Courses recommended for Astronomy and Astrophysics Honours in 2007
[Astronomy and Astrophysics Group: Maths] [Mt Stromlo Observatory] [Physics]

Important Dates:

1st semester 2007: 19 February - 1 June

2nd Semester 2007: 16 July - 26 October

Please note that some of the 1st semester honours courses may run slightly into the semester break between 1 June and 16 July.

HONOURS COURSE WORK RULES:

For the Honours degree, students have to take 5 courses in total. This can be either all five courses offered by RSAA (see below) or equivalent honours courses from Geology, Physics or Math.

A minimum of three courses offered by RSAA have to be taken.

Course work counts 40% towards the final honours mark. The Honours thesis has a 60% weight.

*High Energy Astrophysics

Taught by Geoff Bicknell

1st Semester

Course starts week of 12th March, 3hrs lectures and 1 tutorial per week for 6 weeks.

Tuesday Lecture: 9:30 - 10:30 Break 10:30 - 11 Lecture 11:00 - 12:00

Thursday Lecture: 9:30 - 10:30 Break 10:30 - 11 Tutorial 11:00 - 12:00

Lectures from 12 March - 5 April

Easter/mid-term break break 6 April - 22 April

Lectures from 23 April - 4 May

Venue: Duffield Lecture Theater or Woolley Seminar Room, RSAA

Assessment: assignments

Syllabus: For more details, contact Geoff Bicknell

*Stellar Evolution, Pulsation and Nucleosynthesis

Taught by Peter Wood, Stefan Keller, Amanda Karakas

1st Semester

Starting date: 23 February

Two lectures/tutorials per week (14 lectures in total), 9:30-10:30 and 11:30-12:30 on Friday mornings

Venue: Duffield Lecture Theater or Woolley Seminar Room, RSAA

Assessment: assignments

Syllabus:

Course WWW Page

For details, contact Peter Wood

*Galaxy Dynamics (Part of ASTR3002)

Taught by Ken Freeman

Starting date: First half of 2nd Semester

Times and Venue: TBD, for venue details click ASTR3002 website

Assessment: assignments

Syllabus: Galaxies: classification and dynamics. luminous matter and dark matter in galaxies. Text book: Galaxy Dynamics (Binney & Tremaine)

For details, contact Ken Freeman

*Cosmology (Part of ASTR3002)

Taught by Brian Schmidt

Starting date: Second half of 2nd Semester

Times and Venue: TBD, for venue details click ASTR3002 website

Assessment: assignments

Syllabus: The expanding universe and cosmological models.

For details, contact Brian Schmidt

*Observational Techniques

Taught by Paul Francis

Starting date: 1st semester 2007

Time: April - mid-May, 2 lectures a week

Venue: Duffield lecture Theater or Woolley seminar room.

Assessment: TBD

Time Table and Syllabus

*Planetary Geology (GEOL3022)

Taught by Prof Richard Arculus and Dr Trevor Ireland from the Department of Earth and Marine Sciences

Starting date: 2nd semester

For all details (starting date, venue, assessment etc.) see the webpage of GEOL3022 or contact Prof Richard Arculus

Utility Courses

These short (2-8 lectures) courses are NOT part of the Honours program but shall help honours students with Unix, LaTeX, BibTex, Literature Review, Writing, etc.. They are regularly offered by the Graduate Information Literacy Program at ANU. Please see their webpages for more information.

Last updated: January 2007.
Maintainer: Helmut Jerjen (RSAA Honours Convener)