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Statistical Challenges in Modern Astronomy V (June 13-17, 2011)

Speakers in red and Commentators in blue

June 13, 2011 (Monday)

8:00 a.m. - 9:00 a.m.	Registration and continental breakfast (Lobby of 100 Life Sciences)
9:00 a.m. - 9:15 a.m.	Welcome (Daniel Larson, Dean, Eberly College of Science)
9:15 a.m. - 9:30 a.m.	Introductions (G. Jogesh Babu & Eric Feigelson)

Statistical Modeling in Astronomy I

9:30 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.	Ethan Anderes (UCD) The dark matter spectral density from lensed CMB observations Alan Heavens (ROE) Commentary
	Break (Willaman Gateway)
11:30 a.m. - 12:10 p.m.	Domenico Marinucci (Roma) Needlets estimation in cosmology and astrophysics

Bayesian Analysis Across Astronomy

2:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.	Martin Weinberg (UMass) Parameter estimation and model selection in extragalactic astronomy Philip Gregory (UBC) Commentary
3:00 p.m. - 3:15 p.m.	Othman Benomar (Paris-Sud) Asteroseismology: Bayesian estimation of solar-like oscillations
3:15 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.	Alexander Blocker (Harvard) Semi-parametric robust event detection for massive time-domain databases
	Break (Lobby)
4:00 p.m. - 4:15 p.m.	Brendon Brewer (UCSB) Bayesian analysis of reverberation mapping data
4:15 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.	Fabrizia Guglielmetti (Max Planck) Bayesian mixture models for Poisson astronomical images
4:30 p.m. - 4:45 p.m.	Vinay Kashyap (CfA) Systematic errors in high-energy astrophysics
4:45 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.	Kaisey Mandel (CfA) Hierarchical models of Type Ia supernova light curves
5:00 p.m. - 5:15 p.m.	Eric Switzer (U Chicago) Bayesian flux reconstruction in one and two bands
5:15 p.m. - 5:45 p.m.	Thomas Loredo (Cornell) Commentary

6:00 p.m. Reception at Willaman Gateway

June 14, 2011 (Tuesday)

8:30 a.m. - 9:00 a.m.

Continental breakfast

Data Mining & Informatics

9:00 a.m. - 10:00 a.m.	Kirk Borne (GMU) Surprise detection in multivariate astronomical data Alexander Gray (GA Tech) Commentary
10:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.	Tamas Budavari (JHU) On statistical cross-identification in astronomy Thomas Loredo (Cornell) Commentary
	Break (Lobby)
11:20 a.m. - 12:20 p.m.	Ann Lee (CMU) Improved Statistical Inference via Non-Linear Data Transformation Didier Fraix-Burnet (LAOG) Commentary

Data Mining & Informatics, and Interpreting Astrophysical Simulations

2:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.	Alexander Gray (GA Tech) Techniques for massive-data machine learning in astronomy Nicholas Ball (HRC) Commentary
3:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.	David Higdon (LANL) Simulation-aided inference in cosmology Carlo Graziani (Chicago) Commentary
	Break (Willaman Gateway)
4:40 p.m. - 5:40 p.m.	Andrew Connolly (UWashington) Learning about the sky through simulations Michael Way (GISS) Commentary

June 15, 2011 (Wednesday)

8:30 a.m. - 9:00 a.m.

