Lectures
ANITA supports the ongoing education of astronomy students, postdocs, and staff by occasionally hosting a series of monthly online lectures. These lectures cover a wide range of topics: from basic statistics and computational techniques, to advanced specialised subjects and more.
2017 Lecture Series
- 31st March, Danail Obreschow (UWA), "Fourier mode analysis"
- 7th April, David Parkinson (University of Queensland), "Gaussian Processes" [recording, python notebook]
- 5th May, Cullan Howlett (ICRAR), "Fourier analyis/correlation statistics" [recording]
2015 Lecture Series
- 26th February, David Wilner (Harvard), "Imaging and Deconvolution in Radio Interferometry (2/2)" [slides, recording]
- 19th February, David Wilner (Harvard), "Imaging and Deconvolution in Radio Interferometry (1/2)" [slides, recording]
2015 Harley Wood Winter School
- Lectures from the 2015 Harley Wood School for Astronomy were recorded for the Australian community by ICRAR. You can access them here.
2014 Lecture Series
- 20th August, Paul Lasky (University of Melbourne), "What Is Gravitational Wave Astronomy?"
- 11th June , David Parkinson (University of Queensland), "A New Window on Inflation: Cosmological Perturbations and Gravitational Waves" [recording]
- 28th April, Paul Hancock (Curtin University), "An Astronomers Introduction to Databases and SQL" [recording]
- 12th March, Sanjib Sharma (University of Sydney), "Density Estimation and Clustering" [recording]
2013 Lecture Series
- 23rd October, Aaron Robotham (UWA), "Applied Bayesian Astronomy (3/3)" [recording]
- 16th October, Aaron Robotham (UWA), "Applied Bayesian Astronomy (2/3)" [recording]
- 9th October, Aaron Robotham (UWA), "Applied Bayesian Astronomy (1/3)" [recording]
- 23rd August, Aaron Robotham (UWA), "Introduction to R for astronomers (0/3)" [recording]
- 26th July, Darren Croton (Swinburne University), "Damn you little h!" [recording, paper]