Category Archives: user communities

Videos From the 2014 Sagan Summer Workshop On-line

Posted on August 14, 2014 by astrocompute

The NASA Exoplanet Science Center (NEXScI) hosts the Sagan Workshops, annual themed conferences aimed at introducing the latest techniques in exoplanet astronomy to young researchers. The workshops emphasize interaction with data, and include hands-on sessions where participants use their laptops … Continue reading →

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SciPy2014 videos on-line

Posted on August 7, 2014 by astrocompute

This year’s annual Scientific Computing with Python conference, SciPy2014, was held in Austin ,TX, July 6-12 2014.  This conference “… allows participants from academic, commercial, and governmental organizations to showcase their latest Scientific Python projects, learn from skilled users and developers, … Continue reading →

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The One-Degree Imager – Portal, Pipeline and Archive (ODI-PPA)

Posted on July 11, 2014 by astrocompute

This is the title of a fine presentation given by Arvind Gopu at the SPIE Meeting in Montreal, Canada on June 22nd.   The One-Degree Imager (ODI) is installed in the WIYN 3,5m telescope at Kitt Peak (Tucson, AZ). It … Continue reading →

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Citizen Science and the Modern Web – Talk by Amit Kapadia.

Posted on March 17, 2014 by astrocompute

Amit Kapadia gave this excellent talk at CERN on Citizen Science and The Modern Web.  From Amit’s abstract: “Beginning as a research project to help scientists communicate, the Web has transformed into a ubiquitous medium. As the sciences continue to … Continue reading →

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A Quick Guide To Software Licensing for the Scientist Programmer.

Posted on February 25, 2014 by astrocompute

I have already written about software licensing a few weeks ago. This week, I want to write about about a paper by Morin, Urban and Sliz, who wrote a primer on software licensing, with the goal of helping scientists engage … Continue reading →

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Licensing Your Code: GPL, BSD and Edvard Munch’s “The Scream”

Posted on January 17, 2014 by astrocompute

I have for some time considered changing to a more permissive license (with Caltech’s approval) for the Montage image mosaic engine, as the the current license forbids modification and redistribution of the code. My first attempt at navigating the many … Continue reading →

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Amazon Web Services and the Square Kilometer Array

Posted on January 13, 2014 by astrocompute

This week,  I report on what I think is a creative way to use cloud computing to support the development and preconstruction of the Square Kilometer Array (SKA). The work is reported as an Amazon Web Services case study. The … Continue reading →

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Astroinformatics 2013 – Day One Morning, December 9

Posted on December 8, 2013 by astrocompute

I am in Marsfield, near Sydney, Australia for the Astroinformatics 2013 meeting, hosted  by CSIRO. This annual meeting discusses advances in data processing, manipulation and management – crucial topics in modern astronomy given the acceleration in the growth of data … Continue reading →

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Workshop on Sustainable Software for Science: Practice and Experiences

Posted on December 3, 2013 by astrocompute

This workshop was held on Sunday, November 17, 2013 as part of Supercomputing 2013. Some 60 people attended, although I am sorry to say I don’t think astronomy was well represented. The aim of the workshop was to discuss challenges … Continue reading →

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Exoplanet Content in the Keck Observatory Archive

Posted on November 16, 2013 by astrocompute

Following on from last week’s post about the Second Kepler Science Conference, the Keck Observatory Archive (KOA) is a growing resource for exoplanet science. The poster shown at the end of this post was presented at the Kepler Conference describes … Continue reading →

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