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Featured in Astrophysics 🪐
Astropy: Core Package for Astronomy Analysis in Python
Astropy is an all-in-one Python package focused on helping astronomers/astrophysicists navigate and transform large and small datasets. It allows users to easily work with numerous types of coordinate systems, constants, units, dates and times, and models and fitting. The package makes it easy to create, modify, and interface with FITS files, a common file type for working with astronomical data. Astropy is a must-have package for astronomers of all experience levels working in Python.
Contributor: Ethan Pinarski, Purdue University
Featured in Quantum Information 💻
IBM Quantum Platform
The IBM Quantum Platform offers some of the best resources for beginner and more advanced quantum computing I've ever seen. Accessable upon creation of an IBMid, this web-based resource allows users to send quantum programs straight to IBM's quantum processors. They also offer a variety of learning resources, including the Quantum Composer, a beautiful, clean interactive where individuals can toy around with quantum circuitry and immediately generate the corresponding code in Qiskit or OpenQASM 2.0. The platform offers courses in the fundementals of quantum computing (IBM Quantum Learning). If you're an individual interested in experimenting with quantum computing/programming, the IBM Quantum Platform is a must-have. The only drawback is the user is only allotted 10 minutes of runtime on IBM's GPU's per month, which depending on the complexity of your quantum algorithums, may be a lot or too little.
Contributor: Amelia Binau, Indiana University - Bloomington
Featured in Condensed Matter and AMO Physics ⚛️
Microscopy Image Stitching Tool (MIST)
Able to make 2D stitches/overlays of any data set compatible with ImageJ. Optimizes translational overlays in the X and Y directions for a fully cohesive image.
Contributor: Melody Shimba, Brown University
Featured in Particle and Nuclear Physics 💥
Particle Identification Playground
This website presents a series of activities that walk through the particle identification (PID) process, which aims to determine what particles interacted with the various detectors in particle physics experiments. These activities are designed for high school and early undergraduate students, and the only required knowledge is python, though high school level physics may be helpful as well.
Contributor: Richard Dube, Indiana University - Bloomington
Featured in Biophysics and Geophysics 🧬
JMARS: Java Mission-planning and Analysis for Remote Sensing
Provides interactive layer maps and datasets of various moons and planets including but not limited to Earth, Luna, Mars, Vesta, Venus, Pluto, etc. Developed at Arizona State University, the platform hosts open office hours, a Discord community, and a plethora of tutorials. JMARS has been used to plan many NASA missions, including "Mars Odyssey, Mars Global Surveyor, Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, and the OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample return mission."
Contributor: Allison Loper, Purdue University - West Lafayette
Featured in Experimental Techniques & Statistics 🔍
RP Photonics - Encyclopedia
Convenient location for many relevant and contemporary fields/topics in the optics space including geometric optics, lasers, electromagnetism, material optical properties, signal processing. Has very concise and well-written articles that simplify concepts and explanations and provide citations to begin a deeper dive if you so choose. you can just search any relevant topic and add RP photonics to the end of your search query to find their article or you can just navigate on their website. Topics and subtopics are broken up in categories.
Contributor: Gabriel Skowronek - University of Central Florida (UCF)
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