# .Astronomy Conference Archive -- Full Reference
# https://dotastronomy.com
# Last updated: 2026-05
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## Events

### .Astronomy 1 -- Cardiff, United Kingdom, 2008
Dates: 22–24 September 2008
Venue: Cardiff University Department of Physics and Astronomy
URL: https://dotastronomy.com/events/one/
Full data: https://dotastronomy.com/api/v1/events/one.json
Participants: 32 | Talks: 13 | Hacks: 0

### .Astronomy 2 -- Leiden, Netherlands, 2009
Dates: 30 November – 4 December 2009
Venue: Lorentz Centre, Leiden University
URL: https://dotastronomy.com/events/two/
Full data: https://dotastronomy.com/api/v1/events/two.json
Participants: 51 | Talks: 5 | Hacks: 2

### .Astronomy 3 -- Oxford, United Kingdom, 2011
Dates: 4–8 April 2011
Venue: New College, Oxford University
URL: https://dotastronomy.com/events/three/
Full data: https://dotastronomy.com/api/v1/events/three.json
Participants: 47 | Talks: 15 | Hacks: 2

### .Astronomy 4 -- Heidelberg, Germany, 2012
Dates: 9–11 July 2012
Venue: Haus der Astronomie and Internationales Wissenschaftsforum Heidelberg (IWH)
URL: https://dotastronomy.com/events/four/
Full data: https://dotastronomy.com/api/v1/events/four.json
Participants: 51 | Talks: 12 | Hacks: 7

### .Astronomy 5 -- Cambridge, MA, United States, 2013
Dates: 16–18 September 2013
Venue: New England Research and Development Center (NERD), Cambridge, Massachusetts
URL: https://dotastronomy.com/events/five/
Full data: https://dotastronomy.com/api/v1/events/five.json
Participants: 36 | Talks: 19 | Hacks: 3

### .Astronomy 6 -- Chicago, United States, 2014
Dates: 8–10 December 2014
Venue: Adler Planetarium, Chicago, Illinois
URL: https://dotastronomy.com/events/six/
Full data: https://dotastronomy.com/api/v1/events/six.json
Participants: 61 | Talks: 27 | Hacks: 9

### .Astronomy 7 -- Sydney, Australia, 2015
Dates: 3–6 November 2015
Venue: Justice and Police Museum, Sydney CBD
URL: https://dotastronomy.com/events/seven/
Full data: https://dotastronomy.com/api/v1/events/seven.json
Participants: 35 | Talks: 13 | Hacks: 9

### .Astronomy 8 -- Oxford, United Kingdom, 2016
Dates: 20–23 June 2016
Venue: Pembroke College, Oxford University
URL: https://dotastronomy.com/events/eight/
Full data: https://dotastronomy.com/api/v1/events/eight.json
Participants: 64 | Talks: 16 | Hacks: 18

### .Astronomy 9 -- Cape Town, South Africa, 2017
Dates: 14–17 November 2017
Venue: South African Astronomical Observatory, Cape Town
URL: https://dotastronomy.com/events/nine/
Full data: https://dotastronomy.com/api/v1/events/nine.json
Participants: 31 | Talks: 20 | Hacks: 8

### .Astronomy X -- Baltimore, United States, 2018
Dates: 24–27 September 2018
Venue: Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI), Baltimore, Maryland
URL: https://dotastronomy.com/events/ten/
Full data: https://dotastronomy.com/api/v1/events/ten.json
Participants: 36 | Talks: 27 | Hacks: 7

### .Astronomy 11 -- Toronto, Canada, 2019
Dates: 22–25 October 2019
Venue: Chestnut Residence and Conference Centre, 89 Chestnut St, Toronto
URL: https://dotastronomy.com/events/eleven/
Full data: https://dotastronomy.com/api/v1/events/eleven.json
Participants: 33 | Talks: 26 | Hacks: 1

### .Astronomy α -- Online, Online, 2020
Dates: 17, 19, and 26 August 2020
Venue: Online (synchronous parts ran 14:00–21:00 UTC)
URL: https://dotastronomy.com/events/alpha/
Full data: https://dotastronomy.com/api/v1/events/alpha.json
Participants: 31 | Talks: 3 | Hacks: 0

### .Astronomy 12 -- New York, United States, 2023
Dates: 2–6 October 2023
Venue: Flatiron Institute CCA, IDA and Math for America, New York
URL: https://dotastronomy.com/events/twelve/
Full data: https://dotastronomy.com/api/v1/events/twelve.json
Participants: 32 | Talks: 15 | Hacks: 4

