About

Alyssa Goodman is the Robert Wheeler Willson Professor at Harvard University & coDirector for Science at the Radcliffe Institute
Research

Star Formation, Galactic Structure, Visualization, Scientific Computing, Science Education
Teaching

Astrophysics, Data Visualization, and Prediction

Recent Presentations

Knitting Together an Amazing new Multi-Color View of the Milky Way, in 3D, at Zoom, Thursday, July 23, 2020:

ngvla_knitting_2020_ag.pdf

A talk at the 2020 ngVLA Summer Short Talk Series, by Alyssa Goodman. Normally, when astronomers see beautiful, “3D” movies of the Milky Way or the stars and clouds within it, they assume those movies to be cartoons or computer simulations. In this talk, I will describe revolutionary data sets and data-science techniques that are enabling REAL 3D movies of the Milky Way to be made—right now. In particular, I will focus on how so-called “3D...