PyAstro 2019 schedule

Monday

9:00am

Coffee

9:30am

Kelle Cruz - Welcome talk

10:00am

Introductions - everyone

10:30am

11:00am

Coffee

11:30am

Perry Greenfield - History and present status of Python in Astronomy

Henry Ferguson - The future of Python in Astronomy

12:00pm

12:30pm

Lunch

1:00pm

1:30pm

Pitches for unconference sessions

2:00pm

Unconferences

2:30pm

3:00pm

Unconferences

3:30pm

4:00pm

Coffee

4:30pm

Lightning talks

5:00pm

5:30pm

Summary of unconferences


Tuesday

9:00am

Coffee

9:30am

Stuart Mumford - DKIST Adventures in Astropy

Nate Lust - An Overview of Python Use in the LSST Scientific Stack

Sophie Murray - Research to operations for space weather forecasting

10:00am

10:30am

Coffee

11:00am

11:30am

Lightning talks

12:00pm

Pitches for unconferences

12:30pm

Lunch

1:00pm

1:30pm

Unconferences

2:00pm

2:30pm

Unconferences

3:00pm

3:30pm

Coffee

4:00pm

Unconferences

4:30pm

5:00pm

5:30pm

Summary of unconferences


Wednesday

9:00am

Coffee

9:30am

Brian Cherinka - Marvin: A Toolkit for Streamlined Access and Visualization of the SDSS-IV MaNGA Data Set

Thomas Robitaille - Interactive and Multidimensional data exploration and linking with Glue

Pey Lian Lim - Visualizing JWST data with Ginga (TBC)

Nicholas Murphy - Building an open source software ecosystem for plasma physics (TBC)

10:00am

10:30am

Coffee

11:00am

Lightning talks

11:30am

12:00pm

Pitches for unconferences

12:30pm

Lunch

1:00pm

1:30pm

Unconferences

2:00pm

2:30pm

Unconferences

3:00pm

3:30pm

Coffee

4:00pm

Lightning talks

4:30pm

Hack-day pre-pitches

5:00pm

Summary of unconferences


Thursday

9:00am

Coffee

9:30am

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

Evening

Conference dinner and social coding


Friday

9:00am

Coffee

9:30am

Unconferences/hacking

10:00am

10:30am

Coffee

11:00am

Unconferences/hacking

11:30am

12:00pm

Lunch

12:30pm

1:00pm

Hack presentations

1:30pm

2:00pm

Wrap-up

2:30pm

Coffee

3:00pm

Unconferences

3:30pm

4:00pm

Unconferences

4:30pm

5:00pm

Unconferences

5:30pm


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

Unconference sessions

During these slots, participants can run discussions, hacks, sprints, tutorials or similar sessions, which they can propose during the pitches. These will run in parallel and will be selected from the proposed sessions each day.

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.