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Welcome to the ASTR21200 wiki!

Class time and place:

• Tuesday and Thursday, 5:00 - 6:20pm
• Kersten KPTC 101

Instructor:

• Bradford Benson
• Email: bbenson 'at' astro.uchicago.edu
• Office: Eckhardt Research Center (ERC) 589

TAs:

• Emory Murff (emorymurff 'at' uchicago.edu)
• Logan Hanssler (lhanssler 'at' uchicago.edu)

Office hours:

• Brad: Tues 11:00am - 12:00 (ERC 589)
• Emory: Monday 3:00 - 4:00pm (KPTC 320)
• Logan: Friday 3:30 - 4:30pm (ERC 583)
• Marc: Tues 3:00 - 4:00pm (ERC 524)

Knowledgeable People for SEO and this class:

• Dr. Marc Berthoud (berthoud 'at' astro.uchicago.edu) - Research Engineer for SEO
• Dr. Amanda Pagul (apagul 'at' uchicago.edu) - Support Astronomer for SEO

Suggested textbooks:

• Observational Astronomy, D. Scott Birney (Cambridge University Press; 2nd edition, July 24, 2006)
• Measuring the Universe: A Multiwavelength Perspective, G. Rieke (Cambridge University Press, 2012)
• Data Reduction and Error Analysis for the Physical Sciences, P.R. Bevington & D. K. Robinson (McGraw-Hill Higher Education, 2003)
• Practical Statistics for Astronomers, J.V. Wall & C.R. Jenkins (Cambridge University Press, 2008)

Prerequisites: ASTR1330 (Introduction to Astrophysics), ASTR21000 (Statistical Techniques in Astrophysics), ASTR21100 (Computational Techniques in Astrophysics)