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Astronomical Information Technology at the University of Groningen
Goals
Phase1:
- 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 2016/02: Gert Sikkema (consultants: Hugo Buddelmeijer, Gijs/Edwin)
- Audience: Any Kapteyner, 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/ )
- Subjects provided by participants, GS +consultants ensure a full schedule
Meeting Schedule
Tentative schedule: every second Tuesday of the month in ZG257 at 15:00.
First meeting Thursday 9th of June at 13:30
- June 9nd :
- Maarten Breddels Gaia vizualization
- Giorgos Vernardos mySQL
- July or later?:
- Giorgos Vernardos mySQL
- Astro: Gert Sikkema ASTROWISE Data lineage/IC correction/Satellite example
Possible Speakers
| who | what | status | info | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gert Sikkema | Optical Astronomy: Satellite Detection | confirmed, May 3rd ? | ||
| Aku Venhola | ||||
| Enrico Petrillo | GVK:neural networks | |||
| Giorgos Vernardos | strong-lensing compute | |||
| Giorgos Vernardos | Data management: MySQL databases | confirmed | ||
| Maarten Breddels | Visualization / Analysis: VaeX Gaia visualization | https://github.com/maartenbreddels/vaex | ||
| Andrey Tsyganov | Euclid databasing | after summer? | ||
| Davide Punzo | 3D / radio visualization | |||
| EoR technical PhDs/postdocs | ask Ger de Bruyn | |||
| Jos Roerdink's visualization group | ask Hugo | |||
| Bob / Fokke ? | How to use peregrine / grid ? | |||
| Software Carpentry: Version Control | ||||
| Software Carpentry: (unit) testing | ||||
| Astronomical data formats | (see FITS discussions) | |||
| Long term data sustainability | E.g. through Vizier | |||
| Martin Vogelaar? | New software at Kapteyn? | |||
| Maarten Breddels? | Jupyter, GVK: Gaia visualization also | |||
| Johan Hidding? | New programming languages? | |||
| Johan Hidding? | SCAM - Schemes for Artistic Model rendering | http://www.astro.rug.nl/~hidding/progs.html | ||
| Benne Holwerda? | Galaxy Zoo / Citizen Science | |||
| Scott Trager? | Bayesian Inference in Astronomy | |||
| ALL | Upcoming or past Meetings like May ADA8@Crete ; October AstroInformatics@Sorrento, etc. | |||
| ALL | Discuss books like “Statistics, Data Mining, and Machine Learning in Astronomy | |||
| ALL | Discuss relevant new papers | |||
| ALL | Technology-based proposals, like DTEC @NLeSC | |||
| GVK: OmegaCEN group | ||||
| GVK: Apertif group | ||||
| WEAVE (Scott), visualization | ||||
| Apertif (Verheijen), id | ||||
| FOREMOST (Scott) | ||||
| LOFAR (Ger de Bruijn) | ||||
| GAIA (Amina) |
