Astrophysics and Algorithms: A DIMACS Workshop on Massive Astronomical Data Sets

WORKSHOP PROGRAM with links to the abstracts.

Wednesday, May 6, 1998

8:30    Breakfast/registration

9:00    Welcoming address
        Jeremiah Ostriker, Provost of Princeton University 

        Welcoming remarks
        Robert Sedgewick, Princeton University, DIMACS Special Year Chair

        Introductions, Logistics
        Michael Vogeley, Princeton University, SOC Chair

9:30    The MACHO Project
        David Bennett, University of Notre Dame

10:30   Coffee

11:00   The USNO PMM Program
        Dave Monet, U. S. Naval Observatory, Flagstaff

12:00   DSS-II and GSC-II: STScI All-Sky Image and Catalog Databases
        Barry Lasker, Space Telescope Science Institute

12:30   Lunch

2:00    The Two Micron All Sky Survey
        Carol Lonsdale, IPAC, JPL/Caltech

3:00    The FIRST Radio Survey
        Rick White, Space Telescope Science Institute

4:00    Tea

4:30    The NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database
        Barry Madore, IPAC, JPL/Caltech

5:30    Automated Galaxy Classification in Large Sky Surveys
        Steve Odewahn, Caltech

(session ends at 6:00)

6:15    Reception (drinks and hors d'oeuvres) at Prospect House
        Dinner on your own in Princeton (see Restaurant List)

Thursday, May 7, 1998

8:30    Breakfast

9:00    The Sloan Digital Sky Survey and its Science Database
        Alex Szalay, Johns Hopkins University

10:00   Mathematical Methods for Data Mining
        Helene Kulsrud, Center for Communications Research-Princeton/IDA

11:00   Coffee

11:30   Trends in High-End Computing and Storage Technologies: Implications for Astronomical Data Analysis

        Tom Prince, Caltech

12:30   Lunch

2:00    Inverse Problems in Helioseismology
        Sarbani Basu, Institute for Advanced Study

3:00    "Fast" Statistical Methods for Interpolation and Model Fitting in One-Dimensional Data
        Bill Press, Harvard University

4:00    Tea

4:30    Data Mining the Digitized Palomar Sky Survey
        George Djorgovski, Caltech

5:30    Efficient Width Computation of High-Dimensional Point Sets
        Andreas Brieden, Technische Universitaet Muenchen

6:00    Shape Finder Statistics
        Sergei Shandarin, University of Kansas

(session ends at 6:30)

Friday, May 8, 1998

8:30    Breakfast

9:00    Challenges in Analysing Future CMB Space Missions
        Francois Bouchet, Insitut d'Astrophysique, Paris

10:00   CMB and LSS Power Spectrum Analysis
        Max Tegmark, Institute for Advanced Study

11:00   Coffee

11:30   An Efficient and Stable Fast Spherical Transform Algorithm
        Dan Rockmore, Dartmouth University

12:30   Lunch

2:00    A Fast Method to Bound the CMB Likelihood Function
        Julian Borrill, Center for Particle Astrophysics, Berkeley

2:30    Gamma Ray Burst Classification Methods
        Jon Hakkila, Mankato State University

3:00    Tea

3:30    Multiscale Methods in Astronomical Image Processing, Cluster Analysis, and Information Retrieval
        Fionn Murtagh, University of Ulster

4:30    A Multiscale Vision Model and Applications to Astronomical Image and Data Analyses
        Albert Bijaoui, Observatoire de la Cote d'Azur, Nice

5:00    Analysing Very Large Data Sets From Cosmological Simulations
        Renyue Cen, Princeton University

5:30    Summary
        Acknowledgments

(session and workshop end at approximately 6:00 PM)





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