New Students' Camp 2022 (中大天文所新生營 2022)

Overview of the activity

Activity: New Students' Camp 2022 (中大天文所新生營 2022)

Schedule: 02, 03, 04 August 2022
Meeting venue: room S4-1013 of Chien-Shiung Building (Science-4 Building) at National Central University
Targets: new students who joined our institute in Feb/2022 and will join in Sep/2022

limited number of graduate students who joined our institute before Feb/2022 are able to participate the activity.
limited number of undergraduate students who is considering to join our institute in near future are able to participate the activity.

Features of this activity

talks about our institute
talks about research topics you may tackle
plenty of time for hands-on sessions about English reading, solving exercises, and computer programming

Things you are expected to learn about

You are expected to learn who is in the institute.
You are expected to learn how to survive in the institute.
You are expected to learn which courses are offered here.

Schedule

01/Jul/2022: first announcement
10/Jul/2022: second announcement
15/Jul/2022: deadline of registration
25/Jul/2022: final announcement
02-04/Aug/2022: the camp

Program

Day-1: 02/Aug/2022

Time	Talk	Speaker	Note
10:00--10:10	Announcements from the organiser	Kinoshita, Daisuke
10:10--10:25	About our Institute	Chou, Yi	general introduction to our institute by our director
10:25--11:05	Low-mass X-ray binaries (tentative title)	Chou, Yi	30-min talk + 10-min questions
11:05--11:45	Stars and star formation (tentative title)	Chen, Wen-Ping	30-min talk + 10-min questions
11:45--13:15	Lunch break
13:15--13:55	Wide-Field Surveys and LSST	Ngeow, Chow-Choong	30-min talk + 10-min questions
13:55--14:35	Planetary and exo-planetary system sciences (tentative title)	Ip, Wing-Huen	30-min talk + 10-min questions
14:35--15:15	Astrophysical transients	Pan, Yen-Chen	30-min talk + 10-min questions
15:15--15:45	Tea break
15:45--16:25	Dark matter, cosmic ray, galaxy clusters (tentative title)	Ko, Chung-Ming	30-min talk + 10-min questions
16:25--17:05	AGN, quasars, interacting galaxies (tentative title)	Hwang, Chorng-Yuan	30-min talk + 10-min questions
17:05--17:45	Small solar system bodies	Kinoshita, Daisuke	30-min talk + 10-min questions
17:45--18:45	Beer (and soft drink) time	All the participants	at Faculty Lounge

Day-2: 03/Aug/2022

Time	Talk	Speaker	Note
10:00--10:40	Hands-on session 1: "Searching and downloading e-books from the Library"	Kinoshita, Daisuke	You need to bring your computer to the venue. Connect to the Wi-Fi of our Institute to download PDF file.
10:40--12:10	Hands-on session 2: "Reading a textbook written in English"	Kinoshita, Daisuke	You need to bring your computer to the venue. Connect to the Wi-Fi of our Institute to download PDF file.
12:10--13:40	Lunch break
13:40--15:10	Hands-on session 3: "Introductory Python programming for astronomers"	Kinoshita, Daisuke	You need to bring your computer to the venue. Connect to the Wi-Fi of our Institute to download PDF file.
15:10--15:40	Tea break
15:40--15:55	"My first year in the institute" 1	Bishnu Sharma	10-min talk + 5-min questions
15:55--16:10	"My first year in the institute" 2	Henderson, Jing-Yi	10-min talk + 5-min questions
16:10--17:40	Hands-on session 4: "Constructing color-magnitude diagrams of star clusters using Gaia DR3"	Chen, Wen-Ping	You need to bring your computer to the venue.
17:40--18:40	Beer (and soft drink) time	All the participants	at Faculty Lounge

Day-3: 04/Aug/2022

Time	Talk	Speaker	Note
10:00--11:00	Hands-on session 5: "Error propagation and significant digits"	Kinoshita, Daisuke	You need to bring your computer to the venue. Connect to the Wi-Fi of our Institute to download PDF file.
11:10--12:10	Hands-on session 6: "Solving exercises and writing answers"	Kinoshita, Daisuke	You need to bring your computer to the venue. Connect to the Wi-Fi of our Institute to download PDF file.
12:10--13:40	Lunch break
13:40--15:10	Hands-on session 7: "Downloading astronomical images and viewing them using Ginga"	Kinoshita, Daisuke	You need to bring your computer to the venue. Connect to the Wi-Fi of our Institute to download PDF file.
13:40--15:10	Hands-on session 7: "Planetary motions and orbital integration"	Kinoshita, Daisuke	You need to bring your computer to the venue. Connect to the Wi-Fi of our Institute to download PDF file.
15:10--15:40	Tea break
15:40--15:55	"My first year in the institute" 3	Wu, Wei-Jing	10-min talk + 5-min questions
15:55--16:10	"My first year in the institute" 4	Tanvi Sharma	10-min talk + 5-min questions
16:10--17:40	Hands-on session 8: "Finding an exoplanet from Kepler data"	Kinoshita, Daisuke	You need to bring your computer to the venue. Connect to the Wi-Fi of our Institute to download PDF file.
17:40--17:50	Concluding remarks	Kinoshita, Daisuke
17:50--18:50	Beer (and soft drink) time	All the participants	at Faculty Lounge

Supplementary document

supplementary document for the session 04

sample scripts for the session 04

Sample Python scripts for hands-on sessions

Sample Python scripts for hands-on sessions can be found at GitHub.

Video files

Accommodation

New Students' Camp 2022 (中大天文所新生營 2022) is a 3-day activity.
If you do not have your dormitory room or apartment room in or near NCU, contact to Amber, the secretary of our Institute, to arrange a room for you during the Camp.

The room charge for short-term dormitory room usage is 100 NT per night.
To make a room reservation, you need to inform following information to Amber.

Your name
Your student ID
Your contact addresss (e.g. phone number)
Check-in date
Check-out date

If you need a room reservation, contact to Amber by 15/Jul/2022.

When contacting to us, find a phone number of our institute office at https://www.astro.ncu.edu.tw/.

Things you need to bring to the meeting venue

Here is a list of things you need to bring to the meeting venue for New Students' Camp 2022.

a notebook (not a laptop computer)
pens
a laptop computer (or tablet type computer or whatever your favourite computer) which can run Python scripts
VGA or HDMI adaptor to show the desktop of your computer to the screen
a mobile phone (for taking photos for recording purpose)

Registration

To make a registration for New Students' Camp 2022, visit following Google Forms and submit your responses by 17:00 on 15/Jul/2022.

Registration Form for New Students' Camp 2022

Need an online participation to this activity?

If you need an online participation to this activity for some reason (e.g. infection of COVID-19, injury), contact to Amber.

When contacting to us, find a phone number of our institute office at https://www.astro.ncu.edu.tw/.

Organisers

Chou, Yi
Jian, Amber
Kinoshita, Daisuke

HTML coded by Kinoshita Daisuke