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Save the date! The Northeastern University Visualization Consortium (NUVis) cordially invites you to join us this Friday for the final talk in our 2017-2018 invited speaker series: Alyssa Goodman Robert Wheeler Willson Professor of Applied Astronomy Harvard University Friday, April 13, 2018 12 PM - 1:30 PM West Village G Room 102, Northeastern University 450 Parker Street Boston, MA 02115 Event Page<https://nuvis.northeastern.edu/events/event/alyssa-goodman-title-forthcoming/> Pizza will be served Abstract: More information forthcoming. About the speaker: Alyssa Goodman is the Robert Wheeler Willson Professor of Applied Astronomy at Harvard University, and a Research Associate of the Smithsonian Institution. Goodman’s work spans astrophysics, science education, data science, data visualization, and prediction. Her astrophysical research is aimed at understanding how interstellar gas arranges itself into new stars and on new techniques for measuring the structure of the Galaxy. She is the leader and founder of several efforts that use the WorldWide Telescope<http://worldwidetelescope.org/> software to help teach<http://wwtambassadors.org/> science, and to make discoveries about the Universe. Goodman also leads the effort creating the high-dimensional linked-view exploratory data visualization software known as “glue<http://glueviz.org/>,” as well as the HarvardX course called “PredictionX<http://predictionx.org/>,” which traces the history of prediction from ancient times to modern simulations. Many of Goodman’s efforts come together under the umbrella of the “Seamless Astronomy<https://projects.iq.harvard.edu/seamlessastronomy>,” collaboration based at the CfA, which she also organizes. About NUVis: The Northeastern University Visualization Consortium (NUVis)<https://nuvis.northeastern.edu> is an interdisciplinary cross-university initiative to support the university’s research efforts in visualization and to connect faculty, researchers, and students across campus to foster a visualization community. Northeastern University’s interdisciplinary focus and structure is an ideal environment for such an interdisciplinary field of study, and the goal of NUVis, funded through a collaboration between the College of Arts, Media and Design and the College of Computer and Information Science, is to continue to foster and grow this important area of research. NUVis sponsors talks and symposia, connects faculty and students through its online portal, provides resources to support visualization-related research at the university through avenues including workshops and library-sponsored open office hours, and hosts and organizes community building events including hackathons and student research poster exhibitions. ######################################################################## To unsubscribe from the NUVIS-LIST list, click the following link: https://listserv.neu.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=NUVIS-LIST