Meetings and Events

This workshop will present the current landscape of methods and applications in astronomy and prepare the next generations of astronomers to embark on these fields. Artificial intelligence covers a wide range of algorithms and the first thing is to provide a clear map to navigate in this jungle and show which techniques is used for which kind of science. Thus, we aim at having a few invited talks by prominent speakers to clearly set the scene. This will be complemented by a series of contributed talks in order to provide a clear panorama of the current use of AI in astronomy.

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In 1949, Kurt Gödel showed that there exist solutions to Einstein’s equations of general relativity allowing for closed timelike curves.. The existence of such curves would allow time travel into one’s own past leading to all kind of causality paradoxes.The Kurt Gödel Society intends to celebrate the 70th anniversary of Gödel’s seminal publication and the 100th anniversary of the decisive experimental verification of general relativity by organizing a conference at the University of Vienna, Austria. This event should bring together the prominent researchers from the fields of Physics, Mathematics, Philosophy and Artificial Intelligence.

Detailed information can be found here.

The theme of the 2019 GROWTH astronomy school is "From X-ray to radio: Follow up of transients in the era of multi-messenger astronomy". The programme includes sessions on data analysis and machine learning.

Detailed information can be found here.

This workshop is open to students and astronomers in East and Southeast Asia and other countries who have interests in practical use of statistics and of statistical tools applicable to tackle modern astrophysical problems.

The event is organized by the National Astronomical Research Institute of Thailand (NARIT) and National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ). It is co-sponsored by NARIT, the East Asian, Core Observatories Association, and by the International Training Centre in Astronomy (ITCA) under the auspices of UNESCO.

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This is the large, biennial international conference of the International Statistical Institute & 7 associated societies (~2500 attendees, ~1300 papers). It includes an Invited Paper Session entitled "ASTROSTATISTICS: CHALLENGES IN TIME DOMAIN ASTRONOMY" (IPS 96) sponsored by the ISI Special Interest Group in Astrostatistics. Contributed papers on this topic are welcome.

Detailed information can be found here.

Hot-wiring the Transient Universe 6 will explore opportunities and challenges of massively parallel time domain surveys coupled with rapid coordinated multi-wavelength follow-up observations. The interdisciplinary agenda includes future and ongoing science investigations, information infrastructure for publishing observations in real time, as well as novel data science to classify events and systems to optimize follow-up campaigns. Time domain astronomy is at the fore of modern astrophysics and crosses fields from solar physics and solar system objects, through stellar variability, to explosive phenomena at galactic and cosmological distances. Recent rapid progress by instruments in space and on the ground has been toward a continuous record of the electromagnetic sky with ever increasing coverage, sensitivity, and temporal resolution.

Detailed information can be found here.

The Conference is intended as a collaboration platform for cross border partnership and knowledge transfer for astronomers, astrophysicists, space researchers and engineers as well as experts in related research disciplines in fields such as informatics, electronics, satellite technology, geodesy and environment sciences. While the general scope of BAASP is wide, this year’s specific themes are astrophysics, space technologies and remote sensing. The conference focuses on the Baltic region but we also cordially invite participants from other countries.

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The IAA-Cosmostatistics Initiative (COIN) is a worldwide endeavor aimed to foster interdisciplinary collaborations to solve data-driven scientific challenges. The CRPs are unstructured and intimate meetings, offering the opportunity for collaborative research, learning, and sharing of expertise with concrete scientific outcomes.

For further inquiries, please contact the following email address: contact@cosmostatistics-initiative.org 

A complete report of COIN activities and projects are available at https://cosmostatistics-initiative.org/projects/

Information about the program and application instructions can be found at https://cosmostatistics-initiative.org/residence-programs/crp6/

Deadline for applications is April 10th, 2019.
The final list of participants will be announced on April 15th, 2019.

This series of conferences, Extremely Big Eyes on the Early Universe, will bring together an international group of experts to review the current state of the art in the study of the high redshift universe and discuss how best to use giant telescopes to learn about it. Among others, we aim to address :

• What are the key synergies between giant telescopes and other facilities? What are the areas and topics where a concerted effort will yield far superior results than the sum of all parts?
• What calculations are required in order to make testable predictions and interpret the results of future astronomical observations?

Detailed information can be found here.

The Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems (ADASS) conference provides a forum for scientists and programmers concerned with algorithms, software and software systems employed in the acquisition, reduction, analysis, and dissemination of astronomical data. An important element of the program is to foster communication between developers and users with a range of expertise in the production and use of software and systems. The program consists of invited talks, contributed oral and display papers, tutorials, user group meetings and special interest group meetings (called BOFs).

Detailed information will be found here.