We are pleased to have Jeff Bezanson (https://github.com/JeffBezanson), one of the creators of Julia speak to us on the future of Julia, as well as Kyle Barbary (https://github.com/kbarbary). Kyle will review the state of Julia astronomy packages and the small but growing JuliaAstro (http://juliaastro.github.io/) organization. He will review the prospects for adoption of Julia in Astronomy. Kyle is a Cosmology Data Science Fellow at Berkeley Center for Cosmological Physics.



Jeff will speak on future directions and speculations in the base Julia language. He will present on the type system, higher-order programming, static analysis, and more. Jeff recently finished a PhD at MIT and is now helping to build Julia Computing.



Please note that we will enter from the Rausch Street entrance, not Forio's main entrance on Howard Street.