Tutorials

  1. Introduction to vplanet
    • how to configure and run simulations by command line
    • run makeplot and reproduce examples in the vplanet docs
    • run stellar evolution model in python
  2. Parameter sweeps
    • run parameter sweeps in python using vplanet_inference
    • exercise: given data from trappist 1, tweak the model parameters by hand to fit the data
    • how do we do this robustly while estimating the uncertainty?
  3. Statistics I
    • introduction to Bayesian statistics
    • introduction to markov chain monte carlo (MCMC) methods
    • example: fitting a line to data using emcee
  4. Statistics II
    • introduction to alabi
    • reproduce some examples in the alabi docs
    • reproduce trappist 1 analysis with alabi

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