This page is a collection of resources I’m collecting to get started on my own research. I'm putting it here to keep track of things, but also to help others. It’s a work in progress and needs to be refined, but for the time being - it is what it is.

Doing research:

Identifying your research question

Online lectures/courses/tutorials:

• Galaxy Formation // Lectures given at Post-Planck Cosmology, Ecole de Physique des Houches // Paper in arXiv

• Python for Astronomers // EXCELLENT tutorials

• Python tutorials for computational simulations (more physics related)

• Theoretical Minimum // Lecture series of Stanford Continuing Studies courses by Leonard Susskind

• Perimeter Institute Bridge Program // PSI Online Grad Courses // Recorded Seminar Archives // PI SciTalks

• Cosmology Researcher Talks

• SpaceBook // General information

• HyperPhysics // Quick physics explanations

• Open University telescope.org // Learn how to use a telescope

• w3schools for learning how to code

Citizen science projects:

• Galaxy Zoo

• Blobs and Blurs: Extreme Galaxies in Clusters

• Black Hole Hunters

• Dark Energy Explorers

Keeping current - libraries and tools:

• Zotero // reference management software to help you collect, organize, cite, and share research

• Library Genesis // Free textooks

• Connected Papers // Finding influential and highly cited publications

• Galaxy Formation Theory Benson 2010

Data analysis & Python packages:

• Anaconda // Most popular data science platform

• GitHub // Hosting & sharing code

• Jupyter Notebook // Quick python analysis

• Packages:

  • Numpy (fundamental package for scientific computing with Python)

  • Astropy (core package for astronomy using the Python)

  • Pandas (data analysis and manipulation tool)

  • SciPy (algorithms for scientific computing in Python)

  • Tangos (system for building and querying databases summarizing the results of numerical galaxy simulations)

  • Matplotlib (library for creating static, animated, and interactive visualizations in Python)

  • pNBody

• EAGLE project // Evolution and Assembly of GaLaxies and their Environments simulation

• Renaissance simulation // Simulations of galaxy formation in the early Universe Video

• Romulus simulation // High resolution cosmological simulations with improved supermassive black hole physics

• Zoobot // Machine learning model to classify galaxy images

• STSci Notebooks

• JWST Documentation for research

Publishing and presenting your research:

• Overleaf // Online Latex text editor

• Effective scientific presentation pdf

Potential graduate programs:

• UVic Galaxy Formation

• Liverpool John Moores Computational and Theoretical Galaxy Formation

• Open University

Fun games:

• Roman Space Observer Game at NASA

Non-related but interesting:

• Quantum approaches to consciousness

• NASA Visualization Studio