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Instructor: Adam Myers Office: 328 Physical Sciences Building Office Hours: During or after class (i.e. 11AM-noon, T/R) Home page |
Components:
~24 x 25pts in-class tasks (500 pts maximum) 6 x 50pts homeworks every two weeks (300 pts) Take home final (200 pts) Total: 1000 points |
Letter Grades:
A more than 899 points B 800-899 points C 700-799 points D 600-699 points F fewer than 600 points |
Date Topic | Reading | Homeworks | |
January | |||
WEEK 1 | T 24 SVN Repositories | [pdf] | [links] | HW0 Available | R 26 Introduction to Python | [pdf] | [links] |
WEEK 2 | T 31 Structures in Python | [pdf] | [links] |
February | |||
R 2 Survey Observations | [pdf] | [links] | HW0 due (Saturday 4PM), HW1 Available |
WEEK 3 | T 7 Coordinate Transforms | [pdf] | [links] | R 9 Dust Maps | [pdf] | [links] |
WEEK 4 | T 14 Map Projections | [pdf] | [links] | R 16 Distances on the Sphere | [pdf] | [links] | HW1 due (Saturday 4PM), HW2 Available |
WEEK 5 | T 21 Areas on the Sphere and HEALPix | [pdf] | [links] | R 23 Spherical Caps | [pdf] | [links] |
WEEK 6 | T 28 Mangle | [pdf] | [links] |
March | |||
R 2 General Masking | [pdf] | [links] | HW2 due (Saturday 4PM), HW3 Available |
WEEK 7 | T 7 SQL Queries | [pdf] | [links] | R 9 Cross-matching Surveys | [pdf] | [links] |
WEEK 8 - SPRING BREAK | T 14 NO LECTURE - SPRING BREAK | R 16 NO LECTURE - SPRING BREAK | HW4 Available |
WEEK 9 | T 21 Forced Photometry | [pdf] | [links] | HW3 due (Tuesday 7PM) | R 23 Magnitude Systems | [pdf] | [links] |
WEEK 10 | T 28 Classification in Imaging | [pdf] | [links] | R 30 Flagging Bad Data | [pdf] | [links] | HW4 due (Saturday 4PM), HW5 Available |
April | |||
WEEK 11 | T 4 Photometric Redshifts | [pdf] | [links] | R 6 Deconvolution | [pdf] | [links] |
WEEK 12 | T 11 Time Domain Surveys: Variability | [pdf] | [links] | R 13 Time Domain Surveys: Proper Motion | [pdf] | [links] | HW5 due (Saturday 4PM), HW6 Available |
WEEK 13 | T 18 Fitting a line: χ2 | [pdf] | [links] | R 20 Fitting a line: χ2 with correlated data | [pdf] | [links] |
WEEK 14 | T 25 Likelihood Functions and MCMC | [pdf] | [links] | R 27 Sampling: The MCMC hammer | [tutorial] | [links] | HW6 due (Saturday 4PM), Final Exam Available |
May | |||
FINALS WEEK | T 9, 12:15PM Final take-home exam due (University Scheduled) | ||
Department of Physics & Astronomy,
University of Wyoming, 1000 E. University, Dept. 3905, Laramie, WY 82071, USA |
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