Conveners and Lecturers (Warwick): Pier-Emmanuel Tremblay, Thomas Wilson, Peter Wheatley, Paul Strøm, Grant Kennedy, Joe Lyman, Lauren Doyle, Marina Lafarga Magro, Sam Gill, Jakob Van den Eijnden, Kendall Ackley

Module Code: AS2

Duration: 5 two hourly sessions

Start Date and Commitments

Start: Monday 30 October 2023, noon-2pm

Teams meetings have be scheduled and all registered internal and external students have be added to the Teams where they can join live meetings. If you have registered but can not join the Teams group, please email course coordinator Pier-Emmanuel Tremblay p.tremblay@warwick.ac.uk. If you haven't registered yet, please do so as soon as possible *and* email course coordinator to access live meetings. Any connection problems should also be reported to the course coordinator who will endeavour to find a solution. Session recordings will be made on a best-effort basis - lecturers are not obliged to replace failed or faulty recordings.

Troubleshooting: If you already have a Microsoft account and want to use it, open the Teams application, go to 1) Settings 2) Accounts 3) Current and write down the email address under your account. You will need to send us that exact email address if you want to join under that account.

Timetable (note the special time and location of the first lecture) :

Week	Date	Time	Room	Session leaders	Topic
5	Monday 30 Oct	noon-2pm	Millburn A0.28	Lauren Doyle / Tom Wilson	Observational Astronomy (Lecture slidesLink opens in a new window, Teams recordingLink opens in a new window)
6	Wednesday 8 Nov	noon-2pm	Millburn A1.28	Marina Lafarga Magro / Sam Gill	Optical/IR Astronomy - photometry & spectroscopy (Teams recordingLink opens in a new window)
7	Wednesday 15 Nov	noon-2pm	Millburn A1.28	Jakob Van den Eijnden	Interferometry
8	Wednesday 22 Nov	noon-2pm	Millburn A1.28	Peter Wheatley	X-ray Astronomy
9	Wednesday 29 Nov	noon-2pm	Millburn A1.28	Kendall Ackley	Data Mining

Home work assignments (may be updated up to day of the session).
The deadline for all assignments is one week after lecture. A pass mark for 1 MPAGS credit will be awarded for a valid attempt on at least four of the five assignments.

• Assignment 1Link opens in a new window: questions related to lecture on observing. Deadline: Wed 8th Nov. Related materials: seminar materialLink opens in a new window, Astronomical seeingLink opens in a new window, StellariumLink opens in a new window (email: thomas.g.wilson@warwick.ac.uk, Lauren.Doyle@warwick.ac.uk)
• Assignment 2: questions related to lecture on CCDs, photometry, and spectroscopy. Related materials: photometry slides, spectroscopy slides (email: Marina.Lafarga-Magro@warwick.ac.uk, Samuel.Gill@warwick.ac.uk)
• Assignment 3Link opens in a new window: questions related to lecture on interferometry. Related materials: slides. (email: Jakob.Van-den-Eijnden@warwick.ac.uk)

• Assignment 4Link opens in a new window: questions related to lecture on X-ray astronomy. Related materials: Lecture notes. (email: P.J.Wheatley@warwick.ac.uk)
• Assignment 5: data mining exercise. Deadline: Wed 6 Dec. Related materials: slides, github repo (follow link in readme to run notebook). (email: Kendall.Ackley@warwick.ac.uk)