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Signal processing and inference for the physical sciences

26 - 27 March 2012 09:00 - 17:00

Organised by Dr Nick Jones and Dr Thomas Maccarone

We will bring together two vibrant research groups for an exchange of ideas: physical scientists working with challenging data and needing tools to make the most of it; and analysts not yet working in these rich scientific fields.  Speakers cover applications across astrophysics, biological physics, geophysics and earth sciences and meet those from applied mathematics, computer science, engineering and statistics. We aim to open the world of new methods for data analysis to the physical scientist and accelerate the integration of data analysts into physical science. For further details on speakers see this final programme.

The proceedings of this meeting are scheduled to be published in a future issue of Philosophical Transactions A.

Satellite Meeting

This meeting was followed by a related Satellite meeting at the Kavli Royal Society International Centre entitled Signal processing for the physical sciences from 28 – 29 March 2012.

Organisers

  • Dr Nick Jones, University of Oxford, UK

    Nick Jones, Imperial Mathematics, works on topics relating to the designed disordered world around us. This concerns both how we should perform inference about the systems around us and how they in turn perform inference themselves.

     

  • Dr Thomas Maccarone, University of Southampton, UK

    "Tom Maccarone works across a broad range of topics in astrophysics, but he received his PhD at Yale University for a thesis on the variability of X-ray emission from accretion flows onto black holes and neutron stars.

    It was from this work that his interest in signal processing began, as these systems present a rich phenomenology of variability, much of which is poorly understood.  He hopes this meeting will fertilize time domain astrophysics with new techniques to apply to old problems.  After his PhD he moved to Europe, taking on postdoctoral fellowships at the Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati and the University of Amsterdam, before taking on a faculty position at the University of Southampton."