ASTR 142
Data and Computation in Astrophysics
Description: Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Requisites: courses 81, 115, 117, and Computer Science 30 or 31 or Program in Computing 10A. Designed for upper-division Astrophysics and Physics majors. Project-based introduction to data and computation in astrophysics context. Students develop core computational toolkit for data retrieval, processing, analysis, visualization, and interpretation. Topics include analysis of large, heterogeneous datasets; high-performance computation; numerical simulations; and scientific numerical methods. P/NP or letter grading.
Units: 4.0
Units: 4.0
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Most Helpful Review
Fall 2023 - There were no exams for this course, just projects. Homework assignments and projects are quite tough if you don't have a coding background beyond the prerequisites, and I had to go to office hours every week to figure them out. The professor was very nice but often quite unclear on the assignment rubrics, making the homework a good bit more difficult than I think it was intended to. The lectures also sometimes felt pretty disconnected from what we were doing in class, but were still interesting. Discussion was super helpful tho! I'd definitely still recommend this class though, it covers so much necessary material if you are considering a career in astrophysics. It helped me so much with my own research and I'm honestly shocked it hasn't been introduced before!
Fall 2023 - There were no exams for this course, just projects. Homework assignments and projects are quite tough if you don't have a coding background beyond the prerequisites, and I had to go to office hours every week to figure them out. The professor was very nice but often quite unclear on the assignment rubrics, making the homework a good bit more difficult than I think it was intended to. The lectures also sometimes felt pretty disconnected from what we were doing in class, but were still interesting. Discussion was super helpful tho! I'd definitely still recommend this class though, it covers so much necessary material if you are considering a career in astrophysics. It helped me so much with my own research and I'm honestly shocked it hasn't been introduced before!
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