Calypso to Calypso (Draft) and Mapping the Milky Way...,
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Winthrop House, Harvard University,
Tuesday, July 30, 2019:
Public Outreach
This was an unscripted presentation/discussion about Alyssa Goodman's Milky Way work and career to the Harvard College PRISE students, in the "PRISE Distinguished Speaker Series" for 2019. It offered a preview of the "Calypso to Calypso" talk to be given to Harvard Alumni at...
Beyond-the-Book-Thinking in Modern (STEM) Education,
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Harvard Graduate School of Education,
Friday, April 12, 2019:
In teaching, I have found that introducing students to new concepts using new media, usually in conjunction with “old media” is an effective way to increase engagement, learning, and, perhaps most importantly, curiosity. In this talk, I will draw...
Next in Data Visualization (Introduction and Handouts),
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Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard, Cambridge, MA,
Monday, April 1, 2019:
These are host Alyssa Goodman's introductory slides for the...
A presentation to a crowd of Barnstable High "AstroJunkies," about how we use physics, statistics, and visualizations to turn information from large, public, astronomical data sets, across many...
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
Climbing the Cosmic Distance Ladder "in" a WorldWide Telescope,
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Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Cambridge, MA,
Tuesday, November 27, 2018:
Visualization & the Universe: How and why astronomers, doctors, and you need to work together to understand the world around us…,
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University of Texas at Austin,
Thursday, November 15, 2018:
2nd Presentation during weeklong Tinsley Lectureship at UT Austin
The Undiscovered,
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Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Cambridge, MA,
Friday, October 26, 2018:
This short presentation introduced the annual Radcliffe Science Symposium, entitled "The Undiscovered." A description of the full event, with links to videos, is at the