Lectures

Lecture notes are provided as a courtesy and mainly serve to centralize figures and reference links. They are not a verbatim record of the material discussed in class nor are they an adequate substitution for taking notes during class lecture.

2021-08-23 | Introduction and Course Overview
2021-08-25 | Collisional Processes
2021-08-27 | Statistical Mechanics and Thermodynamic Equilibrium
2021-08-30 | Energy Levels of Atoms, Ions, and Molecules
2021-09-01 | Spontaneous Emission, Stimulated Emission, and Absorption
2021-09-03 | Radiative Transfer
2021-09-08 | H I 21-cm Emission and Absorption
2021-09-10 | Absorption Lines and Curve of Growth
2021-09-13 | Emission and Absorption by a Thermal Plasma
2021-09-15 | Propagation of Radio Waves through the ISM
2021-09-20 | Introduction to Radio Astronomy and ALMA
2021-09-24 | Interstellar Radiation Fields, Ionization Processes, and Recombination of Ions with Electrons
2021-09-27 | Photoionized Gas (HII regions)
2021-09-29 | Ionization in Predominantly Neutral Regions (cool + warm HI regions)
2021-10-01 | Collisional Excitation
2021-10-04 | Nebular Diagnostics
2021-10-06 | Radiative Trapping
2021-10-08 | Interstellar Dust
2021-10-11 | Scattering and Absorption by Small Particles
2021-10-15 | Telescope Proposals and Time Allocation Committees
2021-10-25 | Grain Temperatures, Physics, and Dynamics
2021-10-27 | Heating and Cooling of HII regions
2021-10-29 | HI Clouds: Observations, Heating and Cooling
2021-11-01 | Molecular Hydrogen
2021-11-08 | Molecular Clouds, Observations, Chemistry, and Ionization
2021-11-10 | Fluids and Shocks
2021-11-12 | Supernovae Remnants and the Hot Ionized Medium
2021-11-15 | Gravitational Collapse and Star Formation: Theory
2021-11-17 | Star Formation: Observations
2021-11-29 | Circumstellar Disks
2021-12-03 | Exoplanets and Planet Formation
2021-12-08 | Astrochemistry