Explore a comprehensive minisymposium from JuliaCon 2022 focused on Julia's applications in astronomy and astrophysics research. Discover how researchers are leveraging Julia to enhance their scientific work, overcome challenges, and accelerate adoption within the astronomical community. Learn about simulation pipelines for astronomical instruments, modeling telluric features and stellar variability, characterizing exoplanet systems, analyzing the Big Bang, inferring cosmic microwave background data, implementing adaptive optics, and processing radio astronomy data. Gain insights from expert speakers as they share their experiences, discuss Julia's impact on their projects, and identify opportunities for improving the Julia ecosystem for astronomical research. Engage with a panel discussion to explore shared needs, potential package developments, and strategies for integrating Julia into research groups and collaborations.
Julia in Astronomy and Astrophysics Research - JuliaCon 2022
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Overview
Syllabus
- Eric Ford - Intro.
- Maurizio Tomasi - Using Julia to build the simulation pipeline of an astronomical instrument.
- Christian Gilbertson - Joinly Modeling Telluric Features and Setellar Variability with StellarSpectraObservationFitting.jl.
- Eric Agol - Characterizing the TRAPPIST-1 System with Julia.
- Zack Li - Gradients of the Big Bang with Bolt.jl.
- Marius Millea - High-dimensional inference from the Cosmic Microwave Background on GPU.
- William Thompson - Julia for Adaptive Optics.
- Paul Barrett - Back to Basics in Analyzing Radio Astronomy Data.
- Discussion Panel.
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