CTA200H

This course is for summer undergraduates performing research in astrophysics at University of Toronto. The goal is to provide training to give students skills to help be successful with the computation aspects of their summer research program.

Logistics

The course will run every afternoon from 1:30pm to 5:30pm, from Tuesday May 3 to Friday May 13. This 4-hour block will be split into two hours of lecture followed by two hours of tutorial time, in which students will work on their course homework.

Location: MP 257 -- computer lab on the 2nd floor of the physics building.

Instructors

• Course coordinator: Alex van Engelen -- engelen at cita utoronto ca
• Tutorial TA: Heather Fong -- hfong at cita utoronto ca
• Lecturers:
  • Claire Xu -- xyu at cita utoronto ca
  • Mike Nolta -- mike at nolta net
  • Niels Oppermann -- niels at cita utoronto ca
  • Joel Meyers -- meyers at cita utoronto ca
  • Dan Tamayo -- dtamayo at cita utoronto ca

Timetable

This is a list of dates and topics for the course. (Preliminary -- subject to change.)

Date	Instructor	Topic
1. Tues May 3	Claire (brief intro by Alex)	Scientific computing workflow in Linux
2. Weds May 4	Alex	Language intro example: python
3. Thurs May 5	Alex	Intro to Numerical Computing
4. Fri May 6	Mike	High-performance Computing (Scinet)
5. Mon May 9	Alex	Statistics and Data Analysis Tools
6. Tues May 10	Niels	Monte Carlo Methods
7. Weds May 11	Alex	Time series / Power Spectrum Analysis
8. Thurs May 12	Joel	Symbolic Computation
9. Fri May 10	Dan	Machine Learning