La Serena School for Data Science 2024: Applied Tools for Data-driven Sciences

La Serena School for Data Science 2024: Applied Tools for Data-driven Sciences

August 19-29, 2024
La Serena – Chile

 

The 2024 School will be held August 19-29, 2024
Applications are closed.
Eligible students include advanced undergraduates and early graduate students

For more details, please check this link.

 

School website

 

The volume and complexity of astronomical data continues to grow as the current generation of surveys come online (PanSTARRS, Dark Energy Survey, VISTA). Astronomers will need to work with giga, tera and even petabytes of data in real time (LSST). This poses the challenges of developing and using new tools for data discovery, access, and analysis. At the same time, there are new opportunities for interdisciplinary research in applied mathematics, statistics, machine learning, crowd-sourcing, etc. Astronomy provides a sand-box where scientists can come together from diverse fields to address common challenges within the “Big Data” paradigm.

The LA SERENA SCHOOL FOR DATA SCIENCE: Applied Tools for Data-driven Sciences will be an intensive 10-day program of interdisciplinary lectures focused on applied tools for handling big astronomical data. Participants will be instructed in how astronomical data are processed, accessed and analyzed, including reduction pipelines, databases, and scientific programming. In addition, working with data from other disciplines, such as bioinformatics, is also introduced. The School will be taught by an international and interdisciplinary group of professors who will use real data and examples. Participants will work on team-based projects and be provided training and access to the Chilean National Laboratory for High Performance Computing (NLHPC) located at the University of Chile’s Center for Mathematical Modeling.

  •  Students eligible for scholarships include advanced undergraduates and early graduate students in any US or Chilean institutions, Ecuadorian (CEDIA members) and Latin American institutions.
  •  Please, read the information about the 2024 school program and registration process.

Lecture topics include:

  • Image analysis
  • Databases
  • Statistical tools applied to large data sets
  • Machine Learning
  • Cloud Computing
  • Deep Learning

The Schools take place annually in August on the AURA Observatory campus in La Serena, Chile. Students from different disciplines are encouraged to participate, including (but not limited to) astronomy, physics, computer science, statistics, mathematics, biology medical informatics. There is a registration fee for participants, which covers room and board (except dinners) and international travel to La Serena. However, full scholarships that cover the whole school cost will be available for most participants from the U.S. and Chile thanks to the support of the U.S. NSF and our partners in Chile. Thanks to the support from CEDIA, full scholarships will be available to students in Ecuadorian universities members of CEDIA. In addition, thanks to the Center for Mathematical Modeling (CMM/UChile), full scholarships will be available to students in Latin American universities. See the annual program page for more information.

Important Dates

  • Registration Opens: January 10
  • Program Announcement: Feb 2024
  • Registration Deadline: March 31
  • Acceptance Notifications: mid Jun 2024
  • Program Dates: August 19 to 29

 

Principal Support

Primary support for the LSSDS has been provided by the U.S. National Science Foundation and the Chilean National Research and Development Agency (ANID).

Participating Institutions

 

Scientific Organizing Committee

  • Co-Chair: Matthew Graham (Caltech)
  • Co-Chair: Amelia Bayo (ESO)
  • Co-Chair: Mauricio Cerda (U. Chile)
  • Valeria Mesa (AURA-O/U. La Serena)
  • Guillermo Damke (NSF’s NOIRLab)
  • Dara Norman (NSF’s NOIRLab)

 

Local Organizing Committee

  • Co-Chair: Guillermo Damke (NSF’s NOIRLab)
  • Co-Chair: Camila Ibarlucea (NSF’s NOIRLab)
  • Co-Chair: Valeria Mesa (ULS/AURA-O)
  • Eduardo Tejada (AURA-O)
  • Daniela Rodríguez (AURA-O)
  • Eduardo Vera (CMM/U. de Chile)

 

Core Faculty

  • Matthew Graham (MG) (Caltech) – Co-Chair
  • Mauricio Cerda (MC) (U. Chile) – Co-Chair
  • Amelia Bayo (AB) (ESO) – Co-Chair
  • Mauro San Martín (MSM) (U. de La Serena)
  • Humberto Farías (HF) (U. de La Serena)
  • Pavlos Protopapas (PP) (Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences)
  • Federica Bianco (FB) (University of Delaware / Rubin Observatory)
  • Guillermo Damke (GD) (NOIRLab)

TAs: Nicolas Monsalves (U. de La Serena); Catherine Benavides (U. Chile)

Contact

For questions and information requests, please contact Dr. Valeria Mesa at the address lssds [at] aura-astronomy.org (The account will be checked starting in March due to summer vacation)

 

Registration Fees and Scholarships

Thanks to funding from the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) as well as the Center for Mathematical Modeling (CMM/UChile), REUNA and ANID in Chile, most students selected from U.S. and Chilean institutions will receive full scholarships that cover all the school cost. In addition, thanks to funding from CEDIA, students from Ecuadorian universities members of CEDIA are eligible for full scholarships too. Additionally, the CMM has made possible to offer scholarships to students in Latin American institutions.

The scholarship application is part of the registration form, so students should be sure to identify their residency and/or citizenship and fill out the appropriate scholarship information on the registration form. Selected students non-eligible for scholarships will be required to cover their registration costs through their own funding sources.

Application

The application process for the 2024 LSSDS is currently closed.

Please submit your application by filling up and submitting the online registration form.

Date: Aug 19, 2024
Date of closure: Aug 29, 2024
Venue: AURA Campus, La Serena, Chile
More info at:
Event website

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