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====== Astronomical Information Technology at the University of Groningen ======

===== Goals =====
Phase1:
* Create an Astronomical Information Technology community at the University of Groningen.
* Hold regular (~once a month) meetings about AIT.
* Make groups mutually aware of existing expertise, main challenges and things they can get from each other
* Discuss/HOWTO solve software problems



===== Info / Plan =====
* Organizers 2016/02: Gert Sikkema (consultants: Hugo Buddelmeijer, Gijs/Edwin)
* Audience: Any Kapteyner, students, promovendi, postdocs, staff
* Nature of the meetings: two speakers, one talk about a specific astronomical problem solved through information technology, and one talk more about software carpentry tailored for astronomy.
* Astroinformatics: how to write astronomical software importance of versioning, sql etc. (BUZZWORD: SOFTWARE CARPENTRY. see [[http://software-carpentry.org/|http://software-carpentry.org/]] )
* Subjects provided by participants, GS +consultants ensure a full schedule

===== Meeting Schedule =====
Tentative schedule: every first Tuesday of the month in ZG257 at 15:00.


* June 9nd : 
           * Maarten Breddels Gaia vizualization
           * Giorgos Vernardos mySQL

* July?: 
           * Astro: Gert Sikkema ASTROWISE Data lineage/IC correction/Satellite example
           * Informatics: ???
 


===== Actions =====
* GS, HB, GVK, EV: Discuss //plan de campagne//. 
* GS: Prepare monday lunch talk, to be given End of April.
* Invite participants.

===== Possible Speakers =====

^ who ^ what ^ status ^ info ^
| Gert Sikkema | Optical Astronomy: Satellite Detection | confirmed, May 3rd ? | |
| Aku Venhola | | | |
| Enrico Petrillo | GVK:neural networks | | |
| Giorgos Vernardos | strong-lensing compute | | |
| Giorgos Vernardos | Data management: MySQL databases | confirmed | |
| Maarten Breddels | Visualization / Analysis: VaeX Gaia visualization | | https://github.com/maartenbreddels/vaex |
| Andrey Tsyganov | Euclid databasing | | after summer? |
| Davide Punzo | 3D / radio visualization | | | 
| EoR technical PhDs/postdocs | | ask Ger de Bruyn | | |
| Jos Roerdink's visualization group |  | ask Hugo | |
| Bob / Fokke ? | How to use peregrine / grid ? | | |
|  | Software Carpentry: Version Control | | |
|  | Software Carpentry: (unit) testing | | |
|  | Astronomical data formats | | (see FITS discussions) |
|  | Long term data sustainability | | E.g. through Vizier |
| Martin Vogelaar? | New software at Kapteyn? | | |
| Maarten Breddels? | Jupyter, GVK: Gaia visualization also | | |
| Johan Hidding? | New programming languages? | | |
| Johan Hidding? | SCAM - Schemes for Artistic Model rendering | | http://www.astro.rug.nl/~hidding/progs.html |
| Benne Holwerda? | Galaxy Zoo / Citizen Science | | |
| Scott Trager? | Bayesian Inference in Astronomy | | |
|  ALL| Upcoming or past Meetings like May ADA8@Crete ; October AstroInformatics@Sorrento, etc. | | |
|  ALL| Discuss books like "Statistics, Data Mining, and Machine Learning in Astronomy | | |
|  ALL| Discuss relevant new papers | | |
|  ALL| Technology-based proposals, like DTEC @NLeSC | | |
| GVK: OmegaCEN group |
| GVK: Apertif group |
|WEAVE (Scott), visualization|
|Apertif (Verheijen), id|
|FOREMOST (Scott)|
|LOFAR (Ger de Bruijn)|
|GAIA (Amina) |