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Legend: = Applied Session, = Theme Session, = Presenter
Colorado Convention Center = “CC”, Hyatt = “HY”

120 Applied Session Theme Session Mon, 8/4/08, 10:30 AM - 12:20 PM CC-113
Planets Around Other Suns: Inference and Experimental Design for Exoplanet Studies - Invited - Papers
IMS, Section on Physical and Engineering Sciences, Section on Bayesian Statistical Science
Organizer(s): Thomas Loredo, Cornell University
Chair(s): James Berger, Duke University/SAMSI
    10:35 AM   Detecting Extra-solar Planets with a Bayesian hybrid MCMC Kepler periodogramPhil Gregory, The University of British Columbia
    11:10 AM   Posterior-Guided Importance Sampling for Calculating Marginal Likelihoods, with Application to Bayesian Exoplanet SearchesJim Crooks, Duke University
     11:45 AM   Disc: Thomas Loredo, Cornell University
     12:05 PM   Floor Discussion
 

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