Workshop Materials

This page contains the recordings, slides, and resources from our Cool Star Lab Summer Workshop Series

Workshop 1: Basics of Stellar Astrophysics

Workshop Slides (PDF)

Workshop 2: Brown Dwarf Astrophysics

Workshop Slides (PDF)

Workshop 3: Python & Jupyter Notebook

Notes (PDF) & python tutorial notebook (.ipynb)

Additional python basics tutorial notebooks

Python tutoriales adicionales en español

Workshop 4: Pandas & Matplotlib

Matplotlib python tutorial notebook (.ipynb)

Pandas python tutorial notebook (.ipynb)

Workshop 5: Astropy & Astroquery

Workshop slides (PDF)

Astropy units tutorial python notebook (.ipynb)

Astropy coordinates tutorial python notebook (.ipynb)

Astroquery tutorial python notebook (github)

Brett Morris's Astropy Workshop Materials

Workshop 6: SPLAT Spectral Analysis

Workshop slides (Google Slides)

SPLAT code (github)

SPLAT python tutorial notebook (github)

Instructions for downloading and installing SPLAT

Workshop 7: SpeX Data Reduction

SpeX reduction webpage (with additional videos)

SpeX Archive Reduction Project Instructions

IRTF SpeX webpage

Spextool Manual

Workshop 8: Reading Scientific Literature with CERI

Workshop Slides (PDF)

Scientific Literacy Survey

CERI Template - Google Doc

CERI Template - Google Spreadsheet

CERI Template - Google Form

Workshop 9: git/github & NASA ADS

Workshop Notes

Github website

NASA ADS link

Workshop 10: Machine Learning & Random Forests

Jupyter tutorial notebook

Workshop slides (PDF)

Workshop 11: Statistics & Monte Carlo Methods

Jupyter notebook tutorial (Google colab)

Workshop slides (Google Slides)

Workshop 12: LaTeX, BibTeX, & Overleaf

Workshop slides (Google slides)

LaTeX, BibTeX, Overleaf guide from MIT

Overleaf LaTeX editor

AASTeX package (for Research Notes)

Workshop 13: Scientific Presentations

Workshop slides (google slides)

LSST Data Science Fellows Talk on Talks (pdf file)

Scientific Presentations Cheat Sheet (Nature Jobs)

Giving Oral Presentations by Nature Scitable