2013 Summer School in Statistics for Astronomers

2013年6月3日至7日为天文学家举办的统计暑期班；2013年6月3日至7日；宾夕法尼亚州立大学，学院园区现代天文学研究经常涉及组织对成像、光度和光谱数据的大规模调查，产生TB到PB的数据库和10亿个天体的星表。正在进行的可见光时间域调查字母汤，以及新一代无线电干涉望远镜，将很快产生巨大的数据集。虽然希望是巨大的，但科学目标不可能用天文学界常用的狭隘的统计方法和老式的劳动密集型方法来实现。使用计算效率高的算法执行的现代统计程序是必不可少的。然而，由于本科生和研究生课程结构的原因，美国天文学家在统计学方面普遍缺乏良好的培训。大多数人通过由物理学家编写和为其编写的书籍学习基本方法，这些书籍只涵盖了很小范围的问题，提供的数理统计概念基础不足，对广泛的应用统计领域几乎没有指导。为期5天的2013年统计推断青年天文学家暑期学校将使用经验丰富的教师和创新的课程，在中级水平上介绍概念和方法。这是该组织于2005年在宾夕法尼亚州立大学发起的为期一周的天文学家密集暑期学校系列活动中的最新一期。如果保持稳定，这些暑期学校将培训美国约10%的年轻天文学家，填补美国科学劳动力的关键空白。

2013 Summer School in Statistics for Astronomers; June 3-7 2013; Pennsylvania State University, College ParkModern astronomical research often involves organizing vast surveys of imaging, photometric and spectroscopic data producing terabyte to petabyte databases and billion-object catalogs. An alphabet soup of time-domain surveys underway in visible light, and a new generation of radio interferometric telescopes, will soon be producing enormous datasets. While the promise is great, the scientific goals cannot be achieved with the narrow suite of statistical methods and old-fashioned labor-intensive approaches in common use by the astronomical community. Modern statistical procedures implemented with computationally efficient algorithms are essential. However, due to the structure of undergraduate and graduate curricula, U.S. astronomers are generally not well trained in statistics. Most learn elementary methods through books written by and for physical scientists and covering only a narrow range of problems, providing inadequate conceptual foundations in mathematical statistics and little guidance to vast fields of applied statistics.The five-day 2013 Summer School for young astronomers in statistical inference will present concepts and methodologies at an intermediate level, using experienced instructors and an innovative curriculum. This is the latest in the series of intensive week-long Summer Schools in Statistics for Astronomers, initiated in 2005 by the group at Pennsylvania State. 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.