Talks

Presentation Date: Wednesday, May 20, 2026 Location: Online for the Eleventh Parker Heliophysics Scholars Meeting In this talk, I’ll discuss the value and practice of data visualization. The best visualizations are clear and deep at the same time—and in...

Presentation Date: Monday, May 4, 2026 - 7:00 - 8:00PM. Location: Charles Hayden Planetarium. Museum of Science, Boston. Join astrophysicists Dr. Scott Lucchini and Dr. Alyssa Goodman on an expedition through the lives of stars and how they shape their...

Presentation Date: February 2026. Location: Renaissance Weekend in Amelia Island, FL. A talk given at Renaissance Weekend in Amelia Island, FL in February 2026. Files included on Alyssa Goodman's Dataverse are Keynote slides (in .key and .pdf formats).

Presentation Date: Friday, February 6, 2026. Location: Harvard College Observatory. A talk given to students at the Student and Faculty Forum at the Harvard College Observatory on Friday, February 6, 2026. Files included on Alyssa Goodman's Dataverse are...

Presentation Date: February 2026. Location: Renaissance Weekend in Amelia Island, FL. A talk given at Renaissance Weekend in Amelia Island, FL in February 2026. Files included on Alyssa Goodman's Dataverse are Keynote slides (in .key and .pdf formats).

Presentation Date: Thursday, November 13, 2025. Location: Steward/NOIRLab Colloquium in Tucson, AZ. The Sun orbits the Milky Way’s center about every 230 million years. As it travels, it also bobs up and down through the Galaxy’s gravitational mid-plane...

Presentation Date: October 2025. Location: Munich, Germany. The Sun orbits the Milky Way’s center about every 230 million years. As it travels, it also bobs up and down through the Galaxy’s gravitational mid-plane roughly every 30 million years. During...

Presentation Date: August 22, 2025 Location: Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, MA CosmicDS: Digital Interfaces for Scientific Research A short introduction to CosmicDS and the TEMPO data story, at the TEMPO team meeting in Cambridge, MA. Files included...

Presentation Date: May 6, 2025 Location: Ringberg Castle, Kreuth, Bavaria, Germany A short presentation at " Puzzles of Star Formation, 2 " highlighting the challenge of modeling the "spacetime" path of a star just after it forms, and why knowing such...