Webinars
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VLBI Data Series 4, Model Comparison
Facilitator: Dimitrios Psaltis Air date: Tuesday, May 5, 2020 An interferometer does not record directly the images of cosmic sources. Instead, it measures the components of the Fourier transforms of the images at a set of distinct locations set by the...
VLBI Data Series 3, Imaging Techniques
Download the slideshow: Facilitator: Andrew Chael, Princeton University Air date: Tuesday, March 18, 2020 The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) has imaged the emission just outside the event horizon of the supermassive black hole in M87 with an effective resolution of...
VLBI Data Series 2, Handling Data, Managing Errors
Download the slideshow: Facilitator: Lindy Blackburn, Radio Astronomer and EHT Data Scientist at the Harvard- Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics Air date: Tuesday, March 11, 2020 Attendees will gain an understanding of the VLBI data pathway, how data are recorded...
VLBI Data Series 1, Intro to Radio Astronomy
Download the slideshow: Facilitator: Dan Marrone, Arizona Air date: Tuesday, January 28, 2020 The technique of radio interferometry is an essential tool for modern radio astronomy. Interferometry made the Event Horizon Telescope image of M87* possible, but it is...
Your Research and the Open Science Grid (OSG)
Your Research and the Open Science Grid (OSG) - Webinar Facilitator: Christina Koch, Wisconsin Institute for Discovery, Univ of Wisconsin-Madison 10th December 2019 - Tuesday, 1800 UTC What problems do you work on that require computers to solve? What kinds of...
Accelerate Your Research with AWS
Accelerate Your Research with AWS - Webinar Facilitator: Aaron Bucher and Chris Mills, Amazon 12th November 2019 - Tuesday, 1800 UTC See how researchers accelerate their time to results by leveraging Amazon Web Services (AWS) for on-demand HPC resources. We cover...
Software Development Essentials
Software Development Best Practices - Webinar Facilitator: Ward Harold, Google Cloud Solutions Architect 16th October 2019 - Wednesday, 1700 UTC Software is an essential aspect of modern life. Good software simplifies our work, makes us more productive, it may even...
FPGA Programming and Its Application in Radio Astronomy
FPGA Programming A Webinar Event with Q&A 25th September 2019 - Wednesday, 1600 UTC FPGAs (Field Programmable Gate Arrays) are a flexible tool for implementing fast, repetitive computations. In contrast to Application Specific Integrated Circuits (ASICs), which...
Space-based Interferometry
Joseph Lazio, Chief Scientist for NASA's Deep Space Network will speak on science and status of using VLBI in space. Title: Space-based Interferometry
CyVerse Data Store and FAIR Implementation
Ramona Walls - Senior Scientific Analyst at the University of Arizona, leads a webinar introducing CyVerse and FAIR data. Title: Managing large collaborative datasets for easier storage, analysis, and discovery To download the presentation as a pdf...
Webinar: Amazon Web Services and HPC
A Webinar Event with Q&A January 23, 2019 - 19:00 UTC We invite all EHT and PIRE members, students, and others interested in exploring the ability of Amazon Web Services to effectively support the diverse computational needs of large data-driven projects....
Google on HPC and the Cloud
Cloud computing has changed the landscape of modern computing. It powers a majority of tech startups, supports the big data revolution, and enables the rapid developments in artificial intelligence. As Cloud computing hardware become more powerful, they will soon be...
Student Recruitment and Evaluation
As part of our project we developed a process to recruit underrepresented students for research assistantships. In this short webinar, we share our initial recruitment process and outcomes, including what we learned along the way. The Black Hole PIRE Evaluation Team...