| I. Introduction and Overview | ||||
| lecture | reading | homework | ||
| 01 | Fri 03 Sep | Galaxy overview | Ch. 1 | |
| 02 | Wed 08 Sep | Brief history of universe | HW-1 assigned | |
| 03 | Fri 10 Sep | Content of galaxies-1: Stellar populations | ||
| 04 | Wed 15 Sep | Content of galaxies-2: ISM | Ch. 2.4 | |
| 05 | Fri 17 Sep | Chemical Evolution | HW-1 due | |
| II. Milky Way As Galaxy | ||||
| lecture | reading | homework | ||
| 06 | Wed 22 Sep | Stellar distribution: Star Counts | Ch. 2 | HW-2 assigned |
| 07 | Fri 24 Sep | Galactic Rotation | ||
| 08 | Wed 29 Sep | Departures from rotation: disk & halo | Term Project assigned | |
| III. Gravity & Orbits | ||||
| lecture | reading | homework | ||
| 09 | Fri 01 Oct | Galactic Dynamics | Ch. 3 | HW-2 due |
| 10 | Wed 06 Oct | Kinematics & Rotation Curve Decomposition | ||
| IV. Disk-dominated systems | ||||
| lecture | reading | homework | ||
| 11 | Fri 08 Oct | Basic properties | Ch. 5 | HW-3 assigned |
| 12 | Wed 13 Oct | Kinematic and Spiral Structure | ||
| 13 | Fri 15 Oct | Scaling relations and disk dynamics | ||
| 14 | Wed 20 Oct | Disk dynamics continued | HW-3 due | |
| V. Spheroidal-dominated systems | ||||
| lecture | reading | homework | ||
| 15 | Fri 22 Oct | Bulges vs Ellipticals | Ch. 6 | |
| Wed 27 Oct | MIDTERM | |||
| 16 | Fri 29 Oct | AGN special guest-lecture by Prof. Sebastian Heinz | ||
| 17 | Wed 03 Nov | Midterm review | ||
| Fri 05 Nov | Midterm retake | |||
| 18 | Wed 10 Nov | Internal structure & Formation | HW-4 assigned | |
| 19 | Fri 12 Nov | Mergers and stellar populations | ||
| 20 | Wed 17 Nov | Stellar populations and disk heating | Ch. 4 | |
| VI. Dwarfs | ||||
| lecture | reading | homework | ||
| 21 | Fri 19 Nov Nov | Disk heating | HW-4 due | |
| 22 | Wed 24 Nov Nov | Dwarfs | Ch. 7,8 | HW-5 assigned |
| VII. Structure on the largest scales | ||||
| lecture | reading | homework | ||
| 23 | Wed 01 Dec Nov | Groups | Ch. 7,8 | |
| 24 | Fri 03 Dec | Groups & Clusters | ||
| VIII. AGN & Evolution | ||||
| lecture | reading | homework | ||
| 25 | Wed 08 Dec Dec | Clusters & Evolution | Ch. 9 | |
| 26 | Fri 10 Dec | Large scale structure | HW-5 due | |
| 27 | Wed 15 10 Dec | The distant universe and the first galaxies | Term Project due | |