2015 Final Program

Core Faculty
Amelia Bayo (U. de Valparaiso)
Guillermo Cabrera (MAS, CMM/U. de Chile)
Matthew Graham (Caltech/NOAO)
Christopher J. Miller (University of Michigan)
Pavlos Protopapas (Harvard University)
Chris Smith (AURA Observatory in Chile)
Eduardo Vera (CMM/U. de Chile)
 
Invited Professors:
Montaz Ali (University of Witwatersrand)
Joel Erikson (2 Sigma)
Juan-Carlos Maureira (CMM/U. de Chile)
Roberto Muñoz (PUC)
Mauro San Martín (U. de La Serena)
Jeffery McMahon (University of Michigan)
Alex Szalay (Johns Hopkins University)

 
BEFORE WE START
Please check out the software installation instructions on the 2015 Languages, Packages, and Softwarepage!
 
SCHEDULE (subject to change/adaptation)

Saturday Aug 15
Morning/Afternoon: Student arrivals to La Serena

Sunday Aug 16
09:00 - Welcome and brief introduction + logistics
09:15 - Astronomy 1: How do we look at the Universe? (Chris Miller) - Powerpoint PDF
10:00 - Software 1: Anaconda, AstroPy, libraries (Matthew Graham)
10:45 - Coffee
11:15 - Software 2: iPython Notebooks, GitHub (Matthew Graham)
12:00 - Astronomy 2: Photometry, Image Processing and Pipelines (Roberto Muñoz & Chris Miller);
Notebook1, Notebook2, DATA FILE for Notebook1, DATA FILE for Notebook2
13:00 - Lunch
14:30 - Data 1: Structures/Python/Databases (Mauro San Martin); Presentation (PDF); Sample Database
16:00 - Coffee
16:30 - Data 2: Visualization (Matthew Graham)
17:30 - Data 3: Discovery and Access (Amelia Bayo)
18:30 - End of day

Monday Aug 17
09:00 - Advanced Statistics 1: Bayes/MLE (Matthew Graham)
10:30 - Machine Learning 1 (zip file): Unsupervised Machine Learning (Guillermo Cabrera)
11:30 - Coffee Break
12:00 - Project Introduction
13:00 - Lunch
15:00 - Advanced Statistics 2: MCMC (Matthew Graham, Chris Miller) iPythonNB, Lecture, Data File, MCMC NB
16:00 - Machine Learning 2: Supervised Machine Learning (Guillermo Cabrera)
17:00 - Coffee Break
17:30 - Machine Learning 3: Regression (Guillermo Cabrera)
18:30 - End of day

Tuesday Aug 18
09:00 - High Performance Computing 1: Basics (Juan Carlos Maureira)
10:00 - High Performance Computing 2: Amazon Cloud/NLHPC (Juan Carlos Maureira)
11:00 - Coffee Break
11:30 - HPC Demo
12:00 - Statistics and Machine Learning: Time Series (Matthew Graham)
13:00 - Lunch and time to explore, with individual Q&A with professors. Meet groups and discuss projects.
15:00 - Departure from AURA Campus to Cerro Tololo and Gemini Telescopes
16:30 - Arrival Cerro Pachon
17:00–18:00 - Dinner in Tololo Cafeteria
18:00-19:30 - Tour Tololo and watch sunset
19:45-20:15 - Down Tololo to "La Cancha"
20:15-21:00 - Stargazing
21:00 - Return to La Serena
22:00 - Arrival to AURA Campus

Wednesday Aug 19
09:00-18:30 - Project Work time
--- 2 special session breakouts:
11:00 - Sparse Optimization and Compressed Sensing (Montaz Ali)
16:00 - NoSQL (Mauro San Martin)

Thursday Aug 20
09:00-18:30 - Project Work time
--- 2 special session breakouts:
11:00 - Understanding the structure of financial correlations (Joel Erikson): iPythonNB, DataFile
16:00 - Introduction to Data Analysis Techniques for Cosmic Microwave Background Maps (Jeffery McMahon): iPythonNB, DataFile

Friday Aug 21
09:00-18:30: Project Work time
--- 2 special session breakouts:
11:00 - Evolution of Scientific Computing (Alex Szalay)
20:30 - Farewell Dinner

Saturday Aug 22
09:00 - Check out form Cabañas with luggage
09:30 - Van leaves to AURA recinto
10:00 - 13:00pm.:Project presentations
13:00 - Lunch
15:00 - Van leaves to airport, Students fly out