School programme

Preliminary activities

https://github.com/ciencialatitud0/EPIC_1/tree/main/Introduction

Initial activities done by the students (instructions in the link below).
Preparatory session with a tutor (optional attendance).

Day 1 (18/10/2021)

Session 1: Introduction to GIT (9:00 - 10:00)

Tutor: Luis Manzanillas, Max Planck Institute for Physics, Germany

https://github.com/ciencialatitud0/EPIC_1/tree/main/Session_1

Welcome
What is GIT?
How to use?
What can I do with GIT?
Usage examples

Session 2: Data Analysis with python I (10:00 - 13:00)

Tutora: Lupe Villegas López, Instituto de Óptica IO_CSIC, España

https://github.com/ciencialatitud0/EPIC_1/tree/main/Session_2

Read and write data tables
Work with data tables
Basic statistics
Plots with matplotlib
Regressions and curve fitting
Examples

Day 2 (19/10/2021)

Session 3: Data Analysis with python II (9:00 - 13:00)

Tutor: Wladimir Banda-Barragán, Hamburg University, Germany

https://github.com/ciencialatitud0/EPIC_1/tree/main/Session_3

Introduction to HDF5, VTK, and Binary Data Formats
Reading and handling data from numerical simulations
Array manipulation, and use of conditionals and loops
Application to the analysis of 2D simulations of fluid dynamics
Computation of integrated quantities
Clump finding techniques
Visualisation and interpretation of the results

Day 3 (20/10/2021):

Parallel sessions on advanced topics.

Session 4: Image processing (9:00 - 13:00)

Tutor: Andrés Morales Navarrete, Friedrich Miescher Laboratory of the Max Planck Society, Germany

https://github.com/ciencialatitud0/EPIC_1/tree/main/Session_4

Explanation about bioimages (i.e. fluorescence microscopy)
Bioimage analysis example: quantifying cell morphology from 2D fluorescence micrographs
Importing images and plotting images
Logical operators (pixel-wise operations)
Intensity Transformation
Filters and Fourier transformations
Segmentation
Extracting data from segmented images (e.g. cell area, elongation)

Session 5: Astrophysics (session in English, 9:00 - 13:00):

Tutora: Helga Dénes, Astron - the Netherlands Institute for Radio Astronomy, The Netherlands

https://github.com/ciencialatitud0/EPIC_1/tree/main/Session_5

Brief explanation on astrophysics behind galaxies and their neutral hydrogen (HI content).
Reading in fits data cubes (3D spectral line data - HI data of a galaxy)
Plotting slices of the 3D data cube and making moment maps
Downloading astronomical images from a database (for the same galaxy as the HI data)
Making an overlay of the HI data onto an optical image
Calculating some basic statistics for the spectra
Averaging the spectra for the galaxy
Calculating the HI mass of a galaxy
Fitting a Gaussian to spectra

Day 4 (21/10/2021):

Session 6: Materials science I (9:00 - 11:00)

Tutor: Leonardo Basile, Escuela Politécnica Nacional, Ecuador

https://github.com/ciencialatitud0/EPIC_1/tree/main/Session_6

Introduction to Tight binding models in materials

Session 7: Materials science II (11:00 - 13:00)

Tutora: María José Benítez, Escuela Politécnica Nacional, Ecuador

https://github.com/ciencialatitud0/EPIC_1/tree/main/Session_7

Magnetism
Electron microscopy on magnetic materials
Magnetic simulations

Session 8: Particle physics (9:00 - 13:00)

Tutor: Alejandro Gómez Espinosa, ETH Zurich, Switzerland

https://github.com/ciencialatitud0/EPIC_1/tree/main/Session_8

Brief intro to data analysis for high energy physics
The exercise requires basic knowledge of LHC physics data.
How to handle it, how to process it and what to look up to.
This exercise uses real data from one of the LHC experiments.
Filter the data, make relevant plots and statistically analyze the results.

Day 5 (22/10/2021):

9:00 - 13:00

https://github.com/ciencialatitud0/EPIC_1/tree/main/Student_presentations
Student and final project presentations (12 minutes + 3 minutes for questions)