Program

Python in Astronomy 2016

Sunday 20th March

19:30	Informal social gathering at the Big Time Brewery and Alehouse

Monday 21st March
9:00	Jake Vanderplas	LOC Welcome
9:15	Kelle Cruz	SOC Welcome
Morning chair: Perry Greenfield
9:30	Brigitta Sipocz	The Astropy Project
9:50	Steven Christe	SunPy, the solar data analysis package
10:10	Christoph Deil	Python in gamma-ray astronomy
10:30	Coffee
11:10	Flash Introductions
11:50	Matthew Craig	Variable star astronomy with undergrads using astropy
12:10	Abigail Stevens	STINGRAY - Time Series Methods For Astronomical X-ray Data That Aren't Fishy At All!
12:30	Lunch
Afternoon chair: Tom Robitaille
14:00	Unconference
16:00	Coffee
16:30	Unconference
17:30	Summaries
18:00	Happy Hour!

Tuesday 22nd March

After an initial talk session, the rest of Tuesday will be dedicated to sprinting/hacking, and will also feature single track of tutorials in parallel for people interested in learning how to contribute open-source packages. Sprints/hacks will be advertised before coffee, and you can join any group!

Morning chair: Eric Jeschke
9:00	Nathan Goldbaum	Publicly Releasing a Large Simulation Dataset with NDS Labs
9:20	Adam Ginsburg	Pyspeckit: Lessons learned from a spectroscopic toolkit from pre-astropy to now
9:40	Kyle Barbary	Julia and Python in Astronomy: Better Together
10:00	Advertising sprints/hacks and tutorials
10:30	Coffee
11:00-12:30	Sprinting in parallel with tutorials
11:00	Tutorial: Introduction to Git
12:30	Lunch
Afternoon chair: Megan Sosey
13:30-17:30	Sprinting in parallel with tutorials
13:30	Tutorial: Testing and Continuous Integration
14:30	Tutorial: Packaging and the Package Template
15:30	Tutorial: Documentation with Sphinx
16:30	Tutorial: Parallel Programming and Cython for faster Python code
17:30	Lightning talks/Sprint demos
18:00	Adjourn
	Optional continued hacking

Wednesday 23rd March

Morning chair: Chanda Prescod-Weinstein
9:00	Michele Bannister	Making data pretty and understandable
9:20	Cameron Hummels	Trident and MISTY: a universal pipeline for generating and sharing synthetic spectra
9:40	Lia Corrales	eblur/dust: a modular python approach for dust extinction and scattering
10:00	Stephanie Douglas	An inquiry-based programming lesson
10:20	Coffee
11:00	Elise Jennings	CosmoSIS: modular cosmological parameter estimation
11:20	Andrew Hearin	Halotools: An open-source python platform for studying galaxy evolution and cosmological structure formation
11:40	Dan Foreman-Mackey	Tools for probabilistic data analysis in Python
12:00	Lightning talks
12:30	Lunch
Afternoon chair: Erik Tollerud
14:00	Unconference
16:00	Coffee
16:30	Unconference
17:30	Summaries
18:00	Adjourn
	Conference dinner at Ivar's Salmon House
Thursday 24nd March

The whole of Thursday is dedicated to sprinting/hacking. Sprints/hacks will be advertised at the start of the day, and you can then choose which projects you would like to work on. We will reconvene at the end of the day for a lightning talk session, after which you can continue to hack if you like!

Morning chair: Stuart Mumford
9:00	Advertise hacks/sprints
9:30	Sprinting/hacking
12:30	Lunch
Afternoon chair: Jake Vanderplas
14:00	Sprinting/hacking
17:30	Lightning talks
18:00	Adjourn
	Optional continued hacking
Friday 25th March

Morning chair: Kelle Cruz
9:00	Sprinting/hacking demos, lightning talks
10:30	Coffee
11:00	John Parejko	World Coordinate Systems in LSST and Astropy
11:20	James Turner	Streamlining an IRAF data reduction process Pythonically with Astropy and ndmapper
11:40	Brett Morris	astroplan: Observation Planning for Astronomers
12:00	Tom Robitaille	Summary/closing remarks
12:30	Lunch
Afternoon chair: Mario Juric
14:00	Unconference
The Friday afternoon is left as free-form unconference time, which can be used for more discussions and sprints. In particular, we encourage teams (e.g. Astropy, SunPy, yt and others) to make use of this time to hold project-specific meetings to discuss e.g. plans for future development.