Initiative in Innovative Computing @ Harvard
Seminar Series
Wednesday, April 11, 2007; 4:00pm
60 Oxford Street, Room 330
Pavlos Protopapas, Senior Scientist, IIC and Research Associate,
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Harvard University
Seminar Title: The IIC Time Series Center: How Astronomers, Computer
Scientists and Statisticians Together are Working to Tackle Hard
Problems in Astronomy
Abstract
New astronomical surveys such as Pan-STARRS and LSST are under
development and will collect petabytes of data. These surveys will
image large areas of sky repeatedly to great depth, and will detect
vast numbers of moving, variably bright, and transient objects. The
data product of these surveys is series of observations taken over
time, or light-curves.
The IIC has established an inter-disciplinary Center for Time Series
with an immediate focus on astronomy. I will present four research
topics currently being pursued at the IIC that require expertise from
astronomy, computer science and statistics. These are: identifying
novel astronomical phenomena in large light-curve datasets, searching
for rare phenomena such as extra-solar planets, discovering objects
in the outer reaches of our solar system, and efficiently searching
for similar light curves in data collections.
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