Difference between revisions of "Radio Astronomy: Tools and Techniques"
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Here is a (non-exhaustive) list of topics that we will consider covering in this class. Eventually, it would be nice to link in as many topics as possible and begin to organize subjects by their prerequisites and relatedness. | Here is a (non-exhaustive) list of topics that we will consider covering in this class. Eventually, it would be nice to link in as many topics as possible and begin to organize subjects by their prerequisites and relatedness. | ||
| − | + | Algorithms | |
| + | * [[Fast Fourier Transform]] | ||
| + | * [[Markov-Chain Monte Carlo]] | ||
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| + | Software Development | ||
* [[Python Installation and Basic Programming]] | * [[Python Installation and Basic Programming]] | ||
* [[Revision Control]] | * [[Revision Control]] | ||
* [[Programming Models]] | * [[Programming Models]] | ||
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| + | Computing | ||
* [[Processor Architectures]] | * [[Processor Architectures]] | ||
* [[Data Representations]] | * [[Data Representations]] | ||
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* [[Bayesian Statistics]] | * [[Bayesian Statistics]] | ||
| − | + | Signal Path | |
* [[Transmission Lines]] | * [[Transmission Lines]] | ||
* [[Antennas and Feeds]] | * [[Antennas and Feeds]] | ||
| + | * [[Receivers and Amplifiers]] | ||
| − | Pedagogy / Meta | + | Pedagogy of Radio Astronomy / Meta-Information |
* [[Creating Short Topical Presentations]] | * [[Creating Short Topical Presentations]] | ||
* [[Using AstroBaki]] | * [[Using AstroBaki]] | ||
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| + | Science of Radio Astronomy | ||
| + | * [[Black-Body Radiation]] | ||
| + | * [[21cm Transition]] | ||
===Topics by Date=== | ===Topics by Date=== | ||
Revision as of 14:45, 6 September 2011
This is course is aimed at graduate students, advanced undergraduates, and interested third parties who:
- would like to understand radio astronomy better
- would like to develop technical skills (programming, signal processing, instrumentation, algorithms, pedagogy, etc) to help them in their research
- would like to be involved, and involve their peers, in developing concrete tools to help their research
This class will follow a flexible, non-traditional format whereby each week, a group of students and I will work together to prepare public-domain pedagogical materials on a subject that will be distributed to the rest of the class in advance of each meeting. Class time will be split between discussing the subject informally, and working in groups to develop tools and address on-going research questions that each student brings to the class.
My hope is that this class will be moderately time-consuming, but that the tools, collaborations, and research developed inside the class will have a broad enough scope that it can double-count as research/work time. All of our activities are aimed at creating tools (both pedagogical and research-oriented) that will have value beyond the classroom.
Topics
Here is a (non-exhaustive) list of topics that we will consider covering in this class. Eventually, it would be nice to link in as many topics as possible and begin to organize subjects by their prerequisites and relatedness.
Algorithms
Software Development
Computing
Signal Processing
Interferometers
Statistics
Signal Path
Pedagogy of Radio Astronomy / Meta-Information
Science of Radio Astronomy
Topics by Date
- Aug 31:
- Convolution Theorem
- Creating Short Topical Presentations
- Python Installation and Basic Programming
- Brainstorming Lab Projects
- Choosing a Topic to Present
- Sep 07:
- Sep 14:
- Sep 21:
- Sep 28:
- Oct 05:
- Oct 12:
- Oct 19:
- Oct 26:
- Nov 02:
- Nov 09:
- Nov 16:
- Nov 23:
- Dec 03:
