Current Challenges in Multi-Scale Analysis

January 15 and 16, 2003
Cambridge, Massachusetts

A workshop sponsored by

The Astronomy and Statistics Working Group at Harvard University,
The Statistics Group at Boston University,
NASA AISR,
and the Chandra X-ray Center at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics

Chandra's image of the elliptical galaxy NGC 4697 reveals diffuse hot gas dotted with many point-like sources. As in the elliptical galaxies, NGC 4649 and NGC 1553, the point-like sources are due to black holes and neutron stars in binary star systems.

The workshop will follow-up on a Special Session at the American Astronomical Society Meeting in Seattle (January 2003) and aims to:

Present the cutting edge of Poisson "deconvolution" techniques using new multiscale methods;
Hammer out current understandings, problems, and future challenges for Poisson multiscale methods across astronomy, medicine, engineering, and statistics;
Draft a list of questions, practical problems, challenges and new successes from the Special Session;
Provide a "gateway" for researchers new to these methods; and
Lay groundwork for new collaborations and new lines of research.

All with the goal of reporting back to the wider astronomical community.

Scientific Organizing Comittee

Alanna Connors, Eureka Scientific

Peter Freeman, CXC/CfA

Margarita Karovska, CXC/CfA

Vinay Kashyap, CXC/CfA

Eric Kolaczyk, Boston University

Aneta Siemiginowska, CXC/CfA

David van Dyk, Harvard University

Invited Participants and Presentations (Preliminary List)

Astronomers

Albert Bijaoui

Margarita Karovska

Statisticians

Eric Kolaczyk

David Esch

Engineering and Nuclear Medicine

Becca Willett

Clem Karl

Workshop Details

Location

The workshop will be hosted by the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA) at 60 Garden Street in Cambridge, MA in the Phillips Auditorium (in the `D' wing of the Observatory). A map of and directions to CfA and a map of the Observatory are available.
Contributed Presentations and Posters

There is time for a few contributed presentations and posters. Abstracts must be submitted by January 1, 2003 for consideration by the organizing comittee; e-mail vandyk@stat.harvard.edu
or submit your abstract with your registration. The program will be finalized by January 1, 2003.
Schedule and Program

A preliminary program is available.
Participants

A list of registered participants is available.
Registration

There is no registration fee. So, please register: Let us know you will be coming!
Accomodations

There are a number of inexpensive housing options.
Parking

Keeping a car in Cambridge can be frustrating, expensive, and actually not altogether necessary as public transportation is available to almost anywhere you may wish to go. However, if you do have a car with you, please be advised that most on-street parking in Cambridge requires a Cambridge parking permit, which means that you must be a resident of Cambridge and that your car must be registered in Cambridge. There is no available parking at 60 Garden Street.

Several Images of Supernova Remnants (click for a better view!):

The Crab Nebula
X-ray
Chandra

The Crab Nebula
Optical
Palomar

G21.5-0.9
X-ray
Chandra

E0102-72.3
X-ray
Chandra

Click here for more Chandra images.

Current Challenges in Multi-Scale Analysis

January 15 and 16, 2003 Cambridge, Massachusetts

A workshop sponsored by

The Astronomy and Statistics Working Group at Harvard University, The Statistics Group at Boston University, NASA AISR, and the Chandra X-ray Center at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics

The workshop will follow-up on a Special Session at the American Astronomical Society Meeting in Seattle (January 2003) and aims to:

All with the goal of reporting back to the wider astronomical community.

Scientific Organizing Comittee

Alanna Connors, Eureka Scientific

Peter Freeman, CXC/CfA

Margarita Karovska, CXC/CfA

Vinay Kashyap, CXC/CfA

Eric Kolaczyk, Boston University

Aneta Siemiginowska, CXC/CfA

David van Dyk, Harvard University

Invited Participants and Presentations (Preliminary List)

Astronomers

Albert Bijaoui

Margarita Karovska

Statisticians

Eric Kolaczyk

David Esch

Engineering and Nuclear Medicine

Becca Willett

Clem Karl

Workshop Details

Location

The workshop will be hosted by the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA) at 60 Garden Street in Cambridge, MA in the Phillips Auditorium (in the `D' wing of the Observatory). A map of and directions to CfA and a map of the Observatory are available.

Contributed Presentations and Posters

There is time for a few contributed presentations and posters. Abstracts must be submitted by January 1, 2003 for consideration by the organizing comittee; e-mail vandyk@stat.harvard.edu or submit your abstract with your registration. The program will be finalized by January 1, 2003.

Schedule and Program

A preliminary program is available.

Participants

A list of registered participants is available.

Registration

There is no registration fee. So, please register: Let us know you will be coming!

Accomodations

There are a number of inexpensive housing options.

Parking

January 15 and 16, 2003
Cambridge, Massachusetts

The Astronomy and Statistics Working Group at Harvard University,
The Statistics Group at Boston University,
NASA AISR,
and the Chandra X-ray Center at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics

There is time for a few contributed presentations and posters. Abstracts must be submitted by January 1, 2003 for consideration by the organizing comittee; e-mail `vandyk@stat.harvard.edu`
or submit your abstract with your registration. The program will be finalized by January 1, 2003.