This repo contains information about the USRP at the Department of Astrophysical Sciences, foremost material for its first week course "Intro to Scientific Programming", aka bootcamp.
The plan for the first week is to give you an overview of good things to know when it comes to scientific computing, give you time to do some hands-on exercises, and provide resources for you to learn more. We aim to cover basic unix commands and remote login (ssh), software version control (git and github), the Python programming language and scientific programming stack, and basic statistics and simulations. Given that we only have a week, we will only scratch the surface on each of these topics, but many of us will be around and willing (physically or via email/Slack) to provide support and additional guidance throughout the summer.
Before you start, please make sure that you have all requested access to the Adroit cluster following this link. If you want to install python on your own machine, please follow these instructions.
For live questions of general interest to the "camp masters" and to keep in touch with your fellow campers, please subscribe to the slack channels (details sent via email, or ask your camp master/mentor) .
- June 2, 2026 Unix commands, version control, ssh
- June 3, 2026 Python and numpy
- June 4, 2026 Statistical data analysis
- June 5, 2026 Running hydro simulations
All sessions take place in person at Green Hall 1-C-4C. The agenda for each days is detailed in the respective README files.
Seminars are held every Tuesday 12:30pm, colloquia every Thursday 12:30pm. The room is Green Hall 0-S-6. Lunch will be delivered outside room 0-S-6 at 12:00pm.
- June 09, 2026 Marcus DuPont -- Getting Up to Speed with Claude Code
- June 16, 2026 Neta Bahcall -- Applying to Graduate School
- June 23, 2026 Chang-Goo Kim -- How to find/read/manage papers
- June 30, 2026 Matt Coleman -- How to Write a Good Hydro Solver
- July 07, 2026 Abbey Ellis -- How to Get Your Research into The New York Times
- July 14, 2026 Alex Dittmann -- How to Make Good Plots
- July 21, 2026 Romain Teyssier -- How to Write a Good ODE Solver
- June 11, 2026 Uddipan Banik -- Gravity, magnetism and the growth of cosmic structure
- June 18, 2026 Mor Rozner -- Dynamical origins of gravitational waves
- June 25, 2026 Michael Strauss -- Large scale structure as a cosmological probe
- July 02, 2026 Josh Winn -- Twenty Years of the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite
- July 9, 2026 Nehpreet Walia -- Mapping the Outer Heliosphere using NASA's IMAP
- July 16, 2026 Chris Hamilton -- Spiral structure in galaxies
- July 23, 2026 Shaunak Modak -- Interstellar gas and the evolution of galactic disks
- June 17, 2026 Visit to the Institute for Advanced Study
- June 24, 2026 Visit to the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
- July 08, 2026 Visit to the Princeton Supercomputer Center
- July 28th, 2026 Practice talks
- July 29th, 2026 Practice talks
- July 30th, 2026 USRP finals