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Resources for the "Intro to Scientific Programming" mini-course for the Princeton Undergraduate Summer Research Program
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# Princeton Undergraduate Summer Research Program in Astrophysics
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*.
**Before you start, please make sure that you have all necessary software installed on your personal machine. To help you along the way, have a look at [these instructions](SETUP-INSTALLATION.md).**
## General schedule of week 1
* 09:30-10:30 Course 1
* 10:30-11:00 Astro Coffee (Grand Central)
* 11:00-12:00 Course 2
* 12:00-13:00 Lunch
* 13:00-14:30 Discussion / Group exercise work
* 14:30-15:00 Break
* 15:00-17:00 Course 3 / Open time
All sessions take place in room 033 unless otherwise noted.
### Tuesday (special schedule!) - @adrn
* Installation help: 99:30 (Room 140)
* Breakfast and introductions: 9:3010:30 (Grand central)
* General introduction to department: Michael Strauss
* Overview of full program: @agoulding
* Introduce the plan for the day: @adrn
* Astro coffee: 10:30-11:00 (Grand Central)
* Linux basics and start laptop setup: 11:0012:00
* More laptop setup and linux: 13:3014:00
* SSH and remote login to department machines: 14:0015:00 (030)
* Git tutorial: 15:0017:00
### Wednesday - @msyriac
* Python and numpy
* Estimating pi
### Thursday - @pmelchior
* Astropy
* Fitting a line to data
* Hubble expansion with linear algebra
### Friday - @pmelchior
* Hubble expansion with proto-MCMC
* Non-linear models
* Transient light curve
* Pizza lunch
## Colloquia and seminars
Colloquia are held every Thursday 12:30 in the Auditorium; seminars every Tuesday 12:30 in room 033. Pizza lunch on Tuesdays.
### Seminar schedule
1. June 19 - How to find and read papers (Adrian)
2. June 26 - Stats (Mat)
3. July 3 - Be a good scientist (tbd)
4. July 10 - Visualization (Peter)
5. July 17 - How to write a paper / Latex (tbd)
6. *July 24 - Excursion (tbd)*
7. July 31 - How to give presentations (Andy)
8. Aug 6 - Practice talks (Andy + all)
### Colloquium schedule
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Links of Interest
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* [Python intro course notebooks](https://github.com/jakevdp/2014_fall_ASTR599/tree/master/notebooks)
* [Understanding git conceptually](https://www.sbf5.com/~cduan/technical/git/)
* [Fitting a model to data](http://arxiv.org/abs/1008.4686)
Owner
- Name: Adrian Price-Whelan
- Login: adrn
- Kind: user
- Location: NYC
- Company: Flatiron Institute
- Website: adrian.pw
- Repositories: 124
- Profile: https://github.com/adrn