Harvard-Chile Special Workshop on Data Science 2016

The Institute for Applied Computational Science (IACS) of the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) at Harvard University, the Millennium Astrophysics Institute (MAS) and the Center for Mathematical Modeling (CMM) of the School of Engineering and Sciences (FCFM) at the University of Chile (UChile) are partnering together with AURA to provide a team-based intercultural learning experience in the (Chilean) summer period.

Harvard students will work together with Chilean students in three interdisciplinary teams on a real-world computationally challenging problem drawn from a cutting-edge astronomical endeavor, the Dark Energy Survey. The trip will include working days at CMM and Universidad Católica, and an overnight stay in La Serena to visit the Cerro Tololo Interamerican Observatory (CTIO) and Gemini South to meet with the scientists who collect the data.