PyAstro 2018 schedule

Monday

09:00am

Coffee

09:30am

Welcome talk (Kelle Cruz, LOC)

10:00am

Introductions (everyone)

10:30am

11:00am

Coffee

11:30am

Karl Gordon: How Python in Astronomy has Impacted My Professional Life

12:00pm

Pitches for unconference sessions

12:30pm

Lunch

1:00pm

1:30pm

Unconferences/tutorials

2:00pm

2:30pm

Unconferences/tutorials

3:00pm

3:30pm

Coffee

4:00pm

Summary of unconferences

4:30pm

Lightning talks

5:00pm

5:30pm

6:00pm

Wine and cheese

Tuesday

09:00am

Coffee

09:30am

Adrian Price-Whelan: Astropy Overview

10:00am

Danny Ryan: SunPy Overview

10:30am

Coffee

11:00am

Will Barnes: A Complete fiasco - The Difficulties of Dealing with Atomic Data and a Possible Pythonic Solution

Juan Luis Cano: Catch that asteroid with poliastro

Nick Earl: [The Struggles of] Developing Python Packages for Spectroscopy

11:30am

12:00pm

Pitches for unconference sessions

12:30pm

Lunch

1:00pm

1:30pm

Unconferences/tutorials

2:00pm

2:30pm

Unconferences/tutorials

3:00pm

3:30pm

Coffee

4:00pm

Summary of unconferences

4:30pm

Lightning talks

5:00pm

5:30pm

6:00pm

Wednesday

09:00am

Coffee

09:30am

Arfon Smith: How to get career credit for writing software

Monica Bobra: Predicting Solar Flares Using Machine - Learning Methods

Manodeep Sinha: More Usable Flops per Watt: A Story About a Highly-optimized Correlation Function Code

10:00am

10:30am

Coffee

11:00am

Pey Lian Lim: Data Analysis tools for JWST

Bas Swinkels: The role of Python in the first detection of Gravitational Waves

Stuart Mumford: Developing End User Tools for DKIST Data Analysis

11:30am

12:00pm

Pitches for unconference sessions

12:30pm

Lunch

1:00pm

1:30pm

Unconference

2:00pm

2:30pm

Coffee

3:00pm

Summary of unconferences

3:30pm

Hack day pre-pitches

4:00pm

Public talk reception - tea/snacks

4:30pm

5:00pm

Kelle Cruz: Collaborations in the Extreme: the rise of open code development in the scientific community

5:30pm

6:00pm

Thursday

09:00am

Coffee

09:30am

Hack day introduction and pitches

10:00am

Hack shopping

10:30am

Coffee

11:00am

Hacking

11:30am

12:00pm

12:30pm

Lunch

1:00pm

1:30pm

Hacking

2:00pm

2:30pm

3:00pm

Coffee

3:30pm

Hacking

4:00pm

4:30pm

5:00pm

Hack check-in

5:30pm

6:00pm

Conference dinner

Friday

09:00am

Coffee

09:30am

Unconferences

10:00am

Unconferences

10:30am

Coffee

11:00am

Hacking (finishing and tidying up hack day projects)

11:30am

12:00pm

Lunch

12:30pm

1:00pm

Hack day project presentations

1:30pm

2:00pm

Wrap-up, summary and survey

2:30pm

Coffee

3:00pm

Talk (Daniel Foreman-Mackey)

3:30pm

4:00pm

Wine and cheese

4:30pm

5:00pm

5:30pm

6:00pm

Below are some notes on some important aspects of the conference program:

Unconference sessions

Unconference and tutorial slots will include some planned sessions but attendees are encouraged to propose their own sessions during the pitches. These will run in parallel with the pre-organised sessions.

Lightning talks

These will provide an opportunity for attendees to make short (3-5 minutes) presentations on any topic.

Hack day

Thursday's schedule is deliberately free of talks and unconferences to allow attendees to spend the whole day hacking on a project of their choice. Rough ideas for projects can be presented for discussion on Wednesday afternoon, and there will be time to discuss ideas and choose a project on Thursday morning after more detailed pitches. Hacking traditionally continues into the evening after the conference dinner. There will also be time to tidy up any unfinished projects for presentation on Friday.