Penn State's Center for Astrostatistics is pleased to offer its 19th annual Summer School in Statistics for Astronomers. Taught by experienced faculty in statistics and astrostatistics, it provides a foundation in statistical inference, methods, and software within the context of problems arising in astronomical research. Topics include principles of probability and inference, regression and model selection, bootstrap resampling, supervised and unsupervised learning, Bayesian data analysis, Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC), nested sampling, time series analysis, spatial statistics, deep learning neural networks, Gaussian Processes regression, and Random Forests. Extensive training in the public domain R statistical software environment is provided.Typical attendees are graduate students and young researchers, but others from undergraduates to senior researchers are welcome.
Summer School XIX will be held Monday through Friday June 3-7 2024.
Stimulated by the enthusiastic world-wide participation in our Summer Schools conducted online during the Covid-19 pandemic, we will provide the 2024 school in an enhanced online format. The lectures will be pre-recorded and can be viewed by participants any hour of the day. They will be supplemented by synchronous Zoom events where participants can talk to the speakers. Participants will also learn the R statistical software language through applications to astronomical problems via recorded tutorials and by independent work using Jupyter notebooks. Penn State graduate students will be available via Slack to assist with R for a wide range of time zones. Asynchronous Slack channels will also be available to discuss the lectures, consult with astrostatisticians on individual participant’s research, and informally interact with other participants. Altogether, participants should expect to spend several hours/day – in their own time zones – working on the Summer School during the June 3-7 week.
Registration is now open with a fee of $150.
Registration and further information at https://sites.psu.edu/astrostatistics/su24/.
Registration deadline: May 11 2024