This repo contains information about the USRP at the Department of Astrophysical Sciences, foremost material for its first week course "Intro to Scientific Programming", aka bootcamp.
The plan for the first week is to give you an overview of good things to know when it comes to scientific computing, give you time to do some hands-on exercises, and provide resources for you to learn more. We aim to cover basic unix commands and remote login (ssh), software version control (git and github), the Python programming language and scientific programming stack, and basic statistics. Given that we only have a week, we will only scratch the surface on each of these topics, but many of us will be around and willing (physically or via email/Slack) to provide support and additional guidance throughout the summer.
Before you start, please make sure that you have all necessary software installed on your personal machine before we start the bootcamp. To help you along the way, have a look at these instructions.
For live questions of general interest to the "camp masters" and to keep in touch with your fellow campers, please subscribe to the slack channels (details sent via email, or ask your camp master/mentor) .
- Day 1 - unix commands, version control (github), ssh setup
- Day 2 - python and numpy
- Day 3 - statistical data analysis, linear fitting, and astropy
- Day 4 - optimization and non-linear fitting
All sessions take place virtually on zoom. The agenda for each days is detailed in the respective README files, but in general every day looks roughly like this (all times Eastern):
- 09:30-10:30 Course 1
- 10:30-11:00 Astro Coffee (ask for zoom and slack channel)
- 11:00-12:00 Course 2
- 12:00-13:00 Lunch
- 13:00-14:30 Course 3
- 14:30-15:00 Break
- 15:00-17:00 Course 4 / Open time
Seminars are held every Tuesday 12:30, colloquia every Thursday 12:30. You'll receive zoom invitations for them.
- June 15, 2021 - Visualization (Peter)
- June 23, 2021 - How to find and read papers - slides (Arun)
- June 29, 2021 - TBD
- July 06, 2021 - How to give presentations (Sophie)
- July 13, 2021 - How to apply for a job (Rachael)
- July 20, 2021 - How to write a paper / Latex (Ben)
- July 27, 2021 - TBD
- August 03, 2021 - Practice talks (all)
- June 17 - Exploring Large Scale Structure through the Lyman Alpha Forest (Ben)
- June 24 - Tracing Mass and Light in the Universe (Neta)
- July 1 - TBD
- July 8 - (Michael)
- July 15 - TBD
- July 22 - TBD
- July 29 - The Afterlife of Massive Stars or Stellar Forensics: What Supernova Remnants Reveal about Stellar Explosion (Tea)
- August 5 - USRP final presentations