Week 2
Python notebooks and Markdown files of activities of Week 2Day 4 - 15th May 2024
10:40 - Trying out Parameter estimation in WSL.
11:00 to 12:00 - Working on the final document on Overleaf.
12:00 to 1:00 - Group meeting/discussion on interesting papers found on Arxiv by the Members of Astrophysics Relativity Group at ICTS.
- Paper 1 - Doesn’t seem to address any numerical sources, only physical sources (NRV sources). Listed possible reasons but lacks detail and figures.
- Paper 2 - Convoluted writing; questions whether they did it from the masses, discussing brightness related to mass and gas.
- Paper 3
- Paper 4 - Publicly available dataset from LISA, analyzing real data and software development with Markov chain Monte Carlo implemented on GPU.
- Paper 5 - Comparisons of CPU vs GPU using NVIDIA A100.
- Paper 6 - Formation channel of neutron stars; discusses prior and posterior estimation.
- Paper 7 - Discusses asymmetries in gravitational radiation from spin orientations.
Day 5 - 16th May 2024
10:30 to 11:30 - Learned Linux terminal commands and how to append a directory to PYTHONPATH.
Appended directories to $PYTHONPATH.
Created a new environment for yumcee package testing using -n for naming and -c for specifying the repository (e.g., conda-forge).
11:30 to 1:00 - Learned the basics of Linear Algebra.
Identified an identity matrix and its properties. Looking into Newcastle University resources on matrices.
Working on autocorrelation code and understanding covariance matrix.
Interviewed Bhuvaneshwari, who has completed her bachelor's degree and is currently at ICTS.
Update in the final report.