2016 Fall: PTYS 495B Special Topics in Planetary Science (Section 1)

Machine Learning for Planetary Science: Study of Machine Learning techniques, and their applications in different fields. The emphasis of the class is on geological, planetary and astronomical applications. The course will cover basic and state of the art Machine Learning techniques: Support Vector Machines, K-Means, Linear Regression, Neural Networks. Student will be able to code and test different Machine Learning Algorithms in a scripting language like Python or Matlab. May be co-convened with PTYS 595B. 2 units.