### .Astronomy 13 -- Madrid, Spain, 2024
Dates: 23–26 April 2024
Venue: European Space Astronomy Centre (ESAC), near Madrid, Spain
URL: https://dotastronomy.com/events/thirteen/
Full data: https://dotastronomy.com/api/v1/events/thirteen.json
Participants: 20 | Talks: 12 | Hacks: 17

## Hacks
Total: 87

### .Astronomy 2 (2009)
- Chromoscope (Stuart Lowe, Robert Simpson, Chris North): A web-based tool to explore the sky across the electromagnetic spectrum, from gamma rays to radio wa [live: https://www.chromoscope.net]
- GLIMPSE Viewer (Eli Bressert): A viewer for the Spitzer GLIMPSE survey, showing the Milky Way in infrared. Demonstrated at .Astrono
### .Astronomy 3 (2011)
- Pluto the Previous Planet (Amanda Bauer): A song about Pluto's demotion from planetary status, performed by Amanda Bauer and collaborators at  [live: https://www.universetoday.com/articles/new-hit-single-pluto-the-previous-planet]
- Chromotone (Jon Yardley, Chris North, Haley Gomez, Edward Gomez): Exploring multiwavelength astronomy with sound. Each waveband has a pitch; the intensity/brightness  [source: https://github.com/jonyardley/Chromotone]
### .Astronomy 4 (2012)
- AstroScanr (Rob Simpson, Sarah Kendrew, Karen Masters): A visualisation of astronomy journal titles and abstracts using natural language processing techniqu [live: https://ttfnrob.github.io/astroscanr/]
- Astroworld (Carolina Odman-Govender): Collect information about astronomical facilities around the world, including old, abandoned observa [live: http://dotastronomy.com/blog/2012/08/astroworld-mapping-astronomical-facilities-worldwide/]
- Cosmology Calculator OS X Widget (Brooke Simmons, Stuart Lowe, Kevin Schawinski, Julie Steele): A port of Ned Wright's Cosmology Calculator to an OS X widget. [live: https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/dotastro/cosmocalc.zip]
- Flora (Amit Kapadia, Phil Marshall, Laura Whyte): An attempt to enable quantitative measurements on images in a browser, measuring the position, size, [live: http://ubret.s3.amazonaws.com/dotastro4/index.html#/examine/m101]
- Science: It's Universal (Amanda Bauer, Nicole Gugliucci): An outreach video about what science is and what it is like to be a scientist. [live: https://vimeo.com/45711303]
- Sh*t Scientists Say (Niall Deacon, Emily Rice, Kelle Cruz): A collection of what astronomers love, hate, and repeat. [live: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-AzxQeTaw4]
- Zoonibot (Adrian Price-Whelan, Chris Beaumont, Gabe Perez-Giz, Chris Lintott, David Hogg, Meg Schwamb): A "Planet Hunters butler" for the Zooniverse Talk platform, ready to automatically answer questions  [live: https://twitter.com/zoonibot/]
### .Astronomy 5 (2013)
- Don't Call Me Colin (Niall Deacon, Ruth Angus): The International Astronomical Union announced that extrasolar planets might get more interesting na [live: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFMoEpj-v7o]
- D3PO (Adrian Price-Whelan, Josh Peek, Chris Beaumont, Elisabeth Newton, Michelle Borkin): D3PO is designed to allow an astronomer, with no specialised data visualisation skills, to make an i [source: https://github.com/adrn/d3po] [live: http://www.d3po.org/]
- Python Client for the NASA ADS API (Andy Casey (remote simultaneous hack)): A Python module to interact with NASA's ADS that Doesn't Suck. [source: https://github.com/andycasey/ads]
### .Astronomy 6 (2014)
- AAS Job Viz (Vanessa Moss): A visualisation of the AAS job register using location to pin jobs on a map. Allows users to filter  [live: http://www.physics.usyd.edu.au/~vmoss/jobvis]
- Adler Zodiac Story (Lucianne Walkowicz): Online storytelling connecting the Chinese Zodiac to astronomy.
- Astronomer Bot (BotAstro) (Robert Simpson): A Twitter bot for astronomers. [source: https://github.com/ttfnrob/botastro/] [live: https://twitter.com/botastro]
- Cite Me Maybe (Andy Casey): See which articles were referenced in your "field" that a paper did not cite. [source: https://github.com/andycasey/cite-me-maybe]
- Elevate ApJ (James Davenport): Working to elevate the readability and design of astronomy journal articles. [source: https://github.com/jradavenport/elevate-apj]
- Kepler Song and Drum Machine (Ruth Angus): Making music from Kepler light curves.
