SURIP Summer School 2024

This workshop is targeted at undergraduate students enrolled in the SURIP program this year under the supervision of Otto, MC, or Kenny. Accordingly, it will primarily cover astrophysics topics. All speakers are postgraduates and/or postdocs from the three groups.

Schedule

The talks will be held in the Science Centre (North Block), in Room 326.

Date

Time

Topic

Speaker
20/05 (Mon)

Preparation for the students
Base requirement
21/05 (Tue) 11:30 – 13:30 Terminal, Cluster & Git Samson Leong
14:30 – 15:00 LaTeX Boris Ng
15:00 – 17:00 Introduction to Python Chingam Fong
22/05 (Wed) 10:00 – 11:00 Introduction to General Relativity Ken Hui
11:15 – 12:15 Introduction to Cosmology
(Part 1)		 Paul Martens
13:15 – 14:15 Introduction to Cosmology
(Part 2)
15:30 – 16:45 Astrophysics I
(Stellar evolution & Compact star)		 Boris Ng and Peter Cheung
23/05 (Thu) 10:00 – 12:00 Probability and Bayesian statistics Otto Hannuksela
13:15 – 14:15 Introduction to Gravitational waves Ania Liu
15:45 – 16:45 Astrophysics II
(Dark matter & astroparticles)		 Qishan Liu
24/05 (Fri) 11:00 – 12:00 Black Hole Astrophysics Laura Uronen
14:30 – 16:00 GW Physics and its detection Samson Leong
16:15 – 17:15 Introduction to Gravitational Lensing Jason Poon
27/05 (Mon) 10:00 – 11:30 GW waveforms modelling Samson Leong
13:00 – 13:45 Intro to Neutron Star Simulations Anson Yip
15:00 – 16:30 Bayesian analysis in GW Isaac Wong

You may also subscribe to our Google Calendar.

Shared material

We have a Google Drive to keep all the lecture materials: Link to Google Drive.

Feedback form

We would like to hear your thoughts!!
If you have any feedback/comments on a particular course, feel free to express your thoughts here: Google Form
You may submit multiple feedbacks for different courses.

Remote Participants

We will try to accommodate online participants (but with no guarantee). If possible, we would prefer to have students come in person. Here are the Zoom meeting details:

Contact

If you have any questions, feel free to contact us:

  • Samson Leong: samson.leong at link.cuhk.edu.hk
  • Paul Martens: paulmartens at cuhk.edu.hk
  • Liiyung Yeow: liiyung at link.cuhk.edu.hk