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This is different from a standard MOOC.  The materials presented here correspond to the advanced summer school organized by Caltech and JPL, held on Sept. 2-12, 2014.  Here we are presenting the instruction materials, for your own self-guided study, on your own schedule.  There are no quizzes, exams, grading, or certificates; our goal is simply to be a learning resource that is open to anyone.

The material is organized in 9 sets of lectures, that correspond to the days of the actual summer school, in the order presented there.  You can access it from the portal page.  Please do not try to do it from the lectures listing that Coursera may lead you to.  Do it only from the portal page. 

After each set of lectures, there are hands-on, practical exercises to help you learn.  These are not graded, they are for your own benefit and self-assessment.  You can study these materials in any order you wish, although sometimes there is an obvious logical order to them.  You can study all of them, or just those that interest you.  We will likely be adding some useful links for a further study as we go along.

You can use the discussion forums to ask questions, or answer them, if you feel confident about it.  Sometimes, an instructor may answer a question, but they will not necessarily do so, so you should not wait for an answer from an instructor.  Please use the appropriate forum threads - do not mix questions and comments pertaining to different school days.  You can post links to additional resources that you have found useful, to share with the others.  You can also report problems, technical, or with the content, and these will be tackled on a best-effort basis.  We also welcome constructive suggestions for future improvements or additions.  The usual rules of a polite and professional discourse apply.  Rude or otherwise inappropriate comments will get you banned.

We have also started a Facebook group; please request a membership if you are interested.

We hope that you find this set of lectures useful.  Enjoy!

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