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program
  • Due to the large number of requests by workshop participants to be able to attend school lectures, we have modified the workshop program to concentrate the activities in the afternoon sessions.
  • The final program can be downloaded as a PDF file here.



  • Monday, May 30th


    9:00-10:00
    School Lecture A1: 
    Model specification and likelihood formulation (D. Hogg)
    10:00-11:00
    School Lecture A2: 
    Model complexity and choice (D. Hogg)
    11:00-11:30
    Coffee break
    11:30-12:30
    School Lecture B1:
     Time-domain analysis (S. Aigrain)
    12:30-13:30
    School Lecture B2: 
    Frequency analysis (S. Aigrain)
    13:30-15:00
    Lunch
    15:00-15:45
    Keynote talk:

    Science with Gaia: how will we deal with a complex billion-source
    catalogue and data archive?

    Anthony Brown (Leiden University, Netherlads)

    Presentation
    Manuscript
    15:45-16:10
    Efficient calculation of covariances for astrometric data in the Gaia Catalogue (B. Holl)
    Presentation
    Manuscript
    16:10-16:35
    The Generalized Stellar Parametrizer with Gaia Photometry Data (C. Liu)
    Presentation
    16:35-15:45
    Efficient use of simultaneous multi-band observations for 
    variable star analysis (M. Suveges)
    Presentation
    16:45-16:55
    Bayesian parameter estimation for unresolved Gaia binaries (P. Tsalmantza)
    Presentation
    17:00-17:30
    Coffee Break
    17:30-18:30
    Keynote talk:

    Statistical methods in High Energy Physics and their implementation for Higgs Search and Dark Matter Search

    Eilam Gross (Weizmann Institute, Israel)

    Presentation
    18:30-18:55
    The Discrete Source Classifier in Gaia-Apsis (K. Smith)
    Presentation
    18:55-19.05
     Distributed Genetic Algorithm for Region of Interest
        selection in Gaia RVS spectra. Application to ANN parametrization
        (D. Fustes) 
    Presentation
    Manuscript
    19:05-20:00
     Introductory python course

    Presentation

    Tuesday, May 31st


    9:00-10:00
    School Lecture B3: 
    Ensembles of time series (S. Aigrain)
     Presentation 
    
    10:00-11:00
    School Lecture B4: 
     Hands-on session (S. Aigrain)
    11:00-11:30
    Coffee break
    11:30-12:30
    School Lecture A3: (pair-coding) Model selection workshop (D. Hogg)
    12:30-13:30
    School Lecture A4: (pair-coding) workshop continued (D. Hogg)
    13:30-15:00
    Lunch
    15:00-15:45
    Keynote talk:
    Recent Advances in cosmological Bayesian model comparison

    Roberto Trotta (Imperial College London, UK)
    Presentation
    Manuscript
    15:45-16:10
    Bayesian reconstruction of the cosmological large scale structure (F. Kitaura)
    Presentation
    16:10-16:35
    Statistical analysis of caustic crossing in multiply imaged quasars (T. Mediavilla)
    Presentation
    Manuscript
    16:35-16:45
    The distribution of galaxies in spectral space (Y. Ascasíbar)
    Presentation
    16:45-17:15
    Coffee Break
    17:15-18:00
    Keynote talk:
    The Art of Data Science

    Matthew Graham (Center for Advanced Computing Research,
    California Institute of Technology, USA)
    Presentation
    Manuscript
    18:00-18:25
    Automated data analysis and data mining in large spectroscopic 
    sky surveys (N. Christlieb)
    Presentation
    18:25-19:15
    Discussion forum: The problem of model specification, comparison and 
    selection in Astronomy.

