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Attendance is very highly recommended on November 21 and 22.
The first hour of lecture on November 21st will be dedicated to a quiz activity (on Mentimeter), aimed at reviewing a few key concepts of this course.
The quiz will be followed (in the second hour) by the first of the three guest lectures given by other researchers working at the Institute of Theoretical Astrophysics. The second and third guest lectures will be on November 22. See "Schedule" for the name and topics of the guest lecturers.
The lecture on Wednesday, November 15th is cancelled.
The second (and final) home assignment will be explained and presented during the lectures of October 31- November 1st, 2023. Software/code requirements: QFitsView (compulsory), Python (or IDL, Matlab, etc, whatever is your preferred code to produce plots and maps), 3DBarolo (optional). On November 1st there will also be a practical demonstration of the use of QFitsView. The deadline for submission is Monday November 13, 2023 at 20:00 and the submission needs to be done via Devilry. I remind that it is compulsory to submit both home assignments in order to pass the course.
The first assignments have been graded, please check Devilry and read carefully the feedback provided, even if you got a high grade. This feedback will be very important to do better in the second assignment. For those who did not do so well this time, I remind that as long as you submitted something, it is still possible to pass the course, since the final grade will be the average of the two assignments (averaged with the oral exam). Of course this means that you need to put some extra effort from now on, but do not get discouraged!
As I mentioned, there will be a tutorial on how to reduce and analyse sub-mm APEX telescope data. I will do this tutorial probably during the lecture on Oct 25, but if it turns out there is not enough time I may have to do it on Oct 30 during the group session. This exercise will not be compulsory and it will not be graded. If you want to follow the tutorial, it's recommended to install the GILDAS software on your machine. You can find the software and the installation guidelines at this webpage.
Hi everyone! The Discourse site for this course is now available.
The first graded home assignment of the course will be on a Solar Physics topic and it will be explained during the lectures of Sep 5 and Sep 6, 2023 by Dr. Reetika Joshi. The text of the assignment, the data, and any other material needed to complete it, will be uploaded on the usual google drive folder (to which all of you should already have access). The deadline for submission is at 8pm (20:00) on Sep 18, 2023, and only submissions via Devilry will be accepted. I remind everyone that the assignment will be graded anonymously, and that it is compulsory to submit all home assignments to pass the exam.
Dear AST2210 students, my name is Ignasi and I will be the teaching assistant of Claudia (the one who will teach the Group sessions). I would like to remind you that the first Group session will be next Monday 10:15-12:00 at Seminarrom 304.
During the group sessions, we will solve the problems at the end of each lecture notes. However, we can discuss this the Monday if you wish to approach the sessions in a different way. I encourage all you to attend the sessions. By solving the problems, we can build on the knowledge from the Lectures.
During Monday's session, we will review the problems from Lesson 1.
Dear AST2210 students, please remember that attending the first lecture of the course is compulsory. If you have a valid reason for not attending the first lecture on Tuesday August 22, I need to be notified via email before the lecture starts.