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Day 1 Monday (Sept 28)
09:30 - 10:00 Light breakfast & coffee/tea
10:00 - 10:15 M. Takada (IPMU) Introduction (motivation/style/organization of workshop, IPMU context etc)
10:15 - 11:45 D. Mortlock (Imperial) (pdf) "Astronomy and Statistics"
12:00 - 13:30 Lunch@university cafeteria
13:30 - 15:00 J. Rice (Berkeley) (pdf) "Statistics of TAOS: the good, the bad, and the ugly"
15:00 coffee break
15:30 - 17:00 C. Schafer (CMU) (pdf) "Issues and Directions in Parameter Estimation with Complex Models"
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Day 2 Tuesday (Sept 29)
09:00 - 09:30 Light breakfasts & coffee/tea
09:30 - 11:00 X.-Li Meng (Harvard) (pdf) (pdf) “The Full Monte Carlo: A Live Performance with Stars"
11:00 - 11:15 Break
11:15 - 11:45 P. Baines (Harvard) (pdf) "Bayesian Analysis of Stellar Populations"
12:00 - 13:30 Lunch
13:30 - 15:00 D. Hogg (NYU) (pdf) “Robot Astronomy: Model selection and decision-making”
15:00 - 15:30 Break
15:30 - 17:00 R. Shibata (Keio) (pdf) "From Science of Methodology to Science of Data"
17:00 - 17:30 H. Takami (IPMU) "Correlation Analyses to find the sources of highest energy cosmic rays"
18:00 - Banquet @ cafeteria “Ikoi” (map)
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Day 3 Wednesday (Sept 30)
09:00 - 09:15 Light breakfasts & coffee/tea
09:15 - 10:45 H. Peiris (Cambridge) (pdf) "The critical role of statistics in Cosmic Microwave Background studies"
10:45 - 11:00 Break
11:00 - 12:30 D. Marinucci (Roma) (pdf) "Needlet Tools for Data Analysis in Cosmology and Astrophysics"
12:30 - 14:00 Lunch
14:00 - 15:30 I. Szapudi (Hawaii) (pdf) "Spatial Statistics in Cosmology"
15:30 - 16:00 Break
16:00 - 17:30 M. Takada (IPMU) (pdf) "Non-Gaussian error properties of large-scale structure probes"
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Day 4 Thursday (Oct 1)
09:00 - 09:15 Light breakfasts & coffee/tea
09:15 - 10:45 E. Turner (Princeton) (pdf) "Statistical Problems in the Study of Other Worlds using High Precision Radial Velocity Measurements"
10:45 - 11:00 Break
11:00 - 12:30 J. Winn (MIT) (pdf) "Parameter Estimation from Time-Series Data with Correlated Errors: A Wavelet-Based Method and its Application to Exoplanetary Transit Light Curves"
12:30 - 14:00 Lunch
14:00 - 15:30 T. Loredo (Cornel) "Bayesian inference and experimental design for exoplanet studies"
15:30 - 16:00 Break
16:00 - 16:30 D. Savransky (Princeton) (pdf) "Designing the next generation of extra-solar planet observatories"
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Day 5 Friday (Oct 2)
10:00 - 17:00??
(working groups, reports, general or follow-up discussions, panel, summary talk etc; TBD)
