III INPE Advanced Course on Astrophysics

Program

The conference will take place in São José dos Campos from September 14-18, 2009, at the auditorium Fernando de Mendonça of the Laboratório de Integração e Testes of the Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais.

I - Bayesian Statistics: a primer (Tom Loredo)

II - Bayesian Statistics: techniques and implementation (Hedibert Lopes)

III - The Frequentist Approach for Astrostatistics (Eric Feigelson)

IV - Hands-on (Esther Salazar - IM-UFRJ)

Invited Lecture: Particle Learning: a General Framework for Bayesian Computation (Hedibert Lopes)

*Registration: Monday 8:00
**Opening session: Monday 8:30*

Schedule

	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday
09:00 - 10:15	III	I	I	II	II
10:15 - 10:45	COFFEE-BREAK
10:45 - 12:00	I	III	III	II	Invited Lecture
12:00 - 14:00	LUNCH
14:00 - 15:15	I	III	II	III	-
15:15 - 15:45	COFFEE-BREAK
15:45 - 17:00	IV	IV	-	IV	-

How to reach the auditorium (map)

DAS
Divisão de Astrofísica