[visionlist] "SCIENCE:IMAGe IN AcTION" 7th International Workshop Data Analysis in Astronomy <<Livio Scarsi and Vito Di Gesu'>>

[Erice 2011 "Data Analysis in Astronomy"]

Conference URL:  http://www.unipa.it/daa_erice11
Secretary: daa_erice11 at unipa.it

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"SCIENCE:IMAGe IN AcTION"

7th International Workshop 
Data Analysis in Astronomy <<Livio Scarsi and Vito Di Gesu'>>

15-22 April 2011, Erice, Italy
http://www.unipa.it/daa_erice11

FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT and CALL FOR PAPERS
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The Workshop is addressed to researchers and Ph.D. students in Physics, Biology, Mathematics and Computer
Science. It will be held at the "Ettore Majorana Foundation and Centre for Scientific Culture", Erice, Trapani, Italy.

Simulation, modelling and interdisciplinary-science together highlight the key role of system representations. 
Consistent with new emerging theories and technologies, the present edition will be devoted to the representation problem. 
It is admitted representations are necessary for humans to understanding phenomena and they may help elaborating theories. 
They are likely key features of the leaving, where programs of systems are transmitted. Images to represent system behaviours 
for their understanding prove representations as information supports. That in turns introduces the importance of noise, also l
atent in biological growth, and sends back to the compressing role of representations. Eventually, the technological burst of 
"informatics" images spreads them at every stage of any current scientific steps. So that a problem to solve in parallel with 
most other scientific studies turns out to be "how to master the huge amount of data generated by the least observation".

The 2011’s workshop, subtitled "SCIENCE: IMAGe IN AcTION", aims at studying and discussing instances of the representation
problem in Physics and Biology, with emphasis on Astronomy, Cosmology, Earth environment and climate studies. 

Speaking of imaging and abstraction, we will endeavour to stress links between the various topics considered in these areas. 
Unifying theories and trans-discipline tools should illustrate the character of universality of pertaining representations. On the 
other hand, the emergence of artificial agents, synthetic images, data miners and other computed facilities to help abstraction
handling will be discussed both in its genuine aspects and through examples at various levels.

Targeted specific topics could be, but not limited to:
-inference mechanisms in modelling: from Bayes to self-assembly and perhaps more
-data merging: mastering uncertainty, imprecision and incompleteness 
-perceptual models: scale invariance, quantum physics and geometry, etc.
-credible agents: reality, models and (computer) representation of complex systems
-multi scale analysis: rare phenomena, data mining and large data bases
-virtual and augmented reality to experiment: from computer graphics to virtual observation or computational biology

On the behalf of Prof. A. Zichichi (President of the EMFCSC), the "DAA - Data Analysis in Astronomy" Workshops are from now dedicated
to "Livio Scarsi and Vito Di Gesù" who were the enthusiastic inspirers of the series.

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Key-Notes: the steering committe is in the process of inviting and solliciting speakers, 
have already accepted
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Pr Françoise BALIBAR (France)
Images and Intuition: the example of Quantum Physics. 

Pr Gustav BERNROIDER (Austria)
Common Grounds: The Role of Perception in Science.

Pr Luciano BOI (France)
Seeing the world from inside: internal (geometrical) and external (physical) representations of dynamical and living systems. 

Pr Alfred BRUCKSTEIN (Israel)
>From Ants to A(ge)nts: Modelling and Analyzing Multi-Agent Systems.

Pr Dalia CHAKRABARTY (England)
Phase portrait of dynamical systems: the governing rule of evolution. 

Pr Jean-Claude HEUDIN (France)
Reality, Models and Representations: the cases of Galaxies, Intelligence and Avatars.

Pr Giuseppe LONGO (Italy)
The emerging virtual reality technologies for professional research in astronomy.

Pr Fionn MURTAGH (Ireland)
Hierarchical Clustering in Large High Dimensional Datasets.

Pr Vladimir Nekorkin (Russia)
Non-linear dynamics and biological systems 

Pr Sankar PAL (India)
History and perspectives of the fuzzy methods in image features selection.

Pr Fabio PASIAN (Italy)
The International Virtual Observatory: tools implemented in the framework of astronomical images and data mining

Pr Sisir ROY (India)
The role of noise in living Systems.

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Participation:
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Application :
Individuals wishing to attend the Workshop must send by email (daa_erice11 at unipa.it) an application to 
Prof. Bertrand Zavidovique (Director of the workshop) specifying:  

i) full name(s), address, age, nationality;
ii) present position, affiliation, and a short CV;
iii) their specific interest in the Workshop. 

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Submissions:
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There is room left for 20 submitted papers on all topics that fit the scope of the workshop, whether they are theoretical or they
deal with experiments and results. Papers, 3 to 8 pages drafts + illustrations if any, will be reviewed by committee members and expert guests. 

Submission dead line: January 15th, 2011 Notification of acceptance: February 15th, 2011 Final version to be sent: March 1st, 2011 
together with registration fees,  to appear in the proceedings

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Fees:
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Registration fees are 800€ (700€ for accompanying persons). They cover all accommodation for the duration of the workshop, one sample of the proceedings, registration
to the conferences and to the gala dinner, and to the excursion day

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Contacts:
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Bertrand Zavidovique (Director)
I.E.F. Université Paris Sud
ORSAY, France

Giosuè Lo Bosco (Local Secretariat)
Dipartimento di Matematica ed Informatica University of Palermo Palermo,Italy.
Email: daa_erice11 at unipa.it

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DAA Secretariat
Data Analysis in Astronomy <<Livio Scarsi and Vito Di Gesu'>>
Email: daa_erice11 at unipa.it
URL: http://www.unipa.it/daa_erice11
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