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SuSTaIn EdgeCutter One Day Workshop on

Astrostatistics

Royal Statistical Society, London, UK
17th December 2014

Overview

This workshop will present a selection of cutting edge international research in the rapidly growing discipline of Astrostatistics. The workshop will bring together statisticians who are interested in astronomy and astronomers who are interested in statistical methods. We aim to provide a valuable opportunity to network and to foster extensive future interaction between the two disciplines.

This workshop is organised by Ofer Lahav, Guy Nason and David van Dyk.

Invited speakers

• Sarah Bridle, University of Manchester, UK
  
• Alan Heavens, Imperial College, UK
  
• Jason McEwen, University College, London, UK
  
• Daniel Mortlock, Imperial College, UK
  
• Xiao-Li Meng, Harvard University, USA
  
• Nathan Stein Wharton, University of Pennsylvania, USA
• Jean-Luc Starck, CEA Saclay, France
  
• Licia Verde, Universitat de Barcelona, Spain
  
• Ian Vernon, Durham University, UK
  

Programme

Here is the PROGRAMME for the day.

Posters

Participants are encouraged to bring posters and should indicate on the registration form that they will be bringing a poster. Partipants that do not indicate in advance that they will be bringing a poster will only be permitted to display it if there is space.

Registration

The registration fee for the workshop is £25.

The registration fee includes access to the workshop, refreshments including a buffet lunch.

The workshop is subsidized by the SuSTaIn initiative.

If you would like to attend the workshop please register using this form

The closing date for registration is 1st December 2014.

Financial Assistance

Limited financial assistance will be available to graduate students and early career researchers. This will be available on a first-come first-served basis and can cover travel and subsistence (but not registration). Please email the organizers to check availability.

Venue

The workshop will be held at the headquarters of the Royal Statistical Society in London.

The location of the Royal Statistical Society and instructions on how to get there can be found here.

Enquiries

Enquiries may be made by sending an email to astrostatistics-workshop@bristol.ac.uk

SuSTaIn Astrostatistics workshop, School of Mathematics, University of Bristol, Bristol, BS8 1TW, UK.
Email: astrostatistics-workshop@bristol.ac.uk