Classification Challenges

Talk
Event LSST All-Hands Meeting 2012 Location Tucson, AZ Date Aug 2012

Summary

ML approaches to astronomical classification for LSST: real/bogus candidate discrimination, variable-star classification, and probabilistic cataloging, with examples from the Palomar Transient Factory including SN 2011fe.

Deck on Speaker Deck (LSST AHM, Aug 13-17 2012); he was LSST Transients & Variable Stars co-chair.