Astrophysics Courses 2009 - 2010

 

 

Course

Fall

Winter

Spring

Ay 1 Menu Course - lectures
Cahill Hameetman Auditorium       

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Scoville

 

Ay 1 - sections
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HeadTA-

GTA-

GTA-

GTA-

GTA-

UGTA-

Ay 20  Basic Astronomy

Cahill 219

TA: Swarnima Manohar

http://www.astro.caltech.edu/~smanohar/ay20/

 

A. Sargent

MWF 2-3

                    

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Ay 21 Galaxies, Cosmology

Cahill 219

http://www.astro.caltech.edu/~ccs/Ay21    

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Steidel

 

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Ay 30 Introduction to Modern Research

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Readhead

Home of Faculty

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Ay 31 Core Writing Course
Cahill 211

http://www.astro.caltech.edu/~lah/ay31 

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Hillenbrand

Ay 40

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Ay 43 Reading in Astronomy and Astrophysics

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Ay 78 abc Senior Thesis

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Ay 101 Physics of Stars

Cahill 219, 211

http://www.astro.caltech.edu/~ansonl/ay101/  

TA: Undergrad Anson Lam

W. Sargent
M 4-5 F 11-12 (219)

W 11-12 (211)

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Ay 102 ISM

Cahill 219

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Hirata

 

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Ay/Ph 104 Relativistic Astrophysics

Cahill 219

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Phinney

Ay 105 Laboratory Course

Cahill 219 Class

Cahill 29 LAB

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Hillenbrand/C. Martin

 

Ay 111ab Introduction to Current Astrophysics Research

Cahill 219

 

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J. Cohen

 

 

 

J. Cohen

 

 

Ay 121 Radiative Processes

Cahill 219

TA: Ryan Trainor

http://www.astro.caltech.edu/~acr/

Readhead

M 9-10 WF 1-2

Alternate Th 10-11

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Ay 122ab  Measurements
Cahill 219

TA: Shriharsh Tendulkar

http://wikis.astro.caltech.edu/groups/ay122a/    

Kulkarni/Steidel

MW 3-4 T 9-10

 

Readhead/Kulkarni

 

 

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Ay 123 Stellar Structure

Cahill 219

TA: Dmitriy Tseliakhovich

http://www.tapir.caltech.edu/~dimlyus/ay123/    

Ellis

 MW 11-12.5

 

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Ay 124 Galaxies
Cahill 219

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Benson/Ellis

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Ay 125 High Energy

Cahill 219

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Kulkarni

 

 

Ay 126 ISM (grad course)
Cahill 219

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Phinney/W. Sargent

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Ay 127 Cosmology

Cahill 219

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Benson/Kamionkowski

 

 

Ay 141 abc Journal Club/Comm.

Cahill 370

http://www.astro.caltech.edu/~lah/ay141/

Hillenbrand/Scoville

F 4-5

J. Cohen

F 4-5

Hirata/Scoville

F 4-5

Ay 142 Research in Astronomy

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Ay 143 Reading and Independent Study

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Ay 199 ab Special Topics in Astronomy and Astrophysics         [also Special Topics in Biology]

100 Powell-Booth

http://www.astro.caltech.edu/~george/aybi199/

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Ay 211 Extragalactic Astronomy

Cahill 219

http://www.tapir.caltech.edu/~chirata/ay211/    

Ellis/Hirata

T 10-11 Th 11-12

 

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Ay 215 Seminar in Theoretical Astrophysics: Interacting Binaries

 

http://www.tapir.caltech.edu/~cott/ay215.html   

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Ott

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Ay 218 Extrasolar planets and Stellar Seismology

Cahill 273

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Ay 219 Element Abundances from the Big Bang to the Present [special topics]

Cahill 219

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J. Cohen/TBD

Ph 1 Introductory to Physics

Ph1a: MTh1 or MTh3
(or possibly MTh10pm)
Ph1bc/Analytical: MTh1 or MTh3
(or possibly MTh10pm)

J. Cohen

MTh1 or MTh3
(or possibly MTh10pm)

 

Scoville

 

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Ph 2a Waves, Quantum Mechanics & Statistical Physics

Martin/Kamionkowski

TTh11

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Ph 101  Order of Magnitude Physics
Cahill Hameetman Auditorium  

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Ph 236 General Relativity

107 Downs

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Ge/Ay 137 Planetary Physics

 

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Updated: 11/11/09 gma