program

2017 Program

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Monday

  • 09:30 - Coffee

  • 10:00 - Welcome by Lorentz Center

  • 10:15 - Welcome by Organizers and Unconference Explanation

  • 10:30 - Petr Kubánek - 'Use of Python in an observatory environment'

  • 10:50 - Eduardo Quito - 'First steps towards developing cultural astronomy software'

  • 11:10 - Unconference Refresher

  • 11:15 - Coffee and organizing unconference sessions

  • 11:45 - Ana Afonso - 'DOPTERIAN: a Python package for artificially redshifting galaxies'

  • 12:05 - Flash Introductions

  • 12:40 - Lunch

  • 14:00 - Unconference

  • 17:00 - Borrel

Tuesday

  • 09:15 - Coffee

  • 09:30 - Meredith Rawls - 'From standalone scripts to software development'

  • 09:50 - Andre Gradvohl - 'Presenting SEA (SunPy Environment Application)'

  • 10:10 - Sprint Advertising

  • 10:25 - Coffee

  • 10:55 - Bernadette Randles - 'Sharing your code: Factors about going public'

  • 11:15 - Sprint Selection

  • 11:30 - 12:30 Tutorial 1 / Sprint

  • 12:30 - Lunch

  • 14:00 - 15:30 Tutorial 2 / Sprint

  • 16:00 - Coffee

  • 15:30 - 17:00 Tutorial 3 / Sprint

  • 17:00 - Plenary summary of sprints and discussion

  • 18:00 - Adjourn

Wednesday

  • 09:15 - Coffee

  • 09:30 - Alex Hamilton - 'SunPy and Time Related Datasets'

  • 09:50 - David Shupe - 'Python widgets for astronomy visualization'

  • 10:10 - Coffee

  • 10:40 - Lucia Klarmann - 'Project based Python teaching: Lessons from the two-body problem and beyond'

  • 11:00 - K. Azalee Bostroem - (Keynote) 'Code review: Building a community to talk about coding'

  • 11:45 - Lightning talks

  • 12:30 - Lunch and organizing unconference sessions

  • 14:00 - Unconference

  • 16:00 - Coffee

  • 16:30 - Plenary summary of unconferences and discussion

  • 17:00 - Bus to the dinner boat

  • 17:30 - Boat tour with buffet dinner

  • 21:30 - Bus back to Lorentz Center, train station, and hotel

Thursday

  • 09:15 - Coffee

  • 09:30 - Sprint and Hack pitches

  • 10:00 - Sprint / Hack

  • 11:15 - Coffee

  • 11:45 - Sprint / Hack

  • 12:30 - Lunch and organizing sprints

  • 14:00 - Hack check-in

  • 14:45 - Sprint / Hack

  • 18:00 - Adjourn or move to “beer hack”

Friday

  • 09:15 - Coffee

  • 09:30 - Johannes King - 'Astropy Regions'

  • 09:50 - Duncan Macleod - 'Using Python to study gravitational-wave data'

  • 10:10 - M. Emre Aydın - 'How Slow Are Your Loops?'

  • 10:30 - Summary of Sprints

  • 11:15 - Coffee

  • 11:35 - Future of Python in Astronomy

  • 12:15 - Unconference planning

  • 12:30 - Lunch

  • 14:00 - Unconference

  • 15:30 - Unconference Summary

  • 16:00 - Adjourn

Talk abstracts are available on the Lorentz Center website.