Breakouts

Are you an expert on a topic that we're not covering in the morning sessions? Would you like a chance to share this expertise with others during our afternoon unconference times? Feel free to list your name and your topic here, as well as what time during the week you'd like to break out. There is nothing else scheduled during the afternoon hack times, so feel free!

Breakout ideas:

• Collaborative document editing with Authorea and/or Overleaf - bring your half-written paper that you're tired of emailing back and forth or just come see a casual demo of how to make the most out of these tools Meredith Rawls

• Introduction to Julia programming language, with a quick overview of the existing astronomical packages. Mosè Giordano

• Advanced Bayesian inference methods: Large hierarchical models, graphical representation, and high-dimensional parameter inference with hybrid sampling (Gibbs, HMC, etc). Could become a tutorial on the Stan software package. Could also before a deep learning tutorial. Boris Leistedt

• Gaussian processes for regression and emulation. Boris Leistedt

Previous years' breakouts:

Here are some of the breakouts that happened at the previous Astro Hack Weeks.

• Intro to profiling python. From a question during the intro session: "is it faster to do x*x or x**2?", answer: don't assume, profile! (John Parejko)

• TOPCAT and STILTS let you load, explore, and visualize tables easily both through a GUI and on the command line. (Tina Peters)

• Intro to Julia programming language. Could be a brief overview or a more in-depth tutorial. Kyle Barbary

• Breakout on visualization with D3 and MPLD3 Jake VanderPlas

• Demo / Intro to Astropy - same as above, could be a brief overview or more in-depth. Adrian Price-Whelan