Data Mining/Astronomy Talks Dec 16

Astronomy Tea Talk(s)
Tuesday, Dec. 16th, 2008
Rm 106 ROBINSON

10 AM
Raffaele D’Abrusco
(Dept. of Physics, Univ. of Naples)

“A data mining approach to selection and photometric redshift estimation of candidate quasars”

The talk will describe a data mining approach to the problems of the selection of candidate quasars from the photometric data produced by astronomical surveys and the estimation of photometric redshifts for the candidate QSOs extracted. Some details of the algorithms employed as well as the results of their application to SDSS and near infrared data will also be presented.

10:30 AM
Omar Laurino
(Dept. of Physics, Univ. of Naples)

“VONeural 2.0/DAME: an integrated data mining framework for massive datasets”