This semester I’m a co-instructor (along with Joel Corbo) for a class designed and run by the Berkeley Compass Project.

This semester I’m the GSI for Astro 160: Stellar Physics. This is an upper division undergraduate course being taught by Prof. Eliot Quataert.

Here’s the course description:

Stars are the building blocks of galaxies and play a central role in the evolution of structure in the universe, in the nucleosynthesis of most elements, in the formation of compact objects (white dwarfs, neutron stars, and black holes), and as tools for measuring cosmological distances (e.g., Cepheids and Type 1a SN).  This course will cover the observations and physics of stars. Primary topics will include the structure of self-gravitating objects, energy transport in stars, nuclear fusion in stars, stellar evolution, the birth of compact objects, and stellar oscillations.