Hi,
We are delighted to announce the launch of the GRavitational lEnsing
Accuracy Testing 2008 (GREAT08) PASCAL Challenge.
The GREAT08 Challenge is an image analysis competition for gravitational
lensing and cosmology, aimed at experts in statistical problems
(non-astronomers). The competition runs for 6 months, until 30 April 2009.
Please find more information at the challenge website
http://www.great08challenge.info
There are 200GB of simulated galaxy images to download
http://docs.google.com/View?docid=dcrd4nqb_138dr64tf4r ,
a live leaderboard containing results from GREAT08 Team members
https://great08.projects.phys.ucl.ac.uk/leaderboard
and you can download the code we used to get these results
http://great08challenge.pbwiki.com
You are invited to join us for an (IP) videoconference to introduce the
challenge and answer your questions at 4pm GMT on Tuesday (4th Nov).
Please email [log in to unmask] for the connection details.
Sarah Bridle, on behalf of the GREAT08 Team
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