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Dear colleagues, <br>
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In case it is of your interest.<br>
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Cheers, <br>
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Enrique.<br>
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<p>In case any of your students are interested to apply or
know somebody interested.</p>
<p>This year we will add to our "regular" program, a "bio"
component (on top of astronomy and some finances examples),
so the school broadens even more its horizons.</p>
<p>Any questions, feel free to contact me.</p>
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href="http://www.aura-o.aura-astronomy.org/winter_school/content/la-serena-school-data-science-applied-tools-data-driven-sciences"
target="_blank"><b><span
style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif;color:#0563C1">La Serena School
for Data Science: Applied Tools for Data-driven
Sciences</span></b></a></span><b><span
style="font-size:18.0pt;color:black"> </span></b><span
style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">The 2017 School
will be held August 21-29<br>
Applications will open March 1, and be due by Apr 30, 2017<br>
Eligible students include advanced undergraduates and
early graduate students<br>
<b><i>Registration is now OPEN! </i></b></span><span
style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="color:black">Please
check out the </span> </i></b><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"><a
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href="http://www.aura-o.aura-astronomy.org/winter_school/content/registration-information-2017"
target="_blank"><b><i><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times
New Roman",serif;color:#0563C1">2017
Registration page</span></i></b></a></span><b><i><span
style="color:black"> for more information.</span></i></b><span
style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">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.</span><span
style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">The LA SERENA
SCHOOL FOR DATA SCIENCE: Applied Tools for Data-driven
Sciences is an intensive week 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. 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 National Laboratory for High Performance
Computing located at the University of Chile's Center for
Mathematical Modeling. </span><span
style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:black">Lecture
topics include:<br>
- Image analysis<br>
- Databases<br>
- Statistical tools applied to large data sets<br>
- Machine Learning<br>
- High Performance Computing<br>
- Cloud Computing</span></b><span
style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<span style="color:black">The Schools take place annually in
August on the <b>AURA Observatory campus in La Serena,
Chile</b>. Students from different disciplines are
encouraged to participate, including (but not limited to)
astronomy, computer science, statistics, and mathematics.
There is a registration fee for participants, which covers
room and board (except dinners) and travel to the school.
Thanks to the support of the U.S. NSF and CONICYT in Chile,
scholarships will be available for most participants from
the U.S. and Chile. See the annual program page for more
information.<br>
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Prof. Dr. Amelia Bayo Arán
Instituto de Física y Astronomía
Fac. de Ciencias, U de Valparaíso
Gran Bretaña 1111, Playa Ancha
(+56 32) 250 8311
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