- Rate My Institution (Laura Trouille): A way to honestly rate your place of academic work. [live: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1Y-i95JpvraKRWYegdfsUXnLuq-NMlPLdfbp7Wc0MO1Y/viewform?c=0&w=1]
- Tones and Drones: Sampling Stars (Sascha Ishikawa): Sonifying Kepler light curves to create music. [live: https://soundcloud.com/sascha-ishikawa/tones-drones-sampling-stars]
- Unclockify (Adrian Price-Whelan): Chrome extension to find and replace sexagesimal coordinates on Wikipedia.
### .Astronomy 7 (2015)
- Life Cycle of Astronomers (Jennifer Piscionere): Visualising astronomy career paths with D3.js. [source: https://github.com/jpiscionere/jpiscionere.github.io] [live: http://jpiscionere.github.io/Sequences_sunburst.html]
- Friendly Virtual Radio Interferometer (Cormac Purcell, Nuria Lorente, George Howitt, Andrew O'Brien, Demitri Muna): A friendly virtual radio interferometer.
- Literal Virtual Observatory (Aidan Hotan): Drive around telescope observatories in a Mad Max/gamer-style interactive visualisation.
- Pudding to the Max (Vanessa Moss): Catch up with the exploits of the Cosmic Pudding at .Astronomy through a Koalas-to-the-Max style int [source: http://github.com/rhobslein/tothemax] [live: http://t.co/QIj14OYPcK]
- Radio Yourself (Kirsten Gottschalk): Upload an image and see what you'd look like through a radio telescope. [source: http://github.com/kirstengottschalk/kirstengottschalk.github.io] [live: http://kirstengottschalk.github.io/]
- robo-ph (Tom Robitaille, Josh Peek, Katie Mack, Arna Karick): A podcast that reads astro-ph abstracts one by one. [source: https://github.com/astrofrog/robo-ph] [live: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/robo-ph/id1056099851?mt=2]
- Space Shark (James Gilbert, Simon Mutch, Dany Vohl, Pascal Elahi, Kieran Leschinski, Kirsten Gottschalk): An alt-az pointer to be used for education. [source: http://github.com/spaceshark]
- webcite (Becky Smethurst, Lisa Ballard, Demitri Muna): Takes an ADS bibliographic code and plots a geographical web of citations for that paper. Finds the  [source: https://github.com/rjsmethurst/webcites_flask] [live: http://webcites.herokuapp.com]
- What's Up? (Aaron Robotham): Updated Astroplan web app to help you plan observations. [live: http://whatsup.icrar.org]
### .Astronomy 8 (2016)
- .draft (Andy Casey): Automagically highlight LaTeX differences between GitHub drafts. [live: https://gentle-cove-44775.herokuapp.com/]
- StingRA: Simbad Quick-Look Chrome Extension (Hugh Osborn, Jonathan Fay): A Chrome extension that lets astronomers highlight an astronomical object and open a quick-look pop- [source: http://github.com/astrojonathan/StingRA] [live: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/stingra/jopoiaekgcofgjjlmcckfnafbjpedeim]
- Are You Still Talking? (Edward Gomez): Use a blink(1) light to control your speakers when chairing a session. A Python package that install [source: http://github.com/zemogle/session_chair]
- arxiv59 (Andy Casey): Twitter bot that posts papers which missed the top-of-the-arXiv deadline by about a second. [source: https://github.com/andycasey/arxiv59] [live: https://twitter.com/arxiv59]
- The ArXiv Mailer (Dan Foreman-Mackey): An app to modernise the formatting of the daily arXiv email. [source: https://github.com/dfm/ArXivMailer] [live: http://arxiv.dfm.io]
- AstroBadger (Matthew Kenworthy, Lisa Ballard): Getting you in the habit of writing 200 academic words per day, every day. Gamified writing! Chrome  [source: https://github.com/basilleaf/astrobadger]
- AstroGoldStars (Geert Barentsen, Kelle Cruz): Give a Gold Star to a fellow scientist by tweeting @username++ at @AstroGoldStars on Twitter. Solves [source: http://github.com/barentsen/AstroGoldStars] [live: https://twitter.com/AstroGoldStars]
- bvi-sonification (Coleman Krawczyk, Jamie Ferguson, Andy Newsam, Adam Avison, Philipp Plewa): Uses a Leap Motion device to allow a user to listen to a galaxy's spectra based on hand position. [source: https://github.com/jamieferguson94/bvi-sonification/tree/master]
- Fakespeare (Ruth Angus, Dan Foreman-Mackey): A LSTM neural network trained on the corpus of all Shakespeare plays that can generate hilarious and [source: https://github.com/RuthAngus/Fakespeare]
