Conference Programme

Sunday 6th of October 2019

12:00 - 13:00

Tutorials check-in/Registration (Martini Plaza: registration desk in main entrance hall)

13:00 - 17:30

Demo booth/Poster setup

Tutorial Session 1

Start Time: 13:00 | Room: 10 & 11a

13:00 - 15:00

Francesco Pierfederici —

Ridiculously Advanced Python

Tutorial Session 2

Start Time: 13:00 | Room: 11b & 12

13:00 - 15:00

Kai Lars Polsterer —

Machine learning

14:30 - 15:30

Tutorials check-in/Registration (Martini Plaza: registration desk in main entrance hall)

15:00 - 15:30

Coffee Break

Tutorial Session 3

Start Time: 15:30 | Room: 10 & 11a

15:30 - 17:30

Peter Williams —

Interactively exploring and visualizing data on the sky with Jupyter and pywwt

Tutorial Session 4

Start Time: 15:30 | Room: 13

15:30 - 17:30

Felix Stoehr —

DesignThinking

Session . Welcome Reception

Start Time: 19:00

19:00 - 21:00

Welcome reception (Academiegebouw, Broerstraat 5, Groningen)

Monday 7th of October 2019

07:45 - 08:45

Registration

08:45 - 09:00

Welcome address by Prof. Carole Jackson (General and Scientific Director - ASTRON)

Session 1. Data discovery across heterogeneous datasets

Start Time: 09:00 | Room: Plenary Theatre | Chair: Xiuqin Wu

09:00 - 09:30

Invited talk (I1.1)

Joseph Mazzarella —

Science Discovery with Diverse Multi-wavelength Datasets Fused in NED

09:30 - 09:45

Oral Contribution (O1.2)

Mauricio Araya —

Content-aware Data Discovery on VO Catalogs Using Succinct Representations

09:45 - 10:00

Oral Contribution (O1.3)

Sara Nieto —

A Science discovery portal for EUCLID data: The EUCLID scientific archive system

10:00 - 11:00

Coffee and Poster break

Session 2. Multi-wavelength astronomy

Start Time: 11:00 | Room: Plenary Theatre | Chair: Keith Shortridge

11:00 - 11:30

Invited talk (I2.1)

Ranga-Ram Chary —

Euclid, LSST, WFIRST Joint Survey Processing: The Whole is Greater Than the Sum of Its Parts

11:30 - 11:45

Oral Contribution (O2.2)

Mattia Vaccari —

The Ilifu Cloud Computing Facility and the HIPPO Project

11:45 - 12:00

Oral Contribution (O2.3)

Pierre Fernique —

Connecting space and time in a multi-messenger landscape: STMOC behind the scene

Lightning Session 1

Start Time: 12:00 | Room: Plenary Theatre | Chair: Keith Shortridge

12:00 - 12:03

L.1

Andrey Andrianov —

(P1.4) Computational aspects of Space-VLBI missions (“Radioastron” and “Millimetron”)

12:03 - 12:06

L.2

Martin Kuemmel —

(P1.6) Working with the SExtractor++ software

12:06 - 12:09

L.3

Simon O'Toole —

(P1.10) Data Central for Survey Teams

12:09 - 12:12

L.4

Vlad-Haralambie Ispas —

(P9.19) Death to IRAF

12:12 - 12:15

L.5

Katrina Sealey —

(P9.8) The Future of AAO-MQ Research Data and Software

12:15 - 13:45

Lunch break

Session 3a. Evolution of software development and management

Start Time: 13:45 | Room: Plenary Theatre | Chair: Jorge Ibsen

13:45 - 14:15

Invited talk (I3.1)

Michael Crusoe —

Saving money, time, and stress with standards-based workflows

14:15 - 14:30

Oral Contribution (O3.2)

Gijs Verdoes Kleijn —

Data model as agile basis for evolving calibration software

14:30 - 14:45

Oral Contribution (O3.3)

Jouke Roorda —

Functional programming: why you should care

14:45 - 15:00

Oral Contribution (O3.4)

