2011 Summer School in Statistics for Astronomers, and The Fifth Statistical Challenges in Modern Astronomy Conference

2011天文学家统计暑期学校暨第五届现代天文学统计挑战会议

• 批准号: 1113001
• 负责人: Gutti Babu
• 金额: $ 3.48万
• 依托单位: Pennsylvania State Univ University Park
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2011
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2011-05-01 至 2013-04-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1113001&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: 2011; Summer; Statistics; Astronomers; Fifth

AST-1113001BabuSummer School in Statistics for Astronomers VII; June 6-11 2011; Pennsylvania State University, College ParkandStatistical Challenges in Modern Astronomy V; June 13-17 2011; Pennsylvania State University, College ParkThis award provides primary support both for the latest in the annual statistics schools aimed at improving the statistical ability of astronomers, and for the professional conference on statistical challenges, held every five years.Astronomical research often involves imaging, photometric and spectroscopic surveys of the sky that produce terabyte to petabyte databases and billion-object catalogs. While the promise is tremendous, achieving the scientific goals depends critically on extraction of useful knowledge using statistical inference, and especially the use of advanced statistical methods. Observational astronomers are thus confronting a wider range of statistical challenges than ever before, while unfortunately most U.S. astronomers are not well trained in statistics, learning only elementary methods through books written by and for physical scientists. To alleviate this educational gap, an annual intensive week-long Summer School was started in 2005 by the group at Pennsylvania State. The 2011 Summer School follows the tradition and presents concepts and methodologies at an intermediate level, accompanied by hands-on software tutorials with application to astronomical datasets. If maintained at a steady state, these Summer Schools will train about 10% of the nation's young astronomers, filling a critical lacuna in the US scientific workforce.This award also supports the fifth Statistical Challenges in Modern Astronomy (SCMA) cross-disciplinary conference. Held once every 5 years since 1991, SCMA meetings are unusual in emphasizing cross-disciplinary interactions between statisticians and astronomers. This is emphasized by having invited speakers in one field followed by a commentator from the other field. These meetings have become the premiere forum for research statisticians and astronomers to discuss methodological issues of mutual interest.

AST-1113001Babu 天文学家统计暑期学校 VII； 2011年6月6日至11日；宾夕法尼亚州立大学帕克分校和现代天文学统计挑战 V； 2011年6月13日至17日；宾夕法尼亚州立大学帕克分校该奖项为旨在提高天文学家统计能力的最新年度统计学校以及每五年举行一次的统计挑战专业会议提供主要支持。天文学研究通常涉及成像、光度和对天空进行光谱调查，产生 TB 到 PB 的数据库和十亿个物体的目录。虽然前景广阔，但实现科学目标关键取决于使用统计推断提取有用的知识，尤其是先进统计方法的使用。 因此，观测天文学家面临着比以往任何时候都更广泛的统计挑战，而不幸的是，大多数美国天文学家没有接受过良好的统计学训练，只能通过物理科学家撰写的书籍和为物理科学家撰写的书籍来学习基本方法。 为了缩小这种教育差距，该小组于 2005 年在宾夕法尼亚州立大学开办了一年一度为期一周的强化暑期学校。 2011 年暑期学校遵循传统，介绍中级概念和方法，并附有应用于天文数据集的实践软件教程。 如果保持稳定状态，这些暑期学校将培训全国约 10% 的年轻天文学家，填补美国科学队伍的一个关键空白。该奖项还支持第五届现代天文学统计挑战 (SCMA) 跨学科会议。 自 1991 年以来，SCMA 会议每 5 年举行一次，其不同寻常之处在于强调统计学家和天文学家之间的跨学科互动。 通过邀请某一领域的演讲者，然后邀请另一领域的评论员来强调这一点。 这些会议已成为研究统计学家和天文学家讨论共同感兴趣的方法论问题的首要论坛。