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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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.
Read MoreCollaborative, 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…
Read MoreDIRAC 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!
Read MoreDIRAC Researchers Observe 1I/’Oumuamua
UW/B612 Asteroid Institute researchers measure the rotation period and shape of the first interstellar asteroid.
Read MoreDIRAC 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.
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