Workshop: Statistical Frontiers of Astrophysics at IPMU

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Masahiro Takada
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Workshop: Statistical Frontiers of Astrophysics at IPMU

Post by Masahiro Takada » August 04 2009

Dear all,

I would like to draw your attention to the following workshop:

Workshop: Statistical Frontiers of Astrophysics
Sept 28th - Oct 2nd 2009
Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe (IPMU)
The University of Tokyo, Kaswahi, Japan

Astrophysics and statistics have a long history together, from Laplace's first attempts to combine multiple measurements to the use of computationally intensive Monte Carlo methods today. The Statistical Frontiers Of Astrophysics (SFOA) workshop aims to continue this tradition by bringing together members of both communities in a highly stimulating
environment. There are only ~10 invited talks (and a similar number of contributed talks) to be scheduled during the week-long meeting, leaving ample time to explore the most exciting ideas with a view to active collaboration. The initial focus will be on a fairly small set of the
most exciting astrophysical topics (cosmology, exoplanet studies and survey data-mining) and the state-of-the-art statistical techniques that can be applied in these areas.

Further details can be found from the workshop website:

http://member.ipmu.jp/statsastro/Welcome.html

If you can attend, please contact with statsastro_at_ipmu.jp.

-Masahiro Takada

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