ASTR4330/6330 – ASTRONOMY
SEMINAR
Spring 2008
E-Mail:
loris@physast.uga.edu
Class Time: Tuesday 3:30
– 4:45 PM, Physics 302
Office Hours: Tuesday and
Thursday 9:30 – 11:30 AM
Grading: Your grade is based on 10 short
essays, some done in class, some done at home.
The topic of the essays will be assigned in class.
NOTE: If you are taking this course for ASTR 6330 credit, in addition to the attendance requirement you will also have to write a 10 page paper on a mutually agreed-on topic.
Objective: The purpose
of the ASTR 4330 seminars is to present to the student
the way that astronomy
research is conducted in a particular field
by
the given faculty member. Although I am
a radio astronomer who
does research on interstellar gas and
dust, I have decided that this semester we will discuss another or my
interests, cosmology. We will discuss my
research specialty, the cold interstellar medium in the Spring of 2008.
Date Topic
Jan. 14
- Organizational meeting
Jan. 21
- Overview of the Galaxy
Jan. 28
- Atomic Gas in the Galaxy
Feb. 4
- Radiative Transfer
Feb. 11
- The Phases of the Atomic ISM
Feb. 25 - The Virial Theorem
Mar. 10
- Star Formation
Mar. 17
- Spring Break
Mar. 24 -
No class this week
Apr. 7
- Turbulence and Chemistry in Molecular Clouds
Apr. 14 - The Center of the Galaxy
Apr. 21
- The Far Outer Galaxy
Apr. 28
- The Halo of the Galaxy