Career Pathways to Philanthropic Leadership: Conversation on Diversity and Inclusive Practices

Highlights discussions from an October 2009 convening on factors affecting diversity and inclusion in philanthropic leadership, including the most effective ways to prepare future leaders and recommendations for the CoF Career Pathways Pipeline Program

SSTRED: A data-processing and metadata-generating pipeline for CHROMIS and CRISP

We present a data pipeline for the newly installed SST/CHROMIS imaging spectrometer, as well as for the older SST/CRISP spectropolarimeter. The aim is to provide observers with a user-friendly data pipeline, that delivers science-ready data with the metadata needed for archival. We generalized the CRISPRED data pipeline for multiple instruments and added metadata according to recommendations worked out as part of the SOLARNET project. We made improvements to several steps in the pipeline, including the MOMFBD image restoration. A part of that is a new fork of the MOMFBD program called REDUX, with several new features that are needed in the new pipeline. The CRISPEX data viewer has been updated to accommodate data cubes stored in this format. The pipeline code, as well as REDUX and CRISPEX are all freely available through git repositories or web download. We derive expressions for combining statistics of individual frames into statistics for a set of frames. We define a new extension to the World Coordinate System, that allow us to specify cavity errors as distortions to the spectral coordinate.Comment: Draf

Data Processing Pipeline for Pointing Observations of Lunar-based Ultraviolet Telescope

We describe the data processing pipeline developed to reduce the pointing observation data of Lunar-based Ultraviolet Telescope (LUT), which belongs to the Chang'e-3 mission of the Chinese Lunar Exploration Program. The pointing observation program of LUT is dedicated to monitor variable objects in a near-ultraviolet (245-345 nm) band. LUT works in lunar daytime for sufficient power supply, so some special data processing strategies have been developed for the pipeline. The procedures of the pipeline include stray light removing, astrometry, flat fielding employing superflat technique, source extraction and cosmic rays rejection, aperture and PSF photometry, aperture correction, and catalogues archiving, etc. It has been intensively tested and works smoothly with observation data. The photometric accuracy is typically ~0.02 mag for LUT 10 mag stars (30 s exposure), with errors come from background noises, residuals of stray light removing, and flat fielding related errors. The accuracy degrades to be ~0.2 mag for stars of 13.5 mag which is the 5{\sigma} detection limit of LUT.Comment: 10 pages, 7 figures, 4 tables. Minor changes and some expounding words added. Version accepted for publication in Astrophysics and Space Science (Ap&SS

Pipeline Programs

Pipeline programs are designed to prepare and inspire students to pursue careers in medicine and medical research. SKMC is committed to providing experiences and education to middle school, high school, college, and graduate students from groups underrepresented in the health care fields to increase the pool of qualified candidates applying to careers related to medicine and medical research. Our programs: The Jefferson STEP-UP Medicine Program Future Health Professions Program (FHPP

Justice Shepard and Diversity in the Legal Profession: The Legacy of ICLEO

In his presentation, Dean Klein discusses the importance of role models and mentors in promoting the value of diversity in the legal profession. His presentation includes personal background relating to his own involvement with the Indiana Council on Legal Education Opportunity ("ICLEO") program and highlights the accomplishments of several former ICLEO fellows who have become leaders and role models themselves. Dean Klein concludes by praising former Indiana Supreme Court Chief Justice Randall T. Shepard and the ICLEO program for providing a pipeline of leaders committed to the legal profession and a pipeline of mentors for future generations of lawyers who are committed to the important role that diversity plays in ensuring a system of justice

The QUEST Data Processing Software Pipeline

A program that we call the QUEST Data Processing Software Pipeline has been written to process the large volumes of data produced by the QUEST camera on the Samuel Oschin Schmidt Telescope at the Palomar Observatory. The program carries out both aperture and PSF photometry, combines data from different repeated observations of the same portion of sky, and produces a Master Object Catalog. A rough calibration of the data is carried out. This program, as well as the calibration procedures and quality checks on the output are described.Comment: 17 pages, 1 table, 8 figure

PGPG: An Automatic Generator of Pipeline Design for Programmable GRAPE Systems

We have developed PGPG (Pipeline Generator for Programmable GRAPE), a software which generates the low-level design of the pipeline processor and communication software for FPGA-based computing engines (FBCEs). An FBCE typically consists of one or multiple FPGA (Field-Programmable Gate Array) chips and local memory. Here, the term "Field-Programmable" means that one can rewrite the logic implemented to the chip after the hardware is completed, and therefore a single FBCE can be used for calculation of various functions, for example pipeline processors for gravity, SPH interaction, or image processing. The main problem with FBCEs is that the user need to develop the detailed hardware design for the processor to be implemented to FPGA chips. In addition, she or he has to write the control logic for the processor, communication and data conversion library on the host processor, and application program which uses the developed processor. These require detailed knowledge of hardware design, a hardware description language such as VHDL, the operating system and the application, and amount of human work is huge. A relatively simple design would require 1 person-year or more. The PGPG software generates all necessary design descriptions, except for the application software itself, from a high-level design description of the pipeline processor in the PGPG language. The PGPG language is a simple language, specialized to the description of pipeline processors. Thus, the design of pipeline processor in PGPG language is much easier than the traditional design. For real applications such as the pipeline for gravitational interaction, the pipeline processor generated by PGPG achieved the performance similar to that of hand-written code. In this paper we present a detailed description of PGPG version 1.0.Comment: 24 pages, 6 figures, accepted PASJ 2005 July 2