STEM Python Course

University of South Carolina STEM Python Course Summer 2019

Taught by:

@blchavez

@douglasquincyadams

@fcashman

@jpierel14

@srodney

@tylern4

Mon. Jun 3 : Day 1 - Introduction to Python

Monday Morning (10am - noon)

• 9:45 Coffee and Light Breakfast Provided
• 10:00 Introductions, Overview of the week
• 10:10 Installation Check + Personal Goals for the week
• 10:25 Random group assignments
• 10:30 Basic Git
• 10:45 break
• 11:00 Python Basics

12:30 - 1:30 Go get lunch.

• there is space in the Astronomy Center to gather and eat together if you want.
• Basement floor of Jones, rooms 005, 007, 008.
• entering from Main St., go down the steps on the right, Astro Center is first door on the left.

Monday Afternoon (1:30 - 3:30pm)

• 1:30 More Python Basics
• 2:30 break (coffee + snacks)
• 2:45 Wrap up basic exercises
• 3:00 Git and Github
• 3:30 end

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Tue. Jun 4 : Day 2 - Common Packages for Scientific Programming

Tuesday Morning (10am - noon)

• 9:45 Coffee and Light Breakfast Provided
• 10:00 Overview of the day, group assignments
• 10:15 Matplotlib, Numpy, Scipy
• 11:00 break (coffee + snacks)
• 11:15 Sympy, Pickle, os/sys/shutil/glob

12:30 - 1:30 Go get lunch. (eat in the Astro Center if you want)

Tuesday Afternoon (1:30 - 3:30pm)

• 1:30 Data I/O, Pandas, Fitting with scipy.optimize
• 2:30 break (coffee + snacks)
• 2:45 end of day data + fitting challenges
• 3:30 end

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Wed. Jun 5 : Day 3 - Optimization and Special Packages

Wednesday Morning (10am - noon)

• 9:45 Coffee and Light Breakfast Provided
• 10:00 Overview of the day, group assignments
• 10:15 Multiprocessing
• 11:00 coffee break (coffee + snacks)
• 11:15 Speeding up code -- cython
• 11:45 Importing C, C++, Fortran with Python

12:30 - 1:30 Go get lunch.

• (eat in the Astro Center if you want)

Wednesday Afternoon (1:30 - 3:30pm)

• 1:30 Workshop session
• 2:30 break
• 2:45 Workshop session
• 3:30 end

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Thu. Jun 6 : Day 4 - Statistics and Fitting with Python

Thursday Morning (10am - noon)

• 9:45 Coffee and Light Breakfast Provided
• 10:00 Overview of the day, group assignments
• 10:15 Brief lecture and Q&A on Probability Theory
• 10:30 Model Fitting Activities: chi-squared minimization
• 11:00 coffee break (coffee + snacks)
• 11:15 Brief lecture and Q&A on Likelihood Analysis
• 11:30 Introduction to advanced fitting

12:30 - 1:30 Go get lunch.

• (eat in the Astro Center if you want)

Thursday Afternoon (1:30 - 3:30pm)

• 1:30 more Model Fitting Activities: MCMC
• 2:30 break (coffee + snacks)
• 2:45 end of day data + fitting challenges
• 3:30 end

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Fri. Jun 7 : Day 5 - Scientific Programming in Python

Friday Morning (10am - noon)

• 9:45 Coffee and Light Breakfast Provided
• 10:00 Overview of the day, group assignments
• 10:35 carry on with data + fitting challenges
• 11:00 coffee break (coffee + snacks)
• 11:15 10:35 carry on with data + fitting challenges

12:30 - 1:30 Go get lunch.

• (eat in the Astro Center if you want)

Friday Afternoon (1:30 - 3:30pm)

• 1:30 Brief lecture and Q&A on Programming Practice
• 1:45 Setup of coding practice examples
• 2:00 break
• 2:15 Working through coding practice examples
• 3:30 end