AST1440

Welcome to the Light.

Contact Information:

Instructor: Prof. Yanqin Wu

Lectures: Tuesday 12:00-13:30pm, HS614

             Friday 12:00-13:30pm, HS614

       (for weeks with 3 lectures: TBA)

Email: wu@astro
Office: MP1210, x8-5633

Short Presentations:

1) One student is slated to present for 10 minutes, during the course of a lecture. See the calendar for arrangement. This is on a pre-assigned topic that is closely related to the lecture material and should be considered as mini-lectures.

2) During the week of Oct. 14, we will hold a dedicated session of presentations, with each student giving a presentation on a pre-assigned topic. 15 minutes (including questions).

Long Presentations:

"free subject"  either based on real examples of radiative transfer, or detailed discussion of a process not covered in class. 20 minutes each + 5 minutes of question/discussion.

Do not attempt to be overly mathematical, but try to illuminate the physics for your fellow students. Always, give concrete examples. And the best presentations involve order-of-magnitude estimates.

Send me title of your long presentation by Monday Nov. 25th. You may wish to discuss with me before-hand on potential topics. Previous years’ presentation topics include SZ effect, Limb darkening, Bok Globules, Faraday rotation, Cherenkov radiation, Gunn-Peterson effect, Large velocity gradient method, determining mass of molecular clouds, Damped Ly-alpha systems, spinning dust and CMB foreground.... The above ‘Links to useful papers’ may be helpful.