Timeline for Summer 2020.

Week 1. Group Leaders: Howard (Intro), Tim (Python), Isabel(Reading Academic Papers) (week of June 8th)

GitHub: Version Control, git-clone vs downloading repositories.
Unix primer: (cd, ls, ssh, emacs) (Google cloud instance)
Coding programs: Textwrangler, PyCharm, Atom, or Sublime Text.

Accounts needed:

Github.com
Google Drive (general gmail account)
DropBox.com
Overleaf.com
Kaggle.com
Papers and/or ADS experience (Building a library of papers)
Piazza.com ( Course Q&A website)

Other topics:

How to write a professional email.
Make sure everyone has python installed.
Effective Paper Reading

Part II of Week 1.

Python
Ipython
Jupyter
Jupyter labs

Part III of Week 1.

How to read a research paper.

Paper of the week:

Exoplanets Review by Lee (2018). (link in Google Drive)

Week 2 (Group Leader: Aldo and Isaac) (week of June 15th)

Pandas: (Leader: TBD)
- http://pandas.pydata.org/pandas-docs/stable/10min.html
Matplotlib:
- https://matplotlib.org/tutorials/introductory/sample_plots.html#sphx-glr-tutorials-introductory-sample-plots-py
Extras Numpy, Pandas, Gspread, reading in files, plotting (data discovery, bokeh), radvel,. Start planet fitting with fitting a sin wave, move to radvel Pandas: slicing datasets, SQL queries in python Plotting: linear vs log space

Paper of the week:

"Life Outside the Solar System" by Su-Shu Huang (Also in google drive) https://www.nature.com/scientificamerican/journal/v202/n4/pdf/scientificamerican0460-55.pdf

Week 3 Group Leader: Aldo, Joey (week of June 22th)

GAIA and SQL interface (online Astronomy Archives)
- Distances, Astronometry, Stellar Parameters
NASA Exoplanet Archive
- Download all of the Kepler transiting planets
  - Make histogram of planet radii
  - Make Orbital period vs Planet Radius plot
This week offers an extra project involving SETI and Gaia queries.
- https://arxiv.org/pdf/1912.03503.pdf
- This includes an opportunity to be on a research paper.

Paper of the week:

An Earth-sized Planet in the Habitable Zone of a Cool Star (Quintana et al. 2014) http://science.sciencemag.org/content/344/6181/277.full (Science Version) https://arxiv.org/pdf/1404.5667.pdf (ArXive Version, free)

Week 4 Group Leader: Tim, Joey, Isabel, (week of June 29nd)

TESS tutorial (Leader: TBD)
- Download TESS data
- Extra Credit For a Kepler tutorial, please see Intro2Astro 2018
- Identify planet Transit period
Linear Fitting, Chi-squared.

Paper of the week:

Zeng (2019), link in Google Drive.

Week 5 Group Leader: Joey, Ryan (week of July 6th)

RadVel - Fitting Radial Velocities.
Additional Fitting methods.

Paper of the week:

The Role of Identity in Astronomy: Article: Whistling Vivaldi (link in google drive)

Week 6 Group Leader: Isabel, Isaac, Sofia (week of July 13th)

Build a website using wix.com (Leader: TBD)
- What belongs on an academic website.
- Alternate methods: google sites. github sites.
make a CV using Overleaf.com

Paper of the week:

No paper assigned this week.

Week 7 Group Leader: Sofia, Howard (week of July 20rd)

SETI (Searching for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence)
Statistics: median/mean/mode leading into outlier rejection and uncertainty (Leader: TBD)
Photon Statistics: Detector noise and how to measure the strength of your detection
Website Review.
CV review will take place offline.

Paper of the week:

Arnold (2005), https://www.pnas.org/content/116/20/9723, Also available in Google Drive.

Week 8 (Group Leader: Sofia, Ryan, Tim) (week of July 27th)

Advanced Overleaf, Advanced LaTex
Continue discussion of Research topics.
Paper Discussion.

Paper of the week:

Imagine Extrasolar Giant Planets by Brendan Boweler: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1538-3873/128/968/102001/pdf

Week 9. Group Leader: Isabel, Isaac, Aldo. (week of August 3rd)

Begin Final Project: Research Proposal
Article Databases: ADS, Google Scholar, arXiv.org
Figure Asthetics

Paper of the week:

None

Week 10 (Group Leader: All) (week of August 10th)

Final Project: Research proposal discussion.

Other:

Papers:

Microlensing: Seager (in google drive).