IANCU Summer Camp for New Students 2025

IANCU Summer Camp for New Students 2025 (中大天文所新生營 2025) is 3-day activity for graduate students who have joined the Institute of Astronomy, National Central University in February 2025 and will join in September 2025.

About the camp

Date

5, 6, 7 August 2025

Venue

classroom S4-914 at 9th floor of Science-4 building of NCU

Official language

English

Things you need to bring to the camp venue

a notebook and pens
a computer

a laptop computer or a tablet computer

a water bottle
a mobile phone

for recording by taking photos

Programme

IMPORTANT: Files for the camp can be downloaded only from computers / mobile phones connected to the network of our University. To download files, connect to one of Wi-Fi access points of our Institute. Check whether you are using 4G/5G mobile network or Wi-Fi connection. The password for Wi-Fi access points is shown in the classroom. When you download files when you are at home, use the VPN service of our University.

Day-1 on 05/Aug/2025

Time	Activity	Speaker	Files	Notes
10:00--10:45	Downloading e-books from the Library	Kinoshita, Daisuke	PDF	The PDF file will be available for your download at 09:55 on 05/Aug/2025.
10:45--11:30	English reading 1	Kinoshita, Daisuke	PDF	The PDF file will be available for your download at 10:40 on 05/Aug/2025.
11:30--12:00	My life as a graduate student 1	Wu, Jun-Lei	---	15-min talk + 15-min questions
12:00--13:30	Lunch break		---	---
13:30--14:15	English listening 1	Kinoshita, Daisuke	PDF	The PDF file will be available for your download at 13:25 on 05/Aug/2025.
14:15--15:00	Introductory mathematics	Kinoshita, Daisuke	PDF	The PDF file will be available for your download at 14:10 on 05/Aug/2025.
15:00--15:20	Break		---	---
15:20--16:05	Introductory physics	Kinoshita, Daisuke	PDF	The PDF file will be available for your download at 15:15 on 05/Aug/2025.
16:05--17:35	Introductory Python programming 1: Numerical technique	Rao, Khushboo Kunwar	PDF	The PDF file will be available for your download at 16:00 on 05/Aug/2025.

Day-2 on 06/Aug/2025

Time	Activity	Speaker	Files	Notes
10:00--10:30	About our institute	Chou, Yi	---	---
10:30--11:15	English reading 1	Kinoshita, Daisuke	PDF	The PDF file will be available for your download at 10:25 on 06/Aug/2025.
11:15--11:45	My life as a graduate student 2	Atharva Sunil Patil	---	15-min talk + 15-min questions
11:45--13:15	Lunch break		---	---
13:15--14:00	English listening 2	Kinoshita, Daisuke	PDF	The PDF file will be available for your download at 13:10 on 06/Aug/2025.
14:00--14:45	Introductory astronomy 1	Aryan, Amar	PDF, Solutions	The PDF file will be available for your download at 13:55 on 06/Aug/2025. The solution file will be available for your download at 14:45 on 06/Aug/2025.
14:45--15:05	Break		---	---
15:05--15:50	Introductory astronomy 2	Rao, Khushboo Kunwar	PDF	The PDF file will be available for your download at 15:00 on 06/Aug/2025.
15:50--17:20	Introductory Python programming 2: Astronomical photometry	Cheng, Yu-Chi	PDF	The PDF file will be available for your download at 15:45 on 06/Aug/2025.

Day-3 on 07/Aug/2025

Time	Activity	Speaker	Files	Notes
10:00--10:45	English reading 3	Kinoshita, Daisuke	PDF	The PDF file will be available for your download at 09:55 on 07/Aug/2025.
10:45--11:30	Using AI for astronomy	Cheng, Yu-Chi	PDF	---
11:30--13:00	Lunch break		---	---
13:00--13:45	English listening 3	Kinoshita, Daisuke	PDF	The PDF file will be available for your download at 13:25 on 07/Aug/2025.
13:45--15:15	Introductory Python programming 3: Structure of the Milky Way Galaxy	Kinoshita, Daisuke	PDF	The PDF file will be available for your download at 13:40 on 07/Aug/2025.
15:15--15:45	Closing remarks		---	---

Supplementary files

Here is a list of supplementary files for the camp.

"My life as a graduate student"

Audio files

Audio files for English listening sessions.

NOTE: Audio files will be available for your download after the end of the session. For example, files for the English listening session 1 will be available at 14:15 on 05/Aug/2025.