.Astronomy X: Baltimore 2018

September 24-27 2018, space telescope science institute (STScI)

The 10th edition of .Astronomy took place at the Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore, MD. Most talks were were webcast live, and recorded. We’ve included the links to the recorded talks below.

Scientific organisation committee

• Sarah Kendrew, ESA/STScI (Chair)

• Arfon Smith, STScI (co-Chair)

• Tom Donaldson, STScI

• Susan Kassin, STScI

• Iva Momcheva, STScI

• Josh Peek, STScI

• Erik Tollerud, STScI.

Invited Speakers

• Andy Connolly, University of Washington
  ”Back To The Future: A Decade of LSST Development and the Growth in Machine Learning”

• Jarita Holbrook, University of the Western Cape (not recorded)

• Sarah Hörst, Johns Hopkins University (not recorded)

• James Howison, University of Texas at Austin
  ”Software makes science better. But is it Research?”

• Alcione Mora, European Space Agency
  ”Gaia: Science, Data and Challenges”

Day Zero Introductory talks

• Jane Rigby, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
  ”The Future of NASA Astrophysics Missions”

• Erik Tollerud, STScI
  ”Intro To Open Source/Astropy/Open Development”

• Clara Brasseur & Tom Donaldson, STScI
  ”Introductions to MAST, Astroquery.Mast Demo”

• Frank Summers & Alex Lockwood, STScI
  ”OPO Presentation - Cinematic Astronomy”

• Sarah Kendrew, ESA
  ”Ten Years of .Astronomy”

Contributed Talks

• Stephanie Juneau, National Optical Astronomy Observatory (NOAO, Tucson)
  ”Galaxy Evolution at the Crossroads of Astronomy and Data Science”

• Ayat Mohammed, University of Texas at Austin
  ”Visualize This: Lessons fromthe Front-lines of High Performance Visualization”

• Lauren Chambers, STScI
  ”A Different Kind of Dark Energy: Placing Race and Gender in Physics”

• Brian Nord, Fermilab/University of Chicago
  ”Ethics in AI: What Does the Future Hold for Science, Work, Privacy, Justice”

• Dara Norman, NOAO
  ”Can Big Data Lead an Inclusion Revolution?”

• Craig Jones, STScI
  ”Hubble Image Discovery using Transfer Learning”
  

Sponsors

.Astronomy X was generously supported by the American Astronomical Society.