This opportunity is part of the King's Edge Summer Skills Programme
Join the KCL Cosmology Challenge and use machine learning to explore cosmology!
Scientists use machine learning to tackle questions in cosmology and we want you to help. The Theoretical Particle Physics and Cosmology Group in the Physics department of King’s College London are running a hackathon, open to students across the University, where we will be presenting a range of problems related to current topics in cosmology research. We want you to come along and solve these problems using data science techniques. In the process we hope that you will learn more about cosmology, but most importantly we hope that along the way you develop new skills in team working, problem solving and machine learning.
Who can join?
To be able to participate you will need:
- to be a student at KCL
- basic coding in python
- reasonable maths skills
- confidence to find solutions
- your own laptop with the ability to code in python
Anyone who has these qualities is welcome to join and it should be possible for you to pick up some skills by working with other students on the day.
How you’ll learn
We will present some documents with background on the problem. We won’t be running a course in how to get started in machine learning, you will be expected to be able to figure these things out for yourself using your knowledge, normal online resources and your creativity. Because of this, while we haven’t limited this challenge to STEM students, if you don’t have some decent maths and coding skills, as well as the confidence to find solutions online, you might find things difficult.
There will also be demonstrators around to help out but they won’t give you all the answers.
Event ID: 01756-V7Q6V