SCMA VIII Program

*June 12 (Mon)*
Time	Session
9:00 a.m.–9:20 a.m.	Welcome Remarks / Logistics / Overview of SCMA: Jogesh Babu (Pennsylvania State University) Randall McEntaffer (Pennsylvania State University) Eric Feigelson (Pennsylvania State University) Tom Loredo (Cornell University) Slides with the Song.
9:20 a.m.–10:00 a.m.	Invited Talk (Chair: Hyungsuk Tak) Maya Fishbach (University of Toronto) “Population properties of black holes inferred from gravitational waves“. Slides.
10:00 a.m.–10:30 a.m.	Coffee Break with Posters at the 3rd Floor
10:30 a.m.–11:10 a.m.	Invited Talk (Chair: Maya Fishbach) Kaze Wong (Flatiron Institute) “Challenges and Opportunities from gravitational waves: data scientists on diet“. Slides.
11:10 a.m.–11:35 a.m.	Contributed Talk Andrew Saydjari (Harvard University) “Measuring the 8621Å Diffuse Interstellar Band in Gaia DR3 RVS Spectra: Obtaining a Clean Catalog by Marginalizing over Stellar Types“. Slides.
11:35 a.m.–12:00 p.m.	Contributed Talk Nicholas Chornay (University of Geneva) “Automatic Classification of Ten Million Variables in Gaia DR3“. Slides.
Afternoon Sessions
1:30 p.m.–2:10 p.m.	Invited Talk (Chair: Kaze Wong) Yen-Chi Chen (University of Washington) “When geometry and statistics meet cosmology: the challenge of detecting cosmic webs“. Slides.
2:10 p.m.–2:35 p.m.	Contributed Talk Veronika Oehl (ETH Zürich) “Exact likelihood for correlation functions of masked Gaussian random fields on the sphere“. Slides.
2:35 p.m.–3:00 p.m.	Poster Speed Presentations 1. Fiorenzo Stoppa (Radboud University) “Optical images analysis using a Two-Step Network for accurate feature estimation and uncertainty characterization“. PDF. 2. Megan Gialluca (University of Washington) “Statistical Constraints on the Atmospheric Escape History of the TRAPPIST-1 Planets“. PDF. 3. Grant Zhou (University of Wisconsin, Madison) “A New Framework for Identifying Statistical Correlation between IceCube Point-Source Data and Tracers of Large-scale Structure with Nearest Neighbor Distributions“. PDF. 4. Hector McKimm (Imperial College London) “Bayesian Modelling of Photon Pile-up“ 5. Andreas Filipp (University of Montreal) “Statistical inference on dark matter properties with LSST“. PDF. 6. Fan Zou (Pennsylvania State University) “A Bayesian Method to Map the Cosmic Growth of Supermassive Black Holes“. PDF.
3:00 p.m.–3:30 p.m.	Coffee Break with Posters at the 3rd Floor
3:30 p.m.–4:10 p.m.	Invited Talk (Chair: Jeff Regier) Jessi Cisewski-Kehe (University of Wisconsin, Madison) “Detection of Another Earth hidden in Stellar Spectra“. Slides.
4:10 p.m.–4:35 p.m.	Contributed Talk Markus Johannes Bonse (ETH Zürich) “Digging deep into the noise: A search for faint exoplanets with explainable machine learning“
4:35 p.m.–5:00 p.m.	Contributed Talk Emily Omaya Garvin (ETH Zürich) “A Machine Learning application to Molecular Mapping: improving detection sensitivity of individual molecules in the atmosphere of exoplanets“

