Baltimore, MD, USA
The tenth edition of .Astronomy, held at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore -- science operations centre for the Hubble Space Telescope and James Webb Space Telescope. The Roman numeral X made for a fittingly memorable name. Organised jointly by STScI staff and the .Astronomy Brain Trust.
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Organisers
- Sarah Kendrew (ESA)
- Arfon Smith (STScI)
- Erik Tollerud (STScI)
- Joshua Peek (STScI)
- Ivelina Momcheva (STScI)
- Tom Donaldson (STScI)
- Susan Kassin (STScI)
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Talks
Day 0 – Monday 24 September (Bachall Auditorium, STScI)
Tutorials and workshops running in parallel across three rooms:
- Sarah Kendrew: Ten Years of .Astronomy (plenary)
- Jane Rigby: The Future of NASA Astrophysics Missions (plenary)
- Erik Tollerud: Intro to open source, Astropy, and open development; Python packaging
- Clara Brasseur and Tom Donaldson: Making use of MAST (Mikulski Archive for Space Telescopes)
- Matthew Bourque and Jules Fowler: Git(Hub) 401
- Azalee Bostroem and Lauren Chambers: Git(Hub) 101
- Clara Brasseur and Steve Crawford: Kicking the tires: Astropy and Astroquery
- Jamie Kinney: Introduction to Google Cloud
- Jules Fowler and Matthew Bourque: Flask
- Frank Summers: Cinematic Astronomy (plenary close)
Day 1 – Tuesday 25 September
Invited talks:
- James Howison (invited): Software makes science better, but is it research? Arguments for a research agenda in scientific software work
- Alcione Mora (invited): Gaia: science, data and challenges
Contributed talks:
- Stephanie Juneau: Galaxy Evolution at the crossroad of Astronomy and Data Science
- Ayat Mohammed: Visualize This: Lessons from the front-lines of high-performance visualisation
- Lauren Chambers: A Different Kind of Dark Energy: Placing Race and Gender in Physics
- Brian Nord: Ethics in AI: What does the future hold for science, work, privacy, justice?
Unconference sessions (3 parallel tracks):
Session 1:
- Bokeh 101 [David R] – notes
- Make Astro People Believe Social Scientists [Azalee] – notes
- What Can Google Do for Astronomers [Rob S] – notes
Session 2:
- Deep Learning with Kepler [Jonathan F] – notes
- NOAO Data Lab: Tutorials and Demos [S. Juneau] – notes
- More Discussion about Credit for Software [Chris L] – notes
Session 3:
- Cloud Compute 101 [Iva M] – notes
- Multi-Dimensional Data-Viz with Glue [Catherine Z] – notes
- Thinking More About Race/Gender in Physics [Lauren C] – notes
Day 3 – Thursday 27 September
Invited talks:
- Andrew Connolly (invited): Back to the Future: a decade of LSST development and the growth in machine learning
- Jarita Holbrook (invited): Educating Astrophysicists in South Africa
- Sarah Hörst (invited): The Role of Laboratory Work in Space Science
Contributed talks:
- Dara Norman: Can Big Data Lead an Inclusion Revolution?
- Craig Jones: Hubble Image Discovery using Transfer Learning
Unconference sessions:
- Techniques and Tools for Maintaining Mental Health [Bridget]
- What Should Journals do with Jupyter Notebooks? [Chris L]
- Inclusiveness Statistics [Geert]
- How do We Build a Culture, Software and Data Astro Discovery Engine? [Josh]
- Q&A on Astro to Tech Careers
- Reproducibility in Astronomy: How are we Doing? [Erik]
- Auto ML 101 [Iva]
- Which Viz Tools to Use to Explore Images and Catalogues [Stephanie]
- What Are Interesting Astro Compute Problems Other than Big Scale Simulation? [Jules]
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Hacks
Visualisation tools showing contribution activity across the Astropy ecosystem of affiliated packages.
Tools and techniques for converting astronomical data into sound.
A spectral data reduction package for Astropy.
A curated resource to support astronomy departments running social justice and equity reading groups.
A public outreach tool for exploring research interactively.
Repository for information and materials from .Astronomy X.
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Participants
Known attendees at .Astronomy X, Baltimore:
- Sarah Kendrew
- Arfon Smith
- Erik Tollerud
- Joshua Peek
- Ivelina Momcheva
- Tom Donaldson
- Susan Kassin
- Jane Rigby
- Frank Summers
- Clara Brasseur
- Steve Crawford
- Matthew Bourque
- Jules Fowler
- Azalee Bostroem
- Lauren Chambers
- Jamie Kinney
- James Howison
- Stephanie Juneau
- Ayat Mohammed
- Brian Nord
- Alcione Mora
- Rob Simpson (Google)
- Alasdair Allan
- Carolina Odman-Govender
- Chris Lintott (Oxford University)
- Demitri Muna
- Nuwanthika Fernando
- Andrew Connolly
- Dara Norman
- Craig Jones
- Jarita Holbrook
- Sarah Hörst
- David Rodriguez
- Victor Calderon
- Geert Barentsen
- Catherine Zucker
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Links
- dotastronomy.com
- Full schedule (XLSX)
- vcalderon2009/dotAstronomy_X: .Astronomy X resources repository
- cmurray-astro/dotastro_hack: outreach hack
- dr-rodriguez/dotAstroX_scripts: scripts from .Astronomy X