David W. Hogg

http://cosmo.nyu.edu/hogg/

This page hosts a non-comprehensive list of recent news items for Hogg's group. See also his preprints and his research diary. Dates are formatted according to ISO 8601:

2010-01-12: Sam Roweis, 1972–2010.
Sam Roweis (NYU, Google, Toronto), Hogg's close collaborator and even closer friend, died today. He had an immense impact on machine learning and computational statistics, but also on astronomy, where his contributions were truly disruptive. He will be sorely missed as a scholar and a friend.
2009-10-14: Astrometry.net paper submitted.
The paper on Astrometry.net appears as arXiv:0910.2233 and is submitted to The Astronomical Journal.
2009-09-11: Dustin Lang successfully defends PhD.
Lang (co-supervised by Hogg) is the principal developer of the Astrometry.net system and his University of Toronto Computer Science PhD dissertation describes it, among other things.