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…
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 Seminar Series
DIRAC Seminars are appropriate for students and researchers at all levels who are interested in astronomy and/or data science, and everyone is welcome to attend.
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DIRAC Scientists at the Asteroid Day 2019
Watch a film about DiRAC Team’s Research Here
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Quanta Magazine’s Interview with Prof. Mario Juric
Prepping for a Flood of Heavenly Bodies
Just as mathematics transformed physics from a philosophy into a science, data and computation are transforming science today, says Mario Jurić. He’s leading the push to get astronomy ready for the torrents of data that are about to flow. -
Estimating the Milky Way’s Mass via Hierarchical Bayes: A Blind Test on MUGS2 Simulated Galaxies
Published in the Astrophysical Journal, by DIRAC Researcher, Gwendolyn Eadie.
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Collaborative, participant-driven learning works!
Science has become a big-data endeavor. But scientists are not universally adept in “data science” — the computing and statistical skillsets needed to handle, sort, analyze and draw conclusions from big data. The shortage of know-how in data science can…
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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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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
2019-12-09 Seminar: Adam Smercina
When: Monday, December 9th, 2019 @ 12:30pm Where: PAB, 6th Floor, eScience Studio, Seminar Rm. The Satellites and Stellar Halos of Nearby MW-mass Galaxies The outskirts of galaxies like the Milky Way (MW) are important testing grounds for our understanding of…
2019-11-12 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…
List of publications
ADS link features recently published papers by DIRAC researchers.
Letter From the Director
Welcome to the DiRAC Institute newsletter. As we head towards the winter solstice, if you were lucky with the clouds and the near full moon, you may have seen the Geminid meteor shower which peaked early in the morning of…
Work at DIRAC
| DIRAC Postdoctoral Scholar | We invite applications to apply for the Data Intensive Research in Astrophysics and Cosmology (DIRAC) Postdoctoral Positions in the Astronomy Department at the University of Washington. These 3-year positions are available to promising, early-career researchers…