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Important Links and Updates
Registrations have been closed for 2024.
Participants for the 2024 workshop (if you haven't received an email yet, please check your spam folder).
If you still cannot find the required details, please reach out to the organizers
Instructors and Mentors
Instructors and Mentors
Leads:
Mentors:
Rena Lee (U. Hawaii)
Joshua Liberman (University of Arizona)
Paridhi Jain
Maria Vincent
Yaguang Li
Anchal Aiswariya Dutta
Dates and schedule
Dates and schedule
Duration: Monday, July 1st, 2024 to Monday, August 19th, 2024 (8 weeks)
Sessions: The live Instructor-led sessions on tools used in astronomy research will be conducted at 5pm Pacific Time on Mondays Virtually on Zoom. The sessions will be uploaded on YouTube later on for asynchronous reference.
Time Commitment: Students are expected to commit 5-10 hours per week outside of the sessions to the tutorials, assignments, and readings.
Mentor Chats and Q&A: Students can ask questions and chat with the mentors in Office hours on Discord. They can also interact with their fellow students on the same.
Course Content and Structure
Course Content and Structure
The one-hour live meetings at 5 pm PT on Mondays will be instructor-led and will include:
An introduction to the weekly topics
One-on-one discussions with the mentors to clear doubts and ask questions
Discussion of the research paper assigned for self-reading from the previous week
A short writing prompt on a variety of astronomy-related topics.
Specific topics include, but are not limited to the following:
Introduction to programming (in Python)
Creating scatter plots of real astronomical data
Fitting transit light curves and modeling radial velocities for exoplanets.
Querying online data archives (Gaia, MAST, Exoplanet Archive)
Planetary Geology
Machine Learning in Astronomy
Studying Galaxies
Creating professionally oriented research websites and CVs
Writing a research proposal on the topic of their choice
How to Register as a Student:
How to Register as a Student:
Fill out an interest form with your contact information to register for the 2024 program, and that's it. There are no prerequisites to attend the course and no formal enrollment in a University or Community College is required. The program is open to international students as well. However, a time commitment of 5-10 hours per week is required.
The target audience for this course is first and second-year undergraduate students, and advanced high school students who are interested in gaining experience in astronomy research but have no previous research experience, but typically anyone who is interested can apply.
How to Volunteer as a Mentor:
How to Volunteer as a Mentor:
We ask graduate-level students and advanced undergraduates who are interested in mentoring undergraduate students, developing open-source educational tutorials, and sharing their astronomy inspiration to volunteer their time for the program. The mentors are expected to develop/update tutorials on open-source tools and techniques used in astronomy research (focussed on, but not limited to exoplanets), deliver the session(s) on the same, and help mentor the next generation of astronomy enthusiasts in developing their research skills.
The commitment is small (a few hours per week), and very rewarding, as we are inspiring young undergraduate students to continue into Astronomy. The primary hour of instruction will be Mondays at 5 pm Pacific Time. Developing the tutorials and helping mentor the students via Discord/office hours would be asynchronous based on your availability.
If you'd want to connect in the meantime, please drop an email to Fei Dai at fdai-at-hawaii-dot-edu (replace -at- by @ and -dot- by .).
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