New York Workshop on Computer, Earth, and Space Sciences
Agenda
Final update on Feb. 19, 2009.
The full agenda with abstracts is also available as PDF document.
| Time | Speaker | Title | Abstract | Presentation (*) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9:00-9:30 | Everyone | Viewpoints Demo, Coffee and Setup | Text | - |
| 9:30-10:00 | Michael Way (NASA/GISS) | Workshop Introduction and Talk on Gaussian Process Regression | Text | |
| 10:00-10:20 | Liu Jingchen (Columbia - Stat) | Efficient Simulation For Tail Probabilities Of Gaussian Random Fields | Text | pdf, ppt |
| 10:20-10:40 | Michael Blanton (NYU - Physics) | Interpretation of the images of galaxies | Text | |
| 10:40-11:00 | Mike Bauer (NASA/GISS) | Why Weather Matters to Climate Models | Text | pdf, key |
| 11:00-11:20 | Zoltan Haiman (Columbia - Astro) | Can You Spot Dark Energy in a Map With 100 Million Pixels? | Text | |
| 11:20-12:10 | Kevin Knuth - Invited Speaker | Automating the Scientific Method | Text | pdf, ppt |
| 12:10-12:50 | LUNCH BREAK | with robot demo by Kevin Knuth | - | - |
| 12:50-1:40 | Alexander Gray - Invited Speaker | How to do Machine Learning on Massive Astronomical Datasets | Text | pdf, ppt |
| 1:40-2:00 | Sunil Bhaskaran (Lehman College) | Integrating Hyperspectral Data and GIS data | Text | |
| 2:00-2:20 | Jo Bovy (NYU - Physics) | Inferring the velocity distribution of nearby stars from Hipparcos data | Text | |
| 2:20-2:40 | Arlin Crotts(Columbia - Astro) | Image Subtraction in Astrophysics | Text | pdf, ppt |
| 2:40-3:00 | Ji Meng Loh (Columbia - Stat) | The Marked Point Bootstrap | Text | |
| 3:00-3:20 | Caleb Scharf (Columbia - Astrolab) | Challenges in understanding the formation of planetary systems | Text | |
| 3:20-3:40 | Benjamin Herman (CCNY) | Stochastic Monte Carlo methods for non-linear statistical inverse problems | Text | pdf, ppt, avi |
| 3:40-4:00 | David Hogg (NYU - Physics) | Automated calibration, or generating and trusting astronomical meta-data | Text | |
| 4:00-4:20 | Jianting Zhang (City College - Comp Sci) | Correlations btwn Beta Diversity & Productivity Variations using NASA MODIS | Text | |
| 4:20-4:40 | Jackie Faherty (AMNH - Astro) | The Brown Dwarf Kinematics Project | Text |
pdf,
pptx, movie1, movie2, movie3 |
| 4:40-5:00 | Rui Castro (Columbia - EE) | Distilled Sensing: Active sensing for sparse recovery | Text | pdf, ppt |
| 5:00-5:20 | David Schminovich (Columbia - Astro) | One trillion time-tagged photons | Text | pdf, key |
| 5:20-5:40 | Bodhisattva Sen (Columbia - Stat) | Separating signal from background | Text |
* pdf=Portable Document Format
* ppt=Microsoft Powerpoint 2004 or earlier
* pptx=Microsoft Powerpoint 2008 or later
* key=Apple Keynote
* avi/movie=Apple Quicktime compatible movie
