.Astronomy 6

Chicago, United States

8–10 December 2014 Adler Planetarium, Chicago, Illinois

The sixth .Astronomy conference was held at the Adler Planetarium in Chicago, the first modern planetarium in the Western Hemisphere, founded in 1930. This was a particularly significant edition: it included visitors from non-astronomy fields, supported by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, to observe and potentially replicate the .Astronomy format in their own disciplines. The event also marked a strong upward trend in diversity, building on discussions from .Astronomy 5. The Adler had established an astronomy research group and a citizen science department, making it an ideal host.

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Organisers

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Talks

Invited Talks

Lightning Talks

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Hacks

Vanessa Moss

A visualisation of the AAS job register using location to pin jobs on a map. Allows users to filter jobs by type and location, using the Leaflet.js JavaScript library.

Adler Zodiac Story
Lucianne Walkowicz

Online storytelling connecting the Chinese Zodiac to astronomy.

Robert Simpson

A Twitter bot for astronomers.

Andy Casey

See which articles were referenced in your "field" that a paper did not cite.

James Davenport

Working to elevate the readability and design of astronomy journal articles.

Kepler Song and Drum Machine
Ruth Angus

Making music from Kepler light curves.

Laura Trouille

A way to honestly rate your place of academic work.

Sascha Ishikawa

Sonifying Kepler light curves to create music.

Unclockify
Adrian Price-Whelan

Chrome extension to find and replace sexagesimal coordinates on Wikipedia.

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Participants

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