New York Workshop on Computer, Earth, and Space Sciences 2011
Agenda
| Thursday, Feb 24 | |||||
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| Time | Speaker | Title | Abstract | Talk | Video |
| 10:00-10:20 | Michael Way and Catherine Naud (NASA/GISS) |
Introductions, Coffee, Setup | Text | YouTube | |
| 10:20-10:45 | Victor de la Pena (Columbia/Statistics) |
How long will it take. A historical approach to boundary crossing. | Text | YouTube | |
| 10:45-11:30 | Eyal Kazin (NYU/Astronomy) |
Cosmology through the Large-Scale Structure of the Universe | Text | PDF, Keynote | YouTube |
| 11:30-12:15 | William Heavlin (Google Inc) |
On the shoulders of Gauss, Bessel, and Poisson: links, chunks, spheres, and conditional models | Text | YouTube | |
| 12:15-1:00 | Kirk Borne (George Mason Univ) |
Mining Citizen Science Data: Machine Learning Challenges | Text | YouTube | |
| 1:00-2:30 | LUNCH BREAK | — | — | — | |
| 2:30-3:15 | Claire Monteleoni (Columbia/CS) |
Tracking Climate Models: Advances in Climate Informatics | Text | YouTube | |
| 3:15-4:00 | Kevin Knuth (SUNY-Albany) |
Spectral Analysis Methods for Complex Source Mixtures | Text | YouTube | |
| 4:00-4:45 | Joshua Peek (Columbia/Astronomy) |
Beyond Objects: Using machines to understand the diffuse universe | Text | PDF, Keynote | YouTube |
| 4:45-5:00 | Michael Way (NASA/GISS) |
Viewpoints: A high-performance visualization and analysis tool | Text | YouTube | |
| Friday, Feb 25 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Time | Speaker | Title | Abstract | Talk | Video |
| 10:00-10:40 | Christian Klose (Think GeoHazards) |
Clustering Approach for Partitioning Directional Data in Earth and Space Sciences | Text | YouTube | |
| 10:45-11:30 | Jon Jenkins (SETI/NASA-Ames) |
Planetary Detection: The Kepler Mission | Text | YouTube | |
| 11:30-12:15 | Elizabeth Martinez-Gomez (Center for Astrostatistics) |
Understanding the possible influence of the solar activity on the terrestrial climate: A times series analysis approach | Text | YouTube | |
| 12:15-1:00 | Tom Loredo (Cornell/Astronomy) |
Bayesian adaptive exploration applied to optimal scheduling of exoplanet Radial Velocity observations | Text | YouTube | |
| 1:00-2:30 | LUNCH BREAK | — | — | — | |
| 2:30-3:15 | Tamas Budavari (Johns Hopkins Univ) |
Bayesian Inference from Photometric Surveys | Text | YouTube | |
| 3:15-4:00 | Dimitris Giannakis (NYU/Courant) |
Long-Range Forecasts Using Data Clustering and Information Theory | Text | PDF, avi, mp4 | YouTube |
| 4:00-4:45 | Deniz Gencaga (City College of New York) |
Comparison of Information-Theoretic Methods to estimate the information flow in a dynamical system | Text | YouTube | |
| 4:45-5:30 | Duane Lee (Columbia/Astronomy) and Will Jessop (Statistics) | Reconstructing the Galactic halo's accretion history: A finite mixture model approach | Text | YouTube | |
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