Participation in the school is open to practising astrophysicists at all levels. The number of participants will be limited to about 30. An application may be submitted on-line and this is the strongly preferred method. If there are difficulties with this, applications filled in the prescribed downloadable form (MS_Word/ OpenOffice/ Text/ pdf), may be submitted via email to astrostat@iiap.res.in .

Particular attention must be paid to demonstrating the relevance of the school to the applicant's research.

The deadline for receiving the completed application forms is the 22nd April, 2013. In addition, pre-Ph.D. applicants or recent Ph.D.s (since 2010) should arrange to have two confidential recommendations from persons who can judge the applicant's academic abilities. These recommendations, also on the prescribed recommendation form (MS_Word/ OpenOffice/ Text/ pdf), should be emailed separately by the recommenders to astrostat@iiap.res.in by the 22nd April, 2013. All post-Ph.D. applicants must attach their curriculum vitae and list of research publications to the completed application form. Those that participated in the previous three IIA-PennState Astrostatistics schools (2007, 2008 or 2010) are discouraged from applying for the 4th school.