Annual Calendar
Boyce-Astro maintains a reliable year-in / year-out calendar of seminars.
IntroSTARS™ is available online at Boyce-Astro.org in the Seminar section. It is our free prerequisite course and is self-paced. There is no Application required and everyone is encouraged to take the course with self-graded quizzes after each Module. Click here to start IntroSTARS™.
Seminars have routine online office hours or meetings. They are fee based and include telescope and / or other web-based resources. Specific dates and durations of each are determined according to the academic calendar and instructor availability. The exact dates are released about one month in advance of the seminar / course to those who have registered on the Wait List. Applications are sent to everyone on the Wait List when specific dates are available. Classes are generally limited to no greater than 15 students as approved by the instructor.
Spring
Starting Month / ~ Weeks
• DoubleSTARS™ – February / ~9
• Exoplorer – EW™ – March / ~9
• Intro to Python – April / ~5
• Intro to Spectroscopy – May / ~9
Summer
Starting Month / ~ Weeks
• Speckling Binaries – June / ~10
• BEAR – June / ~10
• Intro to Radio Astronomy / ~10
Fall
Starting Month / ~ Weeks
• DoubleSTARS™ – October / ~9
• Exoplorer – EW™ – October/ ~9
• Intro to Python -October / ~5
• Intro to Spectroscopy – November / ~9
Other
Exoplorer™ – TESS is a self-paced, asymmetric, with admission irregular starting dates determined by the instructor.
AdvancedSTARS™ are research projects proposed by Boyce-Astro students or student teams to use BRIEF resources. The projects need to include an experienced mentor, have an end product, and be defined by a written proposal.
