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-1113001巴布天文学家统计暑期学校七; 2011年6月6日至11日;宾夕法尼亚州立大学，学院公园和现代天文学的统计挑战五; 2011年6月13日至17日;宾夕法尼亚州立大学，学院公园这个奖项提供了主要的支持，既为最新的年度统计学校，旨在提高统计能力的天文学家，天文学研究通常涉及对天空的成像、光度测量和光谱测量，从而产生TB到PB的数据库和十亿个天体目录。虽然前景是巨大的，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，特别是使用先进的统计方法。 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受过良好的统计训练，只能通过物理科学家编写的书籍学习基本方法。 为了缩小这种教育差距，该组织于2005年在宾夕法尼亚州开办了为期一周的暑期学校。 2011年暑期学校遵循传统，提出了中级概念和方法，并附有应用于天文数据集的动手软件教程。 如果保持稳定的状态，这些暑期学校将培训全国约10%的年轻天文学家，填补美国科学劳动力的关键空白。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，强调统计学家和天文学家之间的跨学科互动。 通过邀请一个领域的演讲者，然后邀请另一个领域的评论员来强调这一点。 这些会议已成为研究统计人员和天文学家讨论共同关心的方法问题的首要论坛。