Kelly Lepo on Nostr: And the final talk of #AAS245 was the Berkeley Prize Lecture by Erik Tollerud, Clara ...

And the final talk of #AAS245 was the Berkeley Prize Lecture by Erik Tollerud, Clara Brasseur, and Kelle Cruz on Astropy.

In 2011, Tollerud was a grad student who wanted to write a unified library of astronomy packages. There were may astronomy packages, leading to duplicated work and incomparableness.

This somewhat naive desire started a discussion that eventually became the Astropy project.