GRITS: Greater IPAC Technology Symposium

GRITS 2013 Agenda

All Abstracts

Friday, October 25, 2013
Cahill Hameetman Auditorium
GRITS
8:00 Food on the Cahill Patio
8:45 Welcome and Introductions Lee Bennett
9:00 High Performance Scientific Computing for LIGO Kent BlackburnAbstract
9:45 NED Queries with Queuing and Scheduling Rick EbertAbstract
10:05 Splitting serial work over multiple processors Ben RusholmeAbstract
10:25 Break
 
10:45 The Virtual Astronomical Observatory: Status Update Joe LazioAbstract
11:15 Technical Challenges in Extending your Extended Mission Lisa Storrie-LombardiAbstract
11:35 The SIMPLE application of Python to handle large Herschel datasets easily David ShupeAbstract
11:55 Announcements
12:00 Lunch
 
13:00 NEOWISE: A Time-Domain Survey for Minor Planets Amy MainzerAbstract
13:45 Tools and Tricks for Finding Nearby Stars in Astronomical Data Sets Davy KirkpatrickAbstract
14:05 Teaching the "unteachable": astronomy, robotics and programming for dropout kids in crisis Carolyn BrinkworthAbstract
14:25 Test-driving IPAC's First Intel Xeon Phi Coprocessor: a new era in parallel computing Frank MasciAbstract
14:45 Perl Regex Magic: A new general-purpose Name Parser System for IPAC Archives David ImelAbstract
15:05 Break
 
15:20 Scientific Computing with Amazon Web Services Jamie KinneyAbstract
15:40 Archiving and Serving Data from the WISE/NEOWISE Mission Steve GroomAbstract
16:00 AstroPix: The Other IPAC Archive Robert HurtAbstract
16:20 NITARP: Not Dead Yet! Luisa RebullAbstract
16:40 Challenges in Data Analysis of Spitzer Exoplanet Observations Sean CareyAbstract
17:00 Wrap-up, Acknowledgements Lee Bennett
Monday October 28, 2013
KS 410
12:00-17:00How to Get Started with the Amazon Cloud

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