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

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/ )
Input for topics is very much welcomed.

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: Vaex PDF Presentation
  - Weblinks to the software and documentation: http://www.astro.rug.nl/~breddels/vaex/ , http://www.github.com/maartenbreddels/vaex

* November 8th

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