2023 Stellar Stats Workshop

Inference Under Pressure

Date: Thursday, May 4, 2023

Location

Cherry Room (9016), Department of Statistical Sciences, 700 University Avenue.
Online: Zoom link send by email

Morning Invited Talks (10:00 - 11:20)

10:00 - 10:05 | Opening remarks (Antonio Herrera Martin)

10:05 - 10:25 | Ting Li, Astro
Searching the faintest galaxies and star clusters with petabytes of data in the next decade

10:25 - 10:45 | Elena Tuzhilina, Stats
Canonical Correlation Analysis in high dimensions with structured regularization

10:45 - 11:05 | Josh Speagle, Stats/Astro
SBI++: Simulation-based Inference with Out-of-Distribution Measurement Uncertainties and Missing Data

11:05 - 11:30 | Break / Connect

Morning Lightning Talks (11:30 - 12:00)

11:30 - 11:37 | Phil Van-Lane, Astro
A data-driven inference model for stellar age estimation using gyrochronology

11:37 - 11:44 | Emily Somerset, Stats
A Spatio-Temporal Framework for Modelling Wastewater SARS-CoV-2 Concentration

11:44 - 11:51 | Sam Berek, Astro
The HERBAL model: A hierarchical errors-in-variables Bayesian lognormal hurdle model for galactic globular cluster populations

11:51 - 11:58 | Grace Yu, Stats
Mapping the Milky Way halo with Blue Horizontal Branch stars

Lunch (12:00 - 13:30)

12:00 - 13:30 Catered lunch

Afternoon Lightning Talks (13:30 - 14:00)

13:30 - 13:37 | Garett Brown, Astro
Long-term Solar System Survival (Analysis)

13:37 - 13:44 | Ishika Bangari, Astro
Population synthesis of fast radio bursts

13:44 - 13:51 | Keir Rogers, Astro
Using cosmological emulators to accelerate the search for dark matter

13:51 - 13:58 | Sonia Markes, Stats
Effect of the Infield Shift: Causal Inference in Baseball

14:00 - 14:15 | Break / Connect

Afternoon Invited Talks (14:15 - 15:40)

14:15 - 14:35 | Marta Bryan, Astro
TBD (Exoplanet-related)

14:35 - 14:55 | Jeff Rosenthal, Stats
TBD (MCMC-related)

14:55 - 15:15 | Laura Rosella, DSI (Associate Director, Training)
Year 2 Update on the Data Sciences Institute

15:15 - 15:35 | Stanislav Volgushev, Stats
TBD

15:35 - 15:40 | Concluding remarks (Gwen Eadie)

Open Discussion (15:40 - 16:30)

15:40 - 16:30 Open Discussion Period