MPAGS is the Midlands Physics Alliance Graduate School, a joint school which for astronomy purposes comprises Birmingham, Keele, Leicester, Nottingham and Warwick. Below are materials connected to the Warwick MPAGS module "Astrophysical techniques", which is running for 5 weeks starting Wednesday, Oct 23 2019, with 2 hourly sessions (see below) and associated assignments. (Sessions will run in PS0.18.)

Timetable:

Week	Date	Time	Session leader	Topic
4	Wed, Oct 23	12.00-14.00	Tom Marsh	Observational Astronomy
5	Wed, Oct 30	12.00-14.00	Peter Wheatley	X-ray Astronomy
6	Wed, Nov 6	12.00-14.00	Matteo Brogi / Dan Bayliss	Optical/IR Astronomy
7	Wed, Nov 13	09.00-11.00	Grant Kennedy	Interferometry
8	Wed, Nov 20	09.00-11.00	Boris Gaensicke

Home work assignments:

• Assignment 1: questions related to lecture on observing (23 Oct 2019). Deadline: 30 Oct 2019, end of. Related materials: Observing, Astronomical seeing, stellarium
• Assignment 2: questions related to lecture on X-ray astronomy (30 Oct 2019). Deadline: 6 Nov 2019, end of. Related materials: Lecture notes
• Assignment 3: questions related to lecture on CCDs, photometry, and spectroscopy (TBD). Deadline: TBD. Note: lecture slides are in the linked directory given in the assignment sheet.

• Assignment 4: questions related to lecture on interferometry. Related materials: slides, iPython notebook. Deadline: 20 Nov 2019, end of.
• Assignment 5: data mining. Deadline TBD