Kick-off Gathering

• Date：July 1st and 2nd, 2026
• Location：NCU (Chien-Shiung Building RM1013)

• July 1st
• 10:30 - 10:40 Opening remark (Prof. Wen-Ping Chen)
• 10:40 - 11:00 Introduction to NCU (Prof. Yi Chou)
• 11:00 - 11:15 Introduction to TARA (Po-Chieh Yu)
• 11:15 - 11:30 Self-introduction from students
• 11:30 - 11:40 Coffee break
• 11:40 - 12:30 Tour: NCU Observatory (Hsiang-Yu Chen)
• 12:30 - 13:30 Lunch
• 13:30 - 15:00 Lecture (Kuan-Chou Hou / Zhen-Kai Gao)
  • Setting up development environment
  • Basic Linux
  • Astronomical software: CARTA, TOPCAT, Aladin, DS9
• 15:00 - 15:20 Coffee break
• 15:20 - 17:00 Lecture (Kuan-Chou Hou / Zhen-Kai Gao)
  • Basic programming
  • Numpy


• July 2nd
• 09:30 - 10:00 How to Read an Astronomy Paper (Prof. Yen-Chen Pan)
• 10:00 - 10:50 Lecture (Kuan-Chou Hou / Zhen-Kai Gao)
  • Astropy (including FITS file handling)
• 10:50 - 11:00 Coffee break
• 11:00 - 12:00 Lecture (Kuan-Chou Hou / Zhen-Kai Gao)
  • Pandas
  • Visualization (including meaningful plots)
• 12:00 - 13:00 Lunch
• 13:00 - 14:00 Tour: Center for Space and Remote Sensing Research, NCU
• 14:00 - 15:20 Lecture (Kuan-Chou Hou / Zhen-Kai Gao)
  • Data analysis (including SIMBAD and VizieR)
  • Speeding up code
• 15:20 - 15:40 Coffee break
• 15:40 - 17:00 Lecture (Kuan-Chou Hou / Zhen-Kai Gao)
  • Hands-on session

One-day Campus visit

• Date：TBD
• Location：ASIAA/NTU

Final Presentation

• Date：TBD
• Location：NTHU