PRESENTATIONS ON STATISTICAL METHODS IN ASTRONOMY:
Disclaimer: The actual presenation of a talk may have varied somewhat from the slides or posters posted here.
- Embedding Astronomical Computer Models into Principled Statistical Analyses
(Southampton Statistical Sciences Research Institute, May 2012;
Department of Astrophysics, University of New South Wales, January 2012).
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- Accounting for Calibration Uncertainty in High Energy Astrophysics
(Royal Society Meeting on Signal Processing and Physical Science, Buckinghamshire, UK, April 2012).
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- Computation Challenges Posed by Highly-Structured Models and Computer Models in Astrophysics
(ICMS Workshop on Advances in Markov Chain Monte Carlo, Edinburgh, Scotland, April 2012;
Workshop on Challenges and Advances in High Dimensional and High Complexity Monte Carlo Computation and Theory, Banff International Research Station, Canada, March, 2012).
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- Accounting for Calibration Uncertainty in High Energy Astrophysics via the Partially Collapsed Gibbs Samplers with MH updates
(Statistics Section, Imperial College London, March 2012;
Department of Statistics, Chinese University of Hong Kong, January 2012;
Seminar on Astrostatistics, Departments of Statistics and Astronomy, University of California, Berkeley, April 2011).
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- Automatic Classification and Tracking of Solar Features
(Solar Star 2012 Workshop, presented by David Stenning, Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, February 2012).
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- Embedding Astronomical Computer Models into Complex Statistical Models.
(Department of Statistics, University of California Los Angeles, February 2012;
Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Technology, Australia, January 2012;
Department of Statistics, University College London, November 2011;
Statistics Group, Department of Mathematics, University of Bristol, November 2011;
Workshop on Statistical Methods for Astronomy and Astrophysics, University of California, Davis, October 2011).
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- Statistical Learning Challenges in Astronomy and Solar Physics
(Workshop on Current Challenges in Statistical Learning, Banff International Research Station, Canada, December 2011).
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- Automatic Classification and Tracking of Solar Features
(Workshop on Current Challenges in Statistical Learning, presented by David Stenning,
Banff International Research Station, Canada, December 2011).
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- Future Directions of Astrostatistics
(Statistical Challenges in Modern Astronomy V, State College, Pennsylvania, June 2011).
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- Discussion of Cosmological Bayesian Model Selection: Recent Advances and Open Challenges by R. Trotta
(Statistical Challenges in Modern Astronomy V, State College, Pennsylvania, June 2011).
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- Bayesian Inference for the White Dwarf Initial-Final Mass Relation
(Statistical Challenges in Modern Astronomy V, presented by Nathan Stein, State College, Pennsylvania, June 2011).
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- Using PyBLoCXS for a Fully Bayesian Analysis of Calibration Uncertainty in High Energy Spectral Analysis
(Statistical Challenges in Modern Astronomy V, presented by Jin Xu, State College, Pennsylvania, June 2011).
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- A Statistician’s Approach to Setting Upper Limits, Computing Intervals, and Detection
(PHYSTAT 2011, European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), January 2011).
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- Embedding Computer Models for Stellar Evolution into a Coherent Statistical Analysis
(Royal Astronomical Society, An RAS Specialist Discussion Meeting, “Novel Methods for the Exploitation of Large Astronomical and Cosmological Data Sets”, November 2010).
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- Summary of Statistical Issues Discussed in the Workshop
(Workshop on Statistical Issues Relevant to Significance of Discovery Claims,
Banff International Research Station, Canada, July, 2010).
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- Upper Limits
(Workshop on Statistical Issues Relevant to Significance of Discovery Claims,
Banff International Research Station, Canada, July, 2010).
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- Metropolis Hastings within Partially Collapsed Gibbs with
Applications in High-Energy Astrophysics
(The Valencia International Meeting on Bayesian Statitsics, Benidorm, Spain, June 2010)
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- Coherent Statistical Calibration of High-Energy Photon Detectors
(The Joint Statistical Meetings, Washington, DC, August 2009).
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- Statistical Analysis of Stellar Evolution.
