sys2025: FINAL PROGRAM

All times in US Central (Chicago) Timezone

For attendance in person: Room 280 of the Bevill Center, UAH campus.

For attendance via Zoom: https://tinyurl.com/sys2025zoom

Zoom Meeting ID: 835 2320 7886

Zoom Passcode: sys2025


Friday, Nov. 14 - “Systematic and Statistical Errors”  


8:25am-8:30 Welcome 

8:30-9:00 L. Lyons (invited, virtual): “Setting the Scene” 

9:00-9:45 D. van Dyk (review, virtual):  “Two astro-statistical methods to account for systematics” 

9:45-10:10 J. Hakkila (invited) - “Gamma-Ray Burst Pulses as a Case Study for Systematic Uncertainty”


10:10-10:45 COFFEE BREAK


10:45-11:30 V. Kashyap (review) - “Propagating atomic data uncertainties” 

11:30:11:45 J. Audenaert: “Systematic uncertainties in space-based astronomical observations”


11:45-1:30pm LUNCH at Charger Cafe


1:35-2:00 E. Diaz-Frances (invited, virtual): "Improving the detection of high energy astronomical sources by implementing simple and optimal likelihood inferences for Poisson means"

2:00-2:45  M. Bonamente (review) - “Models for systematic errors in count data” 

2:45-3:10 P. Craig (invited): “Uncertainties in Combining Multi-Wavelength Datasets for Classical Novae”

3:10-3:35 (invited) X. Li: “Boosting C-statistics in Astronomy: Higher-order Asymptotics for Improved Goodness-of-fit Testing”


3:35-3:50 COFFEE BREAK


3:50-4:15 H. Fu (invited): “Mitigating biases in Extragalactic distance measurements”

4:15-4:30 D. White: “Joint X-ray and SZ Analysis of Filamentary Gas around Abell 3391/3395”

4:30-4:45  S. Li: “JWST, Distance Measurements, and the JAGB and TRGB”


5:00pm DINNER at Charger Cafe


7:00pm  at US Space and Rocket Center: Cocktails & Cosmos with a talk on “Aliens” 


Saturday, Nov. 15 - “Machine Learning and AI”


9:00am-9:45 M. Negro (review)  “Application of machine learning for scientific data analysis” 

9:45-10:00 A. Ghosh: “Uncertainty Quantification and Mitigation: With ML and For ML”

10:00-10:25 D. Muthukrishna (invited): “Systematic modeling with generative AI”


10:25-10:50 COFFEE BREAK


10:50-11:15 D. Whiteson (invited, virtual): “Fast Estimation of Neutron Star Interiors and Uncertainty”

11:15-11:30 M. Boroumand: “COSI-SL: Data-Driven Source Locator for γ-ray Point Sources with Neural Networks”

11:30-11:45 Canceled: P. Jalan: “FLAME: Fitting LyAlpha Absorption lines using Machine Learning”


11:45-1:30pm LUNCH at Charger Cafe


“Astrophysical Applications I”


1:30-1:45 Prashant Baruwal: “Analyzing Solar Wind Dynamics Using Linear Mode Decomposition During Radial Spacecraft Alignment”

2:00-2:15 N. Madam Subashchandar: “Parallel and perpendicular diffusion of energetic particles in the near-Sun solar wind observed by Parker Solar Probe”

2:15-2:30 H. Saxena: “The Impact of Triaxiality and Orientation of Galaxy Clusters on the Planck SZ Cluster Selection”


2:30-3:00 COFFEE BREAK


3:00-3:15 J.Ingram: “Systematic Errors in Solar Flare Statistics: When Poisson Assumptions Lead to Underestimated Uncertainties”

3:15-3:30 Canceled: J. Morales: “Narrow-Line Seyfert 1 Classification using Extreme Gradient Boosted Trees”

3:30-3:45 S. Berger: “Uncovering observational biases at Cosmic Dawn with large-scale simulations”

3:45-4:00 E. Porto: “Joint Extremes of Solar Irradiance and Air Density: an EVT and Copula Approach to Tail Uncertainty”


5pm at US Space and Rocket Center: 

5:00-6:45 Keynote Talk by G. Gonzalez: "How do we know we have detected a gravitational wave?"

Followed by Private Visit and Conference Dinner 


Sunday, Nov. 16 - “Bayesian Methods and Simulations” 


9:00am-9:45 T. Enβlin (review, virtual) “Bayesian basics”

9:45-10:10 M. Binger (invited) “Bayesian Modeling Lessons from Adaptive Learning: Fast Inference, Structured Uncertainty, and Predictive Calibration”

10:10-10:25  J. Wagner:  “MCMC regression in the analysis of stellar radial velocities”


10:25-11:00 COFFEE BREAK


11:00-11:25 E. Burns (invited): “Statistics Problems in Gamma-ray Bursts”

11:25-11:40 J. Carzon: “Trustworthy Scientific Inference for Inverse Problems with Generative Models”

11:40-11:55 S. Das: “Extended Bayesian Estimation for In-flight Calibration of Space-based Instruments”


11:55am-1:30pm LUNCH at Charger Cafe


2:00-2:45 Rachel Ivie (review): “Data to Improve Equity in Physics and Astronomy”

2:45-3:10 T. Loredo (invited, virtual): “Salient feature modeling for count and event data using multiplicative discrepancy functions”  

3:10-3:25  Siriwardana, M. "Nonparametric Estimation of Spatial Covariance Function using Mixtures of Gaussian Kernels”.


3:25-3:55 COFFEE BREAK


“Astrophysical Applications II”


3:55-4:10 H. Garcia Escudero: “Testing ΛCDM with statistical methods: The Role of Neutrinos in Modern Cosmology”

4:10-4:25 S. Johnson: “Sequential Analysis for Poisson Counting Data”

4:25-4:40 S. Grunblatt: “Improving the Robustness of Inferred Exoplanet Population Statistics from Multiple Detection Methods”


Monday, Nov. 17 “Future Directions”


9:00am-9:25 A. Gagliano (invited): “When the Simulator is the Systematic: Model Misspecification in Simulation-Based Inference”

9:25-9:50 TBD

9:50-10:05 A. Banerjee: “Semi Parametric Signal Detection Under Unknown Background”

10:05-10:20 M. Sharma: “A novel method to trace the dark matter density profile around supermassive black holes with AGN reverberation mapping”


10:20-10:45 COFFEE BREAK


10:45-noon PANEL DISCUSSION:


Noon-2:00pm LUNCH at Charger Cafe



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