Complex Data Analysis (AAS 2010)

A Special Session at the 215th AAS meeting in Washington, DC, USA

Conference Information:
Dates: 3-7 January 2010

Location: Washington Marriott Wardman Park, 2660 Woodley Road NW, Washington, DC 20008
Web site: http://aas.org/meetings/aas215

Background:

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.

Talks:

Introduction by Eric Feigelson

A Statistician's View of Upcoming Grand Challenges - PPT

Xiao Li Meng (Harvard)

Inferring Distributions and Correlations of Astrophysical Quantities Derived from Observables - PPT

Brandon C. Kelly (CfA)

Information Visualization, Nonlinear Dimensionality Reduction and Sampling for Large and Complex Data Sets - PPT

Meyer Z. Pesenson (IPAC), I. Z. Pesenson (Temple), B. McCollum (IPAC)

Gaussian Process Modeling in Cosmology - PPT

Katrin Heitmann (LANL)

Data Mining Challenges in Synoptic Sky Surveys - PDF

S. George Djorgovski, A. Mahabal, C. Donalek, A. Drake, M. Graham, R. Williams (Caltech), B. Moghhadam, M. Turmon (JPL)

Improved Astronomical Inferences via Nonparametric Density Estimation - PPT

Chad Schafer (CMU)