From andrew.hopkins at aao.gov.au  Tue Feb 11 10:20:21 2014
From: andrew.hopkins at aao.gov.au (Andrew Hopkins)
Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2014 10:20:21 +1100
Subject: [ASA] Fwd: FW: Second Announcement :: IAU Symposium 306 -
 Statistical Challenges in 21st Century Cosmology
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Subject: 	FW: Second Announcement :: IAU Symposium 306 - Statistical 
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Date: 	Mon, 10 Feb 2014 23:16:47 +0000
From: 	Jeanette Mill <Jeanette.Mill at science.org.au>
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*From:*SCCC21 [mailto:sccc21 at sim.ul.pt]
*Sent:* Monday, 10 February 2014 7:58 PM
*To:* sccc21 at sim.ul.pt
*Subject:* Second Announcement :: IAU Symposium 306 - Statistical Challenges 
in 21st Century Cosmology

  Dear Colleague,

  We are pleased to circulate the Second Announcement of the IAU Symposium 306 
on Statistical Challenges in 21st Century Cosmology (SCCC21), that will take 
place in Lisbon, Portugal from 26-29 May 2014, with a tutorial day on 25 May.

  Please, if possible spread the announcement among Astronomy and Statistics 
societies and departments of your country. Text and PDF versions are attached 
to this email.


  With our best regards,

  IAUS306 SOC and LOC.

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*IAUS306 - Statistical Challenges in 21st Century Cosmology*

IAU Symposium 306 on Statistical Challenges in 21st Century Cosmology will 
take place in Lisbon, Portugal from 26-29 May 2014, with a tutorial day on 25 May.

*Keynote speakers
* . Cosmic Microwave Background - Graca Rocha (USA / Portugal)
  . Weak Gravitational Lensing - Masahiro Takada (Japan)
  . Combining probes - Anais Rassat (Switzerland)
  . Statistics of fields - Sabino Matarrese (Italy)
  . Large-scale structure - Licia Verde (Spain)
  . Bayesian methods - David van Dyk (UK)
  . 21cm cosmology - Mario Santos (South Africa / Portugal)
  . Massive parameter estimation - Ben Wandelt (France)
  . Overwhelmingly large datasets - Alex Szalay (USA)
  . Errors and nonparametric estimation - Aurore Delaigle (Australia)
  . Sparsity - Jalal Fadili (France)

*Invited speakers:
* . Supernovae Cosmology - Mario Hamuy (Chile)
  . Anomalies - Hiranya Peiris (UK)
  . Sparsity - Jerome Bobin (France)
  . Anisotropies - Tarun Souradeep (India)
  . Statistical aspects of photo-z estimation - Narciso Ben?tez (Spain)
  . Closing remarks from a statistician - Joseph Hilbe (USA)

*Tutorial sessions:*
  . Sparsity - Jerome Bobin, Florence Sureau (France)
  . Bayesian Cosmology - ICIC (UK)
  . R for Observational Cosmology - Eric Feigelson (USA)

You are invited to submit an abstract for a contributed talk or poster for the 
meeting, via the meeting website. Full information on the 
scientific rationale, programme, proceedings, critical dates, and local 
arrangements will be on the symposium web site at:

http://sccc21.sim.ul.pt/

*Deadlines
*21 March 2014Abstract submission
4 April 2014Notification of abstract acceptance
11 April 2014Close of registration
30 June 2014Manuscript submission


-- 
A.Prof. Andrew Hopkins, Head of AAT Science
Australian Astronomical Observatory
P.O. Box 915, North Ryde, NSW 1670, Australia
ph: +61 2 9372 4849  fax: +61 2 9372 4880



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From john.obyrne at sydney.edu.au  Sat Feb 15 14:58:51 2014
From: john.obyrne at sydney.edu.au (John O'Byrne)
Date: Sat, 15 Feb 2014 14:58:51 +1100
Subject: [ASA] Reminder: Town Hall meeting - Decadal Plan WG3.2
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Reminder:
A couple of weeks ago we announced the first in a series of 'Town Hall' meetings for Working Group 3.2 Education, Outreach and Careers as part of the Decadal Plan process for astronomy in Australia.  This meeting is on Tuesday 18 February at 3.30pm at the University of Sydney.
Sydney Institute for Astronomy (SIfA) Boardroom (NOT on the main campus)
Ground floor of the Rosehill St building.
 44-70 Rosehill St Redfern H90.
(This is conveniently close to Redfern Railway station - see the map at http://tinyurl.com/lmyzrf4)

Thanks to those who have already responded.  If you plan to attend - in person, by video conference or by phone - and have not yet responded, please RSVP to John O'Byrne (john.obyrne at sydney.edu.au) who will supply further details.  Astronomers at major centres may wish to attend via video conference on the CAASTRO Video-conference system.

If you cannot take part in the Sydney meeting, WG3.2 expects to have 3 further meetings across the country in the next two months, in Melbourne, Canberra and Perth.  We would also welcome written feedback (submitted to amanda.bauer @ aao.gov.au), whether you attend a meeting or not.


Amanda Bauer
John O'Byrne
for WG3.2


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