Talk on the machine-learning stack behind real-time discovery in the Palomar Transient Factory and its successor iPTF: real-bogus classification, why machine-learned classification beats human scanners, and early numbers and lessons from iPTF.
In the “Nuts and Bolts: Algorithms and Event Brokers” session on Thursday, November 14, at the third Hot-wiring the Transient Universe workshop, which he helped organize. The proceedings carry only a title page.