Skip to content
Daniela Huppenkothen edited this page Jul 31, 2018 · 11 revisions

Detailed Schedule for Astro Hack Week 2018 (Aug 6 - 10)

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 the university canteen. 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.

Sunday Aug 5 (optional)

Monday August 6 2018

  • 09:00 - 10:00 Registration and Coffee
  • 10:00 - 10:15 Welcome by the Lorentz Center
  • 10:15 - 11:00 Welcome by the organizers, Community Building
  • 11:00 - 12:30 Tutorial: Data Vizualization
  • 12:30 - 13:45 Lunch
  • 13:45 - 14:30 Hack pitches and team building activities
  • 14:30 - 17:00 Open hacking (with coffee break at 15:30)
  • 16:30 - 17:00 Breakouts (in parallel)
  • 17:00 Wine & Cheese Welcome Party

Tuesday August 7 2018

  • 09:00 - 10:30 Tutorial: Bayesian Inference 1
  • 10:30 - 11:00 coffee break
  • 11:00 - 12:30 Tutorial: Bayesian Inference 2
  • 12:30 - 13:45 Lunch
  • 13:45 - 14:00 Hack pitches / call for help
  • 14:00 - 17:45 Open hacking / Breakouts (with coffee break at 16:00)
  • 14:15 - 14:45 Breakout I (in parallel): IBM, Quantum Computing
  • 17:00 - 17:30 Breakout II (in parallel)
  • 17:45 - 18:00 Results show-and-tell

Wednesday August 8 2018

  • 09:00 - 10:30 Tutorial: Machine learning 1
  • 10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break
  • 11:00 - 12:30 Tutorial: Machine Learning 2
  • 12:30 - 13:45 Lunch
  • 13:45 - 14:00 Hack pitches / call for help
  • 14:00 - 17:45 Open hacking / breakouts (with coffee break at 16:00)
  • 17:45 - 18:00 Results show-and-tell
  • 18:00 - 18:30 Bus to restaurant Zilt @Katwijk
  • 18:30 - 21:30 BBQ dinner at the beach
  • 21:30 - 22:00 Bus back to Lorentz Center, Leiden Central Station and Hotel Van Der Valk

Thursday August 9 2018

  • 09:00 - 10:30 Tutorial: Machine Learning Applications to Stats Problems 1
  • 10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break
  • 11:00 - 12:15 Tutorial: Machine Learning Applications to Stats Problems 2
  • 12:30 - 13:00 Bus to IBM
  • 13:00 - 13:45 Lunch
  • 13:45 - 14:45 IBM Intro to AI
  • 14:45 - 15:00 Hack pitches / call for help
  • 15:00 - 17:45 Community hack day: projects that are specifically related to improving the astronomy community as a whole
  • 17:45 - 18:00 Results show-and-tell
  • 18:30 Bus back to Leiden

Friday August 10 2018

  • 09:00 - 09:15 Hack pitches/call for help
  • 09:15 - 10:00 Breakout I (Google AI)
  • 09:15 - 12:30 Open hacking (coffee break at 10:30)
  • 12:30 - 13:45 Lunch
  • 13:45 - 15:00 Open hacking
  • 15:00 - 16:00 Final show-and-tell of results