Continental breakfast

Statistical Modeling in Astronomy II

9:00 a.m. - 10:00 a.m.	Brandon Kelly (CfA) Measurement error models in astronomy David Ruppert (Cornell) Commentary
10:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.	Chad Schafer (CMU) Addressing the Challenges of Luminosity Function Estimation via Likelihood-Free Inference Martin Hendry (Glasgow) Commentary
	Break (Lobby)
11:20 a.m. - 12:20 p.m.	Thomas Lee (UC Davis) Automatic Detection and Classification of Sunspot Images Ricardo Vilalta (Houston) Commentary

Sparsity

2:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.	Richard Baraniuk (Rice) Progress on compressive sensing Jean-Luc Starck (CEA) Commentary
3:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.	David Donoho (Stanford) Recovery of sparse signals by approximate message passing David Banks(Duke) Commentary
	Break (Lobby)
4:15 p.m. - 5:15 p.m.	Jean-Luc Starck (CEA) Sparse astronomical data analysis Domenico Marinucci (Rome) Commentary

6:30 p.m. - 9:00 p.m. Banquet at Atherton Hotel

June 16, 2011 (Thursday)

8:30 a.m. - 9:00 a.m.

Continental breakfast

Bayesian Cosmology

9:00 a.m. - 10:00 a.m.	Benjamin Wandelt (IAP) Approaches to non-linear cosmostatistics Christopher Genovese (CMU) Commentary
10:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.	Roberto Trotta (ICL) Cosmological Bayesian model selection: Recent advances and open challenges David van Dyk (UCI) Commentary
	Break (Lobby)
11:20 a.m. - 12:20 p.m.	Raul Jimenez (Barcelona) Data compression methods in astrophysics Ann Lee (CMU) Commentary

Time Domain Astronomy

2:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.	Pavlos Protopapas (Harvard) New approaches in period analysis of astronomical time series Donald Percival (Washington) Commentary
3:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.	Debashis Mondal (UChicago) Wavelet variance analysis of irregularly sampled time series Jeffrey Scargle (ARC) Commentary
	Break (Willaman Gateway)
4:40 p.m. - 5:40 p.m.	Joseph Richards (UCB) Time-series classification in the synoptic surveys era Chad Schafer (CMU) Commentary

8:00 p.m. ISI Astrostatistics Network meeting

June 17, 2011 (Friday)

8:30 a.m. - 9:00 a.m.

Continental breakfast

Spatial and Image Analysis

9:00 a.m. - 9:40 a.m.	Erik Rosolowsky (UBC) Statistical analyses of data cubes
9:40 a.m. - 10:40 a.m.	Sanat Sarkar (Temple) Astronomical Transient Detection using Grouped p-Values and Controlling the False Discovery Rate Peter Freeman (CMU) Commentary
	Break (Lobby)

Future Directions for Astrostatistics

11:00 a.m. - 11:40 a.m.	Luke Tierney (UIowa) The R statistical computing environment
	Final session
1:30 p.m. - 2:10 p.m.	Joseph Hilbe (ASU) Astrostatistics in the international arena
2:10 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.	Panel discussion: Future directions for astrostatistics Eric Feigelson (PSU), Thomas Loredo (Cornell), Jeffrey Scargle (ARC), David van Dyk (UCI)

Posters

Paul Baines, Irina Udaltsova, Andreas Zezas, and Vinay Kashyap. log(N) − log(S): A Measuring Stick for the Universe

Irene Balmes, and Pier-Stefano Corasaniti. A Bayesian approach to gravitational lens model selection

Guillaume Belanger. Stopping and Looking I: On Error Bars in Time Series

Sharmodeep Bhattacharyya, Joseph W. Richards, John Rice, Dan L. Starr, Nathaniel R. Butler and Joshua S. Bloom. Identification of Outliers through Clustering and Semi-supervised Learning In All Sky Automated Survey Data Set

P. Bielewicz, B. D. Wandelt, A. J. Banday. Estimation of moments on azimuthally symmetric patches on the sphere by means of fast convolution

Seo-Won Chang and Yong-Ik Byun. Variability Detection by Change-Point Analysis

Brian Connolly and Natalia Connolly. Non-Parametric Photometric Identification of Rising SN Light Curves in the pSNid II Package

Didier Fraix-Burnet. Evolution as a counfounding parameter in scaling relations for galaxies

