Online
DotDotAstro (also known as .Astronomy alpha) was the first fully online edition of the .Astronomy conference. Amazingly, this had been planned before the COVID-19 pandemic as an experiment in what a truly online conference could be, though the pandemic made it all the more relevant. The conference ran over three non-consecutive days in August 2020 to reduce barriers to participation. It was open to a maximum of around 75 participants to preserve the small-group feel of a normal .Astronomy. The synchronous parts ran from 14:00–21:00 UTC to accommodate participants across time zones. The conference especially welcomed participation from those who had been unable to join in-person .Astronomy events in the past, whether due to family commitments, funding constraints, or reduced travel for environmental reasons.
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Organisers
- Sarah Kendrew (ESA/STScI)
- Chris Lintott (University of Oxford)
- Robert Simpson (Google)
- Becky Smethurst (University of Oxford)
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Talks
The conference featured talks recorded and edited in advance, plus live unconference sessions and a hack day, all adapted for the online format. Known speakers:
- Brett Morris (University of Bern): talk (topic to be confirmed)
- Leo Burtscher (Leiden Observatory): talk (topic to be confirmed)
- Sarah Kendrew (ESO): talk (topic to be confirmed)
The event ran across three non-consecutive days (17, 19 and 26 August 2020), 14:00–21:00 UTC each day.
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Links
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Participants
41 participants attended .Astronomy alpha, August 2020. 29 are confirmed below; the remaining 12 are not yet recorded.
- Alex Gagliano (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
- Angela Tanner (Mississippi State University)
- Ania Kapuscinska (Thought Machine / Open University)
- Becky Smethurst (University of Oxford)
- Brett Morris (University of Bern)
- Chris Lintott (University of Oxford)
- Cliff Johnson (Zooniverse / Northwestern University)
- Danielle Rowland (American Museum of Natural History)
- Devontae Baxter (University of California, Irvine)
- Emily Hunt (Landessternwarte Heidelberg)
- Gabriele Cepparulo (University of Manchester)
- Heidi Thiemann (Open University)
- Joanna Barstow (The Open University)
- Joseph Ribaudo (Providence College)
- Juanjo Bazan (Independent)
- Justyn Campbell-White (University of Dundee)
- Leo Burtscher (Leiden Observatory)
- Matt Brealey (Developer)
- Meg Schwamb (Queen's University Belfast)
- Nina Cameron (Glasgow Science Centre)
- Raquel Yumi Shida (ESO / IAU / ESA)
- Robert Simpson (Google)
- Samuel Pearson (University of St Andrews)
- Sarah Kendrew (ESO)
- Shreyas Bapat (IIT Mandi)
- Stefania Amodeo (Cornell University)
- Tamara Civera (CEFCA)
- Timothy Gebhard (CEFCA)
- Tomas Muller (University of Southampton)
- Wilhelmina Nekoto (HTW-Berlin)
- Yan Grange (ASTRON)