Sponsors

Thomas Robitaille

Thomas Robitaille leads a research group at the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy in Heidelberg (Germany) on the topic of star formation in the Milky-Way Galaxy. He has developed a number of open-source Python packages for Astronomy and is one of the three coordinators and one of the core developers for the Astropy project. In addition, he has given a number of Python and Astropy workshops, and teaches a 'Python for Scientists' course at the University of Heidelberg.

Presentations

Astropy sprint

WCSAxes: a framework for plotting astronomical and geospatial data

Tuesday 2:15 p.m.–2:45 p.m. in Room 204

Astropy and astronomical tools Part I

Sunday 8 a.m.–noon in Room 106

Astropy in 2014; What's new, where we are headed

Wednesday 3:30 p.m.–3:50 p.m. in Room 203