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
2020-3-09 Seminar: Angus Wright
When: CANCELLED Monday, March 9th, 2020 @ 12:30pm Where: PAB, 6th Floor, eScience Studio, Seminar Rm. Optimising Direct Redshift Calibration for Tomographic Cosmic Shear Comparisons between cosmological parameters from tomographic cosmic shear measurements and the cosmic microwave background reveal some tension…
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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…
Read More2019-12-09 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…
Read More2019-11-12 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…
Read MoreAstronomy Colloquium: Siegfried Eggl
When: October 31st, 2019 @ 3:45PM Where: PAA A102 This week’s colloquium speaker is our own Siegfried Eggl. Throwing DARTs at Asteroids For the first time in the history of our planet its inhabitants have the means to avert catastrophic impacts of…
Read More2019-10-14 Seminar: François Lanusse
When: October, 14, 2019 @ 12:30pm Where: PAB, 6th Floor, eScience Studio, Seminar Rm. Deep Generative Models of Galaxy Morphology and Application to Deblending The upcoming generation of wide-field optical surveys which includes LSST will aim to shed some much…
Read MoreDIRAC 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.
Read More2019-09-24 Seminar: Kaushal Sharma
When: September 24, 2019 @ 12:00pm Where: PAB, 3rd floor, B305 Classification in Astronomy using ML. Dr. Sharma is a postdoc at the Inter University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics in Pune, India. His Tuesday noon talk will be on…
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When: April 12, 2019 @ 11:00am Where: PAB, 6th floor, WRF Data Studio, eScience Seminar Room Quantifying Discovery in Astro/Particle Physics: Frequentist and Bayesian Perspectives David A van Dyk, Statistics Section, Department of Mathematics, Imperial College London Statistical discovery questions in…
Read More2019-03-26 Lunch Talk: Renée Hložek
Where: PAB, WRF Data Science Studio, 6th floor When: March 26, 2019 @ 11:00 am Separating wheat from chaff: photometric classification in the age of LSSTThe Large Synoptic Survey Telescope will generate a data deluge: millions of transients and variable sources…
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