JHU CAS Wiki

Welcome to JHU CAS Wiki!

• This is a Wiki for gathering and communicating community information related to working in the Center for Astrophysical Sciences, in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Johns Hopkins University.

• This wiki is a collaborative effort, so if you see something missing or misspelled or inaccurate or incomplete, please fix it! If you have some experience on some subject, please find a good place or create a page, and put it in!

• This Wiki is viewable to the public, so please do not post any sensitive or classified information here (nor on Wikipedia - the Wiki for the whole world :-P).

• The Wiki Administration page has technical details about the wiki.

Getting Started

• Getting started in the CAS
• Computers and Resources
• Get started using the astrophysics data

Our work

• People
• Groups
• Projects
• Media
• Outreach

Typical Weekly Events

• Monday
  • CAS Wine and Cheese Seminars, Monday, 4:00 pm, Bloomberg 462

• Tuesday
  • CAS Coffee, social coffee event in CAS, Tuesday, 10:30 am, Bloomberg, Fifth floor lounge
  • Astro-ph Student Journal Club, Fill me in

• Wednesday
  • STScI Colloquium, Wednesday, 3:30 pm, Bahcall Auditorium
  • STScI Happy Hour, Wednesday, 5:30 pm (after Colloquium), Azafran
  • CAS Postdoc Dinner, Wednesday, 7:00 pm, good restaurants

• Thursday
  • Astro-ph Coffee, Thursday, 10:30 am, Bloomberg, Fifth floor lounge

• Friday
  • STScI Galaxy Journal Club, Friday, 12:00 pm, Azafran Cafecon
  • PandAs Student Happy Hour, Friday, 5:00 pm, Bloomberg yard
  • Maryland Space Grant Observatory Open House, Friday, 9:00 pm-12:00 am, Bloomberg Observatory

Academic Resources

• Writing a paper
• Giving a presentation
• Writing code
• Making pretty plots and movies

"Charm City" Baltimore

• I don't have a car Panic
• Travel
• Housing
• Restaurants
• Entertainment
• Sports

Wiki Help

Consult the User's Guide for information on using the wiki software.

• Configuration settings list
• MediaWiki FAQ
• MediaWiki release mailing list