Megan Sosey —

Evolution of Science Data Pipelines: From HST, to JWST, to WFIRST

15:00 - 16:00

Coffee and Poster break

Session 3b. Evolution of software development and management

Start Time: 16:00 | Room: Plenary Theatre | Chair: Jorge Ibsen

16:00 - 16:15

Oral Contribution (O3.5)

Xiuqin Wu —

Experience in software development and management

16:15 - 16:30

Oral Contribution (O3.6)

Yan Grange —

The struggle towards an open source policy

16:30 - 16:45

Oral Contribution (O3.7)

Jessica Mink —

Lessons Learned From Developing and Maintaining Shared Astronomical Software Packages

16:45 - 17:05

Hackathon prizes

Birds of a Feather (B.1)

Start Time: 17:10 | Room: Plenary Theatre

17:10 - 18:10

Chenzhou Cui —

Education and public outreach in the era of Big Data science

Birds of a Feather (B.2)

Start Time: 17:10 | Room: 1 & 2

17:10 - 18:10

Jessica Mink —

Data Formats BoF

Birds of a Feather (B.3)

Start Time: 17:10 | Room: 5 & 6

17:10 - 18:10

Jan Noordam —

Escaping from the herd of white elephants

Tuesday 8th of October 2019

08:55 - 09:00

Morning announcements

Session 4a. Data science challenges: tools from statistics to machine learning

Start Time: 09:00 | Room: Plenary Theatre | Chair: Peter Teuben

09:00 - 09:30

Invited talk (I4.1)

Daniela Huppenkothen —

Data Science Challenges in Time Domain Astronomy: Building Methods, Tools and Communities

09:30 - 09:45

Oral Contribution (O4.2)

Yanxia Zhang —

Photometric Redshift Estimation of Quasars by Machine Learning

09:45 - 10:00

Oral Contribution (O4.3)

Sweta Singh —

Scientific Visualisation of Extremely Large Distributed Astronomical Surveys

10:00 - 11:00

Coffee and Poster break

10:25 - 10:55

Focus Demo (F1)

Janet Evans —

High Impact Data Availability using Community Standards and Tools - the Chandra Experience

Session 4b. Data science challenges: tools from statistics to machine learning

Start Time: 11:00 | Room: Plenary Theatre | Chair: Peter Teuben

11:00 - 11:15

Oral Contribution (O4.4)

Shraddha Surana —

Machine Learning for Scientific Discovery

11:15 - 11:30

Oral Contribution (O4.5)

Antonia Rowlinson —

Identifying transient and variable sources in radio images

Session 5a. Data visualisation from line plots to augmented & virtual reality

Start Time: 11:30 | Room: Plenary Theatre | Chair: Brian Kent

11:30 - 12:00

Invited talk (I5.1)

Jacqueline Faherty —

Visualizing a billion stars

12:00 - 12:15

Oral Contribution (O5.2)

Bruce Berriman —

Creating High Quality All-Sky Visualizations of Astronomy Image Data Sets: HiPS and Montage

Lightning Session 2

Start Time: 12:15 | Room: Plenary Theatre | Chair: Brian Kent

12:15 - 12:18

L.6

James Nightingale —

(P3.7) PyAutoFit: An Open-Source Framework for Automated Bayesian Inference

12:18 - 12:21

L.7

Amanda Ibsen —

(P3.10) Prompt detection of super-luminous supernovae with deep learning

12:21 - 12:24

L.8

Venustiano Soancatl Aguilar —

(P4.9) Visualising Virtual Observatory Data in Digital Planetaria

12:24 - 12:27

L.9

Fred Lahuis —

(P3.16)The Horizon-2020 ExoplANETS_A project: advancing the field of exoplanet science

12:27 - 12:30

L.10

J. B. Raymond Oonk —

(P6.1) Pioneering the Exascale era with Astronomy

12:30 - 14:00

Lunch break

Session 5b. Data visualisation from line plots to augmented & virtual reality

Start Time: 14:00 | Room: Plenary Theatre | Chair: Brian Kent

14:00 - 14:15

Oral Contribution (O5.3)

Harro Verkouter —

jiveplot: Inspecting large volumes of raw radio data made easy

14:15 - 14:30

Oral Contribution (O5.4)

