SPACE::LAB organizes summer school on IT technologies in space research

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The amount of data from ground and space telescopes has long exceeded the capacity of personal computers. Cloud solutions and deep learning tools which are already able to perform some tasks better than humans, are becoming a necessity for their storage and processing. From 23 to 25 August 2021, participants of the SPACE :: LAB Summer School 2021 will get a chance to get to know these most modern IT approaches for space research. 

Program will consist of lectures on space, Sun, cloud technologies and deep learning tools. The main topic of the summer school will be Sun’s corona and automatic segmentation of structures contained within it. Participants will use custom SCSS-net model utilizing TenserFlow and Keras tools, and cloud system by AWS.

Speakers of SPACE::LAB summer school 2021 will be:

  • Vierka Maslej Krešňáková, Deep Learning Specialist, Department of Cybernetics and Artificial Intelligence at FEEI, TUKE
  • Marcel Bodnár, Software architect, GlobalLogic Slovakia
  • Stanislav Hrivňak, Data scientist, GlobalLogic Slovakia
  • Ondrej Palkoci, Full-stack developer, freelancer
  • Šimon Mackovjak, Space scientist, Department of Space Physics at IEP SAS

SPACE::LAB summer school 2021 is one of the projects of scientists from the Department of Space Physics at the Institute of Experimental Physics of the Slovak Academy of Sciences in Košice. Applicants for the summer schools should have serious interest in space research and IT technologies, have known and used programming language Python for at least two years and are fluent in English. Registration is open until July 31, 2021. The main condition is o write a short motivation letter in which the applicant describes why he wants to participate in the summer school and send it to space-lab@saske.sk .

Program of the summer school is free thanks to support of European Space Agency (ESA). Applicants will provide travel, accommodation and meals at their own expense. The total number of participants is limited to 16.

More information can be found on this website.

Author: Katarína Gáliková
Photo: SPACE::LAB