*June 13 (Tue)*
Time	Session
9:00 a.m.–9:40 a.m.	Invited Talk (Chair: Yen-Chi Chen) Fabrizia Guglielmetti (European Southern Observatory) “A BRAIN study to tackle imaging with artificial intelligence in the ALMA2030 era“. Slides.
9:40 a.m.–10:05 a.m.	Contributed Talk Niharika Sravan (Caltech) “Autonomous dynamic resource allocation: Optimal follow-up for identifying gravitational wave counterparts“. Slides.
10:05 a.m.–10:30 a.m.	Contributed Talk David Hong (University of Pennsylvania) “Heterogeneous data challenges in modern astronomy for PCA: choosing weights to account for heterogeneous quality” Slides.
10:30 a.m.–11:00 a.m.	Coffee Break with Posters at the 3rd Floor
11:00 a.m.–12:00 p.m.	Keynote Talk (Chair: Chad Schafer) Kyle Cranmer (University of Wisconsin, Madison) “Simulation-based inference“. Slides.
Afternoon Sessions
1:30 p.m.–2:10 p.m.	Invited Talk (Chair: Ann Lee) Jeffrey Regier (University of Michigan) “Modern Variational Inference for Interpreting Astronomical Images“
2:10 p.m.–2:35 p.m.	Contributed Talk Ismael Mendoza (University of Michigan) “Bayesian Light Source Separator (BLISS): Probabilistic detection, deblending and measurement of astronomical light sources“. Slides.
2:35 p.m.–3:00 p.m.	Poster Speed Presentations 1. Milan Pešta (Charles University) “Mass-ratio distribution of contact binary stars“. PDF. 2. Siyang Li (Johns Hopkins University) “A Gaia Data Release 3 View on the Tip of the Red Giant Branch Luminosity” PDF. 3. Yashil Sukurdeep (Johns Hopkins University) “Super-resolution sub-band astronomical image reconstruction with prescribed PSF using differential chromatic refraction (DCR)“. PDF. 4. Juan Pablo Alfonzo (Tohoku University) “Exploring the Link Between the Star Formation History and the Morphology of Galaxies Using CNNs“. PDF. 5. Tomoki Omama (The Graduate University for Advanced Studies, Japan) “Time series decomposition using dynamic factor model; application to black hole X-ray light curves with NICER“ 6. Michael Barth (University of Montreal) “The CluMPR Galaxy Cluster-Finding Algorithm and DESI Legacy Survey Galaxy Cluster Catalog“. PDF. 7. Noah Kochanski (University of Michigan) “Statistical Properties of Solar Flare Dependency“
3:00 p.m.–3:30 p.m.	Coffee Break with Posters at the 3rd Floor
3:30 p.m.–4:10 p.m.	Invited Talk (Chair: Justin Alsing) Sara Algeri (University of Minnesota) “On computationally efficient methods for testing multivariate distributions with unknown parameters“. Slides.
4:10 p.m.–4:35 p.m.	Contributed Talk Alexa Villaume (University of Waterloo) “Globular Cluster Systems Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Hierarchical Models“. Slides.
4:35 p.m.–5:00 p.m.	Contributed Talk Maximilian Autenrieth (Imperial College London) “Estimation of Galaxy Luminosity Distributions from Incomplete X-ray and Optical Survey Data“. Slides.

*June 14 (Wed)*
Time	Session
9:00 a.m.–9:40 a.m.	Invited Talk (Chair: Josh Speagle) Thomas Cass (Imperial College London) “RFI detection in visibility streams using path signature representations“. Slides.
9:40 a.m.–10:05 a.m.	Contributed Talk James Buchanan (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory) “Bayesian Parametric Galaxy Modeling for LSST“. Slides.
10:05 a.m.–10:30 a.m.	Contributed Talk Naomi Giertych (North Carolina State University) “Eliminating Prior Reliance: Exoplanet Detection using the Generalized Fiducial Distribution“. Slides.
10:30 a.m.–11:00 a.m.	Coffee Break with Posters at the 3rd Floor
11:00 a.m.–12:00 p.m.	Keynote Talk (Chair: Ashley Villar) Xiao-Li Meng (Harvard University) “Conducting Highly Principled Data Science: A Statistician’s Job and Joy (Working with Astrophysicists)“. Slides.
Afternoon Sessions
1:30 p.m.–2:10 p.m.	Invited Talk (Chair: David van Dyk) Justin Alsing (Stockholm University) “Inferring complex population models using simulation-based inference and optimal transport“
2:10 p.m.–2:35 p.m.	Contributed Talk Tri Nguyen (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) “Uncovering dark matter density profiles in dwarf galaxies with neural simulation based inference and graph neural networks“. Slides.
2:35 p.m.–3:00 p.m.	Poster Speed Presentations 1. William Martin (Imperial College London) “Robust linear regression with measurement error“. PDF. 2. Vinay Kashyap (Center for Astrophysics, Harvard University) on behalf of Antoine Meyer (Imperial College London) “Bayesian analysis of dispersed line complexes“. PDF. 3. Bhagya Subrayan (Purdue University) “Inferencing Progenitor and Explosion Properties of Evolving Core-collapse Supernovae from Zwicky Transient Facility Light Curves“. PDF. 4. Kristi Webb (University of Waterloo) “SFH prior dependence limits the uniform interpretation of galaxy properties“. PDF. 5. Zhuowen Zhang (University of Chicago) “Property Covariance and its Impact on Weak-lensing Mass Calibration“ 6. Andrew Pellegrino (Pennsylvania State University) “The DIAmante TESS Autoregressive Planet Search (DTARPS)“ 7. Peter Taylor (Ohio State University) “Unsupervised Searches for Parity Violations in Cosmological Fields“ 8. Jinglin Zhao (Pennsylvania State University) “Leveraging FIESTA and machine learning to reduce stellar variability in radial velocity analysis“. PDF.
3:00 p.m.–3:30 p.m.	Coffee Break with Posters at the 3rd Floor
3:30 p.m.–4:10 p.m.	Invited Talk (Chair: Yang Chen) Ann Lee (Carnegie Mellon University) “Reliably Confident Simulator-Based Inference with LF2I and Waldo“. Slides.
4:10 p.m.–4:35 p.m.	Contributed Talk Marko Ristic (Rochester Institute of Technology) “Simulated Kilonova Spectra Interpolation with Comparison to AT2017gfo Observations“. Slides.
4:35 p.m.–5:00 p.m.	Contributed Talk Bingjie Wang (Pennsylvania State University) “SBI++: Flexible, Ultra-fast Likelihood-free Inference Customized for Astronomical Applications“. Slides.

