The AstroStat Slog

Kirk Borne has compiled a list of interesting workshops and conferences coming up in the near future:

The Future of Scientific Knowledge Discovery in Open Networked Environments
http://sites.nationalacademies.org/PGA/brdi/PGA_060422

New York Workshop on Computer, Earth, and Space Sciences 2011
http://www.giss.nasa.gov/meetings/cess2011/

Innovations in Data-Intensive Astronomy
http://www.nrao.edu/meetings/bigdata/

Astrostatistics and Data Mining in Large Astronomical Databases
http://www.iwinac.uned.es/Astrostatistics/

Statistical Challenges in Modern Astronomy V (including summer school & tutorials)
http://astrostatistics.psu.edu/su11scma5/

Very Wide Field Surveys in the Light of Astro2010
http://widefield2011.pha.jhu.edu/

Statistical Methods for Very Large Datasets
http://www.regonline.com/builder/site/Default.aspx?eventid=757633

23rd Scientific and Statistical Database Management Conference
http://ssdbm2011.ssdbm.org/

International Statistical Institute (ISI) World Congress
http://www.isi2011.ie/

NASA Conference on Intelligent Data Understanding
https://c3.ndc.nasa.gov/dashlink/projects/43/

This is a special session at the January 2010 meeting of the AAS. It is scheduled for the afternoon of Thursday, Jan 7, 2-3:30pm.

Abstracts are due Sep 17.

Meeting Justification

We propose to highlight the growing use of ‘non-parametric’ techniques to distill meaningful science from today’s astronomical data. Challenges range from Kuiper objects to cosmology. We have chosen just a few ‘teaching’ examples from this lively interdisciplinary area.

Continue reading ‘Beyond simple models-New methods for complex data’ »

Approximately for a decade, there have been journals dedicated to bioinformatics. On the other hand, there is none in astronomy although astronomers have a long history of comprising a huge volume of catalogs and data archives. Prof. Bickel’s comment during his plenary lecture at the IMS-APRM particularly on sparse matrix and philosophical issues on choosing principal components led me to wonder why astronomers do not discuss astroinformatics. Continue reading ‘Astroinformatics’ »