Ay 119: Astroinformatics - Spring 2025
Open to everyone interested - students from any field are welcome.
Instructors:
- George Djorgovski [djorgovski]
- Ashish Mahabal [ashish]
- Matthew Graham [mjg]
- Santiago Lombeda [santiago]
- [name] at caltech dot edu
Lectures / Discussion sessions: Tuesdays, 4-5 pm in 304 Cahill
Schedule by the week (subject to changes):
- Week 1 - George: Introduction
- Week 2 - George/Ashish/Matthew: ML Foundations
- Umaa Rebbapragada' ML Basics from AstroInformatics 2019:
Video [starts at 1:15] * Slides (pdf)
- Ciro Donalek's Introduction to ML from Caltech-JPL Virtual Summer School in Big Data Analytics:
Video * Slides (pdf)
- Week 3 - Ashish: Supervised Learning
- Week 4 - Ashish: Unsupervised Learning: Clustering, Dimensionality Reduction
- Week 5 - Santiago: Data Visualization
- Week 6 - Ashish/Matthew: Large Language Models
- Week 7 - Matthew: Introduction to Deep Learning: Neural Networks, CNNs, RNNs, Autoencoders
- Week 8 - Matthew: Advanced Deep Learning: Transformers, Intro to Reinforcement Learning and Physics-Informed Neural Networks (PINNs)
Resources and Useful Links: