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IAU symposium n.325 on Astroinformatics (AstroInfo16) brings together world-class experts to address the methodological and technological challenges posed by the scientific exploitation of massive data sets produced by the new generation of telescopes and observatories...

This school is addressed to doctorates and post-docs working in astrophysics or particle physics, with special emphasis on those working on LHCb, Belle II, Gaia, CTA or MAGIC.

The School will be structured around two Kaggle-challenge-like projects, one in the domain of particle physics and one in astrophysics which highlight the two big groups of Machine Learning and Data Mining techniques: classification and separation. The basics of these techniques will be covered, both from the theoretical and from the practical (hands-on) point of view. On the last day, each student (or group of students) will present their work that will be ranked; a prize will be given to the best work.

THIRD COIN RESIDENCE PROGRAM
21 - 28 August, 2016 - Budapest, Hungary

Dear colleagues,

The Organizing Committee of the Third COIN Residence Program (CRP) is pleased to inform that registrations are
open. Deadline is June 15th 2016. Final list of participants will be announced in July 1st, 2016.

Informations about the program and application instructions can be found here.
The organization provides accommodation in a shared bedroom for selected participants coming from outside
Budapest. Participants must arrange for their own travel costs and per diem.
Given the unorthodox format of the meeting we have a very limited number of vacancies available. For this
edition, a maximum of 10 on site participants and a reduced number of remote ones will be selected.

For further inquires, please contact the following email address: iaa.coin@gmail.com

The Cosmostatistics Initiative (COIN),  an international  group built under the auspices of
the International Astrostatistics Association (IAA), aims to create an interdisciplinary
environment where collaborations between astronomers, statisticians and machine learning experts can flourish.

It is designed to promote the development of a new family of tools for data exploration in astrophysics and
cosmology.

The CRPs are unstructured and intimate meetings, offering the opportunity for collaborative research, learning
and sharing of expertise with concrete scientific outcomes.

Products derived from previous edition of the meeting can be accessed here.

We hope to see you in Budapest.
The organizing committee

Rafael S. de Souza (ELTE - Hungary)
Alberto Krone-Martins (U. Lisboa - Portugal)
Emille E. O. Ishida (U. Blaise Pascal, France)
Ewan Cameron (U. Oxford - UK)
Zsolt Frei (ELTE - Hungary)

This meeting will continue the interdisciplinary tradition of its predecessors, bringing together researchers in astronomy, cosmology, statistics, and machine learning to facilitate progress on the significant data analysis challenges that result from current and future astronomical sky surveys...

The emphasis of the conference is on advances and methodological challenges in cosmology, and new results derived from advanced data analysis and modeling methods...

IAA awards announced and available here

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