Intro

Intro#

astrophysics of stars and planets - spring 2025 - university of arizona, steward observatory

Today’s Agenda#

Wednesday, Jan. 15, 2025

  1. Welcome! (2m)

  2. Introductions (15m)

  3. Syllabus overview and discussion (15m)

  4. Course overview and expectations (15m)

Introductions (15m)#

  1. Name

  2. Undergrad institution

  3. Current research interest + current our potential advisor

  4. What you would like to learn in this course

  5. Hobbie(s) outside of astronomy

Syllabus overview and discussion (15m)#

Navigate to the course syllabus here.

Course overview and expectations (15m)#

Computing#

We will be using computing in the following ways.

Modules for Stellar Astrophysics (MESA): more info here.

Jupyter Notebooks: link to docs

Collaborative working environment#

  • group work often

  • collaboration on assignments, projects, and reviews

  • helping each other with various aspects of computing!

My asks#

  • Be kind

  • Be patient

  • Be involved

You will succeed in this course! Pre-course survey to go out soon, room in the schedule to add (or remove) different topics as we progress.

Questions?#

First PCA is online on the course website, to be submitted via D2L.

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