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 30 May 2025 | Getting Started With Open Source LLMs | @RhysAlfShaw |
| Fri 06 Jun 2025 | TBA (50th documented meetup!) | - |
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
- Joe, PhD Student working on Galaxy Clusters with eROSITA
| Date | Topic | Discussion Leader |
|---|---|---|
| Fri 26 Jan 2024 | The New Year | @phajy |
| Fri 02 Feb 2024 | Intro to debugging (in Python) | @fjebaker |
| Fri 09 Feb 2024 | Regex | @HallJoseph |
| Fri 16 Feb 2024 | AI for coding | @phajy |
| Fri 23 Feb 2024 | How to make a free PIMPING website with GitHub pages | @RhysAlfShaw |
| Fri 01 Mar 2024 | Ship your machine with Docker | @fjebaker |
| Fri 08 Mar 2024 | Common git and GitHub errors | @lucyastro |
| Fri 15 Mar 2024 | Profiling with Flame Graphs | @mbtaylor |
| Fri 22 Mar 2024 | Bash Scripting | Rhys Morris |
| Fri 05 Apr 2024 | The trials and tribulations of teaching coding units | @DrMaireGorman |
| Fri 12 Apr 2024 | Developing a Python Package | @fjebaker |
| Fri 19 Apr 2024 | Git Workflows | @hstewart93 |
| Fri 26 Apr 2024 | An introduction to Julia | @fjebaker |
| Fri 03 May 2024 | SQL, ADQL, and TAP | @mbtaylor |
| Fri 24 May 2024 | Housekeeping and planning | @fjebaker |
| Fri 31 May 2024 | Command line tricks | @fjebaker |
| Fri 07 Jun 2024 | Kanban (and other Project Management tools) | @HallJoseph |
| Fri 16 Aug 2024 | Serve and feed me RSS | @fjebaker |
| Fri 13 Sep 2024 | Welcome back and housekeeping | - |
| Fri 20 Sep 2024 | Parallelising Code | @RhysAlfShaw |
| Fri 27 Sep 2024 | Paper management | @fjebaker |
| Fri 04 Oct 2024 | Obsidian / Note taking solutions | @HallJoseph |
| Fri 18 Oct 2024 | Speeding up sparse convolutions: placement experience | @grant-m-s |
| Fri 25 Oct 2024 | Vuez / Making publication quality figures | @phajy |
| Fri 01 Nov 2024 | Graphviz / Mermaid / Inkscape | @fjebaker |
| Fri 08 Nov 2024 | XMM Data Reduction | @DariusMichienzi / @TomHigginson |
| Fri 22 Nov 2024 | Update on the group machines | Rhys Morris |
| Fri 29 Nov 2024 | XGA and DAXA | @HallJoseph |
| Fri 06 Dec 2024 | Computer memory architecture | @CaleBaguley |
| Fri 13 Dec 2024 | An introduction to unit testing | @hstewart93 |
| Fri 17 Jan 2025 | TOPCAT/STILTS Masterclass: crossmatching | @mbtaylor |
| Fri 24 Jan 2025 | 'Movie' (Conference talk) Night | @TomHigginson |
| Fri 31 Jan 2025 | The New Year and Advent of Code post-mortem | @fjebaker |
| Fri 07 Feb 2025 | What's in your Toolbox? | - |
| Fri 14 Feb 2025 | Typst (for presentations) | @fjebaker |
| Fri 21 Feb 2025 | Setting up a home / self-hosted server | @RhysAlfShaw |
| Fri 28 Feb 2025 | (GNU) Image Manipulation (Program) | @HallJoseph |
| Fri 07 Mar 2025 | Manim: Python for scientific and educational animations | @DariusMichienzi |
| Fri 14 Mar 2025 | XSPEC | @GloriaRAH |
| Fri 21 Mar 2025 | Setting up Godot | @fjebaker |
| Fri 28 Mar 2025 | SOCKS, proxies, VPNs, and Tor | @fjebaker |
| Fri 11 Apr 2025 | Slurm | @lucyastro |
| Thu 17 Apr 2025 | Web Scraping with Beautiful Soup | Rhys Morris |
| Fri 25 Apr 2025 | MCMC with Python | @cathal-maguire |
| Fri 02 May 2025 | Ins and Outs of FITS | @mbtaylor |
| Fri 09 May 2025 | GPG, cryptography, and digital signatures | @fjebaker |
| Fri 16 May 2025 | An introduction to Quarto | @phajy |
| Fri 23 May 2025 | AI Ethics | @hstewart93 |