Meetings

We attempt to list all conferences, workshops, and sessions that specialize in astrostatistics and astroinformatics.  On more general methodology, we give a selection of many conferences in statistics and information sciences.  More extensive lists are available are provided by the Institute of Mathematical StatisticsInternational Statistical InstituteStatistics Conferences WorldwideKD nuggets, and Wikipedia’s list of computer science conferences.  A comprehensive list of astronomy and astrophysics meetings is provided by Canada’s Astronomical Data Center.

 

Artificial Intelligence in Astronomy
Start Date: 22 July 2019  / End Date:  26 July 2019
Where: Garching DEIt is certainly an understatement that Artificial Intelligence (AI) has taken the world by storm, with breakthroughs appearing almost daily in the news. Indeed, the incredible progress in computer power, the availability of large amounts of data and …
Joint Statistical Meeting
Start Date: 27 July 2019  / End Date:  01 August 2019
Where: Denver CO USAThe annual meeting of several large North American scholarly societies, this conference has 6000+ attendees, dozens of short courses, and presentations on with ranging from statistical applications to methodology and theory to the expanding boundari …
15th International Conference on Data Science (ICDATA’19)
Start Date: 29 July 2019  / End Date:  01 August 2019
Where: Las Vegas NV USAFormerly the International Conference on Data Mining, this conference is part of CSCE’19 (2019 World Congress in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, and Applied Computing) with 1000-2000 expected participants. CSCE provides a unique platform fo …
Python in Astronomy 2019
Start Date: 29 July 2019  / End Date:  02 August 2019
Where: Baltimore MD USAThe fifth Python in Astronomy Conference aims to bring together a wide variety of developers, educators and other contributors to Python packages in the context of all forms of astronomy. The conference will include unconference sessions, presentati …
Astronomical Data Archives
Start Date: 05 August 2019  / End Date:  08 August 2019
Where: Sydney AUThe goals of the meeting are to determine what areas of data archives we can collaborate on, and where we can share information, data and code. There is a lot of great work being done here with new technologies (as seen at the ADASS and IVOA meeting …
NARIS-EACOA Summer Workshop on Astrostatistics & Astroinformatics
Start Date: 13 August 2019  / End Date:  17 August 2019
Where: Chiang Mai THNARIT-EACOA Summer Workshop on Astrostatistics and Astroinformatics will be held in Chiang Mai, Thailand, 13 to 17 August 2019. This workshop is open to students and astronomers in East and Southeast Asia and other countries who have interests in pr …
62nd World Statistics Congress – Astrostatistics session
Start Date: 18 August 2019  / End Date:  23 August 2019
Where: Kuala Lumpur MLThis is the large, biennial international conference of the International Statistical Institute & 7 associated societies (~2500 attendees, ~1300 papers). It includes an Invited Paper Session entitled “ASTROSTATISTICS: CHALLENGES IN TIME DOMAIN ASTRO …
Hotwiring the Transient Universe VI
Start Date: 19 August 2019  / End Date:  22 August 2019
Where: Evanston IL USAHot-wiring the Transient Universe 6 will explore opportunities and challenges of massively parallel time domain surveys coupled with rapid coordinated multi-wavelength follow-up observations. The interdisciplinary agenda includes future and ongoing …
La Serena School for Data Science: Applied Tools for Data-driven Sciences
Start Date: 19 August 2019  / End Date:  28 August 2019
Where: La Serena CLThe volume and complexity of astronomical data continues to grow as the current generation of surveys come online (PanSTARRS, Dark Energy Survey, VISTA). This poses the challenges of developing and using new tools for data discovery, access, and ana …
Cosmostatistics Initiative Residence Program #6
Start Date: 24 August 2019  / End Date:  31 August 2019
Where: Morzine FRThe Cosmostatistics Initiative (COIN) is a worldwide endeavour aimed to foster interdisciplinary collaborations to solve data-driven scientific challenges. COIN Residence Programs (CRPs) are unstructured meetings, offering opportunities for collab …
Astro Hack Week 2019
Start Date: 26 August 2019  / End Date:  30 August 2019
Where: Cambridge UKAstroHackWeek is, in part, a summer school. The mornings will offer lectures and exercises covering essential skills for working effectively with large astronomical datasets. Past years have seen topics such as machine learning, Bayesian inference, …
Cornell Celebration of Statistics and Data Science 2019
Event Date: 06 September 2019 06 September 2019
Where: Ithaca NY USACornell University will host the annual Celebration of Statistics and Data Science (previously known as the Day of Statistics), bringing together some of the best minds in the field of statistics and data science to share their latest insights and d …
10th Workshop on Hyperspectral Image and Signal Processing (Whispers 2019)
Start Date: 24 September 2019  / End Date:  26 September 2019
Where: Amsterdam NLThis IEEE-sponsored workshop, entitled `Evolution in Remote Sensing’, aims to bring together all the people involved in hyperspectral data processing. By data we mean: Signals, as provided by spectrometers and processed individually; Images, from t …
2019 International Conference on Time Series and Forecasting (ITISE-2019)
Start Date: 25 September 2019  / End Date:  27 September 2019
Where: Granada ESThe ITISE 2019 seeks to provide a discussion forum for scientists, engineers, educators and students about the latest ideas and realizations in the foundations, theory, models and applications for interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary research enc …
Astronomical Data Analysis and Software Systems XXIX
Start Date: 06 October 2019  / End Date:  10 October 2019
Where: Groningen NLThis is the 29th annual international Astronomical Data Analysis Software & Systems (ADASS) conference, followed by the International Virtual Observatory Alliance meeting.
School of Statistics for Astrophysics 2019: Variability and Time Series Analysis
Start Date: 06 October 2019  / End Date:  11 October 2019
Where: Autrans (France)This is the fourth session of the School of Statistics for Astrophysics (Stat4Astro). The topic of the 2019 session is the time series (including variabilities and transient events) that, from celestial mechanics to gravitational waves, from exoplan …
Artificial Intelligence for Science, Industry and Society
Start Date: 21 October 2019  / End Date:  25 October 2019
Where: Mexico City MXThe recent progress in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning has provided new ways to process large data sets. The new techniques are particularly powerful when dealing with unstructured data or data with complex, non-linear relationships, wh …
Petabytes to Science workshop
Start Date: 22 October 2019  / End Date:  24 October 2019
Where: Boston MA USAbThe Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy (AURA) is organizing a series of workshops on “Petabytes to Science”, supported by The Kavli Foundation. These workshops aim to identify the highest priority technologies and capabiliti …
Deep Learning Summit
Start Date: 24 October 2019  / End Date:  25 October 2019
Where: Montreal CADiscover advances in deep learning algorithms and methods from the pioneers who are paving the way in research and scientific improvements. Learn from leading innovators in deep learning frameworks, neural networks, transfer learning, GPUs and more. …

