2011 Nobel Laureate, Dr. Saul Perlmutter
“What We Learn When We Learn the Universe is Accelerating”.
D I R A C I n s t i t u t e
Data Intensive Research in Astrophysics and Cosmology at the University of Washington
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DIRAC Institute Open House, May 14th, 2018
2011 Nobel Laureate, Dr. Saul Perlmutter
“What We Learn When We Learn the Universe is Accelerating”. -
DIRAC Researcher Helps Investigate the “Most Mysterious Star” from the Kepler Mission
DIRAC Researcher and NSF Postdoctoral Fellow, James Davenport, is a coauthor on a recent paper studying “Boyajian’s Star”, aka the Most Mysterious Star in the Universe!
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DIRAC Researchers Observe 1I/’Oumuamua
UW/B612 Asteroid Institute researchers measure the rotation period and shape of the first interstellar asteroid.
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Zwicky Transient Facility Achieves First Light
Marks the beginning of commissioning of the next generation time domain survey.
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DIRAC on FiRe
DIRAC Director Andy Connolly discusses with Mark Anderson how the scale of the imaging data that will come from a new generation of telescopes will require different analysis methodologies.
Mission
From fundamental research on the most energetic events in the universe to the search for asteroids that may one day impact the Earth, the science of the next decade will be driven by data. Our ability to make scientific breakthroughs will…
Research
DIRAC brings together researchers from Astrophysics, Computer Science & Engineering, Statistics, and other key disciplines to develop algorithms and infrastructure to process, analyze, and understand the science and questions arising from major astronomical imaging telescopes (e.g. LSST, MWA, SKA, Advanced…
People
DIRAC is creating an environment where scientists can harness interdisciplinary expertise to solve some of the most difficult questions facing Astronomy today. It provides an interaction space between Astrophysics, Computer Science, Statistics, and other disciplines. It is a place where ideas…
Talks & News
DIRAC Institute Open House, May 14th, 2018
2018-02-20 Seminar: Jean-Charles Cuillandre, CEA-Saclay/Observatoire de Paris
When: February 20, 2018 @ 12:30 – 1:30pm Where: PAB, B305, 3rd floor The challenge of the distributed Euclid survey: The ESA Euclid space mission core science goals rely on complementary deep ground-based surveys covering both the northern and southern galactic…
2018-02-14 Brown Bag: Eddie Schlafly, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
When: February 14, 2018 @ 2:00-3:00pm Where: PAB, WRF Data Science Studio, Seminar Room, 6th floor The DECam Plane Survey: Optical Photometry of Two Billion Objects in the Southern Galactic PlaneThe DECam Plane Survey is a five-band optical and near-infrared survey of…
Visitors: Petar Zečević
April 15th-May 5th, 2018. Petar Zečević is a PhD student from University of Zagreb, Croatia. He has been working in the software industry for more than 15 years, as a full-stack developer, consultant, analyst, and team leader. Petar is the author…
Visitors: Eddie Schlafly
Brown Bag on February 14-16, 2018. Eddie is a Hubble Fellow working at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, trying to understand the structure of the Galaxy, and especially its dust, using observations of stars. His most recent work uses the DECam instrument on…
Visitors: Naoki Yoshida
Seminar on Feb 12, 2018. Naoki Yoshida is a Professor of Astrophysics in the Department of Physics at the University of Tokyo, as well as a Senior Research Scientist at the Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe.