Subject: ADASS 2015 posters images Date: Fri, 6 Nov 2015 09:28:26 -0700 From: Doug Summers To: Software Group Hello all, I'd like to pass along the images of some posters of possible interest that I captured from the ADASS conference. Sorry about the quality of some of these poster images; the space and lighting were unusually tight this time. Not all of the images are bad, but some are definitely poor. Hopefully you can generally get the idea of what's being presented (or at least the titles and authors for contact if interested). Some of my own comments on the posters are provided below. I've put the images on google drive which I'll share separately via another email. The all-Sky VO AAT Node: - Virtual Observatory is an interest that I need to learn more about. It's been around for a while, and LBTO archive is at least partially VO compliant. - Hadoop is something that I'll want to investigate just a bit more. - There is a hint that HDF5 can be "queried"..... Taking Advantage of Cloud Solutions to Balance Requests in an Astrophysical Data Center - Written by (among others) Riccardo Smareglia. Riccardo will be here to discuss his project ideas on the 17th. - side note: Amazon was invited to talk about cloud solutions, but was a no-show at the conference....not good! Vissage - Another FITS browser, but supporting data cubes as well as 1D or 2D data. A "Big data" viewer. Automated Adaptive Reduction of Calibration Frames - This was captured because of Gemini and Q. It might be of passing interest to Michelle E. and Q folks. - Automated pipeline procedures are a good thing... Empirical Exposure Time Calculator for CFHT/MegaCam - The concept is to use the 200K archive images to empirically derive the ETC as opposed to the traditional approach. - Might be of interest to Mark Wagner, and Q team. Virtual Observatory Virtual Reality - This was Kai's poster. Kellee and I spent some time with Kai to both see his work, and to implement a quick demo of OVMS 3D time series visualizations. An Interactive, comparitive and quantitative 3D visualizatoin system for large-scale spectral-cube surveys using CAVE2 - Of passing interest only in the amount of money some projects are willing to spend for visualization...... - 80 stereo-capable displays with 320 degree visualization in an 8-meter working area TOPCAT's TAP Client - TAP is Table Access Protocol from the VO folks. The client is a query front end GUI. It's not new. The poster discusses recent improvements. Current Status of JVO portal - Another VO search engine. Some specific tools for Subaru and ALMA, but also more generally for VO. - Also discusses JVOSky tool (a GUI made from Aladin-lite) to visualize searching by celestial coordinates. 3D-Visualization of astronomical data in a web browser - Another Google Cardboard / Occulus Rift style visualization approach poster. - The user can also just use HTML5 / Javascript / WebGL as well (with reduced capability). - This is one we'll likely take a look at to see how it compares to Kai's approach. Astrophysics Source Code Library, version 3.0 - ASCL has been around for a while.....this is an update poster. If you're not aware of ASCL, then this might be of passing interest. Data Flow Tools at the VLT - I found this interesting because it mirrors our Q tools (Guider visualization and log tool) well. Aladin-Lite: status and perspectives - javascript lightweight sky atlas; web based. Lots of other tools use this tool as their visualization platform. We will likely find use for it as well. GWCS - A library for managing World Coordinate Systems - I thought Michele would find this interesting if she hasn't already been exposed to it before.... JNanocubes - visualization of large data sets. C++ open source using HEALPix tessellation through AladinLite. - The concept of most interest is visualizing data structures larger than available RAM. Accelerated 3D Visualization of Mock Galaxy Catalogues for Dark Energy Survey - Of passing interest for 3D visualization using Splotch. Machine learningn algorithms in Astronomy - If you know of "Big Data", the next buzzword is Machine Learning. These two go hand-in-hand as the size of the data will require machine learning to avoid huge human effort. ESA sky - A nice visualization of all the data taken for HST, ISO, and Herschel. Has a demo that can be viewed. Nightlight (http://nightlightapp.io). - native Mac FITS visualization. The poster camera image is poor, but the webpage shows the basics of the poster. - I think this could be a nice niche tool for Mac users. - The abstract of a talk can be found at PO78 of http://www.caastro.org/files/0/1184754343/adass---full-abstract-booklet.pdf PyASB, All Sky Brightness pipeline - of similar form to the LN All-Sky Camera brightness calculations (which we never received). - calculates atmospheric extinction, sky background brightness, and estimated cloud coverage - Could we use this SW with our own All-Sky Camera? - A side note: folks should know that Mark W. has identified a possible new All-Sky camera (color) with higher sensitivity for cirus and better daytime performance. Cheers, Doug -- Doug Summers Software and IT Group Manager Large Binocular Telescope Observatory 933 N. Cherry Ave. Tucson AZ, 85721 (520) 626-8366