Visualization

A Peek at How We See the Universe with Glue, at Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, MA, Tuesday, June 28, 2022:
reu_vis_2022.pdf

A presentation for students of the REU program at Harvard about the state of partnerships between astronomical, physical, and computational approaches to gleaning insight from combinations of scientific and information visualization in Astrophysics. In particular, I discuss how the “glue” linked-view visualization environment (glueviz.org), developed originally to facilitate high-dimensional data exploration in Astronomy and Medicine, can be extended to many other fields of data-driven inquiry. Other topics include current open-source, plug & play, approach to software facilitates the combination of powerful programs and projects such as glue, WorldWide Telescope, ESASky, and the Zooniverse Citizen Science platform.

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The Local Milky Way, in 3D, at Institut Pascal, Paris, France, Wednesday, July 20, 2022:
the-locai-milky-way-in-3d.pdf

A talk at the 2022 Interstellar Institue on why 2D <--> 3D transformations, and paying attention to the dimensionality of data and display modes for it is so important in understanding the nature of the local interstellar medium. Plus, a sneak preview of the magnetic field of the Local Bubble, by way of an example of these visualization concepts. 

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A shot of space with a cloud formation

An Interview with Alyssa Goodman: NASA releases the first high-resolution color images from the largest space telescope ever built (NPR/WBUR)

July 12, 2022

New images from the James Webb Space Telescope show the most distant reaches of the universe in the most stunning detail ever captured.  Here and Now's Robin Young talks with Harvard University astronomy professor Alyssa Goodman about what the images show and what they will help astronomers learn about the universe....

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Your PRISE Universe, 2021, at Harvard University, Tuesday, August 3, 2021:
prise_2021.pdf

 A discussion of visualization, glue, glupyter, the Path to Newton, and the Prediction Project, with the Harvard PRISE (Program for Research in Science and Engineering) students, summer 2021 (AKA "Distinguished Speaker Lecture")

Chilloquium, at (Online only), Tuesday, May 4, 2021:
chilloquium.pdf
A discussion with Harvard's Society of Physics Students (unscripted). The small number of slides that were used to guide the discussion are posted here to make the links  embedded in them available. 

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