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The Future of Data in Science (*postponed*)
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Once upon a time, I was an astrophysicist.  Then, about fifteen years ago, I started using medical imaging tools on high-dimensional astronomical data sets, and caring more than was normal about sharing and re-using data and software, and making online...

The Prediction Project: The Past and Present of the Future
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Humans are alone in the animal kingdom as worriers.  We are the only ones who expend tremendous amounts of time, energy and resources trying to know and understand our futures before they happen.   The Prediction Project  is a coordinated investigation...

Mapping the Milky Way, from the Inside Out, in Color
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A presentation to a crowd of Barnstable High "AstroJunkies," about how we use physics, statistics, and visualizations to turn information from large, public, astronomical data sets, across many wavelengths into a better understanding of the structure of...

Beyond-the-Book-Thinking in Modern (STEM) Education
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In teaching, I have found that introducing students to new concepts using new media, usually in conjunction with “old media” is an effective way to increase engagement, learning, and, perhaps most importantly, curiosity. In this talk, I will draw from a...

Teasing Out the True Milky Way
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It has been nearly 100 years since the "Great Debate," where Heber Curtis correctly argued that Thomas Wright's 1750 ideas about our Milky Way being one of many "galaxies," each a flattish disk of a multitude of stars, was correct.   Since then...

Calypso to Calypso (Preview) and Mapping the Milky Way
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This was an unscripted presentation/discussion, using the short Google Slides presentation embedded below, about Alyssa Goodman's Milky Way work and career, given to students as part of the "PRISE Distinguished Speaker Series" for 2019.  It offered a...