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Intro2Astro 2025 will tak place from Tuesday, July 1st, 2025 to Tuesday, August 19th, 2024 (8 weeks). The live sessions will happen every Tuesday at 6pm Universal Time. Please note that due to time zone difference, the live sessions are on Wednesdays for people in Asia. You can use a time converter to convert the workshop time to your zone.
Please register for the workshop here: Registration Form
If you would like to help as a mentor, please apply here: Mentor Application Form
Instructors and Mentors
Instructors and Mentors
Leads:
Mentors:
TBD
Dates and schedule
Dates and schedule
Duration: Tuesday, July 1st, 2025 to Monday, August 19th, 2025 (8 weeks)
Sessions: The live Instructor-led sessions on tools used in astronomy research will be conducted at 6pm Universal Time on Tuesday, 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 6 pm UT on Tuesdays 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)
REU and Grad School Application
Citizen Scientist opportunities
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 2025 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 (focused 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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