2017 Final Program

Core Faculty
Matthew Graham (MG) (Caltech/NOAO) - Co-Chair
Guillermo Cabrera (GC) (MAS, CMM/U. de Chile) - Co-Chair
Pavlos Protopapas (PP) (Harvard University)
Amelia Bayo (AB) (U. de Valparaiso) - Co-Chair
Francisco Förster (FF) (CMM/U. de Chile, MAS)
Mauro San Martín (MSM) (U. de La Serena)
Juan Carlos Maureira (JCM) (CMM/U. de Chile)
Mauricio Cerda (MC) (U. Chile) - Co-Chair
Ashish Mahabal (AM)
Mike Kuhn (MK)
Rodrigo Assar (RS)

BEFORE WE START
Please check out the software installation instructions on the 2017 Languages, Packages, and Software page!
 
SCHEDULE (subject to change/adaptation)

Sun Aug 20
Morning/afternoon: Student arrivals in La Serena

Mon Aug 21
09:00 - Welcome and brief introduction + logistics
09:15 - Intro to Data Science (MG)
10:00 - Software - Notebooks: Software1 and Software2
10:45 - Coffee
11:15 - Linear regression I (MG) - Notebook: Exercises
13:00 - Lunch (at ULS casino)
14:30 - Lab: Visualization (AB) - Notebook : Visualization - Instructions : Packages
16:30 - Coffee
17:00 - Project time (intro session) - Projects : Descriptions
18:15 - Student report
18:30 - End of day

Tues Aug 22
09:00 - Linear regression II (MG) - Slides : Presentation sessions I and II.
10:45 - Coffee
11:15 - Classification (FF) - Content : Compressed file
13:00 - Lunch (at ULS casino)
14:30 - Lab: HPC (JCM) - Slides : Presentation
16:30 - Coffee
17:00 - Project time - Document : Statement of work
18:15 - Student report
18:30 - End of day

Wed Aug 23
09:00 - Logistic regression (GC) - Content : Compressed lectures
10:45 - Coffee
11:15 - Generalized linear models (GC)
13:00 - Lunch (at ULS casino)
14:30 - Lab: Databases (MSM) - Content : Compressed lectures
16:30 - Coffee
17:00 - Project time
18:15 - Student report
18:30 - End of day

Thurs Aug 24
09:00 - Decision trees + bagging (PP) - Slides : Decision Trees - Slides : Bagging - Notebook : Trees Ex2
10:45 - Coffee
11:15 - Random forest + boosting (PP) - Slides : Boosting
13:00 - Lunch (at ULS casino)
14:30 - Lab: Time Series (AM) - Content : Compressed slides and lab material (.tar.gz) (.zip)
16:30 - Coffee
17:00 - Project time
18:15 - Student report
18:30 - End of day

Fri Aug 25
09:00 - Bayesian I (PP) - Slides : Prob Models I - Notebook : Lecture 14 : Lecture 15 : Lecture 16
10:15 - Coffee
10:30 - Bayesian II (PP) - Slides : Prob Models II
11:45 - Depart to Lunch
12:00 - Lunch (at ULS casino)
13:00 - Departure from AURA campus to Cerro Pachón
15:00 - Gemini Telescope Tour (host to be confimed by Rene Rutten)
16:00 - Observe LSST site from Gemini
16:30 - Departure from Cerro Pachón to Cerro Tololo
17:00–18:30 - Dinner in Tololo Cafeteria
19:00 - Tour Tololo (sunset at 19:23pm) (host C. Smith)
20:30-21:30 – Stargazing with small telescopes (J. Seguel and G. Damke), coffee and cookies (C. Ibarlucea)
21:30 - Return to La Serena

Sat Aug 26 (U. La Serena after lunch; all day?)
09:00 - Gaussian mixture models (MK) - Software : Link to download R - Slides : Mixture models - Content : Compressed file
10:45 - Coffee
11:15 - Lab: Bio-related (MC) - Slides : Bio-related image processing - Notebook : Image processing challenge (notebook solution)- Data : Image data - Link : fiji
13:00 - Lunch (at ULS casino)
14:30 - Project time / Optional Lab : Genomic clustering (RS) - Content : Compressed file
16:30 - Coffee
17:00 - Project time
18:15 - Student report
18:30 - End of day

Sun Aug 27 (U. La Serena)
09:00 - Project work time
13:00 - Lunch (at ULS casino)
14:30 - Project time / Optional Lab : NOAO DataLab (MG) and Data Access (AB) - Notebook : Data access 
Special session breakouts: TBD
18:30 - End of day

Mon Aug 28 (U. La Serena)
09:00 - Project work time
13:00 - Lunch (at ULS casino)
14:30 - Project time / Optional Lab : Deep Learning (AM and MC) - Slides : Deep learning
18:30 - End of day

Tues Aug 29
08:00 - Check out from Cabanas with luggage
08:30 - Van leaves to AURA recinto
09:00 - 12:30: Project presentations
12:30 - Van leaves to airport, students fly out