Class Schedule

This is an approximate schedule and we will update it as things change! Remember to keep an eye out for Canvas announcements.

Lecture: Monday/Wednesday 5:30 pm - 6:20 pm in STLC 119
Computer Lab: Friday 11:30 am - 1:20 pm in STLC 104
Observing: Wednesday (or weather backup Thursday) between sunset and midnight at the Stanford Student Observatory
Office hours: Tuesday 4:30 - 5:20 pm in Varian 206. Friday 9:30 am - 10:20 am in STLC 104, same as computer lab.

Week	Lectures	Lab	Observing	Assignments
Week 1 (3/31-4/4)	Syllabus and Course Goals Navigating the Night Sky	Intro to Python, Lab 0.2	Pretty pictures	🔥 Lab 0.0 due Wed. 4/2 at 5:00 pm
Week 2 (4/7-4/11)	Telescopes Detectors: CCD Imaging and Data Reduction	Lab 1.0	Star clusters	🔥 Lab 0.1-0.2 due Mon. 4/7 at 9:00 am
Week 3 (4/14-4/18)	A Sense of Scale The Properties of Stars	Lab 1.1	Star clusters	🔥 Lab 1.0 due Wed. 4/16 at 5:00 pm
Week 4 (4/21-4/25)	Main Sequence; Introduction to Final Projects Star Clusters and Variables; Talks and Reports	Lab 1.2	Star clusters	🔥 Lab 1.1 due Wed. 4/23 at 5:00 pm 🔥 Initial project idea due Fri. 4/25 at 9:00 am 🔥 Mid-quarter Course Feedback due Fri. 4/25 at 9:30 am
Week 5 (4/28-5/2)	Random and Systematic Errors; Measurement Binomial, Poisson, Gaussian; Error Propagation		Test Project Observations	🔥 Lab 1.2 due Wed. 4/30 at 5:00 pm 🔥 Draft proposals due Wed. 4/30 at 5:00 pm
Week 6 (5/5-5/7)	Monday Proposal Presentations 1. The Local Group 2. The All-Seeing 3. JH Wednesday Proposal Presentations 1. Cosmological Coupling 2. Observing Knights		Project Observations
Week 7 (5/12-5/16)	Guest Lecture: What even are gravitational waves? Model Fitting and Hypothesis Testing	Progress Updates	Project Observations	🔥 Revised proposals due Mon. 5/12 at 5:00 pm
Week 8 (5/19-5/23)	Parameter Estimation and Occam’s Razor Maximum Likelihood, Monte Carlo, Bootstrap	Progress Updates	Project Observations
Week 9 (5/26-5/30)	Memorial Day, no class Guest Lecture: Bridging the Cosmic Past and Present	Progress Updates	Project Observations	🔥 Stat HW due Fri. 5/30 at 11:59 pm
Week 10 (6/2-6/6)	Guest Lecture: Telescope Throwdown: PRIMA and AXIS Enter the Ring No class
Finals Week	Independent Project Presentations Tuesday 6/10, 7-10 pm			🔥 Final written reports due Tue. 6/10 at 7:00 pm