Sagittarius A (Chandra)
Astronomy 104 - Fall 2009
UNDERGRADUATE ASTRONOMY SEMINAR
W 2:00-3:00 · RLM 15.216B · Unique No. 49495
Professor
RLM 15.312 ·
(512) 471-1349 (office)
Courses - Fall '09 | Course Website
Designed for astronomy majors. All are welcome, no matter what your chosen major is. However, our discussions will assume that astronomy is of keen interest to you, and that you are curious about the various aspects of astronomy research. But not to worry: we do understand that most of you are just beginning your academic exploration of astronomy, and the discussions will not assume graduate-student knowledge of the field.
Preliminary Course Schedule
Here we list the class meeting dates and those activities that have been scheduled so far. Please take this as subject to change, as we juggle the schedules of the class guests.
DATE |
LEADER |
TOPIC [or general area of interest] |
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Aug 26 |
Chris Sneden |
Introduction to our Program |
Sep 02 |
Chris Sneden |
Stellar Chemical Compositions |
Sep 09 |
Tom Barnes |
[variable stars] |
Sep 16 |
Kurtis Williams |
[dying stars] |
Sep 23 |
Bev Wills |
[active galactic nuclei] |
Sep 30 |
Dan Jaffe |
[very young stars, instrumentation] |
Oct 07 |
Craig Wheeler |
[exploding stars] |
Oct 14 |
Milos Milosavljevic |
[black holes, high energy] |
Oct 21 |
Sandi Preston |
[public outreach/education] |
Oct 28 |
Mary Kay Hemenway |
[pre-college education] |
Nov 04 |
Fritz Benedict |
[astrometry, stellar distances] |
Nov 11 |
John Lacy |
[star forming regions] |
Nov 18 |
Chris Wilkinson |
[computing technology] |
Nov 25 |
Greg Shields |
[nebulae, active galactic nuclei] |
Dec 02 |
Paul Shapiro |
[cosmology, galaxy formation] |