Sydney, Australia
.Astronomy 7 was held in Sydney, the first .Astronomy conference outside Europe and the United States. The conference was officially opened by Professor Mary O'Kane, the NSW Chief Scientist and Engineer. This edition introduced ".Astronomy Day Zero", an optional day of introductory tutorials on commonly used tools to help participants feel more prepared for the Hack Day. This format continued in subsequent years. A public lecture on Giant Telescopes of the Future was given by Sarah Kendrew at the University of Sydney during the conference.
Organisers
- Amanda Bauer (Chair)
- Arna Karick
- James Allen
- Vanessa Moss
- Rob Hollow
Talks
Invited Talks
- Tom Robitaille: Astropy and the Open Source Revolution in Astronomy
- Lisa Ballard: Cataloging the World's Active Space Probes: How We Made the Spaceprob.es Website
- Alice Williamson (, University of Sydney): Open Source Malaria: A New Way of Finding Medicines
- Danny Vohl: Astronomy in the Petascale Data Era: Storage, Transfer and Visualization
- Yeshe Fenner (, AAL): Investing in Astronomy Infrastructure and Lessons Building a Federated Data Hub
- Nuria Lorente (AAO): Software development from the perspectives of astronomers and engineers
- Sze-leung Cheng: Astronomy education
- Kirsten Gottschalk: Astronomy education mini-websites
Lightning Talks
- Katie Mack: Using Twitter effectively for science communication
- Brett Morris: astroplan: Open source observation planning for Python
- Tamara Davis: Marz: spectral redshifting in the browser
- George Hobbs: Data archives, working in China, and Julia vs Python
Talks
- Sarah Kendrew: Giant Telescopes of the Future — (University of Sydney)
- **Professor Mary O'Kane**, NSW Chief Scientist and Engineer .Astronomy 7 introduced "Day Zero", a day of introductory tutorials aimed at helping participants feel prepared for the Hack Day. This was a significant innovation that continued at all subsequent events. Finding needles in big data, Engaging disconnected communities, Cool code environments, Dataverse and data standards, astroplan tutorial and development, Credit for code, Astronomy GUIs and data visualisation, Python 2 to Python 3 migration, Making data VO-compliant, Diversity in open source projects, Recognition for .Astronomy hacks, Future of publishing. Tom Robitaille discussed astropy's open development model, noting the gender diversity gap in code contributors (90:10 male:female) was worse than the astronomy community overall, sparking discussion about accessibility barriers. Alice Williamson, a non-astronomer, gave a cross-disciplinary talk about Open Source Malaria, demonstrating how open collaborative research could reduce drug discovery costs.
// hacksHacks
Visualising astronomy career paths with D3.js.
A friendly virtual radio interferometer.
Drive around telescope observatories in a Mad Max/gamer-style interactive visualisation.
Catch up with the exploits of the Cosmic Pudding at .Astronomy through a Koalas-to-the-Max style interface.
Upload an image and see what you'd look like through a radio telescope.
A podcast that reads astro-ph abstracts one by one.
An alt-az pointer to be used for education.
Takes an ADS bibliographic code and plots a geographical web of citations for that paper. Finds the institutions of first authors of papers that cite the given paper.
Participants
- Aidan Hotan
- Alice Williamson (University of Sydney)
- Amanda Bauer (Chair)
- Andrew O'Brien
- Arna Karick
- Aaron Robotham
- Becky Smethurst (University of Oxford)
- Brett Morris
- Cormac Purcell
- Dany Vohl
- Darren Croton
- Demitri Muna
- Edward Gomez
- George Hobbs
- George Howitt
- James Allen
- James Gilbert
- Jeffrey Simpson
- Jennifer Piscionere
- Josh Peek
- Katie Mack
- Kieran Leschinski
- Kirsten Gottschalk
- Lisa Ballard
- Madhura Killedar
- Nuria Lorente
- Pascal Elahi
- Rob Hollow
- Sarah Kendrew
- Simon Mutch
- Sze-leung Cheng
- Tamara Davis
- Tom Robitaille
- Vanessa Moss
- Yeshe Fenner
Links
- dotastronomy.com
- demitri/dotastro7dayzero: Day Zero tutorial materials