Public Outreach

PRISEd Conversation 2020, at zoom, Tuesday, July 14, 2020:

A discussion + set of live demonstrations of Alyssa Goodman's work, for the Harvard Program for Research in Science and Engineering (PRISE) summer research students. (The demonstrations are descried in detail... Read more about PRISEd Conversation 2020

Calypso to Calypso Wednesday, October 16, 2019:

calypso_to_calypso.pdf

Keynote slide image excerpted from presentation An invited retrospective on how Alyssa Goodman's many seemingly-unrelated research pursuits and interests evolved, and are actually related.

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Blog Feature: Dr. Alyssa Goodman talks with the The Harvard College Program in Science and Engineering (PRISE)

September 23, 2020

Dr. Alyssa Goodman talks with Felicia Ho, PRISE, Harvard College '23 about Jacques Cousteau, data visualization, climate change, prediction science, and the wide arc of influences that have shaped her multifaceted career as the Robert Wheeler Wilson Professor of Applied Astronomy at Harvard.

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Seeing, Exploring, Explaining, and Sharing our Universe, at American Museum of Natural History, New York City, Monday, December 2, 2019:

SeeingExploringExplaining.pdf

Scientists show each other pictures. Sure, we also show each other equations, and words, but we communicate most rapidly using pictures. In modern science, these “pictures” can be used to understand and explore phenomena in...

Calypso to Calypso (Preview) and Mapping the Milky Way, at Winthrop House, Harvard University, Tuesday, July 30, 2019

Calypso 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 "...

Beyond-the-Book-Thinking in Modern (STEM) Education, at Harvard Graduate School of Education, Friday, April 12, 2019:

beyondthebookhgse.pdf

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), at Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard, Cambridge, MA, Monday, April 1, 2019:

nidv_intro_goodman.pdf

first slide These are host Alyssa Goodman's introductory slides for the...

Mapping the Milky Way, from the Inside Out, in Color, at Barnstable, MA, Friday, March 15, 2019:

barnstable2019.pdf

First Slide image 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 Prediction Project: The Past and Present of the Future, at University of Padua, Italy, Thursday, February 21, 2019:

paduapredictionag.pdf

PredictionX Logo 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 Future of Data in Science (*postponed*), at WiDS, Microsoft New England, Cambridge, MA, Monday, March 4, 2019

Seamless Astronomy Logo 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...