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AIG Business Meeting during JSM 2020
Aug 3, 2020
The Astrostatistics Interest Group will hold its annual business meeting at 1pm on Aug 3 via Zoom. For details, see the JSM 2020 program.
JSM 2020 astrostatistics program
June 2, 2020
The Astrostatistics Interest Group is happy to announce our contributions to the JSM 2020 program
- Statistical Inference for Solar and Geophysical Data
- Innovations in AstroStatistics on Exploring Large Public Data
- Innovations in Statistics for Astronomy & Space Physics
- Challenging signal detection problems in astronomy
- Astronomical(ly) Big Data for Statisticians
- Astrostatistics Interest Group: Student Paper Award
Finalists of the 2020 Student Paper Competition
March 5, 2020
We are excited to announce the finalists of the 2nd Annual Student Paper Competition. The winner of the contest will be announced during the Joint Statistics Meeting in Aug 2020. All the finalists will present their work at a dedicated session (date/time TBA). In alphabetical order.
- Richard Feder-Staehle (Cal Tech) – Multiband Probabilistic Cataloging: A Joint Fitting Approach to Point Source Detection and Deblending
- Matthew Ho (Carnegie Mellon) – A Robust and Efficient Deep Learning Method for Dynamical Mass Measurements of Galaxy Clusters
- Oliver Philcox (Princeton) – Inferring Galactic Parameters from Chemical Abundances: A Multi-Star Approach
- Collin Poitisch (Carnegie Mellon) – Trend Filtering: A Modern Statistical Tool for Time-Domain Astronomy and Astronomical Spectroscopy
- Josh Speagle (Harvard) – Photometric Biases in Modern Surveys
Interested in Astrostatistics?
- Join the ASA Astrostatistics Interest Group: Provide your Name, Email, Affiliation, ASA number
- Explore the Astrostatistics and Astroinformatics Portal
- Check out our Library and look through recent papers on astrostatistics
- Start attending Astronomy seminars at your organization