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
Category: Seminars
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…
Read More2018-02-14 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…
Read More2018-02-12 Lunch Seminar: Naoki Yoshida, Kavli IPMU, University of Tokyo
When: February 12, 2018 @ 12:30 – 1:30pm Where: PAB, WRF Data Science Studio, 6th floor Big Data Cosmology with Subaru HSC Survey Subaru HSC is ongoing and is planned to survey a total of ~1200 square degrees by 2019. We have…
Read More2018-02-05: Seminar: Melissa Graham
When: February 5, 2018 @ 12:30-1:30pm Where: PAB, WRF Data Science Studio, 6th floor Mini-Workshop: Alert Stream Filters for Your ZTF Science Goals The seminar will start with a brief presentation of some of the main ZTF science drivers that require Alert…
Read More2018-02-02 Seminar: Andreas A. Berlind, Vanderbilt University
When: February 2, 2018 @ 1:00-2:00pm Where: PAB, 3rd floor, B305 From Dark Matter to Galaxies: Probing the Spatial Structure of the Universe on Small Scales The last decade has seen an explosion of high precision measurements of the structure of the…
Read More2018-01-24 Brown Bag: Adrian Price-Whelan, Princeton University
When: January 24, 2018 @12:00-1:00pm Where: B305 (PAB) Very wide binaries and comoving stars in the Gaia era Conatal and coeval stars are important tracers of kinematics, stellar models, dark matter physics, and star and planet formation processes in the…
Read More2017-12-13 Brown Bag: R. Michael Rich, UCLA
When: December 13, 2017 @12:00-1:00pm Where: B305 (PAB) The Halos and Environments of Nearby Galaxies (HERON) survey We have used a dedicated 0.7m telescope to image 123 galaxies in the Local Volume to ~ 30 mag/sq arcsec. We find a…
Read More2017-12-11 Lunch Seminar: Danny Goldstein
When: December 11, 2017 @1:30-2:30pm Where: WRF Data Science Studio, The Seminar Room Strongly Lensed Supernovae In 1964, Norwegian astronomer Sjur Refsdal showed that time delays between the multiple images of strongly lensed supernovae (LSNe) could be used to measure the Hubble…
Read More2017-11-14 Lunch Seminar: John Swinbank
John Swinbank will review the design and scientific goals of LSST, provide an update on the current status of construction, explore some of the algorithmic and data processing challenges that the LSST Data Management team faces, and describe the key role that members of the Department of Astronomy here at UW are playing in making it all possible.
Read More2017-11-01 LSST/DM Brown Bag: Stephen Portillo
Stephen Portillo will be discussing “Improved Source Detection in Crowded Fields using Probabilistic Cataloging”, based on his work on probabilisitic cataloging described in arXiv:1703.01303.
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