- Galaxy Zoo Maze (James Gilbert, Ricarda Beckman, Ellen Schallig, Becky Smethurst, Marten Veldthuis): Creates a responsive view of a Zooniverse subject and a QR code, then supports scanning and reacting [source: https://github.com/chrislintott/GZMaze] [live: http://gzmaze.herokuapp.com]
- GitNL (Brett Andrews, Brian Cherinka, Erik Tollerud): Run Git commands using normal English sentences parsed with Google's natural language processor. [source: http://github.com/eteq/gitnl]
- Hacks Collector (Erik Tollerud, Daina Bouquin, Tom Robitaille, Edward Gomez, Becky Smethurst, Arna Karick): A way to archive all hacks made at .Astronomy conferences. Each hack has a separate YAML file contai [source: http://github.com/dotastro/hacks-collector] [live: https://dotastro.github.io/hacks-collector/]
- Markov Papers (Benjamin Pope): Generates paper titles/abstracts with a Markov chain trained on real papers returned by any ADS sear [source: https://github.com/benjaminpope/markovpapers]
- Meta^4hack (Erik Tollerud, Daina Bouquin, Tom Robitaille): Metadata on a hack about metadata on hacks, the submission form for this hack list. [source: https://github.com/dotastro/hack-list-submission-app] [live: https://dotastronomy-hack-submitter.herokuapp.com]
- Project Apollo Stories (Arna Karick, Sam Vaughan): A Zooniverse Project to re-create incredible stories from the Apollo missions using selected images  [source: https://github.com/samvaughan/ApolloProject] [live: https://www.zooniverse.org/projects/projectapollo-dotastro8/project-apollo-stories]
- SIMBAD the Bot (Simon Murphy): Twitter bot that tweets a multi-wavelength animated GIF of a random SIMBAD object a few times a day. [source: https://github.com/simonmurphy/simbad-the-bot] [live: https://twitter.com/simbad_the_bot]
- Spacebar (Scott Thomas): Astronomy-themed mini-games where you only need the spacebar. Keep rain out of the dome while observ [source: http://github.com/swt30/spacebar] [live: http://ast.rono.me/files/spacebar]
- Stellar Autopsies Zooniverse (Adam A. Miller, Brigitta Sipocz, Ashley Villar): A Zooniverse Project to classify the light curves of dying stars. [source: https://github.com/bsipocz/stellar-autopsies] [live: https://www.zooniverse.org/projects/adamamiller/stellar-autopsies]
### .Astronomy 9 (2017)
- Hack Graveyard (Will Armentrout, Arna Karick, Lisa Ballard): .Astronomy is full of amazing pitches and hacks. Unfortunately, there are never enough hours in the  [source: https://github.com/WillArmentrout/dotAstroGraveyard] [live: https://willarmentrout.github.io/dotAstroGraveyard/]
- Hack Roulette (Lisa Ballard, Daina Bouquin, Steve Crawford): Spin the wheel to generate a new hack using past dotastro hacks. [source: https://github.com/dbouquin/hack_roulette]
- Project PHaEDRA Website and Logo (Charl Cater, Daina Bouquin): Rethinking and rough drafting a logo and website for Project PHaEDRA: a collaborative effort to digi
- Sketch dotAstro: Hunting for Jupiter Sketches in Archival Notebooks (Daina Bouquin, Chris Lintott, Teresa de Young): Attempting to use computer vision to distinguish between boring pages in archival notebooks and page [source: https://github.com/dbouquin/sketch_dotastro]
- Wave At Kepler (Ben Cook, Becky Smethurst): Static website to compute the direction to Kepler when it takes a photo, so you can wave at the righ [source: https://github.com/bacook17/hello-kepler] [live: waveatkepler.space]
- Where in the Universe? (Becky Smethurst, Brigitta Sipocz, Fernando Becerra, Lisa Ballard): Have you ever wondered where you'd be in the Universe if you were launched toward the zenith above y [source: https://github.com/bsipocz/where-in-the-universe] [live: https://where-in-the-universe.herokuapp.com/]
- Whose Line Is It Anyway? (Brett Morris, Nick Earl, Adrianna Pinska, Mike Walmsley, Demitri Muna, Becky Smethurst): A small package for plotting common spectral line lists on your spectra, so you can discover which a [source: https://github.com/bmorris3/whoseline-vis/] [live: dotastro.muna.net:8000/]
- xorastro: Extremely Open, Extremely Reproducible Astronomy (Joshua Peek, Orapeleng Mogawana, Brian Nord, Chris Lintott): Built a neural network to predict galaxy colors from galaxy shapes in the most open and reproducible [source: https://github.com/jegpeek/xorastro]
