The International Astrostatistics Association and the IAU Astroinformatics and Astrostatistics Commission are starting a new international online seminars series on Statistics and Data Science applications in Astronomy. The seminar will alternate between Europe-US and Australasia-Europe on a monthly basis.
The first seminar:
Adventures in Astronomical Time Series Analysis
Date: 12 October 2021, Tuesday
Time: 4pm UTC
Contact the organizer: Andriy Olenko a.olenko@latrobe.edu.au
Speaker: Jeffrey D. Scargle (NASA Ames Research Center, US)
Abstract:
Welcome to a tour of the volatile, highly active Universe — in stark contrast to earlier serene '"clockwork’’ visions. Innovative data analysis techniques have illuminated explosive physical processes animating these systems. Examples include a Fourier transform suited to the irregular sampling characteristic of much astronomical data, but time domain techniques will be emphasized for these applications: gamma-ray activity in the Crab Nebula, gamma-ray bursts, active galactic nuclei, and gravitational waves. I hope this talk will change some of the ways you carry out statistical data analysis.
For registration and zoom meeting link got to the seminar webpage:
https://sites.google.com/view/iau-iaa-seminar/home
