Workshop Details

Agenda

All dates and times are CDT (Chicago Time). Please note that the exact timing of the morning activities may change.

Monday July 15

Time Activity Room
8:30am - 9:00am Breakfast LR2 (Technological Institute)
9:00am - 9:45am Welcome LR2 (Technological Institute)
9:50am - 10:00am Development Environments LR2 (Technological Institute)
10:00am - 10:50am Programming Paradigms LR2 (Technological Institute)
11:00am - 11:30am Git/Github Basics LR2 (Technological Institute)
11:30am - 12:00pm Gitflow LR2 (Technological Institute)
12:00pm - 1:00pm Lunch On Your Own (see below for restaurants)
1:00pm - 5:00pm Work on Project 8th Floor Spaces (1800 Sherman)
2:00pm - 3:00pm (Optional) Numpy/Pandas 8072 (1800 Sherman)
3:00pm - 4:00pm (Optional) Matplotlib 8072 (1800 Sherman)
4:00pm - 5:00pm (Optional) Astropy 8072 (1800 Sherman)

Tuesday July 16

Time Activity Room
8:30am - 9:00am Breakfast LR2 (Technological Institute)
9:00am - 9:15am Welcome LR2 (Technological Institute)
9:15am - 9:40am Gitflow Continued LR2 (Technological Institute)
9:45am - 10:50am Mechanics of Git LR2 (Technological Institute)
11:00am - 11:55am Debugging LR2 (Technological Institute)
11:55am - 12:00pm Group Photo LR2 (Technological Institute)
12:00pm - 1:00pm Lunch On Your Own (see below for restaurants)
1:00pm - 5:00pm Work on Project 8th Floor Spaces (1800 Sherman)
2:00pm - 3:00pm (Optional) Parallel Programming 8072 (1800 Sherman)
3:00pm - 4:00pm (Optional) jax 8072 (1800 Sherman)

Wednesday July 17

Time Activity Room
8:30am - 9:00am Breakfast LR2 (Technological Institute)
9:00am - 9:15am Welcome LR2 (Technological Institute)
9:15am - 10:30am Releasing Code LR2 (Technological Institute)
10:40am - 12:00pm Documentation LR2 (Technological Institute)
12:00pm - 6:30pm Free-time On Your Own
6:30pm - 9:00pm Workshop Dinner Five and Dime

Thursday July 18

Time Activity Room
8:30am - 9:00am Breakfast LR2 (Technological Institute)
9:00am - 9:15am Welcome LR2 (Technological Institute)
9:15am - 11:15am Testing LR2 (Technological Institute)
11:25am - 12:00pm Anti-Discriminatory Practices LR2 (Technological Institute)
12:00pm - 1:00pm Lunch On Your Own (see below for restaurants)
1:00pm - 5:00pm Work on Project 8th Floor Spaces (1800 Sherman)
2:00pm - 3:00pm (Optional) Profiling 8072 (1800 Sherman)

Friday July 19

Time Activity Room
8:30am - 9:00am Breakfast LR2 (Technological Institute)
9:00am - 10:00am Industry Panel LR2 (Technological Institute)
10:00am - 11:45am Group Project Show & Tell LR2 (Technological Institute)
11:45am - 12:00pm Closing Remarks LR2 (Technological Institute)

Recording Policy

We are going to record to workshop to enable broader access to the materials from Code/Astro. We will share the recordings publicly on Youtube. By attending Code/Astro either in-person or remotely, you consent to being recorded. Please contact us if you wish to be removed from recordings.

In-Person Logistics

Morning Session

Breakfast and the morning sessions will be held in the Northwestern Technological Institute (often called “Tech”), an auditorium located on the ground floor. Tech is a 25-minute walk from the Holiday Inn hotel. The 201 bus can also be used to arrive at Tech. Tech can be confusing to navigate, but there is a website called Tech Room Finder to assist.

Lunch

Lunch is on-your-own (see below for more information). Note that it is a 20-minute walk to our afternoon location, but there are lunch options on Noyes St. and in Downtown Evanston that are only a small detour on the way there.

Afternoon Session

Afternoon sessions will be held in 1800 Sherman Ave, Evanston, IL 60201. We have several spaces on the 8th floor in 1800 Sherman for you to work on your groups projects in the afternoon in (see below for more information). The instructors and TAs will be available there in the afternoon in those rooms to help answer any questions, or discuss your project with you.

