Caroline Owen - caroline.owen@unimib.it
This is a PhD course at the University of Milan-Bicocca. It will consist of 16 hours of instruction, divided into 8 classes taught over 4 weeks. The delivery will consist of chalk talks, coding tutorials, and hands-on problems. The aim of this course is to provide both a theoretical overview of gravitational wave astronomy and exposure to the techniques that are actually used in research.
The material will be linked below as it becomes available. If the lecture is recorded, that recording will be posted here.
Location U2:2016
Time: 10:30 am - 12:30 pm
Week 1
Tuesday, April 21: Introduction (Slides)
Thursday, April 23: Fermi Estimates and Dimensional Analysis (Chalk talk, hands-on problems)
Week 2
Tuesday, April 28: Stationary Phase Approximation (Chalk talk)
Thursday, April 30: Post-Newtonian Binaries (Chalk talk)
Week 3
Tuesday, May 5: Bayesian Overview (Tutorial)
Friday, May 8: Binary Parameter Estimation (Tutorial)
Week 4
Tuesday, May 12: Fisher Analysis and Principal Component Analysis (Tutorial)
Friday, May 15: Hierarchical Bayesian Analysis and Model Selection (Guest lecture by Alexandre Toubiana)
Thursday, May 28, at 10:30 am, U2:2016 Thursday, June 11, at 10:30 am, U2:2016
The exam will consist of a 10-minute presentation on your own research or a published paper discussing how it relates to the techniques or topics we have discussed in this class. The presentation should be accessible to an audience who are astrophysicists but not necessarily experts in the specific topic.
The presentation will be followed by 2 minutes for questions.