IRSA Conferences

This page collects all of the events and/or presentations that may be of interest at recent and/or upcoming conferences where IRSA has a presence.

Next Event: AAS January 2024

New and/or Important Things At IRSA include:

• IRSA is conducting a user survey! The anonymous survey should take about 5 minutes to complete. Please help us help the community by filling out the survey and spreading the word!
• WISE and Spitzer SEIP data are available in Amazon Web Services (AWS) S3 buckets. Images are available in FITS format and Catalogs are available as Parquet files. More information is available here.
• Video overview of "what's new at IRSA" since Jan 2022
• Video overview of "what's new with IRSA tools" since Jan 2022 (also see video with general introduction to IRSA Viewer, as opposed to a video highlighting just the new stuff)
• For other recent news, please see our news page

IRSA and IRSA-adjacent sessions include:

• IRSA will be at the IPAC booth all week, along with NED.
• IRSA will help with the workshop "Best Practices for Data Publication in the Astronomical Literature", Saturday, Jan 6, 2:00-4:00 pm. It will be heavily based on Chen et al. (2022), "Best Practices for Data Publication in the Astronomical Literature",
• IRSA will help with the workshop "Python and Astropy for Astronomical Data Analysis", Sunday Jan 7, 9am -5:30 pm
• IRSA will help with the workshop "Accessing NASA's Astrophysics Archives Using Python", Sunday, Jan 7, 2:00-4:00 pm.
• Workshop: "How to Write an Open Science and Data Management Plan", Sunday, Jan 7, 9:00am-4:30pm, presented by NASA's Transform to Open Science (TOPS) and the AAS Journals.
• NASA Town Hall, Monday, Jan 8, 12:45-1:45 pm.
• Special Session: "The Euclid Mission and Opportunities for Archival Research", Tuesday, Jan 9, 2-3:30pm
• IRSA staff will help staff a "Data Help Desk" at the AAS HQ booth to answer data-related questions in the context of publications and data sharing. Keep an eye on social media for specific times!
• NITARP, the NASA/IPAC Teacher Archive Research Program, works closely with IRSA data and staff. All of their posters are linked from this page.
• Also see the list of all Euclid-related activities at the AAS.
• Also see the list of all IPAC-related activities at the AAS.

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Past Meetings

ADASS November 2023

IRSA and IRSA-adjacent sessions include:

• Science with Data Archives session - Nov 6-9, 2023 (click on link to get specific times of talks)
• Jessica Krick -- Talk: Lessons Learned from a Multi-wavelength Time Domain Use Case on a Science Platform - 9:45 to 10 a.m., Nov. 6, 2023
• Xiuqin Wu (et al.) -- Birds of a Feather session: Best practices in data presentation - 5:40 to 7 p.m., Nov. 6, 2023
• Trey Roby -- Talk: User Experience for astronomical software - 9:30 to 9:45 a.m., Nov. 7, 2023
• Gregory Dubois-Felsmann -- Focus Demo: The Rubin Science Platform: powered by IVOA standards and contemporary software deployment methodologies - 3:15 to 3:45 p.m., Nov. 8, 2023
• Bruce Berriman -- Talk: Processing All- Sky Images At Scale On The Amazon Cloud: A HiPS Example - 4:15 to 4:30 p.m., Nov. 9, 2023
• Emmanuel Joliet -- Poster: Running Roman Pipelines in NASA Cloud with Airflow and Kubernetes - up all week
• Dave Shupe -- Poster: Annotated Coadds: Concise Metrics for Characterizing Survey Cadence and for Discovering Variable and Transient Sources - up all week

IVOA InterOp, Saturday November 11, 2023

IRSA and IRSA-adjacent sessions include:

• 11:00-12:30 Steward (N 210) Web Doc Hackathon - Steve Groom/Anne Raugh
• 16:00 Steward room (N 210) Datalink service descriptors in Firefly - Trey Roby
• 9:00-10:30 Steward (N 210) Grouping spectra in VOTable - Trey Roby
• 14:00-15:30 Best Practices for Data Publication in the Astronomical Literature - Xiuqin Wu
• 16:00-17:30 IVOA standards and time-domain searches - Jessica Krick