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Date: Nov 20 22:21 2012

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Title: A Tale Of 160 Scientists, Three Applications, A Workshop and A Cloud Authors: G. Bruce Berriman, Carolyn Brinkworth, Dawn Gelino, Dennis K. Wittman, Ewa Deelman, Gideon Juve, Mats Rynge, Jamie Kinney The NASA Exoplanet Science Institute (NExScI) hosts the annual Sagan Workshops, thematic meetings aimed at introducing researchers to the latest tools and methodologies in exoplanet research. The theme of the Summer 2012 workshop, held from July 23 to July 27 at Caltech, was to explore the use of exoplanet light curves to study planetary system architectures and atmospheres. A major part of the workshop was to use hands-on sessions to instruct attendees in the use of three open source tools for the analysis of light curves, especially from the Kepler mission. Each hands-on session involved the 160 attendees using their laptops to follow step-by-step tutorials given by experts. We describe how we used the Amazon Elastic Cloud 2 to run these applications. Read more (699kb, PDF) __________________

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Date: Apr 3 05:46 2012

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NASA Announces 2012 Carl Sagan Fellows NASA has selected six planet hunters as the recipients of the 2012 Carl Sagan Exoplanet Postdoctoral Fellowships, named after the late astronomer. The fellowship was created to inspire the next generation of explorers seeking to learn more about planets, and possibly life, around other stars. Read more __________________

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Date: Feb 26 18:21 2010

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NASA has selected seven scientists as recipients of Carl Sagan Postdoctoral Fellowships in exoplanet exploration for 2010. The Sagan Fellowships support outstanding recent postdoctoral scientists in conducting independent research broadly related to the science goals of NASA's Exoplanet Exploration Program. That program's primary goal is to discover and characterise planetary systems and Earth-like planets around other stars. Read more __________________

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Date: Sep 3 17:12 2008

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NASA's Carl Sagan Fellows to Study Extraterrestrial Worlds NASA announced Wednesday the new Carl Sagan Postdoctoral Fellowships in Exoplanet Exploration, created to inspire the next generation of explorers seeking to learn more about planets, and possibly life, around other stars. Planets beyond our solar system, called exoplanets, are being discovered at a staggering pace, with more than 300 currently known. Decades ago, long before any exoplanets had been found, the late Carl Sagan imagined such worlds, and pioneered the scientific pursuit of life that might exist on them. Sagan was an astronomer and a highly successful science communicator. Read more http://nexsci.caltech.edu/sagan/ __________________

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