ASTR 596

Fall 2011

Part of Term 1
Aug 22-Dec 7
Seminar in Special Topics
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Credit: 0 TO 16 hours.

Approved for both letter and S/U grading. May be repeated. Prerequisite: Consent of instructor.

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CRN Type Section Time Day Location Instructor Section Details
58292
Lecture
ISM
11:00AM -12:20PM
MW
Astronomy Building
Chu, Y
Part of Term:
1
Date Range:
08/22/11-12/07/11
Credit:
4 hours
Section Title:
Interstellar Medium
Section Info:
InterStellar Medium: 4 credit hours In this course, students will learn practical knowledge of the interstellar medium (ISM) and skills to carry out observational research and write papers and grant proposals. Lectures will be given on selected topics of the ISM. Students are required to use archival X-ray (Chandra, XMM, and ROSAT), UV (IUE, FUSE, HST STIS/COS), optical (HST), IR (Spitzer, Herschel, HST), gamma-ray (Fermi) data to study specific problems, present the results in a publishable paper, and/or write a proposal requesting funding for the research. There will be homeworks, a mid-term oral presentation of their research progess, and a final paper reporting the research results. x 496
58456
Lecture
PI
11:00AM -12:20PM
T
Astronomy Building
Brunner, R
Part of Term:
1
Date Range:
08/22/11-12/07/11
Credit:
2 hours
Section Title:
Pratical Informatics
Section Info:
Practical Informatics for the Physical Sciences Description: Many scientific disciplines are becoming data rich, requiring new skills and approaches. This course will cover many of the topics required to effectively work with large data sets including: storage, analysis, visualization, and mining. Homework problems will reinforce the techniques introduced in lecture, some of which will require basic programming in the Python language. Specific topics to be covered include database technology, SQL, Bayesian statistics, hypothesis testing, parameter estimation, model fitting, Fisher matrices, classification, decision trees, neural networks, times series analysis, and spatial statistics. Meets: Tuesdays 11:00 am - 12:20 pm. Grading: S/U 2 credit hours x 496
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