2024 Final Program

Core Faculty

Pavlos Protopapas (PP) (Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences)
Matthew Graham (MG) (Caltech) - Co-Chair
Mauricio Cerda (MC) (U. Chile) - Co-Chair
Amelia Bayo (AB) (ESO) - Co-Chair
Mauro San Martín (MSM) (U. de La Serena)
Humberto Farías (HF) (U. de La Serena)
Federica Bianco (NH) (University of Delaware/ Rubin Observatory )

TAs: Nicolas Monsalves (U. de La Serena)
       Catherine Benavides (U. de Chile)

BEFORE WE START

Please check out the software installation instructions on the 2024 Languages, Packages, and Software page!
 
SCHEDULE

Regular school days begin at 9:00 and end at 18:30.

Sun Aug 18
Morning/afternoon: Student arrivals in La Serena

Mon Aug 19
09:00 - Welcome and brief introduction + logistics (MG/GD)
09:15 - Intro/Data Access (FB)
10:00 - Hands On/ Environment setup (TAs)
10:45 - Coffee
11:15 - Data Science Projects Org (TAs)
12:00 - Project presentations, group project discussions (MG)
13:00 - Lunch
14:30 - Unsupervised ML I (AB)
16:15 - Coffee
16:45 - Supervised ML (AB)
18:30 - End of day

Tues Aug 20
09:00 - DL basics: Basic NN, architecture, activation functions, LOSS functions (MG)
10:45 - Coffee
11:15 - DL basics: Back propagation, regularization, optimizers (MG) notebook
13:00 - Lunch
14:30 -  Unsupervised ML II: Dimensionality Reduction (FB)
16:15 - Coffee
16:45 - Image Processing (MC)
17:45 - Project time - Document : Statement of work
18:15 - Student report
18:30 - End of day

Wed Aug 21
09:00 - CNNs: Saliency Map and Interpretation (MC)
10:45 - Coffee
11:15 - Generative Models I (PP)
13:00 - Lunch
14:30 - DB1 (MSM)
16:15 - Coffee
16:45 - Dockers I (HF)
17:45 - Project time
18:15 - Student report
18:30 - End of day

Thurs Aug 22
09:00 - Time Series (FB)
10:45 - Coffee
11:15 - Generative Models II (PP)
13:00 - Lunch
14:30 - DB2 (MSM)
16:15 - Coffee
16:45 - HPC (HF)
17:45 - Project time
18:15 - Student report
18:30 - End of day

Fri Aug 23
09:00 - LLMs (PP)
10:45 - Coffee
11:15 - Generative Models III (PP)
13:00 - Lunch
14:30 - TBA. IDEAS: INCLUSION FOCUSING ON VISUAL IMPAIRMENT
16:15 - Coffee
16:45 - Project time
18:15 - Student report
18:30 - End of day

Sat Aug 24
09:00 - Depart to Pachón/Tololo
11:00 - Tour Rubin
13:30 - Lunch
14:00 - Tour SOAR
15:30 - Departure from Cerro Pachón to Cerro Tololo
17:00 - 18:30 Dinner
18:30 - Tour to Blanco telescope
19:30 - 20:30 - Stargazing with small telescopes.
20:30 - Return to La Serena

Sun Aug 25
Free time

Mon Aug 26
09:00 - Project work time
10:45 - Coffee
11:15 - Project work time / Optional Lab:
13:00 - Lunch
14:30 - Project time / Optional Lab:
16:30 - Coffee
17:00 - Project work time
18:15 - Student report
18:30 - End of day

Tues Aug 27
09:00 - Project work time
10:45 - Coffee
11:15 - Project work time
13:00 - Lunch
14:30 - Project time / Optional Lab:
16:30 - Coffee
17:00 - Project work time
18:15 - Student report
18:30 - End of day

Wed Aug 28
09:00 - Project work time
10:45 - Coffee
11:15 - Project work time
13:00 - Lunch
14:30 - Project presentations
18:30 - Farewell Reception
21:30 - End of day

Thurs  Aug 29
08:30 - Checkout from apartments
09:30 - Students arrive to recinto
09:45 - Student survey
10:30 - School closeout
10:45 - Coffee
Noon: Students flyout