[ASA] Fwd: FW: Second Announcement :: IAU Symposium 306 - Statistical Challenges in 21st Century Cosmology

[Andrew Hopkins]

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Date: 	Mon, 10 Feb 2014 23:16:47 +0000
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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 Benítez (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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