Graduate Courses: 2006-2007

Courses preceded by an asterik are required for first year graduate students.

Schedule

2006 - 2007 : Autumn Winter Spring Summer

AUTUMN, 2006 (University Courses Catalog)

Course	Title	Time/Location	Instructor
*ASTR 30100	Stars	1:30pm-2:50pm Tue, Thu AAC 123	James W. Truran
*ASTR 30500	Radiative Processes in Astrophysics	4:30pm-5:50pm Mon, Fri ARR	Wayne Hu
ASTR 30900	Research Project Seminar	3:00pm-4:20pm Mon, Fri AAC 107	Stephen M. Kent
ASTR 32100	Cosmology	1:30pm-2:50pm Mon, Wed AAC 123	Edward ''Rocky'' W. Kolb
ASTR 40100	Practical Data Analysis	9:00am-12:00pm ARR	Staff
ASTR 40200	Particle Astrophysics	9:00am-10:20am Tue, Thu AAC 123	Angela V. Olinto

WINTER, 2007 (University Courses Catalog)

Course	Title	Time/Location	Instructor
*ASTR 30200	Astrophysics II	ARR	Alexei Khokhlov
*ASTR 30600	Radiation Measurements in Astrophysics	ARR	Edward J. Kibblewhite
ASTR 32000	Relativistic Astrophysics	ARR	Arieh Konigl
ASTR 38x00	Topics in History of Astronomy	ARR	Noel M. Swerdlow
ASTR 40100	Practical Data Analysis	9:00am-12:00pm Wed ARR	Clement Pryke
ASTR 45300	Computational Cosmology	ARR	Andrey V. Kravtsov

SPRING, 2007 (University Courses Catalog)

Course	Title	Time/Location	Instructor
*ASTR 30300	Interstellar Matter	3:00pm-4:20pm Tue, Thu AAC 123	Doyal ''Al'' Harper
*ASTR 30400	Galaxies	1:30pm-2:50pm Tue, Thu AAC 107	Scott Dodelson
ASTR 30700	Preparation for Summer Research Project	1:30pm-2:50pm Mon, Wed AAC 123	Hsiao-Wen Chen
ASTR 31300	Extragalactic Studies	10:30am-11:50am Wed, Fri AAC 107	Joshua A. Frieman
ASTR 43000	Plasma Astrophysics	9:00am-10:20am Tue, Thu AAC 107	Fausto Cattaneo
ASTR 43600	Theory of Supernovae	3:00pm-4:20pm Tue, Thu AAC 107	Alexei Khokhlov

SUMMER, 2007 (University Courses Catalog)

Course	Title	Time/Location	Instructor
ASTR 30800	Summer Research Project	ARR	Staff

Courses Description

*ASTR 30100 Stars (Detailed Outline)
Introduction to stars (physical and observational), hydrodynamics of self-gravitating fluids, statistical mechanics and equations of state, energy transport, astrophysical nuclear reactions, stellar models, advanced topics.

*ASTR 30200 Astrophysics II (Detailed Outline)
Star formation, main sequence evolution, post-main sequence evolution, degenerate stars, and supernovae.

*ASTR 30300 Interstellar Matter (Detailed Outline)
Interstellar medium, collisionless systems, distribution of stars in the solar neighborhood, stellar kinematics/dynamics, observations of galactic large-scale structure, theory of galactic structure and evolution.

*ASTR 30400 Galaxies (Detailed Outline)
The observed universe, the universe at high redshift, early universe microwave background radiation, relativistic homogeneous isotropic cosmologies, evolution of structure in the universe, primordial nucleosynthesis.

*ASTR 30500 Radiative Processes in Astrophysics (Detailed Outline)
Fundamentals of radiative transfer, theory of stellar atmospheres, basic theory of radiation fields, continuum emission processes, atomic and molecular emission, plasma effects.

*ASTR 30600 Radiation Measurements in Astrophysics (Detailed Outline)
Radiation as a random process, optical coherence, and signal analysis in spatial and temporal domains, along with the detection and measurement of radiation with astronomical instruments.

ASTR 30700 Preparation for Summer Research Project
Students work with faculty members to select their research project topic and study the published literature related to it.

ASTR 30800 Summer Research Project
Research project pursued during the summer between a student’s first and second years of graduate school.

ASTR 30900 Research Project Seminar
Students present a seminar series based on their summer research projects.

ASTR 31300 Extragalactic Studies
The course will begin with a historical overview of observations of external galaxies and proceed with discussions of on-going research topics in extragalactic astronomy and cosmology. These include known correlations and scaling relations between different galaxy properties, empirical techniques for determining different physical quantities (such as redshifts, ISM metallicity, and mass), formation of elliptical galaxies, chemical evolution, and the re-ionization epoch.

ASTR 32000 Relativistic Astrophysics
Special and General relativity and the experimental tests, with applications to astrophysical problems such as super-massive stars, black holes, relativistic star clusters, and gravitational radiation.

ASTR 32100 Cosmology
Study of physical cosmology with emphasis on the standard big-bang model and its observational and experimental tests.

ASTR 38x00 Topics in History of Astronomy
depending on interests of the instructor.

ASTR 40100 Practical Data Analysis

ASTR 40200 Particle Astrophysics

ASTR 43000 Plasma Astrophysics

ASTR 43600 Theory of Supernovae

ASTR 45300 Computational Cosmology

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