 John Rice
(UC Berkeley)
Detecting periodicity in a Poisson process
9:40 - 10:00 Jeffrey Scargle
(NASA-Ames)
Commentary & discussion of
Poisson periodicities
10:00 - 10:40 Chris Koen
(W Cape)
Periodicities in
variable astronomical objects
10:40 - 10:55 Short break
10:55 - 11:35 Graham Woan
(Glasgow)
Periodicity in
gravitational waves
11:35 - 12:00 John Rice
(UC Berkeley)
Commentary &
discussion of periodicity in astronomy
12:00 - 1:20 Lunch Break
Cross-disciplinary perspectives
1:20 - 2:00 Louis Lyons
(Oxford)
Physics perspective
2:00 - 2:40 James Berger
(Duke)
Statistics perspective
2:40 - 3:20 Ofer Lahav
(UC London)
Astronomy perspective
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