Fall 2022 Class Schedule
ASTRO 589 meets once a week on Wednesdays from 10:10am to 11:00am ET (prompt) in Davey Lab Room 538.
Please be aware that we will not be meeting the week of the Thanksgiving Holiday (Nov 21 - 25), following PSU’s Fall 2022 academic calendar.
The following is the anticipated schedule for course lectures and activities. Lecture topics/dates may shift slightly depending on course progress.
| Date | Activity | Topic |
|---|---|---|
| Aug 24 | Lecture | Intro and Overview |
| Aug 31 | Lecture | The Fourier Transform I |
| Sep 7 | Lecture | The Fourier Transform II |
| Sep 14 | Lecture | The Fast Fourier Transform and Numerical Implementation |
| Sep 21 | Lecture | Interferometry in Practice |
| Sep 28 | Lecture | Making Images: PSFs, Gridding, and Dirty Images |
| Oct 5 | Lecture | Bayesian Inference and Model Fitting |
| Oct 12 | Lecture | Image Plane Deconvolution (CLEAN) |
| Oct 19 | Lecture | Regularized Maximum Likelihood (RML) I |
| Oct 26 | Lecture | Regularized Maximum Likelihood (RML) II |
| Nov 2 | Project presentation | TBD |
| Nov 9 | Project presentation | TBD |
| Nov 16 | Project presentation | TBD |
| Nov 30 | Project presentation | TBD |
| Dec 7 | Lecture | Correlation in ALMA data |