JSM Activity #165

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Activity ID:  165
Title Room
Astrostatistics H-Grand Salon B
Date / Time Sponsor Type
08/07/2001    10:30 AM  -  12:20 PM IMS Invited
Organizer: Larry Wasserman, Carnegie Mellon
Chair: Larry Wasserman, Carnegie Mellon
Discussant:  
Description

This session will include talks by two Statisticians and one Astrophysicist. The purpose of the session is to introduce Statisticians to important problems in Astrophsyics. Lately, there has been a flood of data in this area due and there are many opportunities for Statisticians to interact with Astrophysicists.
  300779  By:  John Rice 10:35 AM 08/07/2001
Statistics and Variable Stars

  300002  By:  Tom Loredo 11:10 AM 08/07/2001
Bayesian Inference for Astrophysical Poisson Processes

  300001  By:  Ji Meng Loh 11:45 AM 08/07/2001
Estimating Large-Scale Structure of the Universe from QSO Absorber Catalogs

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