Melissa Sevigny’s KNAU story about our astroinformatics boot camp run by David Trilling, affiliate faculty Mike Gowanlock, and MS student Daniel Kramer.
Astroinformatics
How an astroinformatics bootcamp is making the universe accessible
David Trilling, SICCS professor (and APS affiliate faculty) Mike Gowanlock, and SICCS MS student Daniel Kramer ran an astroinformatics boot camp before the beginning of the semester:
Seven students from a range of majors participated in the bootcamp to learn skills in computer science, astronomy, and astroinformatics. The goal of the boot camp was to increase participation in astroinformatics by students from underrepresented backgrounds.
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Prestigious NSF CAREER award supports integration of research, undergraduate training in parallel computing
Computer scientist and astroinformaticist Mike Gowanlock, an assistant professor at Northern Arizona University’s School of Informatics, Computing, and Cyber Systems, was recently awarded a $411,964 grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF). The award will support Gowanlock’s research in the emerging field of parallel computing architectures needed to process large volumes of data generated by major astronomical surveys, including the Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST).
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