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SUMMARY:Making plasma science open\, Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 92
 2) Seminar\, Dr. Nick Murphy\, Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smi
 thsonian
DESCRIPTION:Plasma science does not currently have the culture or tech
 nical infrastructure for open sharing of software\, data\, and educati
 onal resources.  In this seminar\, I will cover how we can get there t
 ogether and make open science a core value of our field.  To show the 
 benefits of open access data and open source software\, I will compare
  the data and software environments between solar physics and fusion e
 nergy sciences.  I will describe several of the cultural\, technical\,
  and organizational barriers to open plasma science.  We need a founda
 tion of psychological safety for both open science and diversity\, equ
 ity\, inclusion\, and accessibility.  I will discuss recent work by th
 e PlasmaPy project to foster the creation of an open source software e
 cosystem for plasma research and education. After introducing the FAIR
  standards for data stewardship\, I will show how open plasma science 
 hinges upon metadata standardization.  I will finish by making the cas
 e for a unified web portal for open access to plasma data sets. <br>
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\nBiography<br>
\nDr. Nick Murphy is an astrophysicist at the C
 enter for Astrophysics (CfA) in Cambridge\, Massachusetts. Nick attend
 ed the University of Michigan as an undergraduate and the University o
 f Wisconsin in Madison for graduate school in astronomy. Nick began be
 lieving in open source software while still a student\, even going so 
 far as to include Fortran subroutines in an appendix of their thesis. 
  Nick has been at the Center for Astrophysics for the last decade work
 ing largely on magnetic reconnection in solar eruptions.  Nick was a c
 o-organizer of the Inclusive Astronomy 2015 conference and co-founded 
 the American Astronomical Society's Working Group on Accessibility and
  Disability\, and is now a member of the APS DPP Diversity Equity and 
 Inclusion Organizing Collective Committee.  Over the last few years\, 
 Nick has been a core contributor to PlasmaPy\, which is an open source
  software package for plasma research and education.
URL:https://www.physics.wisc.edu/events/?id=8413
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