Astronomer at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, who also worries about the future of her observing platform, the Earth.

Cambridge, MA
Joined September 2013
This is my life. #ADASS2020
"Debugging is like playing the detective in a crime movie, except you are also the perpetrator and the victim." From a slide Oleg Smirnov just showed in his talk on Radiopadre: remote, interactive, zero-admin visualization of data pipeline products at #ADASS2020
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A beautiful acapella meditation on exoplanets. They even got in a poetic description of radial velocity searches!
馃攰猬嗭笍 Not quite an @NPRMusic #TinyDesk concert, but when our not-at-all-tiny centrifuge isn't spinning satellites up to launch-like speeds, it can add nifty echo to an impromptu a capella performance, as demoed by the Chromatics. #MusicMonday #MotivationalMonday #CentrifugeConcert
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Join us for a walking celebration of the Neponset River Greenway being honored by the American Planning Association at Mattapan Station on Sunday at 1:00 pm.
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Roberto Pizzo passed the LOC chairmanship to Francesco Pierfederici, who is chairing our 30th annual meeting in Granada Spain next year. #ADASS2019
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Roberto Pizzo, LOC Chair, thanked the entire Local Organizing Committee. #ADASS2019
Proceedings should be published in six months. Papers are important but don't have to be on paper. The 2nd and 3rd options, digital-only with and without ASP roughly tied as most preferred. #ADASS2019
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Peter Teuben is leading BoF 10 on the way we should publish our conference proceedings: book+electronic vs. pure electronic. #ADASS2019
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Alice Allen reported on BoF 9 about the future of the Astrophysical Software Code Library (ASCL). #ADASS2019
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Giulano Taffoni reported on BoF 8 about science platforms.
Simon O'Toole (AAO) reported on BoF 7 where we learned that team involvement leads to successful science. #ADASS2019
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Martin Vogelaar reported on BoF 6: We need to start teaching our astronomy students computing (Python) as early as undergraduate years. #ADASS2019
Vanessa Moss wants to continue the discussion from BoF 4 on inter-observatory communication. #ADASS2019
Jan Noordam discussed the white elephant philosophical BoF 3 about user environments. #ADASS2019
BoF 1 was on outreach and education, working out best practices.
BoF 1 was on outreach and education, working out best practices.
Francois-Xavier Pineau from CDS presented ExXmatch, a very fast HEALPix-based catalog crossmatching program in Rust. #ADASS2019
Francesco Pierfederici is the LOC Chair of our 30th annual ADASS Conference in Granada next year. #ADASS2019
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Picasso noted "What good are computers? They only give you answers." But "scientists ask the questions." Our software is the interface. Via Alexander Mechev from Leiden. #ADASS2019
Alexander Mechev (Leiden) discussed LOFAR with "antennas from Ireland to Latvia". Producing "science-ready data products is a science in itself." "Questions are harder than answers." #ADASS2019
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