International meetings:
COSMO21: Statistical Challenges in 21st Century Cosmology (Chania GR, 24-27 May)
This is a followup conference to the successful IAU Symposium #306 in Lisbon (2014). Today cosmology is largely based on a web of statistical characterization and nonlinear regression problems involving large and complex datasets. Progress is rapid and sophisticated methods are widely used.
SCMA VI: Statistical Challenges in Modern Astronomy VI (Pittsburgh PA USA, 6-10 June)
This is a continuation of the SCMA conferences held at Penn State University evert five years since 1991, now hosted by Carnegie-Mellon University. These meetings bring together statisticians and astronomers to discuss progress on many fronts: time series analysis, cosmological modeling, planetary systems orbiting other stars, and general understanding of astronomical data.
Statistical, Mathematical and Computational Methods for Astronomy (Research Triangle NC USA, August 2016 through August 2017)
This is not a normal meeting! The NSF-sponsored Statistical and Applied Mathematical Sciences Institute is hosting a year-long research program on astrostatistics and astroinformatics. The goals are opened, encouraging cross-disciplinary teams to tackle forefront methodological problems. The program includes an Opening Workshop 22-26 August, a graduate course during Fall 2016. Planned Working Groups cover time domain astronomy, signal processing and population modeling for exoplanets, gravitational waves and cosmology. Travel funding for U.S.-based participants may be available.
IAU Symposium #325 Astroinformatics (Sorrento IT, 20-24 October)
This is the first ever society-sponsored international conference in the rapidly growing effort to confront the Big Data deluge emerging from new astronomical instruments. Problems include data storage; management & promulgation; efficient algorithms for astrophysically interesting calculations; multicore CPU/GPU computation on both local and distributed sites; and data visualization. Leaders worldwide will gather for the first time to consolidate achievements and plan for the future.
Summer Schools:
International School of Computational Astrophysics (Les Houches FR, 16-27 May)
ADA8: 8th Astronomical Data Analysis Summer School (Chania GR, 22-24 May)
Summer School in Statistics for Astronomers XII (State College PA USA, 31 May - 4 June
2016 Sagan Exoplanet Summer Workshop (Pasadena CA USA, 18-22 July)
11th Heidelberg Summer School on Astrostatistics and Data Mining (Heidelberg DE, 12-16 September)
Hack Day events:
Astropy Google Summer of Code 2016 (22 April - 23 August, Everywhere)
.Astronomy 8 (Oxford UK, 20-23 June)
3rd COIN Residence Program (21-28 August, Budapest HU)
Extra:
Astro Hack Week 2016 (29 Aug – 2 Sep, Berkeley CA USA, )
This is partly a summer school with lectures and exercises for working effectively with large astronomical datasets. But the afternoons are unstructured, a hackathon for collaborative research, breakout sessions, and applications.
Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems: ADASS XXVI (16-20 Oct, Trieste IT)
This is the long-standing annual forum for scientists and programmers concerned with algorithms and software involved in the acquisition, reduction, analysis and dissemination of astronomical data. It is followed by the Interoperability Workshop of the International Virtual Observatory Alliance (Trieste) and IAU Symposium #325 Astroinfo16 (Sorrento).
Mining the sky Knowledge discovery in big and complex astronomical data sets and data streams (6-9 Dec Athens GR)
This is the first-ever meeting on astroinformatics sponsored by the enormous IEEE engineering society. It is part of the large 2016 IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence and Data Mining, so there will be many opportunities to learn state-of-the-art techniques and connect with leading computer scientists.