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DIRAC Seminar Series
DIRAC Seminars are appropriate for students and researchers at all levels who are interested in astronomy and/or data science, and everyone is welcome to attend.
Read More2019-09-24 Seminar: Kaushal Sharma
When: September 24, 2019 @ 12:00pm Where: PAB, 3rd floor, B305 Classification in Astronomy using ML. Dr. Sharma is a postdoc at the Inter University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics in Pune, India. His Tuesday noon talk will be on…
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2019-04-12 Seminar: David van Dyk
When: April 12, 2019 @ 11:00am Where: PAB, 6th floor, WRF Data Studio, eScience Seminar Room Quantifying Discovery in Astro/Particle Physics: Frequentist and Bayesian Perspectives David A van Dyk, Statistics Section, Department of Mathematics, Imperial College London Statistical discovery questions in…
Read More2019-03-26 Lunch Talk: Renée Hložek
Where: PAB, WRF Data Science Studio, 6th floor When: March 26, 2019 @ 11:00 am Separating wheat from chaff: photometric classification in the age of LSSTThe Large Synoptic Survey Telescope will generate a data deluge: millions of transients and variable sources…
Read More2019-02-22 Seminar: David Jones
When: February 22, 2019 @ 11:00am Where: PAB, 3rd floor, B305 Disentangling Overlapping Astronomical Sources using Spatial, Spectral, and Temporal Information We present a powerful new algorithm that combines spatial and spectral information to separate photons from overlapping X-ray sources….
Read More2019-01-14 Seminar: Alex Malz
When: January 14, 2019 @ 12:30pm Where: PAB, eScience Data Studio, 6th floor Maximizing LSST science with probabilistic data products LSST will produce massive catalogs including detected objects down to unprecedented floors in signal-to-noise ratio, opening the door to a new space of potential…
Read MorePatient Astronomers Catch Stellar Litterbugs: What Happens Next Is Shocking!
Dr. Melissa L. Graham, LSST Research Scientist and DIRAC Fellow, coauthored paper on a large Hubble survey of supernovae “Delayed Circumstellar Interaction for Type Ia SN 2015cp Revealed by an HST Ultraviolet Imaging Survey”. The supernova explosions of white dwarf…
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2018-12-11 Seminar: Benjamin Pope
When: December 11, 2018 @ 12:00pm Where: PAB, B305, 3rd floor The Brightest Stars in Kepler and K2 The Kepler mission and its continuation as K2 have revolutionized both the study of exoplanets and of stellar astrophysics, providing high-precision light curves of hundreds…
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