Prediction
An invited retrospective on how Alyssa Goodman's many seemingly-unrelated research pursuits and interests evolved, and are actually related.
Calypso to Calypso (Preview) and Mapping the Milky Way,
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Winthrop House, Harvard University,
Tuesday, July 30, 2019
This was an unscripted presentation/discussion, using the short Google Slides presentation embedded below, about Alyssa Goodman's Milky Way work and career, given to students as part of the "PRISE Distinguished Speaker Series" for 2019. It offered a preview of the "...
The Future of Data in Science (*postponed*),
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WiDS, Microsoft New England, Cambridge, MA,
Monday, March 4, 2019
Once upon a time, I was an astrophysicist. Then, about fifteen years ago, I started using medical imaging tools on high-dimensional astronomical data sets, and caring more than was normal about sharing and re-using data and software, and making online documents...
The Prediction Project: The Past and Present of the Future,
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University of Padua, Italy,
Thursday, February 21, 2019:
Humans are alone in the animal kingdom as worriers. We are the only ones who expend tremendous amounts of time, energy and resources trying to know and understand our futures before they happen. The Prediction Project is a coordinated...
The Path to Newton,
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233rd Meeting of the American Astronomical Society, Seattle, WA,
Monday, January 7, 2019:
Note, an online "iPoster" with significant additional content accompanied this talk, and can be found at
The Past and Present of the Future ,
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Dent 2018, Napa Valley, California,
Thursday, February 1, 2018
Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, 