William Roby —

Firefly and Python- new ways to visualize data on the web

14:30 - 14:45

Oral Contribution (O5.5)

Lucia Marchetti —

The Data2Dome Initiative at the Iziko Planetarium in Cape Town and the IDIA Visualisation Lab

14:45 - 15:00

Oral Contribution (O5.6)

Tatiana Goldina —

Integrating Plotly charts into Firefly visualization system

15:00 - 16:00

Coffee and Poster break

15:25 - 15:55

Focus Demo (F2)

Brian Cherinka —

Marvin: A Toolkit for Streamlined Access and Visualization of the SDSS-IV MaNGA Data Set

Session 6. Local and global cloud infrastructure for processing and storage

Start Time: 16:00 | Room: Plenary Theatre | Chair: Francesco Pierfederici

16:00 - 16:30

Invited talk (I6.1)

Christine Banek —

Why is the LSST Science Platform built on Kubernetes?

16:30 - 16:45

Oral Contribution (O6.2)

Vicente Navarro —

Multi Mission Science Exploitation and Preservation Platform

16:45 - 17:00

Oral Contribution (O6.3)

Rees Williams —

The Euclid Archive Processing and Data Distribution Systems: a distributed infrastructure for Euclid and associated data

Birds of a Feather (B.4)

Start Time: 17:20 | Room: Plenary Theatre

17:20 - 18:20

Vanessa Moss —

Forming a global network for communication between astronomical observatories

Birds of a Feather (B.5)

Start Time: 17:20 | Room: 1 & 2

17:20 - 18:20

Yan Grange —

Accelerating scientific discoveries in the modern hardware landscape

Birds of a Feather (B.6)

Start Time: 17:20 | Room: 5 & 6

17:20 - 18:20

Martin Vogelaar —

Teaching our students astro computing

Session . Conference Dinner

Start Time: 20:00

20:00 - 23:00

Dinner at restaurant 'de Rietschans'

Wednesday 9th of October 2019

08:55 - 09:00

Morning announcements

Session 7a. Telescope operations and scheduling: from classical to autonomous

Start Time: 09:00 | Room: Plenary Theatre | Chair: Pascal Ballester

09:00 - 09:30

Invited talk (I7.1)

Josep Colomé —

STARS: Telescope and space mission scheduling towards a multi-observatory framework

09:30 - 09:45

Oral Contribution (O7.2)

Roberto Pizzo —

LOFAR: challenges and solutions to operate the World's largest radio telescope

09:45 - 10:00

Oral Contribution (O7.3)

Vanessa Moss —

Preparing for the next generation of radio observatory operations

10:00 - 11:00

Coffee and Poster break

10:25 - 10:55

Focus Demo (F3)

Johannes Spreeuw —

GPU acceleration of the SAGECal calibration package for the SKA

Session 7b. Telescope operations and scheduling: from classical to autonomous

Start Time: 11:00 | Room: Plenary Theatre | Chair: Pascal Ballester

11:00 - 11:15

Oral Contribution (O7.4)

Benjamin Winkel —

Starlink, OneWeb and 5G - A new dark age for radio astronomy?

11:15 - 11:30

Oral Contribution (O7.5)

Matthias Schartner —

Presentation of a new VLBI scheduling software VieSched++

11:30 - 11:45

Oral Contribution (O7.6)

Eva Sciacca —

Big Data Architectures for Logging and Monitoring Large Scale Telescope Arrays

11:45 - 12:00

Oral Contribution (O7.7)

Luisa Arrabito —

A DIRAC based prototype for the Cherenkov Telescope Array data management, processing and simulations

Lightning Session 3

Start Time: 12:00 | Room: Plenary Theatre | Chair: Pascal Ballester

12:00 - 12:03

L.11

François Bonnarel —

(P2.6) Implementation feedback of the IVOA Provenance data model

12:03 - 12:06

L.12

Sander ter Veen —

(P8.13) Calibration of a phased array using holography: the LOFAR case.

12:06 - 12:09

L.13

Pablo Gutiérrez-Marqués —

(P8.17) Operability vs optimization in automated telescopes. Lessons learnt from robotic space exploration.

