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Talks and presentations by Alyssa A. Goodman. Additional previous presentations can be found here.

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The Art of Visualization

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...
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Beyond the Telescope: How Stars Shape Galaxies

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...
Phantom Gallaxy

Way, Way Out There?

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).
everything everywhere all at once

The Prediction Project (Renaissance Weekend 2026)

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).
The Prediction Project (Renaissance Weekend 2026)

Once Around the Milky Way

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...
The new milky way

CosmicDS: Digital Interfaces for Scientific Research

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...
Cosmic DS

How do young stars leave home? And why might that matter?

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...
Field of flowers and grass with trees under a blue sky with white clouds.

Seeing the Milky Way in 3D (CIERA Colloquium)

Presentation Date: April 7, 2025 Location: CIERA Colloquium at Northwestern University, Evanston, IL Over just the past five years, 3D dust mapping, largely enabled by Gaia, has revealed fully unexpected new phenomena, like " The Radcliffe Wave"...
Seeing the Milky Way in 3D

AI in my Astro+Visualization Life Today (SkAI Colloquium)

Presentation Date: Friday, April 4, 2025 Location: Chicago, IL I have been lucky enough in my career so far to watch, and I hope help, computational technology change what we can learn about our Universe. Today, in 2025, I somewhat unexpectedly find...
AI in my Astro+Visualization Life Today