### .Astronomy X (2018)
- Contributor Plots for Astropy-Affiliated Packages (Matthew Bourque, Erik Tollerud): Visualisation tools showing contribution activity across the Astropy ecosystem of affiliated package [source: https://github.com/astropy/astropy-procedures/pull/96]
- Data Sonification (Clara Brasseur, Nuwanthika Fernando): Tools and techniques for converting astronomical data into sound.
- Specreduce (Erik Tollerud, collaborators): A spectral data reduction package for Astropy.
- Social Justice Reading Group Resource (Lauren Chambers, Brian Nord, collaborators): A curated resource to support astronomy departments running social justice and equity reading groups
- Interactive Research Explorer (C. Murray, collaborators): A public outreach tool for exploring research interactively. [source: https://github.com/cmurray-astro/dotastro_hack]
- .Astronomy X Scripts (David Rodriguez): Scripts and code developed at .Astronomy X. [source: https://github.com/dr-rodriguez/dotAstroX_scripts]
- .Astronomy X Resources (Victor Calderon): Repository for information and materials from .Astronomy X. [source: https://github.com/vcalderon2009/dotAstronomy_X]
### .Astronomy 11 (2019)
- Ru-stronomy (Becky Smethurst): A Markov chain generator trained on drag queen names, astronomical acronyms, RuPaul lyrics, and clic [source: {{ site.baseurl }}/assets/talks/eleven/Smethurst_Rustronomy_drag_queen_names.docx] [live: {{ site.baseurl }}/assets/talks/eleven/Smethurst_generate.py]
### .Astronomy 12 (2023)
- Contributing to Astropy (Elliott Molter): A session on how to contribute to the Astropy project. [source: https://github.com/emolter/dotAstro12-contribute-to-astropy]
- Snakemake and Show Your Work (Sam Vaughan): A tutorial session on reproducible workflows using Snakemake and the showyourwork framework. [source: https://github.com/samvaughan/dotastro-snakemake-showyourwork-session]
- Multi-Order Coverage (MOC) Hack (David Rodriguez): Working with Multi-Order Coverage maps for astronomical footprints in MAST. [source: https://github.com/dr-rodriguez/MOC_dotAstro12]
- dotAstro Demo (Lia Corrales): Demo materials from .Astronomy 12. [source: https://github.com/eblur/dotAstro-demo]
### .Astronomy 13 (2024)
- Promoting Bluesky to Astronomers (Emily Hunt (Heidelberg University)): A live feed project connected to the conference, promoting Bluesky as a social platform for astronom [source: https://github.com/emilyhunt/dotastronomy-live-feed]
- Website for Astronomy Illustrations (Agni Banerjee): A website for sharing and discovering astronomy illustrations.
- DumBot (Yago Ascasibar): A bot project from .Astronomy 13.
- Galaxy Sonification (+ VR maybe) (Coleman Krawczyk): Converting astronomical data about galaxies into sound, with a possible VR component.
- Datacube Listener, Live! (James Trayford): Live listening to astronomical datacubes.
- dotAstronomy13 Soundtrack (Jose A. Caballero): Creating a musical soundtrack for the conference.
- Astronomy as a Great Tool to Have Impact on Humans in 21st Century (Shahrzad Mirsoltani): Exploring astronomy as a tool for broader human impact in the 21st century.
- Astrotalks: ArXiV for Presentations (David Hendriks): A platform for sharing and discovering astronomy presentations, inspired by arXiv.
- Make a Search Bar (Mike Walmsley): Building a search bar for astronomical data.
- AstroCollab (Zoe Faes): A collaboration tool for astronomers.
- Set up JDaviz Example Notebooks on Datalabs (Clare Shanahan): Creating example notebooks using JDaviz on the ESA Datalabs platform.
- So You Want to Be an Astropy Contributor? (Iva Momcheva): A session on getting started with contributing to the Astropy project.
- Redo the Software Use in Astro Survey (Iva Momcheva): Updating a survey of software usage in the astronomy community.
- Getting Started with ML in Astronomy (Sandor Kruk): An introductory session on machine learning for astronomers.
- Adding to the ESASky Virtual Assistant (Debbie Baines): Extending the ESASky virtual assistant with new capabilities.
- Astro Careers, Networks, Publication Stats (Iva Momcheva): Exploring astronomy career networks and publication statistics.
- How to Tailor Outreach Projects for Marginalised Communities (Thendy Nomthendeleko Motha): Exploring approaches for tailoring astronomy outreach to marginalised communities.

