This is it ! Its on! 🚀 💫 The 5th iteration of our Summer School for Astrostatistics in Crete will be hosted at the University of Crete, in the week 16-20 of June. It has been an amazing journey so far, and as each year builds upon the previous we …
Last year, In 2024 I took over the responsibility to teach a university course for the first time. Was it overwhelming? Without a doubt! Sure, I have been using python for almost 15 years, but condensing all that experience into a structured course … was definitely challenging. Fortunately, i had …
It is Friday night and only two days are left before another Summer School for Astrostatistics in Crete ! Everything is ready and I am excited for a totally new iteration of our school. I have to admit though that after three already successful events we have streamlined the process. …
The deadline for the 2024 iteration of the Summer School for Astrostatistics in Crete is approaching fast. We are excited to host this event, which actually starts to settle as an annual event. And why not since it seems there is a huge need in practical training in statistics and …
I have been using Python almost 15 years now! Starting from 2, over 3 and the many advances in the meantime (e.g. astropy!). So, this semester (Sprint 2024) i will be teaching the course “Introduction to Python for Physicists” (F-254) at the University of Crete. This will be an intro …
Here comes the announcement of the third (already!) iteration of our Summer School for Astrostatistics in Crete! This is an in-person meeting, as it focus on the practical use of statistics and machine learning in academic research. We will supply all the necessary guidelines through Astronomical problems. Check the website …
Following the success of the first Astrostatistics Summer School in Crete in 2019 (18-21 June), we now organize its second iteration (11-15 July). Initially scheduled for 2020, but we all now what happened and it was delayed. Now things to have matured so that we can actually repeat it and …
Elias Kyritsis has been a student at the Physics Department of the University of Crete that I have co-supervised with Prof. Andreas Zezas since 2017. Initially as an undergraduate student he worked on the visual classification of High-Mass X-ray Binary sources in the Large Magellanic Cloud, but later on he …
During the last four days I was busy with the actual materialization of the Astrostatistics Summer School Crete 2019, which took place at the University of Crete, in Heraklion (18-21 June 2019). My duties were mainly those of the Teaching Assistant and I contributed with a short presentation of the …
Between 12 to 19 of September 2016, we organized the Ondřejov Summer School 2016, which was held at the Stellar Stellar Department of the Astronomical Institute (Czech Academy of Sciences), in Ondřejov. The main aim of the school was to provide students hands-on experience with real observational data, i.e. to …
