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Day 1 (20 March 2017) |
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09:00 - 09:30 |
Registration |
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09:30 - 09:40 |
ICTS welcome (Parameswaran Ajith) |
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09:40 - 09:50 |
SAMSI Deputy Director’s welcome (Sujit Ghosh) |
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09:50 - 10:00 |
Scientific Aims (Ashish Mahabal) |
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Overview session: Science of transients (Chair: Bala Iyer) |
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10:00 - 10:30 |
Challenges for Real-time and Archival Time domain astronomy: (Ashish Mahabal) |
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10:30 - 11:00 |
GW astronomy: Overview (Archana Pai) |
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11:00 - 11:30 |
Break |
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11:30 - 12:00 |
Statistics in astronomy & the SAMSI ASTRO Program (Jogesh Babu) |
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12:00 - 13:00 |
Panel and discussions (James Long, Sukanta Bose) |
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13:00 - 14:00 |
Lunch |
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Research Presentations (Chair: Sujit Ghosh) |
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14:00 - 14:20 |
Building a training set for an automatic LSST light curve classifier (Rafael Martinez Galarza) |
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14:20 - 14:40 |
Searching for ultraviolet transients with UVIT (Koshy George) |
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14:40 - 15:00 |
Structure Function & CARMA Analysis of QSO Light curves (Jackeline Moreno) |
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15:00 - 15:30 |
Lightning talks related to posters |
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15:30 - 16:00 |
Break and poster viewing |
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16:00 - 17:00 |
Panel Discussion (N Sajeeth Philip, David Jones, Sujit Ghosh) Topic: Feature selection and classification methods for CRTS |
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17:00 - 17:30 |
Free form discussions and poster viewing |
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19:30 - 20:30 |
Dinner |
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Day 2 (21 March 2017) |
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Overview session: Techniques for time domain astronomy (Chair: Jogesh Babu) |
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| 09:00 - 09:30 | Tea and informal discussions |
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09:30 - 10:00 |
Issues in time domain astronomy (Matthew Graham) |
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10:00 - 10:30 |
Challenges in Source Parameter Estimation in GW Astronomy - (Rajesh Nayak) |
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10:30 - 11:00 |
Statistical Challenges in time domain astronomy (James Long) |
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11:00 - 11:30 |
Break and Group Photo |
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11:30 - 13:00 |
Panel and discussions (David Stenning, Hyungsuk Tak, Anand Sengupta, Dilip Krishnaswamy) |
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13:00 - 14:00 |
Lunch |
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Day 3 (22 March 2017) |
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Overview session: EM follow-up of GW events (Chair: Parameswaran Ajith) |
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| 09:00 - 09:30 | Tea and informal discussions |
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09:30 - 10:00 |
Binary mergers, GW sky localization, etc: an overview (Sukanta Bose) |
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10:00 - 10:30 |
Observing facilities in india (Varun Bhalerao) |
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10:30 - 11:00 |
Finding counterparts in X-ray data: The Search for Electromagnetic Counterparts to GW sources (Varun Bhalerao) |
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11:00 - 11:30 |
Break |
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11:30 - 13:00 |
Panel and discussions (Ashish Mahabal, Kuntal Misra) |
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13:00 - 14:00 |
Lunch |
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Outliers and background (Chair: Ashish Mahabal) |
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14:00 - 14:20 |
Transient noise in the LIGO detectors (Jessica McIver) |
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14:20 - 14:40 |
The physical, statistical and computational challenges of Pulsar Timing (Justin Ellis) |
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14:40 - 15:00 |
Robust inference via a mixture of Gaussian and t-type error distributions (Hyungsuk Tak) |
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15:00 - 15:30 |
Lightning talks related to posters |
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15:30 - 16:00 |
Break |
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16:00 - 17:00 |
Panel and discussions (Prajval Shastri, Jogesh Babu, B. C. Joshi) |
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17:00 - 17:30 |
Free form discussions |
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19:30 - 20:30 |
Dinner |
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Day 4 (23 March 2017) |
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Research Presentations (Chair: Jogesh Babu) |
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| 09:00 - 09:30 | Tea and informal discussions |
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09:30 - 09:50 |
Merger ejecta from short gamma ray bursts (Kuntal Misra) |
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09:50 - 10:10 |
Redshift distribution of short duration GRBs (L. Resmi) |
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10:10 - 10:30 |
Hybrid geometric-stochastic GW template banks (Anand Sengupta) |
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10:30 - 10:50 |
Bayesian model selection of population synthesis models of CBCs (Sumit Kumar) |
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10:50 - 11:10 |
Bayesian identification of strongly lensed GW events (M. K. Haris) |
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11:10 - 11:40 |
Break |
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11:40 - 13:00 |
Feedback and discussions |
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13:00 - 14:00 |
Lunch |