## Talks
Total: 223

### .Astronomy 1 (2008)
- Joshua Bloom (UC Berkeley): PAIRITEL and robotic telescope networks
- Will Gater (Sky at Night Magazine): Astronomy journalism and new media
- Pamela Gay (Astronomy Cast / Star Stryder): Podcasting astronomy
- Edward Gomez (Las Cumbres Observatory / Cardiff University)
- Andy Lawrence (Royal Observatory Edinburgh / AstroGRID)
- Chris Lintott (Galaxy Zoo / The Sky at Night): Galaxy Zoo and citizen science
- Stuart Lowe (The Jodcast / Astronomy Blog)
- Nick Rattenbury (The Jodcast)
- Ian Robson (IYA 2009): The International Year of Astronomy
- Paul Roche (Faulkes Telescope Project): The Faulkes Telescope Project
- Phil Plait (Bad Astronomy): Astronomy blogging
- Emily Lakdawalla (The Planetary Society): Public access to open imagery from the Solar System
- Carol Christian: and **Alberto Conti** (STScI): Google Sky
### .Astronomy 2 (2009)
- Dr. Michael Nielsen (author of *Reinventing Discovery*): Open science and networked collaboration
- Dr. Arfon Smith (Oxford University)
- Dr. John Taylor (Google)
- Prof. Andy Lawrence (Edinburgh University)
- Nancy Atkinson (Universe Today / 365 Days of Astronomy): The 365 Days of Astronomy podcast
### .Astronomy 3 (2011)
- Jill Tarter (SETI Institute): invited keynote (09:30--10:30)
- Ed Gomez (LCOGT): talk (11:00--11:20)
- Mike Peel (Wikimedia UK): talk (11:20--11:30)
- Matt Wood (AWS): talk (11:40--12:00)
- Chris Lintott (Oxford University): talk (12:00--12:20)
- Tom Robitaille (Harvard-Smithsonian CfA): talk (09:30)
- Thomas Boch (CDS, Observatoire de Strasbourg): talk (09:30)
- Jonathan Fay (Microsoft Research): talk (11:00--11:40)
- Rob Simpson (Oxford University): talk
- Cameron Neylon (STFC): talk
- David Hogg (New York University): talk (09:30 onwards)
- Francisco Sanchez-Moreno (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid): talk
- Geert Barentsen (Armagh Observatory): talk
- Matthew Graham (Caltech): talk
- Pamela Gay (SIUE): talk
### .Astronomy 4 (2012)
- Kevin Govender (IAU Office for Astronomy Development): Astronomy for a Better World
- Markus Poessel (Haus der Astronomie): Haus der Astronomie
- Amit Kapadia (Adler Planetarium): AstroJS: Javascript for Astronomy
- August Muench (Harvard CfA): Astronomy Dataverse
- Thomas Robitaille (MPIA Heidelberg): Astro Python
- Bruce Berriman (IPAC / Caltech): Astronomy in the Cloud
- Thomas Kitching (University of Edinburgh): Astronomy Crowdsourcing
- Michelle Borkin (Harvard): Mechanical Turk, Visualisation and 'Glue'
- Julie Steele (O'Reilly Media): and **Noah Iliinsky** (Consultant/Author): *How to be a Data Visualisation Star*
- Kelle Cruz (CUNY): AstroBetter
- Alberto Pepe (Harvard CfA): Data Mining and ADS
- Alyssa Goodman (Harvard CfA): Seamless Astronomy
### .Astronomy 5 (2013)
- Stuart Lynn (Zooniverse): A Smarter Zooniverse
- Elisabeth Newton (Harvard): Astronomy Blogging and Astrobites
- Curtis Wong (Microsoft Research): Outreach and Learning with Astronomy Data Visualization
- David Hogg (NYU): Crowdsourcing a High Dynamic-Range Image of the Entire Night Sky
- Alberto Accomazzi (SAO): The dotAstrophysics Data System
- Laura Trouille (Adler Planetarium / Northwestern): An Experiment in Supporting the Public in Research
- Amy Robinson (EyeWire): EyeWire
- Amanda Bauer (Australian Astronomical Observatory): Communication Strategies: How to Organize a Party in Space
- Tony Hey (Microsoft Research): The Fourth Paradigm: Data-Intensive Scientific Discovery
- : Speaking up for diversity and equality
- : AstroQuery: web tool for querying catalogs
- : Outreach in public settings and measuring impact
- : How to build a killer astronomy show with WWT
- : Massively Open Online Courses (MOOCs)
- : Share the Love: a better system for credit in astronomy
- : Connecting popular literature to the astro literature
- : The future of astronomy figures in the literature
- : Transitioning into industry from the ivory tower
- : Indexing all the measurements in the literature
