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SAC Seminar - Michaël Bazot: Aspects of Bayesian estimation of stellar parameters

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Time

Wednesday 24 September 2014,  at 14:00 - 15:00

Location

1520-323

In this talk, I will discuss the interest of adopting the Bayesian point-of-view for the estimation of stellar parameters. I will shortly review the basic philosophy of Bayesian Statistics and of numerical methods such as Markov chain Monte Carlo algorithms. I will present results on the applicability of these methods to the exercise of estimating the physical characteristics of sun-like stars. I will finally present some recent results on convective core detection in such stars.