Statistical
Challenges in Modern Astronomy IV
June
12-15, 2006
Monday June 12
7:30 - 9:00
Registration, poster setup, continental breakfast
9:00 - 9:20 Daniel
Larson, G.
Jogesh Babu, Eric Feigelson (Penn
State)
Greetings
Cosmology I
Chair:
William
Jefferys
(Texas/Vermont)
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 (Genovese,
Cayon)
12:00 - 1:20 Lunch Break
Cosmology II
Chair:
Alanna
Connors
(Eureka)
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 (Loh.pdf, Lahav.ppt)
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
Chair:
Keith
Arnaud
(NASA/GSFC)
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)
How to
win with Poisson data: Imaging Gamma-Rays
11:15 - 11:35 David van Dyk
(UC Irvine)
Commentary & discussion of small-N in
astronomy
Chair:
G.
Jogesh Babu
(Penn State)
11:35 - 12:05 "Two minute madness" Contributed Paper
presentations
12:05 - 1:30 Lunch Break
Astronomical surveys
Chair:
Donald
Schneider
(Penn State)
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
Chair:
Jasper
Wall
(British Columbia)
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
Chair:
Phil
Gregory
(British Columbia)
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 (PDF)
Chair:
G.
Jogesh Babu
(Penn State)
11:35 - 12:05 "Two minute madness" Contributed
Paper presentations
12:05 - 1:30 Lunch Break
Developments in statistics
Chair:
J. K.
Ghosh
(Purdue)
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)
Multiscale analysis of photon-limited
astronomical 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)
Non-parametric
estimation of Dark Matter distributions in Dwarf Speroidal galaxies
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
Chair:
James
Rosenberger
(Penn State)
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
Chair:
C. R. Rao
(Penn State)
1:20 - 2:00 Louis Lyons
(Oxford)
Physics
perspective
2:00 - 2:40 James Berger
(Duke)
Statistics
perspective
(SAMSI Movie)
2:40 - 3:20 Ofer Lahav
(UC London)
Astronomy
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