Timeline for Summer 2018.

Week 1 (Group Leader: Howard) (week of June 11th)

GitHub: Version Control, Cloning, Branching, Forking
Unix primer: (cd, ls, ssh, emacs) (Google cloud instance)
Coding programs: Textwrangler, PyCharm, or Atom.

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
Spyder (Anaconda-Navigator)

Paper of the week:

Week 2 (Group Leader: Howard) (week of June 18th)

Python
Ipython
Jupyter
Jupyter labs
How to effectively read a Scientific Paper
Extras Numpy, Pandas, Gspread, reading in files, plotting (data discovery, bokeh), radvel,. Start planet fitting with fitting a sin wave, move to radvel Astropy, pyephem(advanced) Plotting: linear vs log space

Paper of the week:

"Occurrence and core-envelope structure of 1–4x Earth-size planets around Sun-like stars" https://arxiv.org/pdf/1404.2960.pdf

Week 3 (Group Leader: Sarah & Alma) (week of June 25th)

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

Matplotlib: https://matplotlib.org/tutorials/introductory/sample_plots.html#sphx-glr-tutorials-introductory-sample-plots-py

Pandas: http://pandas.pydata.org/pandas-docs/stable/10min.html

Paper of the week:

Week 4 (Group Leader: Sarah) (week of July 2nd)

Radvel:
Beyond the radvel tutorial, do better to explain what is going on. (Ruben)
Add more comments about basic python usage.

Paper of the week:

"Imaging Extrasolar Giant Planets" https://arxiv.org/pdf/1605.02731.pdf

Week 5 (week of July 9th)

Build a website using wix.com (Leader: Alma)
- What belongs on an academic website.
make a CV using Overleaf.com (Lead: Isabel)

Paper of the week:

"Imaging Extrasolar Giant Planets" https://arxiv.org/pdf/1605.02731.pdf

Week 6 (Group Leader: Isabel) (week of July 16th)

Download Kepler photometric data Data:
- Identifying the period of transiting planets using periodograms
- Binning and phase folding photometric data.
- phase fold to depth of planet, confirm period

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 7 ( Group Leader: Sarah/Alma) (week of July 23rd)

Statistics: median/mean/mode/outlier rejection/errors in quadrature
An Introduction to the programming language R in discussing habitability.
- Installing R (https://discuss.analyticsvidhya.com/t/how-to-run-r-on-jupyter-ipython-notebooks/5512/2)

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 9 ( Group Leader: Sarah) (week of July 30th) (Weeks 8 & 9 will be switched due to scheduling constraints)

Begin Final Project: Research Proposal

Paper of the week:

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

Week 8 (Group Leader: Howard/Isabel) (week of August 6th)

High Resolution Spectra
- examine many Keck/APF spectra: determine resolution
  - Give examples of low, medium and high resolution spectra.
- Cross Correlation: What is it and what does it tell us
- Determining Precise Radial Velocities.
- (plot resolution as a function of wavelength), Use Haynes tutorial as a guide
Continue discussion of Research topics.

Paper of the week:

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

Week 10 (Group Leader: All) (week of August 13th)

Final Project: Research proposal discussion.

Other: