Class Meetings

Astronomy 208, 1998

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Meeting

Number

Date

Journal Article(s)

Comments

1 17-Sep Th   1st day of class web site
2 22-Sep Tu some images here
3 24-Sep Th

 Barnard 1919 (Mahdavi)

Problem Set 1 distributed
4 29-Sep Tu
5 1-Oct Th Danly 1993 (Rines)& Tufte et al. 1998 (all) Tufte et al. will be subject of Reynolds' "WHAM" colloquium, 12/3/98
6 6-Oct Tu Problem Set 1 due
7 8-Oct Th Alves et al. 1998 (Harvey) Problem Set 2 distributed
8 13-Oct Tu
9 15-Oct Th Morris et al. 1989 (McGary)
10 20-Oct Tu Problem Set 2 due; Problem Set 3 distributed
11 22-Oct Th Lizano et al. 1996 (Fish)
12 27-Oct Tu
13 29-Oct Th Martin & Kennicutt 1995 (Jenkins)
14 3-Nov Tu Problem Set 3 due
15 5-Nov Th Myers & Goodman 1988a, b (Tustin); Goodman et al. 1998 (Goodman) AG will present Goodman et al. 1998, students only need to "skim"
16 10-Nov Tu Guest Lecture on Shocks, by John Raymond HA away; AG at SMA Polarimetry Meeting
17 12-Nov Th

HA away; Kennicutt Colloquium

Problem Set 4 distributed

18 17-Nov Tu Snell et al. 1980 (Ozel); Reipurth et al. 1997 (Arce) AG away
19 19-Nov Th Guest Lecture on Star Formation, by Charles Lada AG away
20 24-Nov Tu

Guest Lecture on Masers, by Lincoln Greenhill

Frail & Mitchell 1998 (Wang)

Problem Set 4 due
21 1-Dec Tu H II Region Discussion (web page)
22 3-Dec Th Rand & Kulkarni 1990 (Sokasian); Rand 1993 (all; skimming of 1993 paper is allowed)

Reynolds Colloquium

Problem Set 5 distributed

23 8-Dec Tu
24 10-Dec Th Heiles 1979 & 1998 (Gordon; skimming of 1998 paper is allowed) Heiles Colloquium
25 15-Dec Tu

Gunn & Peterson 1965 (Chatterjee) 

Problem Set 5 due

26 17-Dec Th

Norman & Spaans 1997 (Jang)



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