SABID 2020 : WORKSHOP ON SOLAR & STELLAR ASTRONOMY BIG DATA

The topics include but are not limited to the following:

1. Managing the Flood of Solar & Stellar Astronomy Big Data
   1. New Computational Models for Storage, Distribution, Processing and Mining of Astronomy Data
   2. Evaluation of Information Quality for Astronomy Data from Telescopes, as well as Derived Data Products (Meta-Data)
   3. New Scientific Standards for Information Processing and Mining, and their Quality Evaluation
   4. System Architectures, Design and Deployment of Solar and Stellar Astronomy Data Archives, Portals and Analytical Services
   5. Data Management and Stream Mining for Astronomy Data in Cloud and Distributed Environments
   6. Integration of Heterogeneous Information from Multiple Data Repositories for the purpose of Knowledge Discovery from these Databases
2. Solar & Stellar Data Science, Informatics and Statistics
   1. New Computational Models for Search, Retrieval, and Mining of Astronomy Data
   2. Scalable Algorithms and Systems for Solar & Stellar Activity Recognition
   3. Solar & Stellar Astronomy Data Search Architectures, their Scalability, Efficiency, and Real-life Usefulness
   4. Visualization and Interaction Tools for Large Astronomy Data Bases
   5. Computational Astrostatistics (e.g., irregularly sampled data, multivariate and survival analysis, nonlinear regression)
   6. Hyperspectral Imaging: Technologies and Techniques
   7. Cloud-, Distributed-, and Stream-Data Mining for High Velocity Astronomy Data
   8. Image Processing for Unbiased Image, Spatial and Time Series Analysis
   9. Multimedia, Multi-structured, and Spatiotemporal Astronomy Data Mining
   10. Novel Data Mining Models, including new algorithms available through Hadoop, MapReduce, No-SQL, etc.
3. Applications Related to Solar & Stellar Big Data Management and Mining
   1. Complex Space Weather Applications in Science, Engineering, Education, Navigation, Power Grids, and Telecommunication for Government, Public and Private Industry Sectors
   2. New Real-life Case Studies of Big Solar Data Mining (e.g. Space Weather)
   3. Experiences with Big Data Mining Project Deployments in Solar Physics
   4. Successful Crowdsourced Scientific Research (e.g. Zooniverse)
   5. Solar and Stellar Astronomy Data and Knowledge Distribution in the Social Web
4. Enhancing the Solar-Stellar Connection with Big Data
   1. Surveys of Millions of Suns – Is the Sun a Typical Sun-like Star?
   2. Helioseismology and Asteroseismology
   3. Flares, Planets and Supernovae – Identifying Transient/Periodic Events in Time Series Data
   4. Solar and Stellar Dynamo Modeling