COURSE OUTLINE by Date, with Links and Notes

OCTOBER - NOVEMBER

Oct. 1: Burning Stages

TUESDAY Journal Club: "The r-Process and Chronometers" by Cowan et al. (astro-ph/0204294); see also the recent work by Johnson & Bolte on "The r-Process in the Early Galaxy" (astro-ph/0208375) and by Otsuki et al. on "Cosmochronology and the universality of the r-process abundances" (astro-ph/0207596), reviewed by James Battat & Dan Marrone.

Oct. 3: Energy Transport and the Interaction of Radiation & Matter

Radiative Transfer - Inside and Out

Livermore OPAL Opacity page

Oct. 8: Convection

TUESDAY Journal Club: "Eclipsing Binaries as Astrophysical Laboratories" by Guinan et al. (ApJ,544,409,2000), reviewed by Antonia Savcheva & Svetlin Tassev.

Oct. 10: Convection II

PROBLEM Set 2: due Oct 17.

computer simulations in 3-D ( Nordlund & Stein 1995).

Oct. 15: Convection III

TUESDAY Journal Club: "2D Numerical Simulation of Stellar Convection" by Steffen (in Stellar Astrophysics, eds. K.S.Cheng et al.,Kluwer,2000), reviewed by Bill Stride & Jonathan Devor.

Oct. 17: Through the Upper Boundary: Stellar Atmospheres

Rob Rutten's Stellar Atmospheres notes (2000).

Instabilities:

Oct. 22: Stellar Atmospheres

TUESDAY Journal Club: "Testing Model Atmospheres of Giant Stars with Interferometry" by Aufdenberg & Hauschildt (SPIE Conf. 2002), reviewed by Brant Robertson & Richard Cho.

Oct. 24: Conduction & Neutrino Emission

PROBLEM Set 3: due Oct 31.

Oct. 29: Overview of Stellar Data & Stellar Evolution

TUESDAY Journal Club: "Inferences on Aspects of Stellar Evolution and the Evolution of Galaxies" by G.J. Wasserburg ( Nuclear Phys. A688,297c, 2001 [PDF format]).

Oct. 31: Overview (cont'd)

NOVEMBER - DECEMBER