The AstroStat Slog » CfA http://hea-www.harvard.edu/AstroStat/slog Weaving together Astronomy+Statistics+Computer Science+Engineering+Intrumentation, far beyond the growing borders Fri, 09 Sep 2011 17:05:33 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4 “Thanks to Henrietta Leavitt” http://hea-www.harvard.edu/AstroStat/slog/2008/thanks-to-henrietta-leavitt/ http://hea-www.harvard.edu/AstroStat/slog/2008/thanks-to-henrietta-leavitt/#comments Thu, 06 Nov 2008 10:00:17 +0000 vlk http://hea-www.harvard.edu/AstroStat/slog/?p=927 [9/30/2008]

The CfA is celebrating the 100th anniversary of the discovery of the Cepheid period-luminosity relation on Nov 6, 2008. See http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/events/2008/leavitt/ for details.

[Update 10/03] For a nice introduction to the story of Henrietta Swan Leavitt, listen to this Perimeter Institute talk by George Johnson: http://pirsa.org/06050003/

[Update 11/06] The full program is now available. The symposium begins at Noon today.

]]> http://hea-www.harvard.edu/AstroStat/slog/2008/thanks-to-henrietta-leavitt/feed/ 1 Google Sky http://hea-www.harvard.edu/AstroStat/slog/2008/google-sky/ http://hea-www.harvard.edu/AstroStat/slog/2008/google-sky/#comments Tue, 08 Apr 2008 20:32:59 +0000 vlk http://hea-www.harvard.edu/AstroStat/slog/?p=268 For people in the Boston area, a cornucopia of talks on Google Sky in the near future.

  1. Hunting for Needles in Massive Astronomical Data Streams
    Wednesday, April 9, 2008 at 4pm
    Room 330, 60 Oxford St.
    Ryan Scranton, Google Sky Team
  2. Inside Google Sky
    Wednesday, April 9, 2008 at 8pm
    Room 105, Emerson Hall
    Andrew Connolly, Google Sky Team
  3. Sky in Google Earth
    Tuesday, April 15, 2008 at 1pm
    Phillips Auditorium, 60 Garden
    Alberto Conti & Carol Christian, STScI
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Abstract:
The Digital Universe is a 3-D, interactive atlas of the universe created and distributed by the American Museum of Natural History and the Hayden Planetarium. The atlas is freely available on the web and is distributed to our business partners for use in full-dome video planetariums worldwide. The atlas is also utilized in pre-rendered content for Space Shows and Science Bulletins, a video program that brings subscribers the latest developments in astrophysics.
At the heart of the Digital Universe is scientific data visualization, where accuracy, not art, is our top priority. We use a variety of tools to render scientific data including Partiview, an open- source visualization tool, and Uniview, a full-dome package created in collaboration with students from Linkoping University and SCISS, AB in Sweden. Uniview allows for the seamless exploration of scales ranging from the mountains on Earth to the farthest known quasars. Uniview also provides for network collaboration for remote lectures, teaching, and professional development within a global network of users who log into the same database.

During my talk, I will demonstrate the Digital Universe atlas, discuss some of the visualization issues we encounter while building the atlas, then, in workshop-style, focus on how to use Partiview to visualize your own observed and simulated data.

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