Astro 496

This is the course website for Astronomy 496, instructed by Matthew Turk (mjturk@illinois.edu).

Below, you will find the materials for each week, as well as a syllabus that includes contact information and a course outline.

Course syllabus

Weekly Lectures and Materials

• Week 1 - Conversational Computation
• Week 2 - Basics of Python for Science
• Week 4 - Reproducible Science
• Week 5 - Images and Observations
• Week 6 - Intro to Simulations
• Week 7 - Particles
• Week 8 - Low-level Computation
• Week 9 - Parallelism and Some Viz
• Week 10 - Viz, SQL and Meta
• Week 11 - More Pandas, SQL and Optimizing
• Week 12 - Chemistry, ODEs and Optimizations
• Week 13 - ODE solving
• Week 14 - Some Advanced Stuff
• Week 15 - Final Lecture

Assignments

• Assignment 1 - Data Containers - Due 2018-02-20
• Assignment 2 - Particle Code - Due 2018-03-29
• Assignment 3 - Chemistry Solver - Due 2018-03-29