Name: Ben Horowitz
Type: User
Company: UC Berkeley Physics, Learning Unlimited
Bio: Astronomy postdoc, formerly graduate student at the @bccp; also works with @learning-unlimited to run educational outreach programs at colleges/universities
Location: Berkeley, CA
Blog: https://bhorowitz.github.io/
Ben Horowitz's Projects
Python Programming in Astronomy, Summer 2017
Python Script to take a list of addresses and census data to create interactive leaflet.js maps. (See example here: http://pantheon.yale.edu/~bah8/Splash_Map.html)
A quick and dirty python script to calculate a Fisher Matrix using class.
Public repository of the Cosmic Linear Anisotropy Solving System
Programming assignments for undergraduate or advanced high school students
Cosmo++ is a cosmology library containing a mixture of frequently used functionalities.
Calibration Code for Driftscan Survey Data
Particle Mesh simulation in TensorFlow
Deep generative model for painting hydrodynamical physics onto dark matter simulations
Random CMB lensing related code; will package things up nicely if useful...
Website
Maximum A Posteriori Lyman-alpha Estimator
Power spectra estimation using MCHMC-type methods
Visualizations of concepts in nonparametric statistics
target selection for PFS-GE
Cosmic Web Reconstructions from Photometric Redshifts
The Jekyll Butler.
Various simulations done in Processing, a Java-based environment.
Course Repository of Computational Physics: numerical methods, data science and statistics
Power spectra estimation from TARDIS-like reconstructions
Analysis code for the Thompson Scattering System
Thermal SZ Powerspectra Code
reconstructing matter power spectra from shear maps
source for bccp.berkeley.edu
Flat sky optimization wiener filter implementation
Calibration code to find the zero point of a given La-Silla QUEST Target with Sloan Digital Sky Survey. Requires local copy of LSQ database as well as an updated DR7 access to SDSS.