AST 100: Astronomy Today

Fall 2009

Place and Time:

Monday 6:50 PM in ESS 450

Course Web Page:

http://www.astro.sunysb.edu/acalder/ast100/

Instructor:

Prof. Alan Calder
Email: acalder "at" mail.astro.sunysb.edu, Office: ESS 438, Phone: 632-1176

Lectures, homeworks, etc:

All lecture materials will be on Blackboard

Syllabus:

Available here

Meeting Schedule:

date first speaker second speaker
Aug. 31 organizational meeting
Sept. 14 no class meeting
Sept. 21 Taylor Eason
An interesting topic
Dylan Mead
An interesting topic
Sept. 29 Hossam Soliman
The Big Bang

Oct. 5 Matt Belantone
Reschedules for October 16
Jim Hoffman
The Suicidal Planet
Oct. 12 Josh Yun
An interesting topic
Gordon Kim
Rescheduled for October 26
Oct. 19 Cynthia Dumas
The Functioning of the Sun
Jennifer Feng
Kepler's Laws
Oct. 26 Matt Belantone
Dark Matter
Gordon Kim
Black Holes
Nov. 2 Mina Hanna
Nebulae.
Alan Calder
Type Ia Supernove
Nov. 9 Alan Calder
Global Warming
Jennifer Feng
Asteroids
Nov. 16 Jim Hoffman
An interesting topic
Gordon Kim
Pluto
Nov. 23 Matt Belantone
An interesting topic
Cynthia Dumas
An interesting topic
Nov. 30 Hossam Soliman
An interesting topic
Mina Hanna
An interesting topic
Dec. 7 TBA
An interesting topic
TBA
An interesting topic
Meetings may be re-scheduled or changed depending on enrollment

Links to Astronomy and Astrophysics Resources:

Astronomy Picture of the Day
Sky at a Glance (Sky and Telescope)
HUBBLESITE
Results from HUBBLE
National Radio Astronomy Observatory
National Optical Astronomy Observatory
Bad Astronomy
Hayden Planetarium

Standard Syllabus Information:

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updated: 07-September-2009

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