by Eckhart Spalding | Aug 4, 2017 | Current Events
The African continent will soon host a number of massive astronomy projects. Today we’ll look at two collaborations that are helping to bring out the continent’s requisite human potential.
by Zephyr Penoyre | Mar 17, 2017 | Career Navigation, Guides, Personal Experiences
We all teach, in some form, every single day. For many academics that means a class full of students eager to learn. And yet we are so very rarely taught to teach. Here we introduce one simple morsel that can improve our way of explaining something immensely: deciding what you want to say, and then saying it.
by Meredith Rawls | Jul 2, 2014 | Personal Experiences
SciCoder is an annual workshop in New York City for early-career astronomers with the tagline: How I Learned To Stop Hating Coding and Start Getting Things Done.
by Ben Montet | Nov 3, 2013 | Personal Experiences
Part two of our recap of the “Modern Statistical and Computational Methods for Analysis of Kepler Data” workshop in North Carolina, featuring both astronomers and statisticians!
by Ben Montet | Nov 2, 2013 | Personal Experiences
A recap of the “Modern Statistical and Computational Methods for Analysis of Kepler Data” workshop in North Carolina, featuring both astronomers and statisticians!
by Astrobites | Apr 8, 2013 | Current Events, Quick Notes
Astrobites will be at the 222nd AAS meeting in Indianapolis, IN from June 2-6, 2013! Will you? Although the regular abstract deadline has passed, you can still present a poster. The late deadline for the meeting is coming up soon: April 18 at 9:00 pm ET. Also, the regular registration deadline is even sooner: April 11. After this date the registration cost increases slightly. It is worth noting that junior AAS members (i.e. students that join AAS) pay a fraction of the normal registration cost, making it easy to convince your advisor to send you to meetings! See the AAS website here for more details on submitting your abstract and registering for the meeting.For our undergraduate readers that have not yet had a chance to attend a AAS meeting, let me take a moment to convince you to go. Attending a AAS meeting is a wonderful opportunity to become involved in the US’s largest professional astronomy society. The summer meeting provides many of the same types of events as the better-known winter meeting, but it is a bit less crowded and thus can often feel more personal. Some of the exciting activities include: the exhibit hall (with lots of free giveaways from astronomy organizations, observatories, universities and astro-related companies) plenary talks from award-winning scientists oral sessions on specialized topics in astronomy press releases (everyone is invited to attend, not just the media) several receptions and town hall meetings that are great to sit in on and hear about the state of the field poster sessions (including yours?) Perhaps most importantly, attending a AAS meeting lets you start building your astronomy network. You...