Session 60. New Statistics for New Missions: Problems and Opportunities for Breakthrough Thinking

Special Session Oral, Thursday, June 8, 2000, 2:00-3:30pm, Highland A/K

60.01 Nonparametric Statistical Methods in Astrophysics

L. Wasserman (Carnegie Mellon)

60.02 Bayesian Methodology for the Space Interferometry Mission

T. J. Loredo, D. F. Chernoff (Department of Astronomy, Cornell University)

60.03 Gravitational Wave Data Analysis for LIGO

L. S. Finn (Center for Gravitational Physics and Geometry/Penn State)

60.04 Tackling the Challenges in the Analysis of Chandra Data

R. S. Protassov, D. A. van Dyk, D. Esch (Dept. of Statistics, Harvard University), A. Conners (Wellesley College), V. L. Kashyap, A. Siemiginowska (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics)

60.05 Computational AstroStatistics: Applications to the Sloan Digital Sky Survey

R. C. Nichol (Dept. of Physics, Carnegie Mellon), A. J. Connolly (Dept. of Physics & Astronomy, Univ. of Pittsburgh), C. R. Genovese (Dept. of Statistics, Carnegie Mellon), A. W. Moore, J. Schneider (Dept. of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon), L. Wasserman (Dept. of Statistics, Carnegie Mellon)