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Data Intensive Research in Astrophysics and Cosmology at the University of Washington
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2020-11-9 Seminar: Federica Bianco
DiRAC is pleased to welcome Federica Bianco to the department (virtually) to give a DiRAC Seminar on Monday Nov 9 at 10am PST. DiRAC Seminars are appropriate for students and researchers at all levels who are interested in astronomy and/or data science,…
Read MoreGoogle Summer of Code With DiRAC
It was a great learning experience for me as I learned a lot about the Jupyter Ecosystem and remote collaborative work.
Read MoreDiRAC & Astronomy on Tap Seattle Present: ASTRONOMY AT HOME
Join us again on Sep, 22, 2021! All past talks are available on the DiRAC YouTube channel https://dirac.us/yt
Read More2020-5-14 Colloquium: Abigail Stevens
When: Thursday, May 14th, 2020 @ 3:30pm Where: via ZOOM Mapping Matter in Strong Gravity: Spectral-Timing of Black Holes and Neutron Stars One of the best laboratories to study strong-field gravity is the inner 100s of kilometers around black holes…
Read MorePhotometric Redshifts with the LSST II: The Impact of Near-Infrared and Near-Ultraviolet Photometry
Published paper includes contribution from DIRAC Researchers: Graham Melissa, Connolly Andrew, Morrison Christopher B., Ivezić Željko, Daniel Scott, Jones R. Lynne, Jurić Mario, Yoachim Peter, Bryce Kalmbach J. Published Date: April 2020. Abstract Accurate photometric redshift (photo-zz) estimates are essential…
Read More2020-2-10 Seminar: Stephanie Juneau
When: Monday, February 10th, 2020 @ 12:30pm Where: PAA, Room A214 The Influence of Giant Black Holes on the Fate of Galaxies, Stephanie Juneau (NSF’s OIR Lab) Supermassive black holes – with masses of millions to billions of times that…
Read More2019-11-12 Seminar: Ashley Villar
When: Tuesday, November 12th, 2019 @ 10:00am Where: PAB, 6th Floor, eScience Studio, Seminar Rm. Time-domain Astrophysics in the Era of Big Data The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) will begin science operations in 2023 and is expected to increase…
Read MoreAstronomy Colloquium: Siegfried Eggl
When: October 31st, 2019 @ 3:45PM Where: PAA A102 This week’s colloquium speaker is our own Siegfried Eggl. Throwing DARTs at Asteroids For the first time in the history of our planet its inhabitants have the means to avert catastrophic impacts of…
Read MoreNSF invests in cyberinfrastructure institute to harness cosmic data
The National Science Foundation awarded the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and nine collaborating organizations, including the University of Washington, $2.8 million for a two-year “conceptualization phase” of the Scalable Cyberinfrastructure Institute for Multi-Messenger Astrophysics. As part of SCIMMA, UW researchers will work…
Read More2019-10-14 Seminar: François Lanusse
When: October, 14, 2019 @ 12:30pm Where: PAB, 6th Floor, eScience Studio, Seminar Rm. Deep Generative Models of Galaxy Morphology and Application to Deblending The upcoming generation of wide-field optical surveys which includes LSST will aim to shed some much…
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