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Detailed Schedule for Astro Hack Week 2020 (Aug 31 - Sept 4)

Here are more details about the schedule for Astro Hack Week. Please be aware that some details might still evolve until the start of the workshop.

Doors open daily at 9:00am sharp. Coffee and cookies will be available each day, and lunch will be provided by at the Møller Center. An evening reception with drinks and light snacks will be held on Monday evening, and we will have an (un)conference dinner on Wednesday. Any snacks and meals not mentioned are on your own.

Location / venues

See map on the Logistics page.

Mornings: Sackler lecture theatre

Afternoons: Ryle + Kavli foyer

Exceptions: Thursday afternoon (outside location for our community hack afternoon), Friday morning (hacking in Ryle + Kavli foyer), Friday afternoon (final wrap up in the Sackler lecture theatre)

Teachers

Visualization: Tom Robitaille, Ellianna Abrahams

Software Dev: Brigitta Sipőcz, Tom Robitaille, Erik Tollerud

Querying surveys + data Management: Erik Tollerud, Brigitta Sipőcz

Machine Learning, Bayesian Inference: Francois Lanusse, Gabriella Contardo, Justin Alsing, Stephen Feeney

Sunday Aug 25 (optional)

  • 7:00pm for anybody already in town: informal gathering at The Maypole (20A Portugal Pl, Cambridge CB5 8AF).

Monday August 26 2019

Time Event
9:00 Registration and Welcome (IoA Foyer)
10:00 Introduction
10:45 Team Building
11:00 Coffee
11:30 Tutorial: Data Vizualization
13:00 Lunch at Møller Center
14:00 Pitches + Open Hacking / Breakouts
15:30 Coffee
16:00 Open Hacking / Breakouts
17:30 Wine & Cheese Welcome Party sponsored by Fetch.AI

Tuesday August 27 2019

Time Event
9:00 Tutorial: Software Development
11:00 Coffee
11:30 Tutorial: Querying Surveys & Data Management
13:00 Lunch at Møller Center
14:00 Pitches + Open Hacking / Breakouts
15:30 Coffee
16:00 Open Hacking / Breakouts
17:30 Hacking Show & Tell

Wednesday August 28 2019

Time Event
9:00 Team Building
9:30 Tutorial: Machine Learning, Bayesian Inference
11:00 Coffee
11:30 Tutorial: Machine Learning, Bayesian Inference
13:00 Lunch at Møller Center
14:00 Pitches + Open Hacking / Breakouts
15:30 Coffee
16:00 Open Hacking / Breakouts
17:30 Hacking Show & Tell
19:00 Conference Dinner at 'The Acropolis at Caius'
Google 'Stephen Hawking Building'

Thursday August 29 2019

Time Event
9:00 Tutorial: Machine Learning, Bayesian Inference
11:00 Coffee
11:30 Tutorial: Machine Learning, Bayesian Inference
13:00 Lunch at Møller Center
14:00 Community Hack Afternoon: Pitches + Open Hacking
15:30 Coffee
16:00 Community Hack Afternoon: Open Hacking
17:30 Community Hacking Results Show & Tell

Friday August 30 2019

Time Event
9:00 Open Hacking
11:00 Coffee
11:30 Open Hacking
13:00 Lunch at Møller Center
14:20 Feedback.
14:20 Open Hacking
15:30 Coffee
16:00 Final Results Show & Tell
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