12:09 - 12:12

L.14

Karan Vahi —

(P10.39) Gearing the DECam Analysis Pipeline for Multi-Messenger Astronomy using Pegasus Workflows

12:12 - 12:15

L.15

Gyula I. G. Jozsa —

(P10.40) MeerKATHI - an end-to-end data reduction pipeline for MeerKAT and other radio telescopes

12:15 - 13:45

Lunch break

Session 8. Open data access and provisioning

Start Time: 13:45 | Room: Plenary Theatre | Chair: Jessica Mink

13:45 - 14:15

Invited talk (I8.1)

Juan Gonzalez-Nunez —

Maximising data reach: bringing the Gaia dataset to the world

14:15 - 14:30

Oral Contribution (O8.2)

Anastasia Galkin —

Daiquiri - Python based framework for the publication of scientific databases

14:30 - 14:45

Oral Contribution (O8.3)

Anne-Marie Weijmans —

Streamlining the Sloan Digital Sky Survey public data releases: changes made and lessons learned

14:45 - 15:00

Oral Contribution (O8.4)

Javier Hernández Fuertes —

Implementing, with Python and PostgreSQL, Virtual Observatory services for publishing survey data from the Observatorio Astrofísico de Javalambre

15:00 - 16:00

Coffee and Poster break

15:25 - 15:55

Focus Demo (F4)

Gijs Verdoes Kleijn —

WISE information systems

Session 9. Data processing pipelines

Start Time: 16:00 | Room: Plenary Theatre | Chair: Stephen Gwyn

16:00 - 16:30

Invited talk (I9.1)

Eleonora Alei —

Exo-MerCat: a merged exoplanet catalog with Virtual Observatory connection

16:30 - 16:45

Oral Contribution (O9.2)

Steven Crawford —

Science Platforms for the reduction and analysis of data for the James Webb Space Telescope

16:45 - 17:00

Oral Contribution (O9.3)

Gijs Molenaar —

Easy to deploy and easy to modify data reduction pipelines using KERN and CWL

17:00 - 17:15

Oral Contribution (O9.4)

Mateusz Malenta —

Accelerating Radio Astronomy With High Performance Computing

17:15 - 17:30

Oral Contribution (O9.5)

Emmanuel Bertin —

The SExtractor++ software

Birds of a Feather (B.7)

Start Time: 17:35 | Room: Plenary Theatre

17:35 - 18:35

Simon O'Toole —

Building Balanced Teams

Birds of a Feather (B.8)

Start Time: 17:35 | Room: 1 & 2

17:35 - 18:35

Giuliano Taffoni —

Science platforms: towards data science.

Birds of a Feather (B.9)

Start Time: 17:35 | Room: 5 & 6

17:35 - 18:35

Alice Allen —

Future Governance of the Astrophysics Source Code Library

Thursday 10th of October 2019

08:55 - 09:00

Morning announcements

Session 10. Delivering accessible and science-ready radio data

Start Time: 09:00 | Room: Plenary Theatre | Chair: Roberto Pizzo

09:00 - 09:30

Invited talk (I10.1)

André Offringa —

Designing radio-astronomical software for delivering science-ready products

09:30 - 09:45

Oral Contribution (O10.2)

Mark Lacy —

The NRAO Science Ready Data Products Pilot Program

09:45 - 10:00

Oral Contribution (O10.3)

Alexandar Mechev —

LOFAR data: From archive to arXiv

10:00 - 11:00

Coffee and Poster break

Session 11. Other

Start Time: 11:00 | Room: Plenary Theatre | Chair: Nuria Lorente

11:00 - 11:15

Oral Contribution (O11.1)

Francois-Xavier Pineau —

ExXmatch: a tool for extremely fast cross-matches

11:15 - 11:45

Oral Contribution (O11.2)

BoF Summaries

11:45 - 12:15

Birds of a Feather Discussion (B.10)

Peter Teuben —

The Future of Proceedings

12:15 - 12:30

Closing remarks

12:30 - 13:30

Boxed lunch

13:30

Bus leaves for tour of telescopes (Departure Martiniplaza)

Legend

Invited talk
Oral contribution
Lightning talks
Focus Demo
Other activity
Break