Talks

Slides and material from talks, most recent first. Formats vary — Keynote, PowerPoint, PDF and the occasional zip or tarball.

• Precision Supernova Cosmology NE201, UC Berkeley · May 2, 2025
• Thermonuclear Supernovae NE201, UC Berkeley · April 30, 2025
• Preparing for the Next Pandemic On the Trail to Exascale and Scalable AI, Liverpool, UK · May 21, 2024
• La Silla Schmidt Southern Survey University of Houston Clear Lake, Houston, TX · October 23, 2023
• ExaLearn Tutorial on Surrogates ECP Meeting, Houston, TX · February 4, 2020
• ExaLearn Review September 2019
• ExaSky LBNL · July 2017
• Leading with Science National Cancer Initiative, Livermore, CA · March 6, 2019
• The Palomar Transient Factory ISI, Marina del Rey, CA · February 17, 2017
• ModSim Challenges for a Scientist's Use of Workflows University of Washington, Seattle, WA · August 11, 2016
• XSWAP and the PTF Pipeline IPMU, Japan · May 3, 2016
• Time Domain Astronomy in Large Sky Surveys CREST International Symposium on Big Data Application, JST, Tokyo, Japan · March 2, 2016
• Spectroscopic Sequence Among SNe Ia Type Ia Supernovae: Progenitors, Explosions, and Cosmology, University of Chicago · September 15–19, 2014
• Public Talk on SN 2011fe The Supernova in the Pinwheel Galaxy, Cairo · November 20, 2013 Also: zipfile of movies for SN 2011fe
• Machine Learning in Astrophysical Surveys Machine Learning for Science, LBNL · November 4, 2013
• DOE Computational Science Graduate Fellowship Also as PDF
• The Dark Energy Survey 2014
• DeepSky Two talks on DeepSky, LBNL, Berkeley, CA · October 15, 2009
• The Palomar Transient Factory NERSC All-Hands Meeting, Oakland, CA · October 1, 2009
• The Palomar Transient Factory CDI Kickoff Meeting, UC Berkeley · September 11, 2009
• BNL and Stony Brook Talks Computational Astrophysics in the 21st Century, BNL – SUNYSB · August 27–28, 2009
• SASIR Pipeline & Archive SASIR / Guillermo Haro Workshop, INAOE, Tonantzintla, Puebla · August 15, 2008 Also: scheduling movie
• Computational Astrophysics Consortium SAP CAC-SAP talk for Lali Chatterjee, LBNL · August 8, 2008
• Computational Astrophysics Consortium's Visualization Needs VACET Collaboration Meeting, University of Utah · January 31, 2007
• A High-z Hubble Diagram for Type IIP Supernovae SNLS Collaboration Meeting, Waimea, Hawai'i · October 4, 2005

Course Material

Lecture material from Astronomy 250, the High Performance Computing class for astronomers I created and taught at UC Berkeley from 2013 to 2018 — MPI, OpenMP, HDF5, SLURM, Shifter, debugging and profiling at NERSC, N-body and cosmology examples.