2023 Final Program

Core Faculty

Matthew Graham (MG) (Caltech) - Co-Chair
Mauricio Cerda (MC) (U. Chile) - Co-Chair
Francisco Förster (FF) (CMM/U. de Chile, MAS)
Mauro San Martín (MSM) (U. de La Serena)
Humberto Farías (HF) (U. de La Serena)
Pavlos Protopapas (PP) (Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences)
Nina Hernitschek (NH) (U. de Antofagasta)
Guillermo Damke (GD) (NOIRLab)

TAs: Nicolas Monsalves (U. de La Serena)
       Martina Cadiz (U. de Concepción)

BEFORE WE START

Please check out the software installation instructions on the 2023 Languages, Packages, and Software page!
 
SCHEDULE (subject to change/adaptation)

Regular school days begin at 9:00 and end at 18:30.

Sun Aug 6
Morning/afternoon: Student arrivals in La Serena

Mon Aug 7
09:00 - Welcome and brief introduction + logistics (MG/GD)
09:15 - Astronomy/Bio and Data Science (MC/GD)
10:00 - Data Science experiences: What can be wrong? Metrics, etc (MG)
10:45 - Coffee
11:15 - Environment setup (TAs) notebook
12:00 - Project presentations, group project discussions (MG) projects list
13:00 - Lunch
14:30 - Unsupervised ML (MC) slides notebook notebook_solution
16:15 - Coffee
16:45 - Supervised ML (MC) slides notebook notebook_solution
18:30 - End of day

Tues Aug 8
09:00 - DL basics: Basic NN, architecture, activation functions, LOSS functions (MG) notebook
10:45 - Coffee
11:15 - DL basics: Back propagation, regularization, optimizers (MG) notebook
13:00 - Lunch
14:30 -  CNN: Basic construction, receptive field (NH) Slides notebook
16:15 - Coffee
16:45 - TBA
17:45 - Project time - Document : Statement of work
18:15 - Student report
18:30 - End of day

Wed Aug 9
09:00 - LM: Intro (PP)
10:45 - Coffee
11:15 - RNNs/GRUs/LSTMs (PP)
13:00 - Lunch
14:30 - DB1 (MSM)
16:15 - Coffee
16:45 - CNN: Regularization, saliency map and interpretation (NH)
18:30 - End of day

Thurs Aug 10
09:00 - Autoencoders (NH)
10:45 - Coffee
11:15 - Transformers (PP)
13:00 - Lunch
14:30 - DB2 (MSM)
16:15 - Coffee
16:45 TBA
17:45 - Project time
18:15 - Student report
18:30 - End of day

Fri Aug 11
09:00 - Depart to Pachón/Tololo
11:00 - Tour Rubin
13:00 - Tour SOAR
13:30 - Lunch
14:00 - Tour to Gemini
15:30 - Departure from Cerro Pachón to Cerro Tololo
17:00 - 18:30 Dinner
18:30 - Tour to Blanco telescope
19:30 - 20:30 - Stargazing with small telescopes.
20:30 - Return to La Serena

Sat Aug 12
09:00 - SOTA and transfer (NH)
10:45 - Coffee
11:15 - BERT/GP (PP)
13:00 - Lunch
14:30 - Docker/Kubernetes (HF)
16:15 - Coffee
16:45 - LLM (PP)
18:30 - End of day

Sun Aug 13
Free time

Mon Aug 14
09:00 - Project work time
10:45 - Coffee
11:15 - Project work time / Optional Lab:
13:00 - Lunch
14:30 - Project time / Optional Lab:
16:30 - Coffee
17:00 - Project work time
18:15 - Student report
18:30 - End of day

Tues Aug 15
09:00 - Project work time
10:45 - Coffee
11:15 - Project work time
13:00 - Lunch
14:30 - Project time / Optional Lab:
16:30 - Coffee
17:00 - Project work time
18:15 - Student report
18:30 - End of day

Wed Aug 16
09:00 - Project work time
10:45 - Coffee
11:15 - Project work time
13:00 - Lunch
14:30 - Project presentations
18:30 - Farewell Reception
21:30 - End of day

Thurs  Aug 17
08:30 - Checkout from apartments
09:30 - Students arrive to recinto
09:45 - Student survey
10:30 - School closeout
10:45 - Coffee
Noon: Students flyout