It’s that time of year again. The 229th Meeting of the American Astronomical Society is nearly upon us. To make the most of your time at the meeting, we at AstroBetter would like to remind you of some resources available on the Wiki.
First, the post that everyone attending a winter AAS meeting should read (even if you’re not a first-timer), Jason Wright’s guide to Getting the Most Out of AAS Meetings. This resource is especially useful for students attending their first AAS meeting!
Jason has updated this post with specific sections regarding harassment and the wonderful Astronomy Allies program. ALL ATTENDEES need to familiarize themselves with the AAS Anti-Harassment Policy. AAS Meetings are meetings of professional astronomers (not a nightclub) and we should all behave as such.
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Category: astro community, conferences Tags: AAS, AAS229, community, conferences
by Guest on December 9, 2016
Abigail Stevens is an astronomy PhD candidate at the Anton Pannekoek Institute, University of Amsterdam. Her research is on spectral-timing analysis of X-ray binaries. Meg Schwamb is an assistant scientist at Gemini Observatory, Northern Operations Center.
Register now for Hack Together Day at AAS 229 on January 7th! Hack Together Day is a day to to get together and design a doable project and attempt to fully execute it in one day. Or at least go down trying. Often, a Hack Day is a starting point for continuing collaboration on a project. Come with a project or just come hear the proposed hacks and then join a project. A wide variety of projects will be undertaken, spanning everything from software development to scientific research to creative outreach projects. You could come with a paper idea, a tool you want to learn, an outreach idea, or an astronomy-themed dress you want to make out of fabric posters. Hack day or programming experience is not required; newcomers are extremely welcome! We do ask that you commit the entire day to hacking, especially if this is your first hack day. [Read more...]
Category: astro community, conferences, programming Tags: AAS229, conferences, hackday
by Guest on September 27, 2016
Azalee Bostroem (@astro_az) is a graduate student in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of California, Davis.
Do you find yourself reading code in Python, sometimes attempting to update it, and all the time wishing you had been taught some Python in undergrad or graduate school? As astronomers we find ourselves frequently reading, updating, and writing code without any formal training. Most of us are self-taught and as a result haven’t learned many tools that would make our job (and/or thesis) faster and easier. We are offering an abbreviated Software Carpentry Workshop at the AAS 229 Meeting aimed at beginner programmers from any career stage (undergraduate to professor, researcher, industry expert…). [Read more...]
Category: conferences, programming, python, workshops Tags: AAS229, conferences, programming, python, workshops
by Guest on September 26, 2016
The Space Telescope Science Institute and core developers from the Astropy community are sponsoring a workshop at the January 2017 meeting of the American Astronomical Society #AAS229.
This workshop will cover the use of Python tools for astronomical data analysis and visualization in the era of JWST, with the focus primarily on UV, Optical and IR data. Data analysis tools for JWST are being written in Python and distributed as part of Astropy, a community developed Python library for astronomy, and its affiliated packages, many of which are designed to be compatible with JWST, HST and other major mission data.
Our goals will be to introduce you to the variety of tools which are already available inside the Astropy library as well as provide ample hands-on time during which you’ll be able to explore the science analysis capabilities which the greater python environment and community provide. [Read more...]
Category: conferences, python, workshops Tags: AAS229, astropy, conferences, python, workshops
