Monthly Archives: October 2018


2018-10-29 Seminar: Michael Koss

When: October 29, 2018 @ 12:30pm Where: PAB, WRF Data Science Studio, 6th floor   Dr. Michael Koss is currently funded through NASA satellite grants and resides in Kirkland, Washington. Prior to this he was an Ambition fellow in Zurich,…

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2018-10-25 Astronomy Colloquium: Stephen Portillo

When: October 25, 2018 @ 4:00pm Where: PAA A102, with refreshments at 3:45PM   This week’s colloquium speaker is our own Stephen Portillo.    Counting Stars: Developing Probabilistic Cataloging for Crowded Fields        The depth of next generation surveys poses a great data…

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Visitors: Kathryn McKeough

Kathryn McKeough is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Statistics at Harvard University. She does research as a member of both the CHASC: Astrostatistics Group and the Sports Analytics Lab at Harvard. Her Tuesday, October 23rd, 2018 talk at 12pm will be…

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2018-10-23 Seminar: Kathryn McKeough

When: October 23, 2018 @ 12:00pm Where: PAB, WRF Data Science Studio, 6th floor, Seminar Room   DIRAC is pleased to welcome Katy McKeough as a visitor next week.   Katy is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Statistics at Harvard University. She does research…

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Estimating the Milky Way’s Mass via Hierarchical Bayes: A Blind Test on MUGS2 Simulated Galaxies

Published in the Astrophysical Journal, by DIRAC Researcher, Gwendolyn Eadie.

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