Graduate Astrophysics Seminar.

Catalog description

This two-semester class is designed for first-year physics graduate students interested in studying astrophysics. The course provides students access to introductory material they will need for the rest of their graduate astrophysics courses and research, including order-of-magnitude estimates, coordinate systems, blackbody radiation, radiative transfer, stellar structure and evolution, statistics, compact objects, relativity, and cosmology.