Classes have now been in session for a little over a week. We’re still (mostly) doing introductory material, but some things have started ramping up. On Monday we started doing some calculations regarding high energy cosmic rays in the High Energy Astrophysics class. I’m already working on the first homework…
The other two classes are still doing introductory stuff. The extragalactic class is providing an overview of the course topics, so some of the ideas are new, but they’ll be explored in more detail later. The radio class just started covering radiative transfer, which is likely new to the first year graduate students. However, we had covered this last year in our stellar atmospheres class. But a bit of review is always nice.
All three of the courses have notes online:
In addition to the coursework, labs started this week. I’ve only done an orientation for my undergraduate observing course. Things will ramp up next week, with the first constellation lab for the course. And, I’m giving a lecture for the class! I’ll be going over the night sky and the constellations. It’ll be my first lecture for a college class. 2 hours long. What a way to start!
