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

===== Goals =====

* 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 2016/06: Gert Sikkema (consultants: you?, Hugo Buddelmeijer, Gijs Verdoes / Edwin Valentijn)
* Audience: open to all Kapteyners: 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/]] )
* Input for topics is very much welcomed.

===== Meeting Schedule =====
Tentative schedule: every second Tuesday of the month in ZG257 at 15:00.
 
First meeting Thursday 9th of June at 13:30

* June 9nd : 
           * Maarten Breddels Gaia vizualization
               * PDF Presentation: [[http://www.astro.rug.nl/~sikkema/vaex-talk-kapteyn-2016-ait.pdf| Vaex PDF Presentation]] 
               * Weblinks to the software and documentation:  [[http://www.astro.rug.nl/~breddels/vaex/]] , [[http://www.github.com/maartenbreddels/vaex]]
            
* November 8th

* December 13th Enrico Petrillo: neural networks/strong lensing etc.

* Later (fixed monthly slot decided soon): 
           * Giorgos Vernardos mySQL
           * Astro: Gert Sikkema ASTROWISE Data lineage/IC correction/Satellite example