Transcript Communicating Astronomy Graphically COMPLETE, the IIC and the NVO Alyssa A. Goodman Professor of Astronomy Director, Initiative in Innovative Computing.

Communicating Astronomy
Graphically
COMPLETE, the IIC and the NVO
Alyssa A. Goodman
Professor of Astronomy
Director, Initiative in Innovative Computing
Filling the “Gap”
between Science and Computer Science
Scientific
disciplines
Computer Science
departments
Increasingly, core problems in
science require computational
solution
Focused on finding elegant
solutions to basic computer
science challenges
Typically hire/“home grow”
computationalists, but often lack
the expertise or funding to go
beyond the immediate pressing
need
Often see specific, “applied”
problems as outside their
interests
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COMPLETE/FCRAO W(13CO)
Barnard’s Perseus
Radio Spectral-line Observations of Interstellar Clouds
Radio Spectral-Line Survey
Alves, Lada & Lada 1999
Measuring Motions: Molecular Line Maps
Spectral Line Observations
Radio Spectral-line Observations of Interstellar Clouds
Radio Spectral-Line Survey
Alves, Lada & Lada 1999
Velocity from
Spectroscopy
Observed Spectrum
Telescope 
Spectrometer
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Intensity
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Velocity from
Spectroscopy
Observed Spectrum
Telescope 
Spectrometer
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"Velocity"
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COMPLETE/FCRAO W(13CO)
Barnard’s Perseus
“Astronomical Medicine”
Excerpts from Junior Thesis of Michelle Borkin (Harvard College); IIC Contacts: AG (FAS) & Michael Halle (HMS/BWH/SPL)
IC 348
IC 348
“Astronomical Medicine”
“Astronomical Medicine”
“Astronomical Medicine”
Before “Medical Treatment”
After “Medical Treatment”
“Astronomical Medicine”
3D Slicer Demo (available after talk)
IIC contacts: Michael Halle & Ron Kikinis
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“Graphical Collaboration”
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Project led by Felice Frankel (now at MIT)
Communicating Astronomy
Graphically: COMPLETE,
the IIC and the NVO
Alyssa A. Goodman
Professor of Astronomy
Director, Initiative in Innovative Computing
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2MASS/NICER
Extinction
H- emission,WHAM/SHASSA Surveys (see Finkbeiner 2003)
IRAS Ndust
IIC: Five Research Branches
Visualization
Distributed
Computing
Databases/
Provenance
Physically
meaningful
combination of
diverse data types.
e-Science aspects
of large
collaborations.
Management, and
rapid retrieval, of
data.
Sharing of data
and computational
resources and
tools in real-time.
“Research
reproducibility”
…where did the
data come from?
How?
Analysis &
Simulations
Development of
efficient
algorithms.
Cross-disciplinary
comparative tools
(e.g. statistical).
Instrumentation
Improved data
acquisition.
Novel hardware
approaches (e.g.
GPUs, sensors).
Education is central to IIC’s mission
At Harvard:
Undergraduate & graduate courses focused on “data-intensive
science”
New graduate certificate program, within existing Ph.D. programs
Research opportunities at undergraduate, graduate, and postdoctoral
levels
Beyond Harvard:
New museum, highlighting the kind of science done at the IIC