4th IIA-PennState Astrostatistics School: Schedule


Sun 21 Jul 13

19:00


Welcome Dinner


1st Day

Mon 22 Jul 13

09:00


Welcome

Anbazhagan P

1st Day

Mon 22 Jul 13

09:15


Introduction

Sabyasachi Chatterjee

1st Day

Mon 22 Jul 13

09:30


Challenges of Modern Empirical Astrophysics & Overview of the School

Prajval Shastri

1st Day

Mon 22 Jul 13

10:15


The R Software Environment: Demos

Deepayan Sarkar

1st Day

Mon 22 Jul 13

11:15


Tea


1st Day

Mon 22 Jul 13

11:30


Probability I

Rahul Roy

1st Day

Mon 22 Jul 13

13:00


Lunch


1st Day

Mon 22 Jul 13

14:30

Lab

Introduction to R

Deepayan Sarkar

1st Day

Mon 22 Jul 13

15:30


Probability II

Rahul Roy

1st Day

Mon 22 Jul 13

17:00


Tea


1st Day

Mon 22 Jul 13

17:30

Lab

Descriptive Statistics & Graphing with R

Deepayan Sarkar

1st Day

Mon 22 Jul 13

18:30


End of the Day's Lectures & Tour of Telescopes


2nd Day

Tue 23 Jul 13

09:30


Estimation, Confidence Intervals & Hypothesis Testing

Bhamidi V Rao

2nd Day

Tue 23 Jul 13

11:00


Tea


2nd Day

Tue 23 Jul 13

11:30


Correlation & Regression

Rahul Roy

2nd Day

Tue 23 Jul 13

13:00


Lunch


2nd Day

Tue 23 Jul 13

14:30

Lab

Regression in R

Deepayan Sarkar

2nd Day

Tue 23 Jul 13

16:30


Tea


2nd Day

Tue 23 Jul 13

17:00


Maximum Likelihood Estimation, (For PowerLaw)

Bhamidi V Rao

2nd Day

Tue 23 Jul 13

18:30


End of the Day's Lectures


2nd Day

Tue 23 Jul 13

21:00


Additional Discussion Session

Rahul Roy

3rd Day

Wed 24 Jul 13

08:30


Individual Problem Discussion: Bhalerao (small room)

[JB,DS,BVR,RR,SB ]

3rd Day

Wed 24 Jul 13

09:30


Truncation & Censoring + Linear Regression Issues

Jogesh Babu

3rd Day

Wed 24 Jul 13

11:00


Tea


3rd Day

Wed 24 Jul 13

11:30

Lab

Testing & Estimation in R

Deepayan Sarkar

3rd Day

Wed 24 Jul 13

13:30


End of the Day's Lectures & Lunch


3rd Day

Wed 24 Jul 13

14:30


Outing to Yelagiri Lake


4th Day

Thu 25 Jul 13

08:30


Individual Problem Discussion: Boruah (small room)

[JB,DS,BVR,SB,TK]

4th Day

Thu 25 Jul 13

09:30


Non-parametric Statistics I

Sushama Bendre

4th Day

Thu 25 Jul 13

11:00


Tea


4th Day

Thu 25 Jul 13

11:30


Non-parametric Statistics II

Sushama Bendre

4th Day

Thu 25 Jul 13

13:00


Lunch


4th Day

Thu 25 Jul 13

14:30

Lab

Non-parametric Statistics in R

Deepayan Sarkar

4th Day

Thu 25 Jul 13

16:30


Tea


4th Day

Thu 25 Jul 13

17:00


Statistical Applications in the Astronomy Literature

Jogesh Babu

4th Day

Thu 25 Jul 13

18:00


End of the Day's Lectures


5th Day

Fri 26 Jul 13

08:30


Individual Problem Discussion: Ninan (small room)

[JB,DS,BVR,SB,TK,AC]

5th Day

Fri 26 Jul 13

09:30


Bayesian Analysis I

Deepayan Sarkar

5th Day

Fri 26 Jul 13

11:00


Tea


5th Day

Fri 26 Jul 13

11:30


Bayesian Analysis II

Deepayan Sarkar

5th Day

Fri 26 Jul 13

13:00


Lunch


5th Day

Fri 26 Jul 13

14:30


Individual Problem Discussion: Guglielmetti (small room)

[JB,DS,BVR,SB,TK,AC]

5th Day

Fri 26 Jul 13

15:30


Bayesian Analysis in R + Discussion (C-Statistic, Power Law)

Deepayan Sarkar

5th Day

Fri 26 Jul 13

16:30


Tea


5th Day

Fri 26 Jul 13

17:00


End of the Day's Lectures & Village Walk


6th Day

Sat 27 Jul 13

08:30


Individual Problem Discussion: Fehresti (small room)

[JB,DS,BVR,SB,TK,AC]

6th Day

Sat 27 Jul 13

09:30


Jackknife and Bootstrap

Jogesh Babu

6th Day

Sat 27 Jul 13

11:00


Tea


6th Day

Sat 27 Jul 13

11:30


Model Selection & Evaluation, Goodness-of-fit

Deepayan Sarkar

6th Day

Sat 27 Jul 13

13:30


Lunch


6th Day

Sat 27 Jul 13

14:30

Lab

Simulation and Bootstrapping in R

Deepayan Sarkar

6th Day

Sat 27 Jul 13

16:30


Tea


6th Day

Sat 27 Jul 13

17:00


EM Algorithm

Thriyambakam Krishnan

6th Day

Sat 27 Jul 13

18:30


End of the Day's Lectures






Night sky watching/Movie


7th Day

Sun 28 Jul 13

08:30


Individual Problem Discussion: Hodgson, Hernandez (small room)

[JB,DS,BVR,TK,AC]

7th Day

Sun 28 Jul 13

09:30


Multivariate Analysis

Thriyambakam Krishnan

7th Day

Sun 28 Jul 13

11:00


Tea


7th Day

Sun 28 Jul 13

11:30


Cluster Analysis

Thriyambakam Krishnan

7th Day

Sun 28 Jul 13

13:00


Lunch


7th Day

Sun 28 Jul 13

14:30

Lab

Principal Component Analysis & Cluster Analysis in R

Deepayan Sarkar

7th Day

Sun 28 Jul 13

16:30


Tea

7th Day

Sun 28 Jul 13

17:00


VOStat Web Computing Tools to Use Statistics & Learn R

Arnab Chakraborty

7th Day

Sun 28 Jul 13

17:30


End of the Day's Lectures






Night sky watching/Movie


8th Day

Mon 29 Jul 13

09:30

Lab

MCMC (lecture cum lab)

Arnab Chakraborty

8th Day

Mon 29 Jul 13

11:00


Tea


8th Day

Mon 29 Jul 13

11:30


Summary of Individual Problem Discussions

Bhalerao,Boruah,Ninan,Hodgson,Hernandez

8th Day

Mon 29 Jul 13

12:30


Lunch


8th Day

Mon 29 Jul 13

14:00

Lab

Time Series Analysis (lecture cum lab)

Arnab Chakraborty

8th Day

Mon 29 Jul 13

15:30


Feedback & Conclusion

AP,PS,SC

8th Day

Mon 29 Jul 13

16:00


Tea & End of the School


8th Day

Mon 29 Jul 13

16:15


Departure from VBO



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