Nlec Topic (Instructor) 1 Introduction, logistics, wikis & blogs (Djorgovski, Mahabal) 1 Flavors of languages (Mahabal) 1 Best Programming Practices (Mahabal) 2 Databases (Graham) 1 Semantics (Graham) 1 Scientific visualization (Lombeyda) 1 Introduction to data mining (Djorgovski) 1 Unsupervised classifiers (Donalek, Graham) 1 Supervised classifiers (Donalek) 1 Introduction to Bayesian methods (Mahabal) 1 Bayesian methods (Moghaddam) 2 R package for statistics (Mahabal) Tentative: 1 Numerical libraries and tools (Petzold) 1 Parallel computing (Upchurch) 1 HPC topic(s) (Stalzer) 1 Hardware evolution trends (Kogge)