Fwd: [AstroPy] Astronomy & Astrophysics Mini-Symposium at SciPy2013

[Jack Ireland]

Can anyone go to Austin in June this year?

http://conference.scipy.org/scipy2013/

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Subject:	[AstroPy] Astronomy & Astrophysics Mini-Symposium at SciPy2013
Date:	Thu, 28 Feb 2013 15:08:44 -0600
From:	Tom Aldcroft <aldc...@head.cfa.harvard.edu>
To:	astropy <ast...@scipy.org>

Dear colleagues,

We are planning to have an Astronomy & Astrophysics Mini-Symposium at
the SciPy2013 conference in Austin, TX in June 2013 [1].  The use of
Python for astronomy research is growing rapidly, and we have seen the
emergence of large and well-organized community efforts to develop
analysis packages for astronomy.

I'm excited to have the opportunity to organize and chair this
mini-symposium.  This is timely moment for the astronomy Python
community to get together and present what's new and exciting, as well
as to discuss and define future priorities.  This will be an evening
session taking 1.5 hours and consisting of 4 - 6 talks and some form
of open discussion.

I'd like to encourage everybody to attend SciPy2013 this year and
participate in the overall discussion.  We need viewpoints not only
from people deeply involved in development, but also newcomers and
those who are just trying to get their research done.  I also want to
specifically invite people to submit a talk or poster abstract so we
can make the mini-symposium interesting.  The abstract deadline is
March 20.

If you have questions or suggestions please contact me or post to this
list as appropriate.  Please forward this message to your colleagues
who may not be on this list.  I'm interested in ideas for discussion
topics that would be productive.  One possibility is examining some of
the large community efforts (e.g. yt, SunPy, Astropy, etc) to look for
opportunities for cross-project coordination.

Best regards,
Tom Aldcroft

[1] http://conference.scipy.org/scipy2013/
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[Stuart Mumford]

I was planning on applying for a travel grant from SciPy 2013 so hopefully!

Stuart

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[Steven Christe]

I don't really have travel money to go to this but it does seem like it would be really worth it...

[Steven Christe]

That would be great if you could get funding to go Stuart. You could be the official sunpy ambassador to scipy!

[Stuart Mumford]

I am going to apply don't know how likely they are to give me the cash!

[Erik Bray]

I will likely be there but not 100% sure yet. I was at SciPy last
year when we had the first Astronomy mini-symposium there, and it was
a big success. There were enough people there and enough discussion
that I wished it could have gone on longer than it did. In any case,
the turnout was better than anyone expected, so we need to keep that
up :)

[Steven Christe]

Hey Erik, good to hear from you. SciPy would be a great forum for discussion but it seems unlikely that we will be able to support it (besides hopefully Stuart!). In order to
maintain good communication would you (or someone else) be willing to join one of our meetings as a guest? Perhaps we could also do the opposite? I've been thinking that we should soon begin to integrate and therefore require astropy. It would be great to discuss this with you. Thanks.