### .Astronomy 6 (2014)
- Arfon Smith (GitHub): GitHub for Science
- Erin Braswell (Center for Open Science): The Open Science Framework
- Dustin Lang (Carnegie Mellon University): Astrometry.net
- Alberto Pepe (Authorea): Authorea: Collaborative Scientific Writing
- Stefano Meschiari (UT Austin): Super Planet Crash
- Laura Whyte (Adler Planetarium): Engaging Young People with Astronomy and Tech
- Adam Becker (Freelance): How to Destroy Science Publishing
- Geert Barentsen (University of Hertfordshire): There Is No Data Deluge
- Emily Rice: and **Demitri Muna**: *Astronomy on Tap*
- Grace Wolf-Chase (Adler Planetarium): Yellow Balls in the Milky Way Project
- Emily Rice: STARtorialist
- Reed Riddle (Caltech): Robo-AO
- Ali Swanson (University of Oxford): Snapshot Serengeti
- Elisabeth Newton (Harvard): ComSciCon
- Eric Hilton: Universe Sandbox
- Hanno Rein (University of Toronto): Open Exoplanet Catalogue
- Ivelina Momcheva (Yale University): 3D-HST
- Jesse Rogerson (York University): Online Astronomy Radio
- Meredith Rawls (New Mexico State University): Astrobites
- Andy Casey (University of Cambridge): Metrics for Code
- Robert Nemiroff (Michigan Technological University): APOD Wall
- Angelle Tanner (MSU): STARCHIVE: an open access stellar archive
- Lucianne Walkowicz (Adler Planetarium): Science Train
- Alice Allen (Astrophysics Source Code Library): ASCL
- Alyssa Goodman (Harvard University): WWT
- Chris Lintott (University of Oxford): Threshold Fear
- Vladimir Sudilovsky (NASA/ADS): ADS Services
### .Astronomy 7 (2015)
- 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
- 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
- Sarah Kendrew: Giant Telescopes of the Future
### .Astronomy 8 (2016)
- Sarah Kendrew (ESA, STScI): JWST and Astronomy -- bringing JWST into the 21st century with better community tools
- Bruno Merin (ESA): ESASky -- a multi-mission interface
- Carl Ferkinhoff (Winona State University): Open Source Hardware in Astronomy
- Ali Swanson (Oxford / Zooniverse): Citizen Science with the Zooniverse
- James Gilbert (Oxford): Gaffa tape and string: professional hardware hacking
- Geert Barentsen (NASA Ames): Open Science with K2
- Aleks Scholz (University of St Andrews): #foundthem
- Ashley Villar (Harvard): astrobites.org
- Edward Gomez (Las Cumbres Observatory): There is no such thing as a stupid question
- Coleman Krawczyk (University of Portsmouth): Astronomy projects for the blind and visually impaired
- Matthew Graham (Caltech/NOAO): NOAO Data Lab
- Justyn Campbell-White (University of Kent): Classifying Stellar Bubbles
- Adam Avison (ALMA): The Pynterferometer
- William Roby (Caltech): A short history of JavaScript
- Edward Gomez (Las Cumbres Observatory): Asteroid Day -- June 30th, 2016
- Aleks Scholz: WETI: The Wait for Extraterrestrial Intelligence!
### .Astronomy 9 (2017)
- Bradley Frank (University of Cape Town): Jupyter Notebooks for Radio Astronomy on the Cloud
- Amanda Bauer (LSST): LSST: Education and Public Outreach
- Bruce Bassett (UCT/SAAO/AIMS): Threads of a Future Research 3.0
- Arna Karick (Tech Savvy Astronomer): Getting the most out of hack day: Lessons learned from hacking for humanity
- Wanda Diaz Merced (IAU Office of Astronomy for Development): Is the use of multimodal perception a real possibility for Astronomy research, education and outreac
- Brian Nord (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory): The role of narrative in the culture and practice of science
- Chris Lintott (Oxford University)
- Temba Matomela (Iziko Planetarium, South Africa): The AmaXhosa understanding of the night sky
- Susan Murabana (Travelling Telescope Africa, Kenya): The Travelling Telescope
- Lisa Ballard (SETI Institute, USA): Postcards from the Outer Planets
- Fernando Becerra (Harvard University): Astrollytelling: Astronomy through visual stories
- Charl Cater (Cape Town Creative Academy): Information design, animation, data visualisation
