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Statistical
Challenges in Modern Astronomy IV
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The SCMA IV conference was held in the high-tech Berg Auditorium of the Life Sciences Building at Penn State University in State College PA on June 12-15 2006. Further conference details, registration fees and procedures, lodging, travel and visa information is available via the tabs above. The scientific program is divided into seven topical sessions with Invited Speakers in astronomy or statistics accompanied by Commentators from the other discipline. Brief biographies of the Speakers and Commentators are available here. I Cosmology
II Periodic time series
III Recent developments in statistics
IV Planetary systems
V Large surveys & mega-datasets
VI Small-N problems in physics and astronomy
VII Cross-disciplinary perspectives
Physics: Louis Lyons (Oxford) Statistics: James Berger (Duke) Commentators:
Laura Cayon (Purdue) Jayanta K. Ghosh (Purdue) Martin Hendry (Glasgow) Woncheol Jang (Duke) William Jefferys (Texas/Vermont) Ofer Lahav (UC London) Ji Meng Loh (Columbia) John Rice (UC Berkeley) Jeffrey Scargle (NASA-Ames) Jiayang Sun (Case Western Reserve) David van Dyk (UC Irvine) Rebecca Willett (Duke) Michael Woodroofe (Michigan) Zhengyuan Zhu (N Carolina) Scientific Organizing
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Summer
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Astronomers & Physicists II June 6-10, 2006 at Penn State University Lecture and Computer Lab Schedule The second annual Summer School in Statistics for Astronomers and Physicists was held at Penn State. This is a 5-day course in fundamental statistical inference designed to provide physical scientists, and graduate students, with a strong conceptual foundation in modern statistics and to develop a repertoire of well-established techniques applicable to observational astronomy and physics. Classroom instruction is interspersed with hands-on analysis of astronomical data using the public-domain R software package. The team of instructors include Professors Steven Arnold, G. J. Babu, Eric Feigelson, Murali Haran, Thomas Hettmansperger, David Hunter, Alfred Inselberg, Thomas Loredo, Donald Richards & C. R. Rao. Statistical techniques covered include:
The 2006 Summer School was modeled on the 1st Summer School; see lecture notes for the first Summer School. |
This page last updated July 21, 2006
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