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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: 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/ )
- Subjects provided by participants, GS +consultants ensure a full schedule
Meeting Schedule
Tentative schedule: every second Tuesday of the month in ZG257 at 15:00.
First meeting Thursday 9th of June at 13:30
First meeting Thursday 9th of June at 13:30
- June 9nd :
- Maarten Breddels Gaia vizualization
- Giorgos Vernardos mySQL
- July or later?:
- Giorgos Vernardos mySQL
- Astro: Gert Sikkema ASTROWISE Data lineage/IC correction/Satellite example