    Wednesday, June 1st


    9:00-10:00
    School Lecture C1: How to store a petabyte (M. Graham)
    
    Presentation
    10:00-11:00
    School Lecture C2: How to work with a petabyte (M. Graham)
    Presentation
    11:00-11:30
    Coffee break
    11:30-12:30
    School Lecture D1: what is data mining (G. Longo)
    Presentation
    12:30-13:30
    School Lecture D2: feature selection and dimensionality reduction (G. Longo)
    13:30-15:00
    Lunch
    15:00-15:45
    Keynote Talk: 

    Astronomical Surveys: from SDSS to LSST
    Robert Lupton (Princeton University, USA)
    Presentation
    15:45-16:10
    Overcoming Sample-Selection Bias in Variable Star Classification (J. Richards)
    Presentation
    16:10-16:35
    Random forest automated supervised classification of hipparcos periodic 
    variable stars (P. Dubath)
    Presentation
    16:35-17:00
    Classification of Variable Stars with Poorly Sampled Light Curves (J. Long)
    Presentation
    Manuscript
    17:00-17:30
    Coffee Break
    17:30-18:15
    Keynote Talk: 
    Learning to disentangle Exoplanet signals from correlated noise

    Suzanne Aigrain (Oxford University, UK)
    Presentation
    18:15-18:40
    Handling imbalanced datasets in multistage classification (M. López)
    Presentation
    18:40-19:05
    Discussion forum: systematic biases in the training of learning algorithms due 
    to the training sets.
    19:05-19.15
    19:15-19:25

    Thursday, June 2nd



    9:00-10:00
    School Lecture E1: The Sampling Theorem and Image Resampling (R. Lupton)
    Presentation
    10:00-11:00
    School Lecture E2: Object Detection and Measurement as Statistical Estimation 
    (R. Lupton)

    Presentation
    11:00-11:30
    Coffee break
    11:30-12:30
    School Lecture C3: How to analyze a petabyte (M. Graham)
    Presentation
    12:30-13:30
    School Lecture C4: Hands-on session (M. Graham)
    Presentation
    13:30-15:00
    Lunch
    15:00-15:45
    Keynote talk: 


    Exoplanet demography, quasar target selection, and probabilistic redshift
    estimation: Hierarchical models for density estimation, classification,
    and regression.

    David Hogg (New York University, USA)

    Presentation
    15:45-16:10
    Probabilistic description of stellar ensembles (M. Cerviño)
    Presentation
    Manuscript
    16:10-16:35
    A new approach to the optimization of the extraction of astrometric and photometric 
    information from multi-wavelength images in the cosmological field. (M.J. Márquez)
    Presentation
    16:35-15:45
    Spectral Classification of Galaxies and its relationship
    with galaxy morphology (J. Sánchez Almeida)
    16:45-16:55
    Adjustment of Experimental Data to Specific Functional Forms Using Particle Swarm 
    Algorithm: Rotational Curves of Spiral Galaxy as Case of Study (M. Cárdenas-Montes)
    Presentation
    Manuscript
    17:00-17:30
    Coffee Break
    17:30-18:15
    Keynote talk:
    Astroinformatics and data mining: how to cope with
    the data tsunami
    Giuseppe Longo (Federico II University, Italy)
    Presentation
    18:15-18:35
    Utilizing Astroinformatics to maximize the science return of the next generation 
    Virgo Cluster Survey (N. Ball)
    Presentation
    Manuscript
    18:35-18:55
    Data Mining of MultiDark Simulation (A. Partl)
    Manuscript
    18:55-19.15
    The application of RapidMiner in the IceCube experiment (T. Ruhe)
    Presentation
    Manuscript
    19:15-19:30
    Data management at gaia data processing centers (P. de Teodoro)
    Presentation
    Manuscript

    Friday, June 3rd


    9:00-10:00
    School Lecture D3: classification tasks and supervised methods (G. Longo)
    
    Presentation
    10:00-11:00
    School Lecture D4: clustering methods (G. Longo)
    Presentation
    11:00-11:30
    Coffee break
    11:30-12:30
    School Lecture E3: Hands-on session: object detection and measurement (R. Lupton)
    12:30-13:30
    School Lecture E4: Hands-on session: object detection and measurement (R. Lupton)








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