P. Freeman, R. Izbicki, A. Lee, C. Schafer, D. Slepcev, and J. Newman. Detecting Galaxy Mergers at High Redshift

Phil Gregory. Bayesian model fitting through Controlled Statistical Fusion with Exoplanet examples

Dick Grupe. Multi-component Analysis of a sample of bright X-ray selected Active Galactic Nuclei

F. Guglielmetti, H. Boehringer, R. Fischer, P. Rosati, and P. Tozzit. Applying the BSS algorithm to the Chandra Deep Field South data

Jiangang Hao. Spatially Weighted and Measurement Error Corrected Gaussian Mixture Model for Galaxy Clustering Analysis

Darren Homrighausen. Transient Detection in Low Resolution, Noisy Images

D. Keitel, R. Prix, M.A. Papa, and M. Siddiqi. An F-statistic based multi-detector veto for detector artifacts in continuous-wave gravitational wave data

Vinay Kashyap, Steve Saar, Jeremy Drake, Kathy Reeves, Jennifer Posson-Brown, and Alanna Connors. Modeling Undetectable Flares

Brandon C. Kelly, Aneta Siemiginowska, Malgorzata Sobolewska. A stochacstic model for the luminosity fluctuations of accreting black holes

Adrienne Leonard, Francois-Xavier Dupe, and Jean-Luc Starck. Improving weak lensing reconstructions in 3D using sparsit

Yu Lu, H.J. Mo, Martin D.Weinberg, and Neal Katz. TheBayesian Approach to Semi-AnalyticModelsof GalaxyFormation

Kaisey S. Mandel, and Jonathan B. Foster. Hierarchical Bayesian Modeling of Interstellar Dust with Optical and Near Infrared Stellar Colors: Examination of the Extinction Law in Perseus

Adam Mantz. Statistical Issues in Galaxy Cluster Cosmology

Elizabeth Martinez-Gomez. Statistical analyses to understand the relationship between the properties of exoplanets and their host stars

Kushal Mehta, H-J. Seo, J. Eckel, D. Eisenstein, M. Metchnik, P. Pinto, X. Xu. Galaxy Bias and Its Effects on Baryon Acoustic Oscillations Measurements

Adam Morgan, J. Long, T. Broderick, J. W. Richards, and J. S. Bloom. RATE GRB-z: Ranking High-z GRB Candidates using Random Forest Classification on Early-Time Metrics

Mark Neyrinck, Bridget Falck, Xin Wang, Alex Szalay, and Istvan Szapudi. The Log-Density as a Superior Cosmological Density Variable

Sam Schmidt, Brice Menard, and Ryan Scranton. Inferring Redshift Distributions of Arbitrary Datasets

Kunlaya Soiaporn, David Chernoff, Thomas Loredo, David Ruppert, Ira Wasserman. Guilt by Association: Finding Cosmic Ray Sources Using Hierarchical Bayesian Clustering

Nathan Stein, Ted von Hippel, David van Dyk, Steven DeGennaro, Elizabeth Jeffery, and Bill Jefferys. Bayesian Inference for the White Dwarf Initial-Final Mass Relation

Switzer, E. R.; Crawford, T. M.; Holzapfel, W. L.; Reichardt, C. L.; Marrone, D. P.; Vieira, J. D. Bayesian flux reconstruction in one and two bands

Dorottya Szecsi, Lajos G. Balazs, Zsolt Bagoly, Istvan Horvath, Attila Meszaros, and Peter Veres. Statistical differences between Swift GRB classes based on γ- and X-ray observations

Roland Vavrek and Tarek Hassan Collado. Complexity of the diffuse interstellar medium in large-scale Herschel imaging surveys

Philipp Wilking, David Keitel, Peter Schneider. The probability density function of constrained correlation functions

Jin Xu. Using PyBLoCXS for a Fully Bayesian Analysis of Calibration Uncertainty in High Energy Spectral Analysis

Ilsang Yoon, Martin Weinberg and Neal Katz. New insights into galaxy structure from GALPHAT