Schedule

Lecture 1 - Discussion of Syllabus
Lecture 2 - The Universe is s strange place, red giants, white dwarfs
Lecture 3 - White dwarfs, gravity, thermal and quantum pressure
Lecture 4 - White dwarfs, thermal and quantum pressure, historical supernovae
Lecture 5 – Historical supernovae, extragalactic supernovae
Lecture 6 – Extragalactic supernovae, categories of supernovae
Lecture 7 – Categories of supernovae, common elements forged in stars
Exam 1
Lecture 8 – Evolution of massive stars
Lecture 9 - Evolution of massive stars, iron cores
Lecture 10 – Collapse of iron cores of massive stars, neutrinos
Lecture 11 – Formation of neutron stars, jets
Lecture 12 – Jets, physics of exploding white dwarfs
Lecture 13 – Physics of exploding white dwarfs, deflagration and detonation
Lecture 14 – Evolution of stars in binary systems
Lecture 15 – Accretion disks, cataclysmic variables
Exam 2
Lecture 16 – Binary white dwarfs, gravitational radiation, light curves
Lecture 17 – Light curves, supernova 1987A
Lecture 18 – SN 1987A
Lecture 19 – Pulsars
Lecture 20 – Neutron stars in binary systems, soft gamma-ray repeaters
Lecture 21 – Black holes, history, Newton versus Einstein, geometry
Lecture 22 – Curved space
Lecture 23 – Curved space and gravity
Exam 3
Lecture 24 – Curved space and gravity, event horizon and singularity
Lecture 25 – Quantum gravity, Hawking radiation, fundamental properties
Lecture 26 – Non-rotating, rotating black holes
Lecture 27 – Observations of stellar-mass black holes, supermassive black holes
Lecture 28 – Supermassive black holes, cosmic gamma-ray bursts
Lecture 29 – Gamma-rays bursts and supernovae, Cosmic Dark Ages
Lecture 30 – Supernovae and the Universe, the accelerating Universe
Exam 4
Lecture 31 – Acceleration of the Universe, Dark Energy
Lecture 32 – Dark Energy, Quantum Gravity, worm holes
Lecture 33 – Worm holes, time machines
Lecture 34 – Worm holes and time machines, multiple dimensions, string theory
Lecture 35 – String theory, branes
Lecture 36 – String theory, large extra dimensions
Lecture 37 – String theory, brane worlds, string landscape, holographic universe
Exam 5