- Ben Cook (Harvard University, PhD): Galaxy photometry modelling, HPC, machine learning, science outreach
- Nicholas Earl (STScI): Science software for JWST; circumgalactic medium research
- Kevin Govender (IAU Office of Astronomy for Development): Astronomy for development in Africa
- Brett Morris (University of Washington): Astropy affiliated package astroplan; stellar activity and exoplanets
- Brian Nord (Fermilab/UChicago): AI applications in cosmology; science communication workshops
- Josh Peek (STScI): Project Scientist, Data Science Mission Office; ISM and MAST
- Brigitta Sipocz: Astropy Project; exoplanets, low mass stars, asteroids
- Becky Smethurst (University of Nottingham): Galaxy quenching and AGN feedback; YouTube science communicator
### .Astronomy X (2018)
- 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)
- Invited talks:
- James Howison (invited): Software makes science better, but is it research? Arguments for a research agenda in scientific sof
- 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):
- 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:
### .Astronomy 11 (2019)
- Rob Simpson:: How to get the most from .Astronomy
- Suresh Sivanandam (invited): Data-Driven Approaches for Astronomical Adaptive Optics
- Alyssa Goodman:: Enhancing our appreciation for high-dimensional data
- Nathaniel Starkman:: Plot all the things
- Mike Reid:: Astronomy outreach at scale
- David Neto:: Astronomy tricks of a magician   PDF
- Tina Peters:: Learn from machine learning: PLAsTiCC
- Demitri Muna:: Accessing Heterogeneous Data   PDF
- Kartheik Iyer:: What can we learn from the SEDs of galaxies?   PDF
- Katharina Lutz:: Write a paper in one Jupyter notebook   PDF
- Becky Smethurst:: Engaging astronomers in the era of clickbait
- Erik Tollerud:: The Astropy community   Files
- Tina Peters:: Learn from machine learning: PLAsTiCC   PDF
- Coleman Krawczyk:: Zooniverse overview   PDF
- Coleman Krawczyk:: Workshop: Building a Zooniverse Project   PDF
- Kelly Lepo:: Editing Wikipedia   PPTX
- Mike Reid:: Astronomy outreach at scale   PDF
- Brittany Kamai (invited): Designing the Future of Gravitational Wave Detectors
- Nicole Cabrera Salazar (invited): The Incredible Wholeness of Being
- Cassandra Mangroo (invited): BenchSci
- Hilding Neilson:: Integrating Indigenous Knowledge and Astronomy   PDF
- Mubdi Rahman:: Gaussian Process Regression
- Bridget Falck:: A crash course in philosophy of science for astrophysicists   PDF
- Jessie Christiansen (invited): Inreach vs Outreach
- Leah Fulmer:: Networking in astronomy
- Lauren Corlies:: Outreach to Non-Astronomers   PDF
### .Astronomy α (2020)
- 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)
### .Astronomy 12 (2023)
- Lia Corrales:: Version control with Git and GitHub
- Andy Tzanidakis:: Intro to Astronomy Outreach
- Dan Foreman-Mackey:: How to Release Your Code
- Brett Morris:: Interactive Data Visualisation and Analysis with Jdaviz
- Emily Hunt:: Everything about Bluesky
- : How to Unconference (facilitated session)
- Steven Crawford (NASA): NASA Open Science (45m)
- Natalie Gosnell:: Art and Science: Choices (45m)
- Caprice Phillips:: Black in Astro (45m)
- Unconference sessions:
- Jackie Faherty:: Open Space (45m)
- Brett:: Contributing to Astropy
- Lia:: How to stay informed on latest code, tools and trends
- Benjamin:: Spectroscopy software ecosystem
- Unconference sessions:: Three parallel sessions (A, B, C)
### .Astronomy 13 (2024)
- : Introduction to Foundation models for computer vision in Astronomy
- : Introduction to Data Visualisation in Astronomy with Plotly
- : Introduction to Large Language Models in Astronomy
- : Introduction to Sonification for Discovery, Education and Accessibility
- : Introduction to Publishing Open Source Software
- : Introduction to James Webb Space Telescope tools and proposal system
- : Introduction to ESASky
- : Introduction to ESA Datalabs
- Anca Anghelea (ESA): Keynote 1
- Ivelina Momcheva: Keynote 2
- Peter Coles: Keynote 3
- Alexander Nolte: Keynote 4 (Day 3)