Program
Program [PDF]

April 28, 2016 - Thursday
9:00 AM - 10:00 AMBreakfast & Welcome
10:00 AM - 10:30 AMDavid O Jones, Johns Hopkins University
PS1 Cosmology with Contaminated Samples [KEY, 13.13 MB]
10:30 AM - 11:00 AMRichard Kessler, University of Chicago
Building a Photometric SNIa Hubble Diagram from DES-SN Data [PDF, 10 MB]
11:00 AM - 11:30 AMDiscussion
11:30 AM - 12:00 PMBreak
12:00 PM - 1:00 PMCatered LUNCH at KICP
1:00 PM - 1:30 PMAnais Moeller, Australian National University and CAASTRO
SN Photometric Classi cation of SNLS Data with Supervised Learning [PDF, 3.72 MB]
1:30 PM - 2:00 PMPeter J Brown, Texas A&M
UV Photometric Classifcation of SNe [PDF, 12.1 MB]
2:00 PM - 2:30 PMDiscussion
2:30 PM - 3:00 PMBreak
3:00 PM - 3:30 PMNatalia Karpenka, Southampton University
Spectrophotometric Templates of Stripped-Envelope SNe [PDF, 2.07 MB]
3:30 PM - 4:00 PMSteve Kuhlmann, Argonne National Laboratory
Studies of Template-Based Machine Learning Classifcation [PDF, 1.14 MB]
4:00 PM - 4:30 PMDiscussion
6:00 PM - 8:00 PMDinner at Cedar's Mediterranean Kitchen, http://eatcedars.com
8:00 PMWhirlyball

April 29, 2016 - Friday
9:00 AM - 9:30 AMBreakfast
9:30 AM - 10:00 AMGeorge Miller, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
PS1 Classifcation of SN Using Ensemble Decision Tree Methods [PDF, 7.95 MB]
10:00 AM - 10:30 AMNarayan Gautham, NOAO/UA
Finding & Characterizing Interesting Transients Rapidly with LSST [KEY, 68.36 MB]
10:30 AM - 11:30 AMDiscussion
11:30 AM - 12:00 PMBreak
12:00 PM - 2:00 PMwalk to LUNCH
2:00 PM - 2:30 PMMichelle Lochner, University College London
Photometric SN Classifcation with Machine Learning [PDF, 6.37 MB]
2:30 PM - 3:00 PMDiscussion
3:00 PM - 3:30 PMBreak
3:30 PM - 4:00 PMMasao Sako, University of Pennsylvania
SN Classifcation with Nearest Neighbors
4:00 PM - 5:00 PMGroup discussion: Future Work and Collaborative Efforts