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
2018-10-23 Seminar: Katy McKeough
When: October 23, 2018 @ 12:00pm Where: PAB, WRF Data Science Studio, 6th floor, Seminar Room DIRAC is pleased to welcome Katy McKeough as a visitor next week. Katy is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Statistics at Harvard University. She does research…
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When: September 7, 2018 @ 11:00am Where: PAB, WRF Data Science Studio, 6th floor Lia Sartori from the ETH Zürich Institute for Particle Physics and Astrophysics, will be discussing variability in active galactic nuclei. A study of active galactic…
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When: August 3, 2018 @ 3:00 pm Where: PAB, WRF Data Science Studio, 6th floor David A van Dyk, Statistics Section, Department of Mathematics, Imperial College London Quantifying Discovery in Astro/Particle Physics: Frequentist and Bayesian Perspective Statistical discovery questions in astrophysics and high-energy…
Read More2018-02-20 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…
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