NITheP / CHPC - Foundations of Theoretical and Computational Science

Repository for teaching materials from the 30th Chris Engelbrecht Summer School in Drakensberg, South Africa.

Lectures:

• The Square Kilometre Array and its Science (includes an introduction to radio interferometry)
• Big Telescope, Big Data: Indirect imaging in the SKA era (see associated Python tutorial)
• Real-time classification at SKA-scale for time domain astrophysics (see associated Python tutorial)
• Data-centric machine learning for SKA post-processing

Tutorials:

• Simulating an interferometer and making an image.
• Machine Learning for Pulsar Classification.

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New to Github?

The easiest way to get all of the lecture and tutorial material is to clone this repository. To do this you need git installed on your laptop. If you're working on Linux you can install git using apt-get (you might need to use sudo):

apt install git

You can then clone the repository by typing:

git clone https://github.com/as595/NITheP.git

To update your clone if changes are made, use:

cd NITheP/
git pull

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