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2025 Student Paper Competition

Dec 6th, 2024

Application deadline: Friday, December 13, 2024 at 11:59 pm EST

The AIG is pleased to announce that the 2025 Student Paper Competition is now open for submissions! If you have submitted a paper either on or after December 13, 2023, related to the development and/or application of statistical methods to problems in astronomy, astrophysics, or cosmology, you may be eligible to enter! The winner and up to four additional finalists will receive cash prizes and present their work at JSM 2025 in Nashville, Tennessee, USA. Please see the Competitions page for additional details on eligibility and submission requirements. A collection of previous winners can be found here. We strongly encourage students from groups underrepresented in statistics and/or astronomy to apply!

Finalists of the 2024 Student Paper Competition

Oct 17, 2024

Samantha Berek (Toronto) The HERBAL Model: A Hierarchical Errors-in-variables Bayesian Lognormal Hurdle Model for Galactic Globular Cluster Populations
Erin Hayes (Cambridge) GAUSSN: Bayesian time-delay estimation for strongly lensed supernovae
WINNER: Maximillian Autenrieth (Imperial College London) Improved Weak Lensing Photometric Redshift Calibration via StratLearn and Hierarchical Modeling
Aarya Patil(Toronto/Max Planck) Understanding the formation history of the Milky Way disk using Copulas and Elicitable Maps

JSM 2024

August 4, 2024

Three astrostatistics sessions will run during JSM 2024. If there are other items of interest to the AIG, please contact us to let us know.

2024 Student Paper Competition

Nov 9, 2023

Application deadline: Tuesday, December 12, 2023 at 11:59 pm EST

The AIG is pleased to announce that the 2024 Student Paper Competition is now open for submissions! If you have submitted a paper either on or after December 6, 2022, related to the development and/or application of statistical methods to problems in astronomy, astrophysics, or cosmology, you may be eligible to enter! The winner and up to four additional finalists will receive cash prizes and present their work at JSM 2024 in Portland, Oregon, USA. Please see the Competitions page for additional details on eligibility and submission requirements. A collection of previous winners can be found here. We strongly encourage students from groups underrepresented in statistics and/or astronomy to apply!

An information session was held online at 11:00 a.m. Eastern Time (US and Canada) on Nov 17, 2023. A recording of the session can be found here.

Finalists of the 2023 Student Paper Competition

Oct 30, 2023

Martijn Oei (Leiden) A geometric census of giants in the Local Universe: Bayesian inference of a sparse Paretian population
WINNER: Jacob Nibauer (Princeton) Constraining Galactic Accelerations with Stellar Streams
Dayi Li (Toronto) Detecting Ultra-Diffuse Galaxies through their Globular Clusters by Point Process Model
Sam Ward (Cambridge) Hierarchically modelling NGC 3147’s trio of Type Ia supernova siblings: SNe 2021hpr, 1997bq and 2008fv

JSM 2023

August 7, 2023

Seven astrostatistics sessions will run during JSM 2023. If there are other items of interest to the AIG, please contact us to let us know.

2023 Student Paper Competition

Submissions due by Monday, December 5, 2022 at 11:59pm EST

The AIG is pleased to announce that the 2023 Student Paper Competition is now open for submissions! If you have submitted a paper either on or after January 1, 2022 related to the development and/or application of statistical methods to problems in astronomy, astrophysics, or cosmology, you may be eligible to enter! The winner and up to four additional finalists will receive cash prizes and present their work at JSM 2023 in Toronto, Canada. Please see the Competitions page for additional details on eligibility and submission requirements.

Finalists of the 2022 Student Paper Competition

August 7, 2022

Aarya Anil Patil (Toronto) Functional Data Analysis for Extracting the Intrinsic Dimensionality of Spectra: Application to Chemical Homogeneity in the Open Cluster M67
Maximilian Autenrieth (ICL) Supervised Learning and Hierarchical Bayesian Modeling Under Covariate Shift in Supernova Cosmology
Jeff Shen (Toronto) The Mass of the Milky Way from the H3 Survey
Stephen Thorp (Cambridge) Testing the Consistency of Dust Laws in SN Ia Host Galaxies: A BayeSN Examination of Foundation DR1
Andrew Kahlil Saydjari (Harvard) Photometry on Structured Backgrounds: Local Pixelwise Infilling by Regression

JSM 2022

August 7, 2022

Four astrostatistics sessions will be running during JSM 2022. If there are other items of interest to the AIG, please contact us to let us know.

JSM 2021

Feb 6, 2021

Five astrostatistics sessions have been approved during JSM 2021. If there are other items of interest to the AIG, please contact us to let us know.

Finalists of the 2021 Student Paper Competition

Feb 2, 2021

Alex Gagliano (UIUC) GHOST: Using Only Host Galaxy Information to Accurately Associate and Distinguish Supernovae
Karthik Reddy (UMaryland) X-Ray-to-Radio Offset Inference from Low-Count X-Ray Jets
Lu Li (Shanghai Obs) Modeling unresolved binaries of open clusters in the color-magnitude diagram
Matt Nixon (Cambridge) Assessment of Supervised Machine Learning for Atmospheric Retrieval of Exoplanets
Willow Fox-Fortino (UPenn) Reducing ground-based astrometric errors with Gaia and Gaussian processes

AIG Office Bearers

Jan 1, 2021

New office bearers have been installed for the year 2021.

AIG Business Meeting 2020

Aug 3, 2020

The Astrostatistics Interest Group held its annual business meeting via Zoom at 1pm on Aug 3 during the JSM. For details, see the JSM 2020 program.

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