PyData Southampton - 22nd Meetup
Details
Venue: Carnival House, 100 Harbour Parade, Southampton, SO15 1ST
📢 Want to speak 📢: submit your talk proposal
Main Talks
1️⃣ Astronomers have too many images. What they really want is time series - Zac Irving
To study how celestial objects vary over time, astronomers need time series (measurements of an object's brightness over time). However, telescopes don't produce time series; they produce images. Astronomers therefore need software to reduce their telescope's images into time series. Unfortunately, this software exists in "pieces" with various open-source projects like photutils or source-extractor providing pieces of the image-to-time-series puzzle, but ultimately leaving gaps for astronomers to overcome. As such, it has typically up to telescope operators to write full reduction pipelines for their telescopes; this has resulted in rigid pipelines that cannot easily be applied to data from other telescopes.
2️⃣ TBA -
⚡Lightning Talks ⚡
⚡1️⃣ TBA
⚡2️⃣ TBA
Please note:
- 🚨🚨🚨A valid photo ID is required by building security. You MUST use your initial/first name and surname on your meetup profile, otherwise, you will NOT make it on the guest list! 🚨🚨🚨
- This event follows the NumFOCUS Code of Conduct, please familiarise yourself with it before the event.
If your RSVP status says "You're going" you will be able to get in. No further confirmation required. You will NOT need to show your RSVP confirmation when signing in.
If you can no longer make it, please unRSVP as soon as you know so we can assign your place to someone on the waiting list.
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Code of Conduct:
This event follows the NumFOCUS Code of Conduct, please familiarise yourself with it before the event. Please get in touch with the organisers with any questions or concerns regarding the Code of Conduct.
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There will be pizza & drinks, generously provided by our host, Carnival UK.
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Logistics
Doors open at 6.30 pm, talks start at 7 pm. For those who wish to continue networking and chatting we will move to a nearby pub/bar for drinks from 9 pm.
Please unRSVP in good time if you realise you can't make it. We're limited by building security on the number of attendees, so please free up your place for your fellow community members!
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