Astronomical Information Technology at the University of Groningen

Goals

Create an Astronomical Information Technology community at the University of Groningen.

Hold regular (~once a month) meetings about AIT.

Make groups mutually aware of existing expertise, main challenges and things they can get from each other

Discuss/HOWTO solve software problems

Info / Plan

Organizers 2016/06: Gert Sikkema (consultants: you?, Hugo Buddelmeijer, Gijs Verdoes / Edwin Valentijn)

Audience: open to all Kapteyners: students, promovendi, postdocs, staff

Nature of the meetings: two speakers, one talk about a specific astronomical problem solved through information technology, and one talk more about software carpentry tailored for astronomy.

Astroinformatics: how to write astronomical software importance of versioning, sql etc. (BUZZWORD: SOFTWARE CARPENTRY. see http://software-carpentry.org/ )

Input for topics is very much welcomed.

Meeting Schedule

Tentative schedule: every second Tuesday of the month in ZG257a at 13:30. First meeting Thursday 9th of June at 13:30

June 9nd :

Maarten Breddels Gaia vizualization

PDF Presentation: Vaex PDF Presentation

Weblinks to the software and documentation: http://www.astro.rug.nl/~breddels/vaex/ , http://www.github.com/maartenbreddels/vaex

Second meeting Tuesday 13th of December at 13:30

December 13th : Enrico Petrillo: An Introduction to Convolutional Neural Networks

ABSTRACT

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) are revolutionizing the Artificial Intelligence field with their unprecedented ability to learn complex tasks which challenge human abilities.In this talk I will introduce the basics of CNNs and show some of the most exciting applications in Astronomy and in our daily life.

Later (fixed monthly slot decided soon):

Giorgos Vernardos mySQL

Astro: Gert Sikkema ASTROWISE Data lineage/IC correction/Satellite example