*June 15 (Thu)*
Time	Session
9:00 a.m.–10:00 a.m.	Tutorial (Chair: Hyungsuk Tak) Josh Speagle (University of Toronto) “A Tutotial of (Dynamic) Nested Sampling”. Slides.
10:00 a.m.–10:30 a.m.	Coffee Break with Posters at the 3rd Floor
10:30 a.m.–11:10 a.m.	Invited Talk (Chair: Vinay Kashyap) Josh Speagle (University of Toronto) “Extending Bayesian Modeling Approaches to ML Applications“. Slides.
11:10 a.m.–11:35 a.m.	Contributed Talk Thomas Loredo (Cornell University) “Modeling populations of spectra and light curves using Bayesian functional data analysis“. Slides.
11:35 a.m.–12:00 p.m.	Contributed Talk David Kent (Cornell University) “Photometric redshifts via Bayesian functional data analysis“
12:00 p.m.–12:25 p.m.	Contributed Talk Biprateep Dey (University of Pittsburgh) “Calibrated predictive distributions for photometric redshifts“
Afternoon Sessions
2:00 p.m.–2:40 p.m.	Invited Talk (Chair: Francisco Förster) Yang Chen (University of Michigan) “Statistical Methods for Solar Flare Prediction/Classification“. Slides.
2:40 p.m.–3:05 p.m.	Contributed Talk Paula Sanchez Saez (European Southern Observatory (ESO)) “Searching for different AGN populations in massive datasets with Machine Learning“. Slides.
3:05 p.m.–4:00 p.m.	Poster Session
4:00 p.m.–	Social Event

*June 16 (Fri)*
Time	Session
9:00 a.m.–9:40 a.m.	Invited Talk (Chair: Jogesh Babu) Francisco Förster (University of Chile) “The ALeRCE astronomical alert broker“. Slides.
9:40 a.m.–10:05 a.m.	Contributed Talk Konstantin Karchev (Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati) “SICRET: Supernova Ia Cosmology with truncated marginal neural Ratio EsTimation“. Slides.
10:05 a.m.–10:30 a.m.	Contributed Talk Vinay Kashyap (Center for Astrophysics, Harvard University) “Naive Bayes Classification of X-ray Sources in Cygnus OB2“. Slides.
Coffee Break
11:00 a.m.–11:25 a.m.	Contributed Talk (Chair: Eric Feigelson) Kaylee De Soto (Pennsylvania State University) “Using Variational Autoencoders to Rapidly Classify Supernovae“
11:25 a.m.–11:50 a.m.	Contributed Talk Alex Malz (Carnegie Mellon University) “Are photometric light curve classification metrics good proxies for Type Ia supernova cosmological constraining power?“
11:50 a.m.–12:15 p.m.	Closing remarks G. Jogesh Babu (Penn State), Eric Feigelson (Penn State), Chad Schafer (Carnegie Mellon University), Ashley Villar (Penn State), and Hyungsuk Tak (Penn State).