(Department of Biostatistics, The University of California, Los Angeles, November 2010;
Department of Mathematics, Eldgenossische Technische Hochschule, Zurich, Switzerland, May 2010;
Department of Statistics, University of California, Riverside, May 2010;
Department of Statistics, Chinese University of Hong Kong, March 2010;
Department of Information and Systems Management, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, March 2010;
Department of Statistics, University of Hong Kong, February 2010;
Dpartment of Statistics, Carnige Mellon University, November 2009;
The Biometric Society WNAR Meetings, Portland, Oregon, June, 2009;
Department of Statistics, The Ohio State University, May, 2009;
Department of Statistics, Columbia University, May, 2009;
Center for Statistics in the Social Sciences, University of Washington, April, 2009;
The Joint Statistical Meetings, Denver, Colorado, August 2008;
Calibration and Validation of Complex Computer Models: Bayesian Approaches, Bayesian
Solutions, Satellite Workshop to the Ninth International Society for Bayesian Analysis World
Meeting, Sydney, Australia, July 2008;
The Seventh World Congress in Probability and Statistics, Singapore, July 2008).
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- Statistical Analysis of Stellar Evolution. (Poster,
The Ninth International Society for Bayesian Analysis World
Meeting, Sydney, Australia, July 2008).
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- Spectral Analysis of Faint Astronomical Objects: Bayesian Modeling, Computation, and Inference.
(Statistics Group, The RAND Corporation, Santa Monica, California, March 2008;
Department of Statistics, University of Illinois, March 2008
Department of Statistics and Probability, Michigan State University, October 2007;
Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics, University of California, Santa Cruz, May 2007;
Department of Statistics, National University of Singapore, April 2007;
Department of Statistics, Chinese University of Hong Kong, April 2007).
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- Statistics: Handle with Care (Hypothesis Testing).
(Tenth High Energy Astrophysics Division Meetings, Los Angeles, California, March 2008).
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- What is an Upper Limit?. (Poster,
Tenth High Energy Astrophysics Division Meetings, Los Angeles, California, March 2008).
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- Fully Bayesian Analysis of Low-Count Astronomical Images.
(The Joint Statistical Meetings, Salt Lake City, Utah, August 2007).
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- Multi-Scale Image Reconstruction with Low-Count Poisson Data.
(First GLAST Symposium, Palo Alto, California, February 2007).
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- Fitting Narrow Spectral Lines in High Energy Astrophysics Using Incompatible Gibbs Samplers.
(Poster The Valencia International Meeting on Bayesian Statistics,
Benidorm, Spain, June 2006).
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- Highly Structured Models in High Energy Astrophysics.
(Department of Statistics, University of Chicago, January 2006;
Department of Mathematics, California State University, Bakersfield, October, 2006;
Department of Statistics, University of California, Berkeley, November 2005;
Reed Institute for Decision Science. Claremont McKenna College, February, 2005;
Department of Mathematical Sciences, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, November 2004;
Department of Statistics, Los Alamos National Labs, Los Alamos New Mexico, May 2004;
Division of Biostatistics, University of California, San Diego, April 2004)
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- Comments on ``How to Win With Non-Gaussian Data: Poisson Imaging Version'' by Alanna Connors
(Statistical Challenges in Modern Astronomy IV, State College, Pennsylvania, June 2006).
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- Detection Limits, Upper Limits, and Confidence Intervals in High-Energy Astrophysics.
(Workshop on Statistical inference Problems in High Energy Physics and Astronomy, Banff International Research Station, Canada, July, 2006).
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- Reconstructing of the Physical Enviornment of a Stellar Corona.
(Fifth SIAM International Conference on Data Mining, Newport Beach, California, April 2005;
Sixth International Chinese Statistical Association Conference, Singapore, August 2004;
The Joint Statistical Meetings, Toronto, Ontario, August 2004;
Seventh World Meeting of the International Society for Bayesian Analysis, Vina del Mar, Chile, May 2004).
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- Highly Structured Models and High Energy Astrophysics.
( Poster
SAMSI Opening Workshop, Raleigh, North Carolina, January 2006;
The Joint Statistical Meetings, Toronto, Ontario, August 2004).
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- Two New Statistical Tools for Bayesian Analysis of Low-Count Spectra.
(Meeting of the High Energy Astrophysics Division of the
American Astronomical Society, New Orleans, Louisiana, September, 2004).
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- BEHR (Bayesian Estimation of Hardness Ratios): Computing Hardness Ratios with Poissonian Errors.
(Poster Meeting of the High Energy Astrophysics Division of the
American Astronomical Society, New Orleans, Louisiana, September, 2004).
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- Reconstructing Stellar DEMs from X-ray Spectra.
(Poster Meeting of the High Energy Astrophysics Division of the
American Astronomical Society, New Orleans, Louisiana, September, 2004).
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- Bayesian Estimation of logN-logS (BENS).
(Poster Meeting of the High Energy Astrophysics Division of the
American Astronomical Society, New Orleans, Louisiana, September, 2004).
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