The ASSESS group during the Supernova Remnants II meeting in Chania, Freece (photo by Dimitra Abartzi)
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The ASSESS group roster 2019
Posted June 27, 2019 By grigorisAstrostatistics Summer School Crete 2019 – last day
Posted June 21, 2019 By grigorisDuring the last four days I was busy with the actual materialization of the Astrostatistics Summer School Crete 2019, which took place at the University of Crete, in Heraklion (18-21 June 2019). My duties were mainly those of the Teaching Assistant and I contributed with a short presentation of the Random Forests method for classification. Unfortunately I didn’t have the time to post more on this school, so I ended up doing something only today, at the very last day!
In summary this is/was a school for graduate and early-stage post-docs to get a grasp of the modern field of Astrostatistics, which practically means the application of statistics in Astronomy which incorporates also machine-learning techniques. Topics include: Intro to Python and Jupyter notebook, linear regression, classical statistical distribution tests and hypothesis testing, Bayesian statistics, Markov-Chain Monte Carlo, machine learning classification/regression/clustering, time series analysis.
The school is split in “teaching”/explanatory parts (through Jupyter notebooks though where you could also interact and run the examples) and practical workshops, where important hands-on experience with all the tools presented was provided (and hopefully gained!). However, I think the importance lies in the fact that all the material is publicly available through a github repository: https://github.com/astrostatistics-in-crete (including the notebooks with the introduction notes, the exercises in the workshops, and the data). So this is a valuable source both for students of the school, as well as others interested to try and experiment with these tools.
Filed in Astronomy | Tagged: astrostatistics, astrostatistics summer school crete, university of crete, workshop
At the Supernova Remnants II conference – another session
Posted June 6, 2019 By grigoris
During a session – from a galaxy far far away – at the Supernova Remnants II conference in Chania, Greece 2019 (photo/editing by A. Manousakis).
At the Supernova Remnants II conference
Posted June 5, 2019 By grigoris
Working and supporting the Supernova Remnants II conference in Chania, Greece 2019 (photo by A. Manousakis).