There will be nothing planned on Wednesday afternoon (although the rooms are available if you want to work on your project), as this gives you an opportunity to have some time to explore Evanston and Chicago. We will also host a workshop dinner on Wednesday evening at 6:30pm at Five and Dime, which is located in downtown Evanston.

COVID Policy

Masking is optional. If you do test positive for COVID, please let us know and attend the workshop remotely. We can cover costs for you to properly quarantine in a hotel room until you recover.

1800 Sherman In-Person Rooms

1800 Sherman houses CIERA (the astronomy research unit at Northwestern), so you may bump into other astronomers. Group work spaces are located on the 8th floor. Spaces are first-come-first-serve, so you and your group should decide where you want to work.

Below are maps of the rooms in each floor. Please let us know if there are insufficient plugs, and we can bring more. Please keep the areas clean as these are shared areas!

Floor Map
8th Floor map of rooms on the 8th floor

Workshop Dinner

The workshop dinner will be taking place at Five and Dime at 1026 Davis Street (9 min walk from CIERA). Walking instructions from CIERA are below:

map of walk to Five and Dime

The workshop dinner will begin at 6:30pm. Service will be buffet style. Food and water is included, alcoholic drinks can be purchased independently at the bar.

Getting to Evanston from O’Hare International Airport

O’Hare International Airport to Evanston

Public Transportation

The cheapest way to get to Evanston from O’Hare International Airport is by taking public transportation.

Chicago Transit Authority (busses and the elevated train)

Option 1: Take the CTA metro trains straight from the airport terminals with at least one transfer near downtonwn (~2 hour).

Option 2: Take the O’Hare Airport Transit System to the Multi-Modal Facility/Rental Car Center. From outside of the Multi-Modal Facility, take the Pulse Dempster Line Bus (or 250 bus) straight to downtown Evanston (~1 hour and 20 minutes).

Taxi/Uber/Lyft

The fastest way to get to Evanston from O’Hare is by taking an Uber/Lyft/Taxi. Uber and Lyft drivers are authorized to pick up riders from designated pickup zones (viewable in the relevant app). Surge pricing may be in effect, but non-surge rates typically run around $60. The drive to CIERA can take anywhere between 25 minutes to an hour, depending on traffic. Alternatively, American Taxi can be pre-arranged and offers a flat rate of $42 from O’Hare to Evanston.

Things to do in Evanston

Noyes St. Restauraunts

Quick Bites/Takeout Inspired Indian Co., Tomate Fresh Kitchen, D&D Dogs, Coffee Lab

Sit Down/Dinner (many also offer takeout options) (^=more costly) Stacked and Folded, Soban Korea, Dave’s Italian Kitchen

Downtown Restaurants (by no means exhaustive)

Quick Bites/Takeout

Blaze Pizza, Jimmy John’s, Soulwich, Elephant and Vine, Sweetgreen, Colectivo Coffee, Habibi Mediterranean Grill, 10Q Chicken, Chipotle, Potbelly’s, Noodles & Co., Guzman y Gomez, Pono Ono Poke, Eggs with Benefits

Sit Down/Dinner (many also offer takeout options) (^=more costly)

Bat17, Koko Table Korean, Mumbai Indian Grill, Joy Yee Noodle, Chili’s, Stacked and Folded, Tapas Barcelona, Kansaku, TOMO, Koi, Trattoria Demi, Peppercorn’s Kitchen, Taco Diablo, Mt. Everest, Lou Malnati’s, The Barn Steakhouse^, LeTour^, Fonda, NaKorn Urban Thai, La Cocinita

Activities

Day at Lake Michigan, Northwestern University Block Museum, Dearborn Observatory, Grosse Point Lighthouse, Gichigamiin Indigenous Nations Museum

Things to do in Chicago

Downtown Chicago is roughly a 45 min -1 hour train ride from CIERA. Take the Purple Line at the Davis Stop southbound (Loop Direction) straight there, or transfer to the Red Line at Howard (95th/Dan Ryan Direction).

See the Bean, the Sears (Willis) Tower, a Chicago Cubs or White Sox game, the Art Institute, Lake Michigan, an architectural boat tour from the Chicago River, and much, much more. Naturally not easy to make an exhaustive list of this, so check out these recommendations here:

Tripadvisor

July Events Calendar

Travel and Leisure

US News and World Report