Astrophysics Developer Group central repository for sharing issues, wins, resources, and more!
The Astrophysics Developer Group meets every Friday 4-5 pm.
| Date | Topic | Discussion Leader |
|---|---|---|
| Fri 22 Nov 24 | Update on the group machines | Rhys Morris |
| Fri 29 Nov 24 | XGA and DAXA | @HallJoseph |
| Fri 06 Dec 24 | Computer memory architecture | @CaleBaguley |
| Fri 13 Dec 24 | An introduction to unit testing | @hstewart93 |
Each week the agenda is as follows:
- Share wins! (5 mins)
- Discuss issues from the last week (10 mins)
- Theme discussion (30 mins)
- AOB (5 mins)
- Ailsa, PhD student working with Hannah
- Darius, First year PhD working under Andy
- Fergus, PhD student working with Andy
- Gloria, PhD student working with Andy
- J.C.Baguley, Postdoctoral research asociate in School of Biological Sciences
- Lucy, PhD student
- Mark, postdoc doing software
- Misia, 1st year PhD student
- Phil, postdoc, @PhilJCarter, website
- Rhys, PhD student working with Sotiria
- Teresa, PhD student working with Sotiria
- Tom, PhD student working with Belinda and Andy
| Date | Topic | Discussion Leader |
|---|---|---|
| Fri 26 Jan 24 | The New Year | @phajy |
| Fri 02 Feb 24 | Intro to debugging (in Python) | @fjebaker |
| Fri 09 Feb 24 | Regex | @HallJoseph |
| Fri 16 Feb 24 | AI for coding | @phajy |
| Fri 23 Feb 24 | How to make a free PIMPING website with GitHub pages | @RhysAlfShaw |
| Fri 01 March 24 | Ship your machine with Docker | @fjebaker |
| Fri 08 March 24 | Common git and GitHub errors | @lucyastro |
| Fri 15 March 24 | Profiling with Flame Graphs | @mbtaylor |
| Fri 22 March 24 | Bash Scripting | Rhys Morris |
| Fri 05 April 24 | The trials and tribulations of teaching coding units | @DrMaireGorman |
| Fri 12 April 24 | Developing a Python Package | @fjebaker |
| Fri 19 April 24 | Git Workflows | @hstewart93 |
| Fri 26 April 24 | An introduction to Julia | @fjebaker |
| Fri 03 May 24 | SQL, ADQL, and TAP | @mbtaylor |
| Fri 24 May 2024 | Housekeeping and planning | @fjebaker |
| Fri 31 May 2024 | Command line tricks | @fjebaker |
| Fri 07 June 2024 | Kanban (and other Project Management tools) | @HallJoseph |
| Fri 16 Aug 24 | Serve and feed me RSS | @fjebaker |
| Fri 13 Sep 24 | Welcome back and housekeeping | - |
| Fri 20 Sep 24 | Parallelising Code | @RhysAlfShaw |
| Fri 27 Sep 24 | Paper management | @fjebaker |
| Fri 04 Oct 24 | Obsidian / Note taking solutions | @HallJoseph |
| Fri 18 Oct 24 | Speeding up sparse convolutions: placement experience | @grant-m-s |
| Fri 25 Oct 24 | Vuez / Making publication quality figures | @phajy |
| Fri 01 Nov 24 | Graphviz / Mermaid / Inkscape | @fjebaker |
| Fri 08 Nov 24 | XMM Data Reduction | @DariusMichienzi / @TomHigginson |