Hi, so all of the potential meeting are in Australia ? On Wed, Jan 2, 2019 at 8:37 PM Vikram Ravi <v.vikram.r...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear CASPERites, SETI-interested people, > > Happy New Year! > > The purpose of this email is to advertise a short questionnaire ( > https://goo.gl/forms/yH3LlTrIqtCZIEXN2) to help us (George Hobbs, me, ++) > set up a meeting relating to “finding the unknown” in astronomical data > sets. > > I think that we’d all agree that astronomy data sets are becoming massive > and processing those data sets is becoming more and more of a challenge. > In response to this, we develop pipelines for finding specific sources of > interest - for example, simple objects in images, pulsars/FRBs in radio > time-series data sets, and known classes of transients/events in optical > time-domain data. However, as our algorithms become more and more > optimised for particular sources, we will lose our ability to discover > anything currently unknown and unexpected. This is a big issue for future > telescopes such as the SKA, LSST etc, which will produce such large data > volumes that much of the data processing will need to be done in near real > time, and the raw data deleted. > > Fast radio bursts (FRBs) were discovered in a reprocessing of archival > Parkes data using an algorithm that enabled more parameter space to be > searched. Pulsars themselves were, of course, discovered entirely > serendipitously by Jocelyn Bell looking by eye at chart recorder output. > How can such discoveries be made with future telescopes? > > We (George Hobbs, me, ++) would like to organise a > meeting/workshop/conference on this topic: how to discover the unknown. > George has already touched base with a few people and has some ideas, but > it isn’t clear whether we should organise a short workshop on a > well-defined topic (e.g., “finding bright, transient events, in > single-dish, radio astronomy, time-series data”), or have a slightly more > general meeting (e.g., “finding the unknown in radio astronomy data sets”), > or a very general one (“how to find anomalies in a given data set” - which > may not even necessarily have the word “astronomy” in it!). > > It has been suggested that an SOC be set up, but we think it is important > to define the scope of the meeting (or meetings!) first before selecting > the SOC. > > We have set up a short questionnaire available from > https://goo.gl/forms/yH3LlTrIqtCZIEXN2. If you are interested in this, > would you be willing to fill in the questionnaire as soon as convenient > (we’ll close the questionnaire on 14th Jan)? This will greatly help with > planning what should be a fantastic event. We’ll use the results from the > questionnaire to (1) better scope the meeting and (2) to identify a set of > people to be on the SOC/LOC. Note that the results of the questionnaire > will be shared with the final SOC members. > > Please forward this message to anyone else you know who may be > interested. We're planning on getting input from astronomers, computer > experts, hardware engineers, algorithm experts, cloud/HPC teams and > industry, and people from the LIGO, medical imaging, public outsourcing, > etc. > > (apologies if you receive this email more than once!) > > Best, > Vikram > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups " > casper@lists.berkeley.edu" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to casper+unsubscr...@lists.berkeley.edu. > To post to this group, send email to casper@lists.berkeley.edu. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "casper@lists.berkeley.edu" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to casper+unsubscr...@lists.berkeley.edu. To post to this group, send email to casper@lists.berkeley.edu.
