Focus Session: Statistics for Gravitational Wave Data Analysis |
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Center For Gravitational Wave Physics |
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| GravStat Main Page | Contact the committee |
| Contact the organizers | |
| The meeting will be held in the Sylvan room at the Days Inn | |
| Program: | |
| Thursday, 19 May 2005 | |
| Morning Session: Statistical Challenges of Gravitational Wave Astronomy | |
| 8:30 AM Welcome - Sam Finn | |
| Tutorials: | |
| 8:45 AM Tom Loredo (Cornell) | Statistics for gravitational wave data analysts |
| 9:30 AM Discussion | |
| 9:45 AM Break | |
| 10:15 AM Lee Samuel Finn (Penn State) | Gravitational wave data and analysis questions for statisticians |
| 10:45 AM Discussion | |
| 11:00 AM Roundtable: Questions posed in the analysis of gravitational wave data | |
| Giovani Prodi (Universita di Trento and INFN) Peter Shawhan (Caltech) Massimo Visco (IFSI-INAF) Gianluca Guidi (Universita di Urbino - INFN Firenze) Daisuke Tatsumi (National Astronomical Observatory of Japan) |
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| 12:30 LUNCH | |
| Afternoon Session: Statistics for Continuous Sources | |
| 2:30 PM Joseph Romano (Cardiff) | Characterizing Confusion: Inference from stochasitc gravitational wave searches |
| 2:55 PM Discussion | |
| 3:30 PM Break | |
| 4:00 PM Graham Woan (Glasgow) | Statistical approach to the analysis and interpretation of periodic gravitational wave signals |
| 4:25 Discussion | |
| Friday, 20 May 2005 | |
| Morning Session: Adaptive Analysis: Incorporating New Insights | |
| 9:30 AM Katherine Rawlins (MIT) | Post-hoc vetoes in Frequentist analyses |
| 9:55 AM Discussion | |
| 10:30 AM Break | |
| 11:00 AM Tom Loredo (Cornell) | Bayesian Adaptive Exploration |
| 11:25 AM Disucssion | |
| 12:00 Lunch | |
| Afternoon Session: Statistics for Burst/Transient Signals | |
| 2:30 PM Peter Shawhan (Caltech) | Setting limits and making discoveries |
| 2:55 PM Discussion | |
| 3:30 PM Break | |
| 4:00 PM Tiffany Summerscales (Penn State) | Deconvolution and inference using maximum entropy |
| 4:25 PM Discussion | |
| 5:00 PM Adjourn | |
| 6:30 PM Banquet Reception Nittany Lion Inn | |
| 7:30 PM Banquet Dinner Nittany Lion Inn | |
| Harry Collins (Cardiff): After dinner speaker | |
| Saturday, 21 May 2005 | |
| Morning Session: Analysis of Data from Multiple Detectors | |
| 9:00 AM Giovanni Prodi (University of Trento) | Statistical problems associated with the analysis of data from a network of narrowband detectors |
| 9:25 AM Discussion | |
| 10:00 AM Break | |
| 10:30 AM Sukanta Bose (Washington State, Pullman) | Statistical problems associated with analysis of data from a network of broadband detectors |
| 10:55 AM Discussion | |
| 11:30 AM Roundtable: Working with detectors of different sensitivity | |
| 1:00 PM Adjourn | |