1st International Conference on Modeling, Machine Learning and Astronomy (MMLA)

Start Date: 22 November 2019  / End Date:  23 November 2019
Where: Bengaluru IN

Optimizing deep neural networks is largely thought to be an empirical process, requiring manual tuning of several parameters.The conference aims to focus on gaining theoretical insights in the computation and setting of these parameters. The organi …LSST Algorithms Workshop

Start Date: 02 December 2019  / End Date:  04 December 2019
Where: Princeton NJ USA

The LSST Project will host a workshop on the topic of algorithms for LSST. The goal of this workshop is to communicate with and engage the community in the choice of LSST algorithms. Topics of discussion will include (but are not limited to): Calibr …ESAC Data Analysis and Statistics (EDAS) workshop 2019

Start Date: 02 December 2019  / End Date:  05 December 2019
Where: Madrid ES

The fifth annual ESAC Data Analysis and Statistics (EDAS) workshop will be held at the European Space Astronomy Centre near Madrid. The primary aim of the EDAS workshop is knowledge transfer: to teach and instruct through lectures and guided hands- …12th Int’l Conference of ERCIM Working Group on Computational and Methodological Statistics (CM Statistics 2019)

Start Date: 14 December 2019  / End Date:  16 December 2019
Where: London UK

The European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics (ERCIM) aims to foster collaborative work within the European research community and to increase co-operation with European industry. The working group CMStatistics focuses on all comp …GOLD : The Golden Cosmological Surveys Decade

Start Date: 01 April 2020  / End Date:  05 June 2020
Where: Orsay FR

The nature of both dark matter and dark energy could be solved in the next decade with the Euclid and WFIRST missions and the starting of the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) observations in 2022. Our GOLD proposal has the following goals: i) …