Program

Monday, March 9, 2015
8:00-9:00	Registration/Continental Breakfast
9:00-9:15	Introductory Remarks
9:15-9:45	Alyssa Goodman (Harvard) Wide Data vs. Big Data
9:45-10:15	Carlos Scheidegger (University of Arizona) How do you look at a billion data points? Exploratory Visualization for Big Data
10:15-11:00	Break
11:00-11:20	Joshua Peek (STScI) Machine Vision Methods for the Diffuse Universe
11:50-2:00	Lunch
2:00-2:20	Elisabeth Mills (NRAO) Visualization and Analysis of Rich Spectral-Line Datasets
2:20-2:40	Brian Bue (JPL) Leveraging Annotated Archival Data with Domain Adaptation to Improve Data Triage in Optical Astronomy
2:40-3:10	Erzsébet Merényi (Rice) Knowledge Discovery from the Hyperspectral Sky
3:10-3:40	Break
3:40-4:10	Tamas Budavari (JHU) Streaming Algorithms for Optimal Combination of Images and Catalogues
4:10-4:30	Viviana Acquaviva (CUNY NYC College of Technology) Two applications of machine learning to data from galaxy surveys
4:30-4:50	Fred Moolekamp (Rochester) Toyz for Data Analysis
4:50	Adjourn, dinner on your own.

Tuesday, March 10, 2015
8:00-9:00	Continental Breakfast
9:00-9:30	Gautham Narayan (NOAO) Hunting the Rarest of the Rare: From PS1 to LSSTFred
9:30=10:00	Sarah Loebman (Michigan) MyMergerTree: A Cloud Service for Creating and Analyzing Galactic Merger Trees
10:00-10:20	Alessandra Aloisi (STScI) Enhancing the Legacy of HST Spectroscopy in the Era of Big Data
10:20-11:00	Break
11:00-11:20	Bryan Gaensler (Toronto) Wide-Field Radio Astronomy and the Dynamic Universe
11:20-11:40	Matias Kind (UIUC/NCSA) Probabilistic photometric redshift in the era of petascale astronomy
11:40-12:00	Yusra AlSayyad (Washington) Case study: Classifying High Redshift Quasars on the LSST-Reprocessed SDSS Stripe 82 Imaging
12:00-2:00	Lunch
2:00-2:20	Felipe Barrientos (Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile) Photometric classification of QSOs from RCS2 using Random Forest
2:20-2:40	Benjamin Weiner (Steward Observatory) Challenges in producing and using large spectroscopic and photometric redshift datasets
2:40-3:00	Matthew Graham (NOAO/Caltech) Characterizing the variable sky with CRTS
3:00-3:30	Jacek Becla (SLAC) Enabling Scalable Data Analytics for LSST and Beyond through Qserv
3:30-4:10	Break
4:10-4:30	Iraklis Konstantopoulos (Australian Astronomical Observatory) Will Your Hypercubes Eat My Asterozoa? Building a Versatile Data Archive for the SAMI IFU Galaxy Survey.
4:30-4:50	Angelle Tanner (Mississippi State) The StArchive: An Open Stellar Archive
4:50	Adjourn, dinner on your own

Wednesday, March 11, 2015
8:00-9:00	Registration/Continental Breakfast
9:00-9:30	Benjamin Williams (Washington) Reducing Large Imaging Data Sets on the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud
9:30-9:50	Bruce Berriman (IPAC, Caltech) Creating A Multiwavelength Galactic Plane Atlas With Amazon Web
9:50-10:10	Arvind Gopu (Indiana) Trident: Custom Scalable Scientific Compute Archive and Analysis
10:10-10:30	Ignacio Sevilla (CIEMAT) Handling the Dark Energy Survey
10:30-10:50	Roberto Munoz (Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile) Efficient data reduction and analysis of DECam images in a multicore server
10:50	Coffee and Adjourn

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