The AstroPY
Training School

20 - 24 November, Hotel of Bulgarian Academy of Science, Sofia

About The Event

About The Event

Training event for professional astronomers.
Target participants: students, PhD students and scientists from Bulgaria and East Europe.
No registration fee. Limited number of attendees: maximum 20 participants!

Where

Hotel of Bulgarian Academy of Science, Sofia
50 “Shipchenski prohod” blvd.

When

Monday to Friday,
09:00h - 17:00h
20 - 24 November

Requirements

Requirements Course materials
python3 (https://www.python.org/downloads/) https://github.com/nden/astropy_bg_2023
astropy (https://www.astropy.org)  
jupyter (https://jupyter.org/install)  

SOC&LOC

Speaker 1

James Davis

MPIA, Heidelberg (SOC)

Speaker 2

Nadia Dencheva

STScI, USA (SOC)

Speaker 3

Iva Momcheva

MPIA, Heidelberg (SOC)

Speaker 4

Aarya Patil

MPIA (SOC)

Speaker 5

Rositsa Miteva

IANAO-BAS (LOC)

Speaker 6

Evgeni Semkov

IANAO-BAS (LOC)

Speaker 6

Momchil Dechev

IANAO-BAS (LOC)

Event Venue

Event venue location info and gallery

Hotel of Bulgarian Academy of Science, Sofia

Hotel of BAS is situated in the vicinity of major business premises, government administrative buildings, and shopping centers in the capital of Bulgaria.

Program

  • Time Topics Presenter
     
    09:00 - 9:30 Introductions All
    10:00 - 11:00 Intro to Python programming Iva Momcheva
    11:00 - 11:30 Break  
    11:30 - 13:00 Intro to Python programming Iva Momcheva
    13:00 - 14:00 Lunch  
    14:00 - 15:30 Intro to Python programming Iva Momcheva
    15:30 - 16:00 Break  
    16:00 - 17:00 Intro to Python programming Iva Momcheva

  • Time Topics Presenter
     
    09:00 - 11:00 Object oriented programming Aarya Patil
    11:00 - 11:30 Break  
    11:30 - 13:00 Numpy Aarya Patil
    13:00 -14:00 lunch  
    14:00 - 15:30 scipy Aarya Patil
    15:30 - 16:00 Break  
    16:00 - 17:00 numpy, scipy, matplotlib Aarya Patil

  • Time Topics Presenter
     
    09:00 - 11:00 Installations James Davies, All
    11:00 - 11:30 Break  
    11:30 - 13:00 Installations James Davies, All
    13:00 - 14:00 Lunch  
    14:00 - 15:30 Astropy I/O – FITS and ascii, FITS WCS Nadia Dencheva
    15:30 - 16:00 Break  
    16:00 - 17:00 Units, Coordinates, Tables Nadia Dencheva

  • Time Topics Presenter
     
    09:00 - 11:00 ccdproc James Davies
    11:00 - 11:30 Break  
    11:30 - 13:00 modeling Nadia Dencheva
    13:00 - 14:00 Lunch  
    14:00 - 15:30 modeling Nadia Dencheva
    15:30 - 16:00 Break  
    16:00 - 17:00 photutils Iva Momcheva

  • Time Topics Presenter
     
    09:00 - 11:00 astroquery Iva Momcheva
    11:00 - 11:30 Break  
    11:30 - 13:00 archives Iva Momcheva
    13:00 - 14:00 Lunch  
    14:00 - 15:30 Astropy communities and contribution to astropy,
    general workflow, how to open a Github issue
    Aarya, Nadia
    15:30 - 16:00 Break  
    16:00 - 17:00 Wrap up  

Registration

Registration closed.
Deadline October 20, 2023

Contact Us

Address

72, Tsarigradsko Chaussee Blvd., Sofia, Bulgaria

Phone Number

+359 2 9741910