2002 COURSE OUTLINE by Date, with Links
and Notes
DECEMBER
Dec. 3: Stellar Stability & Acoustics
Helioseismology
TUESDAY Journal Club: "P-Mode Observations on Alpha Cen A" by Bouchy &
Carrier (A&A, 374, L5-8, 2001), and the corresponding theory
article "Astroseismology and Calibration of the Alpha Cen Binary System" by
Thevenin et al. (A&A, 392, L9-12, 2002),
reviewed by Ann Marie Cody & Christopher Pilman.
Dec. 5: Stellar Stability & Acoustics
Stellar Seismology
PROBLEM Set 5: due Dec 17.
Dec. 10: Chemical Evolution of the Galaxy and the Universe
(Guest Lecture)
Galactic Evolution, Stellar Yields, & Cosmochronology;
Metal Enrichment Patterns from z=5 to Present
TUESDAY Journal Club: "X-Ray Spectrum Challenges Models of Gamma-Ray
Bursts" - a Physics Today review (July 2002, p.18) of the article by Reeves
et al. (Nature, 416, 512, 2002), reviewed by Deborah Freedman & Ryan Hickox.
Dec. 12: No lecture
Dec. 17: Chemical Evolution of the Galaxy and the Universe
Stellar Population Synthesis and Primordial Galaxies;
A Glimpse into the Distant Future: The Long-Term Fate of
Astrophysical Objects.
TUESDAY Journal Club: "F stars, Metallicity, and the Ages of Red galaxies
at z > 1" by Nolan et al. (
astro-ph/0103450), reviewed by Maryam Modjaz & Mark Hartman.